Day 2

Activity 1...Success
We took the boys to the park and had lunch. Cade first ran to see the giant ducks.
It was such a nice day and the boys did great. It also helped that there was a cage around the park with only one opening so Carson couldn't run off.

Plus there weren't many kids so they had the playground almost to themselves.

Activity 2...almost a success.
We played in the back yard with the hose which went really well until grass started sticking to Carson's feet. He didn't like being wet after that.

So after awhile I dried Carson off and took him to pizza hut to get a pizza while Brady and Cade partied in the water.

Activity 3...Success
So at least the day ended really well with pizza, popcorn, and Toy Story 2.

Earlier while we were driving to the park, we sang Elmo's song three times, and it was so cute I had to record some of it. They know the words so well and would get really loud at their favorite parts. The rest of the ride Cade pointed out all of the mazdas, jeeps, and hondas, plus they would say the colors of the cars. Such smart boys!!!

Day 1...Success

Brady and I are watching our little twin nephews this weekend. We survived the two hours we had with them tonight easily before putting them to bed. We took them for a ride and Carson was pretty sad that his dad was not in the car. To distract them until their parents left for the weekend, we took them to McDonalds (which was just an excuse for me to get ice cream. I love McDonalds 50 cent vanilla ice cream!) So we wore them out by playing on the toys and stuffed them full of ice cream. It totally worked to, when we got home we put their jammies on, gave them milk, brushed their teeth, said prayers, and then they went RIGHT to sleep. Not even a peep. Well Carson snored a little by his door, until I put him back in bed, which was kind of tricky since his face was stopping me from opening the door. They are sooooo cute. It is good being the fun aunt and uncle, if grandparents can give the kids whatever they want then so can we! Tomorrow I'll take pictures. Luckily Brady is only at school while the boys should be taking naps. We'll see if tomorrow is a success too.

Boy or Girl?!?!?

We are definitely having a boy!! The ultrasound is a little too graphic to show :) But our doctor had no doubt and we were just so excited to have another ultrasound. It is crazy that just a few weeks ago we could see the whole baby in one picture and now you only see one part of the baby at a time. It makes it a lot more real to know that this parasite inside of me is going to be a little baby boy. Plus now Brady can feel the baby kicking me, so that has been really fun. It was a wonderful birthday present as we celebrated my birthday just a few days after the ultrasound.

Here's a pic of my huge belly. Don't be deceived, I'm only 4 1/2 months along, not 7 months like I look here. Here's another pic where I'm not sitting or slouching to compare.

M I S S I S S I P P I !!!

We visited Brady's parents in Jackson Mississippi for ten days recently. It was such a wonderful, relaxing trip...except for the flight over there.
This is Brady in the airport for the second day after our second plane cancellation. We were all dressed up for zone conference that morning but we didn't make it in time. So instead I changed into pants and took a 2 hour nap on the floor.

When we finally made it 24 hours after we were supposed to, we had a great time.
Here we are with the Assistants in the mission home. I wish we would have taken a picture with Tom and Annette while we where there.

We went to Vicksburg and toured some civil war sites.

And we drove through Yazoo City where a tornado hit in april.
This building was missing half of its roof and all of its windows

I can't imagine having your whole neighborhood destroyed and having to just abandon it. The devastation was so sad.

Here is Brady pointing to an aligator in the water. Good luck finding it since only its eyes were popping out of the water. We watched it for a while and were so excited to check "seeing an aligator" off our list of things to do.

And here is a little turtle that played with us for a while on Tom and Annette's back patio before it walked under a tree to hide from the scorching heat.

We had so much fun with Tom and Annette and we're so greatful for all the excitement and entertainment they provided for us! We already miss them like crazy and can't wait to visit them next time with our lil baby.

12 WEEKS!!!

Well a lot has happened in the last 12 weeks but our biggest news is that we are 12 weeks pregnant!! This is our first ultrasound at 9 weeks. And this is our second ultrasound at 11 weeks. It was pretty amazing how much it grew in just two weeks. It was moving it's arms and legs and bounding up and down. At both apointments we could see and hear the heartbeat (what a relief!) and this second apointment he showed us the brain and spinal cavities.

