16 weeks prego

Here is my little baby belly. It's more my fat belly than baby bump! This is the weird stage where people don't know if you are just fat or actually pregnant. I would just tell them "I'm both." It's also the stage where I have to wear either my bigger clothes or maternity clothes. I've been wearing maternity pants and some shirts-I think that helps me to actually look more pregnant then just chubby! I can feel the baby move-little movements here and there-it's neat. I'm feeling better-but I still have days where I feel sick to my stomach. I'm still really tired and emotional. Certain smells really get to me-I'm so sensitive to smells. I can smell Carson's poopy diaper across the room!

When I had Chris take this picture of me-I asked him, "Does it look like I have a belly?" He said "YEAH!" I hit him and said "No-I mean a pregnat belly?" He said "Ask Holly!" Holly said "yes mommy." Thank you Holly-my honest girl. Speaking of Holly, I asked her what she wanted to name the baby if it is a girl. She said "Katie-I like Katie." I said sweetly,"yeah-that's a nice name, but I'm not sure..." Holly said quietly, "Dammit, I want to name her Katie." I didn't catch it at first-I guess it didn't register right away in my brain, but then I did hear it. I had to have a little talk with her about not saying "Dammit" and that is a bad word to say. I had to talk to her about bad words without laughing! Chris and I looked at each other like-OH NO here it all comes! My little girl isn't so little anymore. What is she learning at school? UGH!

My Big helper!

I had to post this picture! Carson loves to help with chores. Every Saturday morning we do chores. Holly does great with putting away toys, cleaning her room, and dusting. Carson doesn't like putting his toys away, but he loves to sweep, mop, and vaccum. He also doesn't want you to help-he likes to do everything on his own!

Outdoor show

Last month, Feb. 19th weekend, I took the kids to an Outdoors show and I forgot to post the pics. It was fun and we got to see a Grizzly bear show and pet a Red lizard. Carson was being a poop at first and he didn't want me to take pictures of him. So-he's hiding his face in the first picture, but then he was better after we got to see a tank full of trout and a guide showing you how to fish. Unfortunately, I didn't get pics of that. It was really neat to sit and watch the guide use different bait and watch the fish go for it. I think that was Carson's favorite part and he kept asking to go see the fish again. I thought he would like the Monster Truck the best. They enjoyed the Grizzly bear show and Carson wouldn't leave the poor lizard alone.

Spring pictures

Since General Conference is Easter Sunday I had my kids wear their Easter church dress this last Sunday. It was a nice weekend so we took Spring pictures. I never can get very good pictures, but these turned out nice.

We're having another one!

I don't know if you can even see the pics or not. But this is of my 11 week ultrasound. Yes-I am pregnant-I will finally make it known to everyone. Except I haven't told my work yet. You know you always have anxiety and worry about how the baby is doing at first and then the ultrasound put me at ease. The baby is doing good, it has a strong heartbeat, and it was moving around so the lady doing the ultrasound was getting frustrated that she couldn't get the measurements she needed. I just thought it was cute. At first I thought I must be having twins, because I have been so sick and extremely tired and I already can't wear my clothes. But there is only one baby doing all that. I don't remember with Holly or Carson being so sick and tired. I practically throw up every day and need to lay down after work. I'm very emotional and cranky! But-I'm doing my best to deal and I'm going to be 12 weeks along next week-so hopefully all the sickness will subside soon. We are very excited about our baby. Holly is very excited and asking all kinds of questions.- like "how does the baby come out?" I didn't think she was ready for that so I told her it was magic. Then the next night Holly says, "Mom, I think I'm ready to know how the magic works." She's such a smart girl. Of course-Chris came in and told her mom's are just special that way-they have babies and that's it. So- for now Holly has dropped it, but she does ask me how I'm feeling or if she see's I'm tired and sick-she know's it's the baby doing it. I got out her baby book and ultrasound pics and showed her-what I kept of her so she could understand and we look at pics of what the baby looks like each week. She is enjoying it. Carson could care less, but when I hold a baby he gets jealous and tries to climb up on me and get my attention-so we will have to see how he does with the new baby. I'm due Sept. 16th-I'm not looking forward to summer and being big pregnant! But I'm excited about another baby in our family.

Holly turned 6!

Holly had her 6th B-day on Feb. 8th. We took her out for ice cream to DQ, let her open presents from family, and sang happy B-day to her. She was so excited all day long on her Birthday. Then she had her party on Feb. 13th which we had in the cultral hall at the church. That just makes it easier so I don't have to have 20 kids running around my house. Holly wanted a Tinkerbell theme party. We had a craft table for the kids to make butterfly wands, color Tinkerbell pages, etc. We also set up the jumpy house which occupied the boys. We played a prize walk and I got a couple Tinkerbell items at the $1 store as prizes-the girls wanted to keep playing over and over again. I had the kids sit in a circle and hold the present that they got Holly and we played "spin the wand" to open presents. The kids loved that-they all wanted the wand to point to them so Holly could open their present. Then we gave out goody bags and I put a piece of paper in the goody bags with a picture of Tinkerbell and it said "Thank you fairy much for coming to my party." I know-I was actually a little creative this year-thanks to websites for the ideas. Holly had lots of fun and it was pretty easy clean up for us. Then we all came home and took naps!