February

We had so much fun and so much love in February! We have been reminded every single day of how blessed we are.

On February 4th, we had SEP conference for Josan. That was definitely a proud parent moment there. Miss Kinworthy said he was amazing. She told us how Josan always listens, participates and she can always trust him when she needs something. He is ahead in Math and right where he needs to be in reading and writing. We even took it a step further and asked her if there was anything we could do to help him thrive even more and she answered that she had been thinking about anything critical to tell us and just couldn't find anything! He's just amazing!!! We are so blessed!

February 8th was special and a little sad...Happy birthday Mom. There's not one day that goes by that we don't think about her and miss her so so much. I'm so thankful to have had such a thoughtful, loving, caring, giving, tender hearted and beautiful example in my life. I know that one day we'll all be together again but for now I hope she's happy. I love you Mom. I hope you know that.

Lunch date with my boys! When Josan gives us a good grade report (so far that's always been the case!;)), we let him pick where he wants to eat and we all go together. This time we got lucky and he picked Olive Garden!

We also went on a double date to Texas Roadhouse with these guys. It was packed but we got lucky and a server asked us if we would sit at the bar for a free appetizer...heck yes!

Oh Grandpa! He gets it all doesn't he? I am not sure why but not only he is Josan's favorite person, but he also is lucky enough to get all the snuggles too!:)

The girls had sweethearts and they asked me to take care of their hair since Tammy was in California with Amy and Jaycee. I didn't get a picture of Joelie since she was in a huge hurry but they both looked amazing. Their dates sure are lucky boys!

And....here's another proud parent, big boy moment. We went to see KungFu Panda 3 and we had dinner at the theater before the movie. Josan insisted on getting in line by himself to get an ice cream sample without our help. Then he insisted again on getting our popcorn by himself. "Can I have two $1 popcorn please?" He was so good, so polite. He did it like a champ!

And then a not-so-big-boy moment. We found his old binkies and he wanted to chew on them for a while...I had to let him...

I'm getting BIG! Some days are fine. Other days I struggle quite a bit. It starting to be hard to bend over, get dressed, or get comfortable. So far I had been able to run 2 and sometimes 3 miles a couple times a week. Then do DVD workouts on other days too. But it started to be super uncomfortable so all I can do now is 1 to 1 1/2 mile runs. I guess it's as good as it'll get for now. At 6 months pregnant I'll take it! Other than that we can feel the baby more and more now and we already love him so much! 

For Valentines day Josan's class had a party and I was in charge of a treat to decorate. I ended up not making it cause I had a really bad cold and didn't want to get the kids sick but I still sent 25 Rice Krispie heart treats on a sticks with a bunch of sweets to decorate it. This was Josan's chef d'oeuvre!

One afternoon I forced myself to lay down for a bit and I just felt so thankful for the beautiful place we live in. We are blessed in so many ways!

Josan got invited to his friend Logan's birthday party. He hung out at Jim's house before and after and that gave us a perfect amount of time to go to the temple and then to dinner. He had such a good time!

This is one of my favorite picture right now. Josan was holding and dancing with Everly down in our -newly finished- basement and both of them were having such a good time. It just melted my heart!

On the 29th Adam went on yet another business trip to San Francisco this time. We were pretty worried since Josan and I couldn't make it this time but it ended up ok. Again, we are so blessed for Adam's job and everything it allows us to do!

January

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Pregnancy update; I've started having some major acid re-flux and I now take meds for it. The tums were definitely not cutting it anymore. I even keeps me up at night sometimes and some foods are just a no go altogether. And I'm up about 20 pounds so far. But we still feel so blessed to be able to grow our family. I still feel like I should pinch myself sometimes. I cannot believe that this is finally going to happen for us. The baby is stronger and stronger and we can now feel him quite often. Although we don't feel him as much as we did with Josan since the placenta is in front this time.

Here's a bump picture I sent to Adam. And since he's already made it public I figured might as well post it on our blog too.

We got together for Grandpa Wood's 90th birthday. It was nice to see everyone. And to see him reach his goal of 9 decades here. Happy birthday Grandpa!!

We got Josan this paleonthologist kit for Christmas and it actually ended up way fun. Josan dug out the dinosaur "bones" and then put them all together. Kept him busy for a while...

These guys were really good friends of ours when we lived in Colorado. The Clarks moved to Utah right after we did and the Fedeles visit once in a while. Jamie is actually due with baby #3 right before me. This get together was overdue for sure.

Baby boy showing off...

Even could get a little face shot this time! Every ultrasound we have we always get a good shot of the boy parts. But no face at all. Here's a tiny one!:)

This makes me so sad and so happy at the same time. Josan walked -half way- back from school by himself. Here he is being a big boy. He makes my heart melt.

And here's some reading time. If he reads I don't care how he does it!:)

3D ultrasound was so exciting! We got to see our baby's face a little bit more this time and he made sure to not leave the boy parts out of it either.

Adam had yet another business trip in January. This time it was in Lake Las Vegas. At the last minute Josan and I decided to just take Adam there and stay for a few days. Josan even got to spend the night at Grandpa's and he loved it.

Last time we were here was a little over 9 years ago. This was our goodbye restaurant every time I would take Annie to the airport when she would fly back to Quebec. Glad I will never have to do that again.

Venefi took their employees to ride in NASCAR cars around the track. The drivers got it up to 200 miles an hour! Adam loved it!

He also got to meet Ted Koppel.

Later in the month we had lunch at Grandma Darleen's on a Sunday. Josan loved their food there.

Last summer we went camping with the Olsons and found a huge pile of debris. It was like heaven for me and Josan. We love going through old stuff and find treasures. Anyways, one of the things we brought back was this old drawer face. I bought some fox hooks and VOILA! one heck of a unique towel holder in the boys bathroom!

Another big boy moment; We like to go to Pizza Pie Cafe once in a while. It's cheap and the boys like the food there. This time Josan insisted on going to get his food by himself. So he went to the pasta counter and ordered his own meal. Then he went back a couple times to get desert and other stuff. He's just so big!

We have been so blessed through Adam's job too. When we first decided to do InVitro we planned on being really tight with money for a while. We knew we'd be putting our house projects on hold and that was a sacrifice we were ok with. But this new job has been such a big blessing! We have been able to pay more of our InVitro bills than we thought, then we were able to start some of the projects we really wanted done when we bought the house. THE biggest one would be the kitchen. So in December we got things started. It was supposed to take about a month or so for everything. So we decided that was a great timing with the baby coming in May. Let's just say it has been quite the mess so far. As of the end of this month, this is how it looks like. 6 weeks in and nowhere close to being done. Let's hope it gets done some time soon!

Aunt Lorraine posted this picture of the 3 sisters. Annette is on the left, Mom in the middle and Lorraine is on the right. I love this picture!

Josan spent a good amount of his money on a Star wars Lego set. It took forever but the boys had a good time putting it together. They sure worked hard on it!

January is over, February is started and before we know it May will be here with our brand new baby boy. Our house is -sort of- getting done a little bit at the time, Adam's job is great to us and Josan is as good as usual. We are so blessed!!!!