5 Months

I'm over half way through!  After I passed the first trimester, everything has gone really well. I've gotten a lot of my energy back and my house stays so much more clean! (Who wants to do dishes or make dinner, when all you can think about is throwing up?? Gross! So glad those days are over!)  The weight gain is no fun, but it's all worth it for that sweet little girl! Because I love summer so much, the time has passed by fast.  I love soaking up the sun and playing outside with the kids. Oh how I love summer!  I can't wait for fireworks, the green grass, all of the parades and even the people!  The swimming, the water fights, staying out til dark and just being with my family.

It's a . . . .

It's a Girl! 

We couldn't be more happy!  Especially our little EmmaLee!  She can't wait for the new arrival. We're still trying to decide on a name. Hopefully it will come to us soon.  For now, it's just nice to know we have a healthy baby girl.

Our last minute trip to Portland!

 For EmmaLee and Carter's birthday, they saved up their money and bought a waterproof, and shock proof camera to share!  They had a blast taking pictures, on our spur of the moment trip to Portland!

This really was a last minute trip, we booked our hotels late Tuesday night and left early Thursday morning!  The Langford's were able to get the time off too, it was crazy how everything worked out.   After waking up at 3:30 AM for the drive, this was the first stop at an amazing play land at the Carl's Jr. in Boise.  The kids actually did amazing in the car our whole time driving, it made the trip that much more enjoyable!

 Some of these pictures are out of order, but this is the kids in the car, on our way to the coast.

 If you've ever been to Portland, these roads will look very familiar.  They basically look like this!  It's very green and beautiful.

 This is at Cannon Beach.  It was cold and windy.  But a sand castle was a must!

This is Haystack rock behind us.  If you've ever seen Goonies.

Neil  running around the beach with the kids in the stroller!

Lunch at Mo's! The picture doesn't do the view justice, it's right by the beach.

At Tillamook!  For Cheese and of course, Ice cream!

The boys played a bunch of Disc Golf while in Portland.  This is Hadley and Carter holding the frisbee's.  Everything there, again, is so green

EmmaLee riding her scooter

Try throwing your disc through all of these trees!!  It made it a lot of fun!

We took a small trip to Vancouver Washington for the afternoon. We went to the Farmer's market and played on the playground there.

The kids in Vancouver, playing in the water.  it was a really nice day.

The city of Portland, we played and rode the scooters while looking at the view!

At another Disc Golf course in Pendleton, Oregon

Mindy and I being good wives and letting our husbands play disc golf!

Cheese! At the pool!

One of EmmaLee's favorite part of any trip is the swimming pool at the hotel!  She is getting to be a great swimmer!

Mindy and Hadley

This was a real star fish they pulled out and let us touch. We were there for low tide, and got to see a bunch of the wildlife that is under the ocean when it's pulled back.

These Star Fish are attached to the rock, later in the day, they were covered by the ocean.

If you can't see him, this was Joel looking for one of his discs, I had to post it because of how green and beautiful it was!

Neil picking up his disc he lost also!

Em and Kenz

At the end of our fun adventure, we were able to stop at my brother's house in Boise!  We had such a great time.  Joe and Shannon were so nice to us, since we couldn't go camping, they made us a fire pit to roast hot dogs and smores!  Yummy!

Doesn't get better than this!

Cute Joe and Shannon!

We had such a fun trip!  For it being so last minute everything worked out so well! The kids even did great with the 1500 miles we drove!  I wish we could do stuff like that more often. 

Happy Birthday Carter!

 Our sweetest boy is 4 years old!  We are so grateful to have him in our family!

 For his birthday, we had both of our families join us at his favorite park!  We set up our volleyball net, had some of Carter's favorite snacks which are: M&M's, chips, Watermelon, soda (or what he calls "hot drink") and cake.  It was great weather and we had such a fun time with all of our family.

 A few of the family playing volleyball.

 So, let's just say Carter got overwhelmed with all of the attention he was getting for his birthday.  When it came time to open presents, he started crying!  Who cries when its time to open presents??? Anyway, it only took a minute when he realized that there were cool things in those bags!  Silly boy!

Some facts about Carter:
His favorite book: If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
Favorite drink: Chocolate Milk
Favorite Shows: Curious George, Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse Club House, Gnomeo and Juliet, The Brady Bunch and Cat in the Hat
Favorite toy: His Choo Choo Train.
Best Friend: Skyler
Favorite Food: Mac and Cheese
Favorite Color: Red
Favorite place to go: To the Park, to play Disc Golf with his Dad.
Carter has lots of energy and likes to be outside, either riding his scooter, bike, playing sports or running around!  But he is also such a sweetheart!  We sure Love him!  Happy 4th Birthday!

I've been really sick!

Sick, for good reasons though!  We are lucky enough to announce a healthy baby coming around November 5th. We couldn't be more blessed.

A Long Time Ago...

Yep, it's my turn... It was my 30th birthday!! I'm not ashamed. I'm looking forward to all of the great things this next decade holds. My birthday started out with my favorite bowl of cereal... made by Neil. Can you see the almonds in it say 30?! Neil is cute!! He also had the kids make cute 30 cards. Love it!


Neil had the whole day planned out. After EmmaLee's got out of school, he surprised me and we dropped the kids off at his sister's house for an entire day by ourselves! I have to say I love my kids so much, but to be able to eat and shop by ourselves was amazing!
When we got in a car he pulled out an envelope that I had to open. Inside was a whole list of "30" things that I had to complete throughout the day! It was a "30" scavenger hunt, if you will.

After a yummy lunch and lots of fun shopping, we ended up here.. at City Creek.

One of the things on the list I had to complete was making 30 wishes with 30 coins! That was hard! It took me a while to get rid of all of my coins! Luckily there are lots of water fountains around. Another thing on the list was to take at least 30 pictures... so we were taking lots of random pictures to fill up the space! It was fun though!


One of our creative 30 pictures!!

We last ended up at Cheesecake Factory, it was a long wait but it was worth it! Of course I needed more pictures.. so I took a picture of our food!

This is the Memphis Burger. Gigantic! I couldn't finish the whole thing... I still have half of it at home, but it was delicious. I don't even want to know how many calories that had!
Anyway, Neil is such a sweetheart, I love him so much and we had the best day together!
Thanks for a wonderful birthday and most of all for my family and friends who I am so lucky to call mine!