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2008 Archives
This year, we celebrated Christmas with my family at my mom's house. We got together on Christmas Eve and played and opened gifts. As always, the kids had a lot of fun. Ella really got into gift-opening this year and absolutely loved every opportunity she received to open gifts! Click here to see pictures from our brief time together. December 23, 2008 - Baby #3 Sonogram! We had a 20 week sonogram done and everything looks great. We chose not to find out what we're having and are excited about the arrival in the delivery room and finding out what he/she is! Here are some pictures of our newest little one that is on it's way!
The weekend before Christmas, my side of the familiy came to visit and we all went on the Polar Express train ride! It was a lot of fun. It was a shortened train trip that took the kids to the "North Pole" and read the Polar Express and passed out hot chocolate and a treat. At the North Pole, Santa even boarded the train and passed out sleigh bells to all of the kids. We bought matching pajamas for the cousins to all wear. They looked so cute and had so much fun! Click here to see pictures from our trip.
December 2 - 8, 2008 - Everett's surgery
December 2, 2008 - 17 weeks I went in for my 17 week check-up today. Everything is measuring good. I still need to gain some weight (I'm finally up to 2.5 pounds gained!), but the baby's heartbeat is good. It is right around 160 and has been just about every time. I'd say it's a girl because Ella's was like that too, but Everett's really wasn't too slow so it's still anyone's game... Speaking of boy/girl... We have our "big" sonogram on December 22. Do we find out this time (finally) or wait? I just can't decide since I had so much fun waiting with the other two... Click here to listen to the baby's heartbeat. (It's a Window's Media Player audio file so you have to use Windows Media player or something that will play those files to listen.) November 22 - November 28 - Happy Thanksgiving!
November 13, 2008 - Baby Steps!
We had a busy week and a half of Halloween activities beginning with a pumpkin carving party at our house with our Sunday school class and ending with a trip to Boo at the Zoo with Gran, Meridith and the kids. Ella had a party at her preschool class on Thursday, we went to a party that a friend of our's hosted on Halloween morning AND we went to our church's fall festival. Whew! Makes me tired just thinking about it! Click here to see pictures from everything but the party at school (I know, horrible and forgetful pregnant mommy brain forgot the camera!)
Justin had the day off so we took the kids to Discovery Science Place here. They have all sorts of exhibits, including a news station with working cameras and TVs, a big ship, an ambulance and various dress-up career stations, etc. Ella had a blast and Everett didn't seem to mind too much, either. Click here to see pictures of our day at the science place!
The kids had a lot of fun this fall going to our local pumpkin patch. We went on a hayride to the pumpkins, ran through the pumpkin field looking for just the right two pumpkins, searched our way through a corn maze, went through a hay maze, watched the goats eat corn, played in the water and with the old-fashioned water pump, and of course, took some pictures! Click here to see pictures of our adventures!
Here is a compilation of different things we did - a few pictures of the kids when Kyle and Lisa were here including our zoo trip, Rylee's big "pony" birthday party, a surprise 18th birthday dinner for Justin (Rylee's brother), and one picture from a zoo trip I took when I went with some friends from MOPS. Click here to see them! (Everett LOVED riding on a real pony at the birthday party - Ella was scared to death... surprised?)
Actually, it wasn't too big, but it was a bash! We combined Everett's 1st birthday party with an early 3rd birthday for Ella to condense the trips down to one trip for family. It ended up being fun and we enjoyed seeing family again. Thank you to everyone that made it to the party. Unfortunately, we didn't get a lot of pictures of guests at the party, just the kids... Just too busy for our own good! If you'd like to see pictures of Everett and Ella from the party, click here!
This year, Ella and I had the chance to go to the fair with Brandee, Rylee, and Jessi. We went before 1:00 since it is free admission and visited the petting zoo, exhibits, and ate lunch. Rides don't open until evening so we didn't ride any rides. Ella and Rylee both had a lot of fun at the petting zoo with the various animals. Click here to see pictures of the girls at the fair. June 25 - September 25, 2008 - Everything Inbetween...
Amidst the packing up, we were able to catch a few pictures here and there of some cute things. Click here to see pictures of the kiddos in action. June 23, 2008 - He's crawling!! (FINALLY!!) My sister kept the kids for us this weekend while we moved a lot of our things into the garage of our new house. I jokingly told her to teach him how to crawl while he was there because he hasn't gone ANYWHERE yet. Not scooting, not rolling places, nothing... Even though she said she didn't teach him, last night he became mobile! He gets his bottom off the ground and propels forward with his legs and stays low on his elbows in front. We couldn't get him to do it on video last night, but I was able to catch him today. I'm so glad to be able to say he started crawling at 8 months - ha ha!! (For those of you that don't know, he'll be nine months next week.) Click here to see a video of him crawling. (If it doesn't load automatically, right click and save the file and then open it using Windows Media Player to view the file.)
Here are some cute pictures of the kids around the house. Everett just turned eight months and is about 24.5 pounds. He loves standing up and pulling himself up but could care less about attempting to crawl. He loves to sit or lay and reach his LONG arms to grab anything he wants. I don't know how he manages to get what he wants considering he doesn't make much forward progress, but he does. He'll move himself from one end of the blanket after some time, but I think Ella is secretly pushing him where he wants to go. Click here to see pictures of the kids! Dolled-up Daisy, 2008 My sister made a digital scrapbook page of Daisy from one of the pictures on our website. It's pretty funny. Click here to see it!
After returning from Amarillo, we decided it was time to trim Ella's hair. Since we've never cut it before, it was pretty stringy and uneven. Not that it turned out more even, but the curly hair hides that. Now her hair brushes out so much easier! Click here to see pictures of her haircut and some other pictures from around the house.
I flew up to Amarillo with the kids to be with Justin and see Grandma. It was good to be able to see Grandma one last time and love on her. We know that she is happy now in heaven with Avery. While we were in Amarillo, the hotel had a "heated" (cold) indoor pool. Ella enjoyed it and Daddy survived it. Click here to see pictures from our trip. March 23 - April 4, 2008 - Sophie's Birthday We went to Dallas for a short weekend to help celebrate Sophie's birthday with my side of the family. Click here for some pictures of the kiddos.
Grandma & Ho-Ho came to visit us during their Spring Break. Ella and Everett enjoyed spending time with them while they were here. Ella also enjoyed hunting Easter eggs on Easter. Click here to see pictures from their visit and from Ella's big Easter egg hunt!
March 1 - 15, 2008 - Playing Around Click here to see some pictures of us playing around the house and outside. January 18 - February, 2008 - It snowed!
Click here to see pictures of this and more exciting happenings!
After traveling here and there for Christmas, we are finally home! Not long after we returned, we had Kelli and Brian out to stay with us. It was nice to have company and really good to get to spend time with them again. Click here to see some pictures of around the house and of their visit. |
