Macie 18 Months

So here are Macie's 18 month pictures. They were a little closer to 19 months, but it's all good. Mollie (who takes Macie's pictures) was in Logan for the weekend from Arizona, so I snagged her and had her do these pictures. It was so much fun like always. There are some with our piano, and some with my mom's old guitar. I thought they turned out so cute. Sorry there are so many, but I just can't get enough of this girl!!!

Let it snow...while we aren't outside.

Yesterday, Celeste and Ife came to Logan to visit. It was super fun. We loaded up the kids, our gear, and the snowmachines to head up Logan Canyon to play in the snow. These three carseats barely fit in here!

Macie loves getting her snow clothes on, but it was snowing quite hard, and she wasn't appreciating it blowing in her face. Here, she's waiting in the car.

I love this picture of Kaveni.

Saki had a good time riding the snowmachine. He lasted a little longer than the little kids.

Celeste and Kaveni since you can't see either. :) Nice and warm.

Oh Dustin, doesn't he look so cute?

We haven't had good snow hardly all season, so we haven't gotton the snowmachines out much. We were so excited when it stormed finally, but it was storming all day in the canyon. You couldn't really see anything, and the kids liked riding in the sled for a little bit, then it was back to the car, which was actually pretty fun, too. I realized on this trip that 7 1/2 month pregnant people don't really fit on the back of a snowmachine. I rode with Dustin up one hill, he got the sled stuck, and I walked about halfway down before he picked me up on the other one. Thanks Ife for helping him dig it out. Anyway, it was a fun time, and I always love spending time with my family. Thanks for coming! We'll go again when we can go for real!

Christmas

This year for Christmas, we went to Dustin's dad's house in Wellsville. We stayed the night out there and had Christmas morning. It was lots of fun because it was the first time we've been with the Hansens for Christmas. Macie LOVED her gifts. Each one she openend, she didn't want to put it down to open the next one. Great times. Here she's brushing her doll's hair.

Some bling from the Hansens. Don't mind her face, I don't know what she's doing. She got a little purse that she loves. It has a little wallet in it with a drivers license for her, and she had to go around showing it to everyone. Even the pets.

A little computer so she can be like mom.

Brenda made these matching hats for Macie and her baby. SO CUTE, but I wish she'd actually wear it more. She lasted about for the picture, and that's about it.

Even though we were sick almost all of Christmas break, we had a great time. It was nice to spend time with family and relax at home. Even though it's late, I hope everyone else had a great time enjoying this awesome season.

Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving was great this year. It was the "off" year for our family, but things changed and all of my siblings were there! All ten of us kids! It was super. We had it in Idaho Falls at Texas Roadhouse. My brother-in-law is the manager there. We had prime rib, along with all the other regular Thanksgiving fixins. Yummy. We stayed in Idaho Falls til Sunday because Cody blessed their baby girl, Kate. It was great except basically we got everyone sick there. Well, I feel like it was us because Macie and I were the first sick ones. Sorry family! Anyway, I'm glad we all were able to be there. Here's all ten kids and my dad.

Here are all the grandkids except baby Kate who was about a couple weeks old at the time. She was with Beth seeing her side of the family, but they came back the next day. I think that makes 37 grandkids, ages 19 to a couple weeks.

Macie was a big fan of the olives.

And the cookies.

We had a really great Thanksgiving and were so glad we were able to spend it with family. Thanks Cody and Beth for volunteering Idaho Falls. Thanks everyone else who did everything. :) My family is the coolest!

Yes...Halloween!

I know I haven't posted anything really since Halloween...besides baby boy news....so I thought I'd get caught up again since I have my iPhoto back. Anyway, here are just a few pictures of carving pumpkins.




Macie was a ladybug for Halloween, and I didn't get any pictures. We just dressed her up for the ward party and that's it. We didn't really do much for Halloween except hang out with my neighbor and timed her contractions. It actually was really fun playing games and getting excited for her baby. She had her baby boy the next day. Anyway, that's about it for Halloween for us. Super cool!

It's a.......WHAT??

So, Dustin and I are expecting Baby #2. I was so sure it was going to be a girl, but lo and behold, it's a boy. I was in total shock, but I'm so excited! We both are. Sorry to anyone who didn't know we were pregnant. Our families knew, and that's about it. SORRY! :) We are due March 16th, but the ultrasound lady said is would probably be closer to March 8th. These are crappy pictures, but they are pictures of pictures. The machine wouldn't save anything on a disk or anything, so we just have pictures. Anyway, just wanted to share the excitement!

Fun in the Sun

Dustin and I went to Orlando, Florida last week because he competed in a wastewater treatment competition. They qualified here in Utah to go to Nationals even though it was Utah State's first year competing. They did such a good job in Orlando! (I got to go watch). It was very interesting believe it or not, and it made me even more proud of him. He's so smart! :) We got to stay in this sweet condo place. It was super nice. Oh, I have to tell this one story. While we were driving to our condo, I saw an armadillo crossing the road. No, not a skunk, an armadillo! Crazy. Anyway, since we were in Orlando (and it's hurricane season) we went on a cruise as well. We rented a car and drove to Miami. We left from there and went to Key West and Cozumel. It was tons of fun, and nice to be in the sun. Here are a few pictures. This is when we are leaving Miami.

Our ship. Imagination!

Here we are in Cozumel.

Storm? What storm is coming? It poured on us! I doesn't rain like that in Logan. It rained HARD for about an hour, maybe? Then the sun came back out and we went back out to enjoy it.

Here is the deck on our boat. We had such a good time!

So Friday, we got back to Miami at like 8:00 in the morning, but our flight wasn't until 6:00 at night, so we went on a tour of the Everglades. It was so cool! We saw alligators, crocodiles, turtles, fish, birds...good times.

Here's the fan boat we went on. That thing can turn on the water. It was awesome.

So we sat down on the boat and felt a couple rain drops. We took off, got poured on for about one minute, but it did enough. Dustin doesn't even look wet. How lucky to be a guy.

Here's an alligator.

No, we didn't forget about Macie. She stayed in Bancroft with Dustin's mom. I missed her so much, but she had such a good time! What a lucky little girl. How cute is she? :)