Weekends Are Fun

Another busy weekend has come and gone. Jamie took Darien and Keagan to the movies on Fri. night as their reward jars where full. They get smarties in a jar for good behavior and reminding us to read the Book of Mormon each night and when they are full they get to either eat the smarties or go to the movies and of course the movie always wins. It is great to see them work so hard and get excited about the reward at the end.
Sat. we had dinner with some friends and just hung out.
I am happy to say that Jamie managed to get all three kids ready for church and clean the house and get stuff ready for dinner all by himself. I never doubted him. I had meetings before church so I had to leave at 9:30 and I didn't see them until they walked in at 12:30, and they all looked so cute. We always try and have someone new over for dinner after church and yesterday we had too great families over. It is fun to get to know people and play some games.
People are now asking if I have picked out any names yet for this baby and I have nothing right now. As you can see I like names that are a little bit different but not too crazy and they have to end with an "an, en" sound. I know that sounds crazy but those are the ones that I really seem to like. So if anyone hears anything can you please pass them on to me and I will add them to the list. You can never have too many names to choose from.

And It Is!!!

As shocked as some of you may be, we found out today that we are having another boy. I am very excited and of course that is what I thought it was going to be. I will never no be amazed at the pictures that we were able to see and how cool it is that all the boys where able to see his little heart beat and see each of his fingers and toes. It was so cute because all Keagan kept saying was "Oh how cute", it was so neat. I always just sit there completely amazed. I know a lot of you are wondering if I wish that we could have a little girl and to be honest with you I have never thought that. I always knew that we were destined for boys. I do have some disappointed boys in my house that were really hoping for a little sister. I am glad that we were able to find out so that they can get excited about something else. Darien has taken the ultra sound picture with him to school today and Keagan can not wait for his turn. We are lucky that they were able to see so much because I am not as far a long as the doctor had thought. I always figured that I was not due until closer to July and I was correct. The new date is June 30 so that puts me at 18 weeks on Sat. I can not believe how quickly the time has gone by. I am already half way there and after seeing the pictures yesterday I can not wait to hold him and see him. It is very exciting. Thank you to everyone that was praying for pink but once again it will be blue, at least everything that I have been saving can be used one more time. We will have a busy house but it will be fun.

Game Night

So here I sit actually I am waiting for the laundry to dry so that I can fold it and then back as I am heading down to visit Tammy in Calgary. You can always tell when I am pregnant because I want to cut my hair short. I am going to try and reframe from cutting it too short and I know that Tammy will not let me. Good times. I am taking Keagan and Rylan with me and they are going to have their hair cut and than I will take them to have their pictures taken at Superstore (in Calgary) as I have heard good things about their pictures. Crazy I know. It is always fun to get together with Tammy.
Jamie right now is playing Settlers with some friends. It is not really my kind of game, but they seem to have fun. I like to watch them which is more entertaining. Jamie has to work on Sat. so Darien gets to spend the day with Daddy at work while I am away. He is pretty excited and Jamie will try to make it as much fun as he can.
I will post the results of the hair cut after the weekend.

Coming Home

I am very blessed to have a supportive husband. I was talking to my mom on the phone yesterday and I asked if I could come home and visit during spring break at the end of March and she of course said yes and then while I was talking to her Jamie called so I shared the news with him and he thought that would be a great idea. The only problem is how do I get there with the three kids. My first thought was to drive but that is hard when you are on your own, but it can be done. But 10 min. after I got off the phone with my mom Jamie called me back to say that there was a seat sale on so he would drive out with me and then fly home on Mon. then fly back on Fri. and drive home with us. I am so excited. I just hope that the weather is good while I am there. So I will be coming home large.
Today was our work out day and for the past year we have been measuring ourselves to see where we are at and I discovered today that I have gain 4 inch. around my chest yes can you believe that. I was shocked to say the least but I am happy to say that the important parts to me (my but and thighs) have not changed to much.

Ice Rinks

Saturday was spent doing the usual running around and we got home, it was time to get to buiness building our backyard ice rink. All was going well and the kids where having fun jumping on the wood to press down the snow, until it was time to spray it down with water and of course the water would not come out it was frozen, we had even gone to the trouble of finding the hose and nozzle to do it. The kids where a little bit sad but then daddy had the great idea of going to the lake behind our house and clearing the snow off of there. They did a great job, but at this point the kids where getting cold so they came inside and Jamie continued to work which involved caring large water jugs full of water from our house to the lake to make it nice and smooth. After about 6 trips back and forth Jamie was done. Today will be the first day that they get to enjoy using it. It should be great and I know that is the first place that Darien is going to go. I will take some pictures and include them on this blog. The first pictures are the our attempt to make a rink in the back yard and the last ones of the real rink are on the lake behind our house. They had a great time.

Homesick

It doesn't happen very often that I feel homesick but this week is one of them. It is probably the hormones. It is funny how home will always be home not matter where you live. Don't get me wrong, I really do love living in Alberta but there is always home.

Today, I have managed to go through all of our toy boxes and sort out the toys. It seems like every so often we have to do that and put toys back with their original sets and take toys back to the basement as they seem to have worked their way upstairs. I think that our family project for tomorrow will be to go through the toys downstairs and get rid of some and then we are going to try and build an ice rink in our back yard. The boys have really enjoyed iceskating this year and it would be fun to just send them outside where I can see them. I will let you know how it goes.

Tonight I am heading to my friend Renea's as both of our husbands have to work, we will have dinner together and let the kids play. (They have 5 children) It is always nice to get together.

Scrapbooking

So now that the basement is finished I thought that I would organize my scrapbooking stuff. I now have an official area for it and one day when the bills have been paid down I am going to get some cupboards and a desk for it but for now I have a folding table but at least I have a space where I can work on it. So I went down there and organized a little bit but that was as far as I got the creative juices where not flowing. I always seem to do better when I have other people to do it with. I guess I need the motivation or the input from someone else to help.

I can't say that I have really missed the blood work that you have to get done when you are pregnant but we are back at that stage again. I have been putting it off for a couple of weeks now but I had to finally go and do it, oh what fun. That was a very exciting day but what can I say I just don't get out much with the kids when it is -26 all day. Maybe tomorrow will be better because we have to go grocery shopping Yipee!!!