Christmas Craft Day 2010

Every year, we have Wil's nieces over for a Christmas craft party. This year, we decorated gingerbread houses, painted Christmas masks, played games and had a relay race.

It was great fun to have them all over and to see how different they all are in their decorating styles!

Arlene

Adaly

Lyzette

Clarisa

Karina

Xujey

Good Enough To Eat

I was downloading photos from my camera today and realized I needed to play some massive catch-up!

Somehow, a few of the vegetables in our garden managed to keep growing through the summer, even when I was a super huge slacker and too tired/lame to want to walk outside when it was 8,000 degrees outside.

This is our pumpkin! Isn't it cute? Don't worry, I put it to good use by making a pumpkin roll for Thanksgiving. It was delicious!

Kicking

Wil felt our little girl kick for the first time today! HOORAY!!! :-)

This and That

I've been a total blog slacker...so I thought I would do one quick post full of random, this and that tidbits to play catch up.

1. Wil's sister Lili participated in the Susan G. Komen 3-day, a 60-mile walk for breast cancer. Not only did she raise a TON of money to be able to participate, she walked for THREE days...SIXTY miles! We're super proud of her. We babysat her kids Friday night. Overheard at our house during the sleepover:

• Wil to Lyzette in the middle of the night: "aren't you cold?" Lyzette: "yes, but the blanket doesn't match my sleeping bag!" Don't worry, Wil switched it for another blanket that DID match her sleeping bag.
  
• Junior through the sliding glass door: "Elvis, Elvis." Wil: "Great, he knows the dog's name, but not mine!"

2. The hottest topic of conversation at our house currently? How they are going to make Beardsley (the main road by our house) connect to the Loop 101 freeway. Seriously, it was almost all we talked about last week!

3. My grandma always told me that pregnancy was the best time of her life because she felt so great and was so excited to have a baby. My grandma is a liar!!! :-)

4. I've started feeling the baby move. It's SO COOL! I'm a big fan of this particular aspect of pregnancy, even if the constant peeing, having to sleep on my side, strange food aversions and achiness are not my favorite. I can't WAIT for Wil to be able to feel it too...hopefully she'll cooperate soon.

5. My cousin Andy's last football game was last night. I really do enjoy watching football in the fall - it makes me miss college games!

6. I am amazed by how many clothes we have when they are all washed and wearable.

7. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving, but if I'm being honest, I'm looking forward to Black Friday shopping even more!

It's a GIRL!!! :-)

Paper Chain Update

Anyone guessing baby was correct!

We're due March 28th! :-)

Paper Chains

I love paper chains!

I haven't always loved paper chains. When I was in college, one of my roommates suggested making a paper chain for something exciting that was coming up. I laughed...paper chains were for seven-year-olds counting down to Christmas. I was obviously much to mature to make a paper chain...yeah, right!

I can't remember what my first paper chain was for, but since, I have made a paper chain counting down the days until Wil would come visit me in Provo, to my grandma's retirement, until my wedding - I'm sure there were others, I just can't remember them right now.

One guess what this paper chain is for...

***No guessing if you already know the answer - that's cheating!