Making Santa's Cookies, 12.24

Making Santa's sugar cookies was quite the adventure. Taylor and I had to roll out the dough and cut out the shapes we wanted faster than Brayden could eat it- it was quite the challenge! The boys had fun though.

Dad helped us decorate them. Hopefully Santa was prepped for all that sugar! Taylor really piled on the frosting- and of course, Brayden just licked it off his fingers.

Santa Tags

I found a cute idea from this scrap book lady's blog to make Love, Santa gift tags. I LOVED them- the boys didn't even notice but I'm going save them and Santa will use them every year.

Brayden, 12.22

This is how we found Brayden sleeping one night.

In order to sleep our little boy has to have 2 sleep blankies and 2 puppy dogs.

Sledding, 12.20-21

We had a full week of dad being home before Christmas. Thankfully it snowed and we got to go sledding.

The easiest way back up the hill- ride on your brother while dad drags you!

Lights at Temple Square 12.19.10

Another night of family fun was to go see the lights at temples square. The boys really loved this and had fun running around. Unfortunately my camera (or me) was struggling that night so non of the pictures of the actual lights turned out in focus.

Matt's great-grandfather is the creator of this sculpture.

Visiting Santa and a Sleigh Ride

For December we had a Family Countdown Calendar that had activities for us to do every day. One night our activity was to go see Santa at an outdoor shopping center and ride the free horse drawn carriages. The boys loved it.

Bray was a little apprehensive about Santa- Taylor couldn't wait to tell him everything on his list!

It was pretty chilly but we dressed warm and there are fires all over the place to keep warm.

A lady felt bad for Brayden being out in the cold so during the carriage ride he rode in her lap under her blanket. He enjoyed the extra warmth!

(I know this is REALLy late, but I want to document it)

Ugly Sweater Party

We had a great time in December... and now that's we've almost recovered I'll post about it.

We attended an ugly sweater party. Yes- Matt's sweater is a little bigger in the chest and short in the sleeves because it is a woman's sweater. We had a great time with some good MBA couples. I'm so sad I didn't get a group picture!

Try Again

Baby boy was trying to stay just 'baby' and would not move his little legs even with some tough prodding by the ultrasound technician. She had me get up, move around, go to the bathroom and try again. Thankfully that worked. When she said, "you know what that is, it's a BOY!" Taylor said, "humph." He's been wanting twins, but if he couldn't have twins he had said he wanted it to be a boy. Afterwards I was talking to him about how exciting it will be to have another boy he responded with "She should have said GIRL."



In his little four year old mind, he thinks the technician got to pick the gender... and she picked WRONG! So cute! Hopefully the idea will grow on him.
No reason for the blurry picture- just two of my cute boys after baths the other night.

We bleed blue around here (BYU Cougars ya know) and apparently that's our color! We got to see baby BOY today. His ETA is still April 30th.

In all it's Glory

Me and baby and 19 1/2 weeks. I feel like I'm bigger than I've ever been this far along- and I wasn't good at documenting the other two so I have no comparison.

To answer some of your questions, yes we'll be finding out the gender. If we had one of each gender right now, I'm pretty sure I could convince Matt to let it be a surprise- but since we only have boy stuff, we want to be prepared *IF* (BIG if) it's a girl.

No, I have no 'motherly instinct' on what the gender will be. It's been a very different pregnancy so far so maybe that means something?

We get to see our baby Monday afternoon- so Monday evening check back for an update!!!! Will I be getting anymore estrogen in this house or are we bound for blue all the way... we'll see!

Lately

I can't get enough to drink... and the water is never cold enough

This little thing sitting on my bathroom floor hasn't been so kind

and a GOOD hamburger is all I think about- ALL DAY LONG!

Elastic bands are needed to hold these up
And nap time can't come soon enough- for both me and the boys

Luckily for me we're going to have one of these joining our family by April 30th- which makes all those little inconveniences worth it!

Hide-N-Go-Seek

I went in to check on Brayden during a nap the other day and my heart dropped! I just peeked in and assumed to see him right there...

Want to guess where Braydo is?

So scary! I want to know how he got under there, and got his pillow pet in there!

Halloween

Since Halloween was on a Sunday this year, we celebrated on Saturday night and went trick-or-treating. Taylor could finally wear his REAL Halloween costume now that it was the right day.

Right before we were about to head out the wind picked up and it started pouring! Then it started hailing and I was worried we wouldn't make it out at all. After about 45 minutes of that, it stopped and we were able to get out.

Matt stayed behind to watch football, I mean hand out the candy. It was still a little chilly but the boys lasted 45 minutes and we filled their baskets so they were happy.

They each got to pick one piece of candy to eat that night, here was Taylor's choice.

Brayden chose chips and LOVED them!