New Years Eve

This New Years Eve we were able to attend a tradition that we have missed the past 3 years since I used to wait tables at night. We went to Chuck and Linda's home for a Simpson Married couples New Years Eve party. The first year we went Christian and I were married for about 3 months. We played a game that showed how well you knew your spouse. We LOST miserably that year. This year we were able to redeem ourselves as the CHAMPIONS! Yes, we WON! Considering I rarely win anything, that was a great accomplishment for us:) I do have to say that the highlight of the evening (besides the food and games) was when we decided to put on ALL the clothing from Mother Simpson's attic that she was giving away and took pictures. Childish? Maybe... but really quite fun.

Baby #3 is on the way

We were able to tell most of our family and friends that we are indeed pregnant AGAIN. I know most of you probably think we're crazy... but we've decided to have all of our kids close together. Which means that I will be done before I turn 30. We've always wanted our kids to grow up close in age so that they will not only be siblings but hopefully best friends. We are very excited for the new addition. Christian has been wonderful. Making me food, allowing me to rest and take naps when I feel exhausted. It will be a nice change from waiting tables to being able to stay home with my family during this pregnancy. I will be working at White Dahlia, but it is not a physically demanding job, which is SUCH a nice change. I think the only thing that worries us now is SPACE. Where will this new bundle of joy go? There will definetely be some rearranging that needs to go on in our home. We'll keep you updated on the pregnancy as it will be a VERY SLOW process, I'm sure.

Christmas Pictures

Here are some pictures from Christmas. It was such a busy day starting at home, then spending 3 hours at each families (Simpson's and Alo's) homes. We were also able to talk to Uncle Elder Lane who is on his Mission in Argentina. Kalea really loved opening presents and seeing what was inside. Mia, on the other hand, only wanted to eat candy.

One More Thing...

One of my favorite new things that Kalea says to me is, "Mommy, you're not in trouble. You're in charge." It makes me want to point my finger at Christian and say, "And don't you forget it". HAHAHA! Just kidding!

A Rough Way to Start December

So... yes, Mia fractured her elbow. We went to an Orthopedic Clinic today and they said that she may only need to be in a cast for a week. For those of you who don't know the story... Mia and Christian were playing on the bed. Mia somehow got her arm caught on a blanket while she fell back on her arm in an ackward position. We were in the ER Saturday, December 1st for 3 hours. Mia was so good and not to mention brave during the whole ordeal. She doesn't seem to mind the cast too much. I think she knows it's making her feel better in a way. Hopefully she'll be out of the cast soon and back to normal before Christmas... that would be Ideal. Here are some pictures of our sweet little girl in her pretty pink cast!

November's Over Already!?

Sorry I haven't written in forever... for all you loyal blog fans! This month has been crazy! I started working for my mom and actually getting things accomplished for her. I did a "mailing" for my mom and Donna and that took up a huge chunk of my time. Many paper cuts, and sore fingers later, I was finished. It felt good to work from home. Of course I had to explain to the girls that the stamps were not stickers! I had princess stickers on hand to sway them from the American flag looking stickers.

We had a very eventful Thanksgiving. I decided to make stuffing and a chocolate pecan pie to bring to the Simpson Family Dinner. Neither of which turned out exactly like my mom makes... but practice makes perfect. I guess I'll have to keep practicing. Eventually I may even feel confident enough to do my Thanksgiving... in like 2013. Christian went and played in our wards Turkey Bowl early in the morning. Only to come home with a story of someone losing their front teeth. If that's not a "sign" that this Thanksgiving might be a rough one... then I don't know what is. After a morning of baking, bathing kids, laundry, and more cooking before we left, Mia ended up messing (yes, messing is what you think) out of her diaper an all over her car seat. So we had to take covers off and wash them. Which put us about 20 minutes late for dinner. When we finally arrived, we ate and Mia cried consistently. She also decided to throw-up on me (Luckily there was a blanket to protect my clothes) and shortly after, we left. So needless to say, Mia was quite sick and didn't want to get everyone else sick along with her and high-tailed it out of there. I will say that this is probably a Thanksgiving that we will never forget.

The next morning Christian left with a good friend of ours, Jake, and went shopping for Black Friday Sales. They decided not to sleep that whole night and left at 4am. It seemed to be worth it and I'm sure they had a gay old time. 2 Grown men shopping all day long together... interesting.

Kalea is getting excited for Christmas. She wanted to see Santa while we were at the mall. She probably asked for about an hour until we finally caved. We waited in line and she pointed at Santa and was so excited to see him. She seemed to forget her excitement as our turn approached and screeched and made me hold her the whole time. I can kind of see where she's coming from. Some random old guy wearing bright red and a white fur carpet around his neck, head and face. Not exactly normal.

So last night was Halloween and things went fairly successfully. The kids ate a great dinner and were ready to go as soon as daddy came rolling through the front door. We had already had a handful of trick-or-treaters before we left. So, we took Mia and Kalea around the cul-de-sac and they loved it. Such a new experience for Mia and Kalea seemed to remember exactly the routine from last year. Christian and Mia went on home while I took Kalea out for a little bit longer. I really enjoyed the one on one time that we had. She's getting to be such a big girl. I told her to tell me when she got tired and was ready to go home.

One of the highlights of the evening was when Kalea saw a teenage boy dressed in a pretty scary wolf mask. It had blood dripping from it and everything. It was pretty dang scary. I wasn't quite sure how she was going to react to seeing something like that in real life and not on tv. As he walked up to the same house she was at, her eyes got huge and she just stared. I just waited for her reaction, but she just said, "Mommy, it's ok. It's a nice wolf, it's not scary." I don't know if she was reassuring me or herself, but she handled it really well and I was quite impressed with how mature she was. About 7 houses later she was ready to go home and look her her goodie bag (hand made by yours truly, I might add).

As we got home I noticed Mia had a sucker in one hand and a Hershey's bar in the other. She was already seeing the benefits of Halloween. Kalea dumped her bag and had at it. So much for the big dinner I made them to try and keep them full... I guess there's always room for candy!