Wednesday, February 22, 2012

2012... off to a great start!

 Here we are at the end of February and we have already had an amazing year.... In Jan. I celebrated my 30th and we traveled to Las Vegas.  Richie and I went with Mary and Jason and then some of my best friends were able to come as well and it was so much fun!










Also in Jan... Ella turned 4.  She and her cousin preston shared a birthday party at a Roller Rink... The girls are getting much better as skating and we are hoping to get them more confident on skates so that they can start playing some hockey.



































In Feb. I finally finished a crochet blanket I have been working on for over a year for my nephew Eston, but I got it done right before he turned one!  It turned out good for my first ever crochet project.  Felt good to finish it... I was proud of myself.



Can't believe Feb. is coming to an end and I only have 81 days until my due date... Planning on painting the girls' room pink, getting the older girls bunkbeds or at least a trundle bed, and getting things ready at work so I can feel good about going out on maternity leave.  We are staying busy with our church callings, Richie's hockey league, Ella in gymnastics and swimming, and MaKenna in swimming as well. The other day I ended up eating two meals in my car as I was driving between appointments and functions and I was thinking wow, but I do love my crazy busy life and I know that it will have to slow down a bit once the baby comes!

2011 is long gone

Since I've been bad about updates.... here are some pictures from the end of 2011 and then I will do a post of what we have been up to in 2012 so far!

In september we celebrated Richie's 30th at Diamond Lake with a day trip to Crater Lake...so beautiful and the camping was great...Richie fished, we all did some bike riding and it was much fun!














Shortly after our camping trip we found out that we will be having another baby in May 2012! We are due May 13th (which happens to be Mother's Day this year...very fitting)
 Halloween!

 MaKenna at her ballet class!
In November we rented a beach house to celebrate Grandma Laura's Birthday... so much fun having family time and the weather was absolutely beautiful!
Christmas Joy 2011 

baby bump
 MaKenna is into taking pictures, so I'm finally in some :)



Christmas morning we had a special gift... the ultrasound results... and we found out that we will be having another GIRL! So we will welcome Lainey Elizabeth in the spring!  And Richie is requesting a "man cave".