Christmas 2008

Us opening gifts on Christmas Eve

Us on Christmas Eve by the tree

A painting that mom (Shirleen) did, a watercolor for Denny and me

Proof that Santa came! :o)

Me on Christmas morning showing my Prego Belly!

Denny and I Christmas morning waiting to see what Santa brought.

The family playing games on Christmas Eve!

Tatelin having fun with her Uncle Denny! :o)

The guys being goofy showing their new pajamas! :o) ha Good ol' Captain Morgan pose..


We had a wonderful Christmas! Chris, and Julie, jon and their family stayed the night Christmas Eve so we had a great time! The kids were so fun! Their excitement made it more exciting for all of us! They were so cute. Tag helped everyone open gifts! So adorable!
We did have a White Christmas, which doesn't happen very often here in Oregon. So it was fun, but we had to cancel every Christmas party because of the weather. Which was a bummer! We still had fun, but missed seeing all the family!

Snow!

View from our front window. None of us wanted to go outside to take pics.. too cold and windy!

View of the back yard from the deck. So pretty all covered in snow! :o)
Us playing Monopoly! (Mom won!) We played 2 other games as well, Settlers (Denny won!) and Clue (Dad won!). It was my parents, Denny and me. Denny later played FRIENDS 'Scene It' with me. We did 2 short games, each won one. :o) Poor guy... I make him watch friends with me.. Love ya babe! :o)
This may shock those who are not an Oregonian... It snowed probably about 2 inches. Church was canceled, so we stayed home and played games, and relaxed. (When I was a Freshman, maybe a Sophmore it snowed a half an inch and school was canceled, we always looked forward to snow! It doesn't snow very often here.) Nothing like Utah or Idaho, where I've also lived.. nothing closes down for snow.. which I always hoped it would when I lived in both places so I wouldn't have to travel in the snow. :o)

Can't wait until Chrismas! We put all the presents under the tree. So fun! It felt like Christmas day! I so badly wanted to open up gifts.. but no one else seemed to think it was a good idea.. party poopers! ;o) haha!

Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! :o) My mom and I made homemade pies and homemade rolls on Wednesday. Then we did the rest on Thursday morning! It was very fun! A lot of work and a lot of dishes later it was time to eat! We had my parents, my brother Chris, Denny and me. It was fun to eat, relax, watch a movie and play games! We had the missionaries over one of them as a gluten allergy as well as my dad. (Gluten is in wheat and many more things! so most things have to be made from scratch!) So he came for some food and pie that he could have. His companion just waited while he ate until they headed to their next home that wasn't gluten free. Glad we could help him out and make sure he could eat and not get sick!
We had a wonderful day and have so much to be thankful for this holiday season! Denny now has a job, and we have a baby on the way! It's all just so exciting!
I am loving this Holiday Season, as I always do! This year is a little more special with a baby on the way! :o)

Baby is growing!!!

Here is a pic of my tummy.. oh how the baby is growing! This is on Thanksgiving day.
(I've had lots of people ask me to post a photo! So here ya go!)
I'm 25 weeks now as of Yesterday Friday the 29th! I feel so huge! My tummy is always in the way! Still trying to get used to it being there! I feel her move a lot. If you watch my tummy while she is moving you can see it! It's fun!! I love it!!!
I have been feeling great. There are some days that I feel really uncomfortable, but not too often. I feel lucky that all has gone great. I think so far it has been pretty easy. I love being pregnant. It wears me out, but I have just a little more than 3 months until I'm due! So crazy how fast it has gone!

