Can you guess?

I guess it's about time I post about this! Last week we found out the gender of baby #3! Can you guess? If you can tell from that picture than you are amazing. I contemplated posting the picture of where you actually can tell but that just seemed weird.

From the moment we told the kids about the baby Emily has been adamant that she was having a baby sister. We explained numerous times about how we don't get to decide, that Heavenly Father decides, etc. She totally understood but continued to say she was going to have a sister. A few days before we found out, we were in the car and Emily was saying that she was going to give her princess shoes to her baby sister because they are too small for her. I told her that we were going to find out in a few days if it was a boy or a girl. Her response was "well, I already decided it's going to be a baby sister." Not a surprising response. Then the day of my appointment I told her she was going to grandmas while I went to find out if she was going to have a brother or a sister. This is where I got nervous! Her response was "I talked to Heavenly Father and I told Him I really want a baby sister." Oh dear. I didn't want her little faith to be shaken if it was a boy! Then I became more nervous than excited because I was worried it might be a boy! Silly I know. But luckily for Emily.....


IT'S A GIRL!

Lately....

I keep thinking I need to blog and then I'll sit down to it and just think ugh, I don't want to. So sorry. But here I am now-before I get too far behind on our exciting lives. Ha!

First of all, a big WTF to waking up to this on April 3rd.


Lately I've been feeling like I've fallen into the mom trap where everything I used to love to do has kind of fallen by the wayside and life becomes all about the kids, house, husband, etc. My New Year's Resolution was to get back to doing those things I've always loved to do. Mainly scrapbooking and crafty and decorating things. My goal was one thing a month. Luckily (most of the time its lucky) I have a little mini-me who loves to make things too. This is when we made Liahonas for FHE. She carried that thing around for DAYS. She would have it tell her which way to go to do all kinds of things (potty, find her puppy, etc). Funny girl.


Every March Robert gets a few days off work. We usually use that time to go on vacation but decided to stay here and do a little staycation. Naturally this was our kitchen counter during that time.

Robert, Emily, and Chase all got sick. Sweet. But luckily they weren't super sick so we were still able to do a lot of the things we wanted to do. The weather was also a little crappy so we had to change plans slightly but we still had fun!

Aquarium
Emily is obsessed with the aquarium. Chase, not so much.

Build-a-Bear
Emily was so excited to go to "the bear store." I seriously thought we would be there FOREVER but she walked in, picked the horse, and while they were filling it with fluff she walked over and picked the Tinkerbell outfit. Done.


Temple Square
One day we went downtown. Emily is obsessed with temples and we've never taken her to temple square. She was pretty excited! It was a little chilly so she just kept wanting to go inside but she loved it.

We went to the visitors centers where Chase was of course a maniac and I was told by a sister missionary that I was weird for only having two kids. Mkay. Anyway, I had seen a poster at our church about the new interactive childrens exhibit at the Church History Museum. Its about the Book of Mormon so we thought that would be perfect since we've been reading the Book of Mormon as a family and thought maybe it would help reinforce what we've read and whatnot. The kids loved it!


Emily was loving dressing up and dancing around until other people started to comment on how cute she was. Then she was embarassed and didn't want to do it anymore. :)

They also have a quilt exhibit right now with an area for kids. I think our kids could have played there for HOURS.



We did some other stuff that I didn't take pictures of and went out to eat a lot. Our kids love going out to eat because we hardly ever do it. :) It was nice to have some time together as a family. We don't get much of that most of the time.

Robert is REALLY excited that baseball season has started. I'm kind of already tired of it and there's still 7 more months but it makes him really happy so that makes me happy. Emily is loving preschool and dance and has her first recital this week. Should be interesting! I've been noticing that there hasn't been much mention of Chase on our blog lately so I'm going to dedicate a post to him soon but he's still the cutest boy on the face of the earth. :) I'm still pregnant and spent the last three months being completely miserable but things are getting better in that regard. Knock on wood.

That's a little update on our lives.

Ballerina Dreams

I started dancing when I was 2 years old. And continued pretty much until I had Emily. When I was pregnant with Emily and found out we were having a girl I was so excited to have my own little ballerina! Robert and I decided that we wouldn't force our kids to do the things we want them to do (dance and baseball) but would let them choose. Luckily, we ended up with the biggest girly girl there is who wants nothing more than to be a sparkly ballerina.

The plan was to start her at a studio in the fall but over the last few months she has been begging to start dance class. We found a community ed class that would at least be a start and kind of get her feet wet. And so the dream has been fulfilled!

She absolutely loves it. It is hysterical to watch her in class. She has a slight obsession with checking herself out in the mirror and has to constantly be in the front. It's pretty funny but we need to work on it. I think we'll be having many more years of dance in our future. Yay!

Scraggly Hair

Emily finally got her first haircut. Her hair was insanely long and getting really difficult to deal with.

Before


During


After


Much better.

Birthday Boy

I don't know about you but I'm getting really tired of looking at that friggin pee stick so I gotta post something. Anything. But these pictures are so cute and Robert getting one year closer to 30 is definitely worth a post. :)

We went to his parents house the Sunday before his birthday. His mom had gotten out all the pictures from his past birthdays. It was pretty funny and definitely reminded him that he's the second child! There would be his 1st and 2nd birthday then it would skip to 7 and 8, and then skip to 13, then all the way to 17. It was fun to see all his parties and the cakes his mom always made.

The cake I made for him in 15 minutes. Poor guy. A package for the mailman.

Emily just had to help. I think she just wanted the attention on herself. :)

My favorite people in the entire world.

Outnumbered

Around Christmas we got a little surprise.

Yeah. Baby #3 will be joining our family this August. It was not planned but we're excited! Robert hates when I say it was unplanned. He says he feels like we're on an episode of "16 & Pregnant." :)

About a week before I tested I just KNEW I was pregnant. This ain't my first rodeo! Robert was immediately excited but I was kind of freaking out. I took a test one day while Robert was at work. I didn't tell him and when he got home I asked him to get dinner out of the oven. This is what he found.

He was excited to see the results but he totally didn't get the whole "bun in the oven" thing. He asked, "why did you put the test in a roll?" Haha! It was funny.

We debated whether to tell Emily yet because we didn't want her telling everyone but we decided to so she would understand why mommy wasn't feeling well and needed to rest. I'm so glad we did. Emily is really excited. She talks about the baby every day and tells me all the things she's going to teach the baby (kind of scary!). She's looking forward to being my big helper but she's REALLY hoping for a sister. Chase doesn't have a clue but I think we might have some issues with him when the baby comes. He's a little bit of a momma's boy. :)

I've been pretty sick so it's been difficult so far but it will be worth it right? :)

My Precious Girl

It is so much fun to watch Emily learn new things. She gets so excited and is so proud of herself when she learns something new. She loves that she is able to write her name. It makes me smile to see her cute little 3 year old handwriting and it's even better when she gets the letters mixed up. So cute. I just love this little girl.

Today my mom watched her for a little while and while they were driving Emily told her "My mother and father are always stressing me out." I don't know where she gets this stuff! Every word out of her mouth is hysterical. The other day I was wearing one of Robert's t-shirts that looks like this:

Emily told me "Daddy's sad because he made a mistake." She's so smart and the way she just figures things out is amazing sometimes. I'm so grateful for her and the funny things she says. Sometimes she can be difficult and I can get a little frustrated with her but then she'll say something hilarious and it helps me remember how precious she is.