Other events in the last 12 weeks include Brady's 25th Birthday.

He picked chucky cheese's to have his birthday party and Jeff and Mikaela came with us to celebrate.

Where a kid can be a kid!
We also had a great dinner with Jeremy and Debbie at Famous Daves but didn't take any pictures.

We celebrated Memorial Day by going to 3 bbqs. At our friends house they had a zipline across their private lake. Brady went first and then when he came back around I went.

Here is a pic of me stuck over the lake, hanging on for dear (dry) life. They told me not to let go at the end too fast or I'd fall over, so I held on and it bounced me backwards over the lake. Luckily while Brady laughed at me and his unborn child, Kevin ran around the lake and saved me.This last weekend we celebrated my Dad's birthday by going to the western day's parade in Twin Falls, eating mini doughnuts in the park, going out to dinner, and going bowling. It was really a whole day packed full of fun. Here is Brady on the worst ride in the whole park with the niece and nephews. I don't know why they like it so much, I got sick just watching them.

Other events in the last 12 weeks include Brady finishing his first year of Pharmacy School. I also got a job covering a maternity leave for Dental Hygiene in boise, and now they are hiring me back in July permanently when the hygienist moves. Until then we are working in Twin Falls and will be going to Mississippi in 8 days!!!

Recap

It has been awhile since we blogged so here is a recap.

Our friends Carlie and Coleman visited us and we made a big feast starting with cheese fondue, then hot pot noodles, meat, and veggies, then ended with chocolate fondue. Delicious.This is the entrance to the Kuna Cave.

It was larger than we thought, with tons of openings to new areas.

It was full of graffiti

sporting my sweet head lamp

We went bowling to celebrate our nephew Austin's 3rd Birthday.

Jaylynn and Mark came up to Boise and we went to Chucky Cheese's.

Afterward we went to a hockey game and got ice cream.

Brady's brother Phil and his wife Brooke had their baby and named her Lydia. She is adorable and has the cutest brown curls!

This is us at FREE ICE CREAM DAY at Ben and Jerry's. It was awesome.

This is at PF Chang's celebrating Shane's Birthday. We went to our 4th hockey game after dinner with Shane and Amy, and Jeremy and Debbie.

During spring break we decided to buy bikes and found these SWEET beach cruisers. I especially love how pink mine is! I now have a white basket and a matching pink helmet.

The Friday before Easter we went to Twin Falls and had a big dinner at Sizzler. We even had a whole kids table there. It was great.

All the kids wanted to be by grandpa when it was dessert time. I'm sure each one of them had a few ice cream cones from the dessert bar.

I don't have any pictures of Easter but it was very exciting. We had a huge brunch, then hunted for candy easter eggs, then hunted for real easter eggs outside, then hunted for money eggs, then hunted for our hidden easter baskets. As you can tell we did a lot of hunting! We also enjoyed General Conference and a delicious Easter dinner.

Utah

Jaylynn and I went to the Utah Dental Convention with our mom and dad. It was actually a fun time looking at all the exibits, and getting free popcorn and cotton candy. (The lectures were pretty boring though.) Jay brought Aisley and Dad left Friday night, so we turned the rest of the weekend into a "girls weekend". We slumber partied in a hotel and took Aisley swimming.
She loves swimming and made a really cute bunny rabbit.

On Saturday we got massage pedicures which was really fun, but also really hard not to kick the girl painting my toes when it tickled.

We got fun designs and sweet flip flops! (the flip flops where super flimsy)

Then we went out to lunch at MiMi's for Jaylynns birthday with her sister-in-law Kelsey that had a birthday the day before. MiMi's was so good and even put a candle in each of their free desserts.

We went shopping the rest of the time. This is Aisley in Dillards cracking up. She was laughing a lot more before we started filming.

It was a really fun time and a nice way to celebrate Jaylynn's Birthday!