Christmas is 1 month away!!! :o)

Exactly 1 Month from today is CHRISTMAS!! Can't wait! I'm almost done with my shopping! :o) Can't wait to start decorating!!!!!
'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2' ... that's when you know Christmas is upon us!
I'm so very excited for the Holiday season. I love Thanksgiving, but I especially love CHRISTMAS!! I've been excited for months! I bought some fun Christmas decorations the day after Christmas last year, and I am very excited to put my decorations up and wrap presents with the wrapping paper I got as well! I buy new stuff the day after Christmas because everything is usually about 75% off! So I can buy a ton of stuff for a small amount! Even though you have to wait a year to use them it's totally worth the wait! But I'd rather buy a roll of wrapping paper for about a dollar instead of 4 dollars! It makes me feel much better to stick to a budget and still get some fun things! :o)
I'm ready for the Christmas food, movies, games and time with family! I've been looking though magazines, cookbooks, and online to try to find some fun Holiday meals. My mom and I will be cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year! So excited. We would also like to have some good food on Christmas day as well! It's been fun looking for some new meal and dessert ideas! YUM! YUM!

Twilight! ...

It's true... I went again and saw Twilight with my friend Cassie! It was wonderful the second time too! I JUST LOVE IT!!! :o)

Twilight

We went to see The 'Twilight' Movie today! LOVED IT!! It was very good! I am so anxious for the next one! YAY for Twilight! Time to read the book again, I didn't make time before the movie.. although all I needed was one day to read it.. at least that's how long it took me the first time! :o) 3 1/2 days to read the first 3 books. SOOO GOOD!!! Our little baby girl liked it too.. she was kicking me during the movie! So funny. I love it!

Feeling baby!

It's been so fun to feel baby move! Denny was the first to feel her move! So fun! I love that he was the first! :o) It's hard to catch her moving cause as soon as I say she is moving someone puts her hand on my tummy, and she stops! ha, so funny how that works!

Julie has been showing me how to do a lot of things since we've moved back to Oregon! It's been fun, last Friday she showed me how to make pie crust! I made my first pie! It was really fun. The apple pie turned out great! Now when my mom and I make the food for Thanksgiving I'll be able to make the pies!! So excited! Thanks Ju!!

My first Quilt

I am making my first quilt. I want to have a quilt for my little baby girl.. I am very excited.. My sister Julie and I went to JoAnn's and she helped me pick out fabric. She showed me how to cut my squares.. it took two evenings to cut them. I'm excited to sew the squares together.. :o) Julie
or my mom will show me how to do that!

Denny's 26th Birthday!!!

Denny had his 26th Birthday on the 21st! We had a lot of fun, we spent the day at my sister Julie's house. Then my mom and dad, Denny and I went to eat at P.F. Chang's and went to a movie! We saw Eagle Eye, which was very intense, it was really good. Denny said he had a good birthday, I know he would have had more fun if him and his sister Sheri could have celebrated their birthday together!! :o)

We are having a baby girl!!

Yesterday I had my first Ultrasound. It was very exciting! My mom came with me and we got to see her move, yawn, kick, suck her thumb, and lots more! She was being very modest it took a long time for us to find out that we are having a girl! Her feet were in the way and so was the umbilical cord! She moves a lot!!! I haven't felt her yet though! But I was shocked to see how much she moved! We got a few pictures of her, and a DVD so Denny got to see the video of his little girl too! Which is so fun! We are very excited to be parents and can't wait for her to come! I'm due March 13th!

Trip to the Temple

This is Denny and Doug outside the Temple Doing their 'Captain Morgan' pose! Ha! So funny. They totally kill me! I was lucky to keep the camera still enough to take it.
Doug had just done all his temple work in preparing to leave for his mission to the Philippians next month! It was great experience. We are all so happy for him.

Snow!!

Yes, I've had this blog for months and am finally posting something!!

This is our new home.. all covered in snow! As you can see I cleared our walk way.. not with a snow shovel, but a dust pan.. my arm was sooo tired and sore it was maybe 3 or 4 inches deep.. Then it snowed the next day. Gee all my hard work for nothing! We love our new house and are enjoying every minute of it. We were glad to be in our new home before the holidays hit. So we enjoyed Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year in our new place. I'm still getting organized. I move a little slow around here. Sometimes it's hard to come up with the energy after work, to come home and work some more!

Denny's Birthday

Denny's birthday! 25 years old! This is us with our nephew Connor! What a little cutie! We were over at Denny's sister's home, Sheri. Who Denny Shares his birthday with! They are exactly one year apart. (Connor is Sheri's little boy)