Were are finally alive...

So I know that I haven't posted in nearly a month, however we had a great Christmas and five days later the girls and I flew out to California to spend some time with my family. Flying in a plane for about 7 hours total and having a three hour layover on the way out made it feel like one of the longest days of my life. From different circumstances that I encountered I at different points thought I might just start crying. However, I was able to hold it together and we finally made it out. We had a great time seeing all of the family, we only wished that Nate could be there too. Actually Bristol at one point right before we were going to come home said, "Mom I really miss Daddy, but when I am at home I really miss Grandma and Grandpa". What a dilemma. So thanks to my sister Michelle she took some pictures of our outings. I brought my camera to CA but am notoriously bad with remembering to bring it with me and take pictures.

Bristol and Asher, we are not quite sure why she wanted to look like she was eating his head.

Good ol' West Valley.

Feeding the chickens. There is a house by my parents that has chickens in their backyard. Well there are several holes in the fence where you can feed them (don't worry we have asked the owner if it ok if we fed them). So it has been a tradition for a little while to bring bread on the walk and feed the chickens, Bristol refers to it as the "Chicken Walk". The following five pictures are Kali's take on feeding the chickens.

One for you.

One for me.

One for you.

One for me.

"What am I doing something wrong?" I am just glad that the bread wasn't moldy.

Helping make breakfast one morning.

Asher, Grandma, and Bristol.

The three musketeers. They all loved paling around together. Kali loved telling Asher that he was making a mess or to tell him what to do. Over all though they loved having each other to play with.

Bristol with some of her boys. Look at the love in her eyes as she looks at Collin her cousin.

Kali and Aunt Lisa having a serious talk.

We were there for my mom's birthday on the first of January.

Kali emptied all of the toys out of the toy box to sit in it.

On a bridge at Rancho San Antonio. I love this park.

The famous tree that they must climb in each time we go there for a walk. We have so many pictures in this tree through out the years.

Blake, Grandma, and Bristol catching up on our walk. They went on a separate path.

Some sisterly love in their new clothes that Grandma got them.

The last month or so

So we are finally in existence on our blog again. These are a few pictures from the last few weeks or so.

Kali one day got into the chocolate milk powder. She doesn't like chocolate milk but she does like the straight powder I guess.

Kali has been into making funny faces lately and here are a few of the best.

Our Ward Christmas Party

Nate was a narrator in the play they had.

Bristol with one of her best friends Samantha.

Bristol singing with the primary.

Our first snowman. It snowed enough that we actually could go out and play in it. Bristol loved the snow and making the snowman. Kali on the other hand prefers being warm inside.

So for those of you who have not heard

Well I know most of you (well at least family) have already heard, but for all of you other people out there, yes we are having another baby. It was a shock to both Nate and I and definitely not a baby that we were trying to have at this particular time. However, we know the Lord knows more than we do and we are putting our trust and faith in him. The past two months have been rough with being sick and tired all the time. Luckily the last two months Nate has had a pretty light schedule with work and was home most of the time for dinner (which is something I am having a really hard time making let alone eating lately). Unfortunately with my last two pregnancies I am sick until about 17 weeks so I still have a month or so to go. I am praying it will go away sooner, but time will only tell. It has gotten a little better the last week or so. Our baby is due June 19th and we are hoping for a little boy (especially Nate). To all of you who can't wait to find out what we are having (Michelle), sorry to disappoint you but we are planning on waiting until the baby is born. We did this with Kali and I really enjoyed it, so that is my plan so far with this one.

Happy holidays and sorry no pictures. We haven't been doing much lately that has been picture worthy. Hopefully with the holidays coming up we will have more to document.

Happy Birthday Bristol

Bristol turned four last week on the 1oth. We just had a little family celebration. I just didn't feel up to the whole big party thing. I asked her and she said she was fine with just the family. We did take cupcakes to her preschool class. Which is why I made her a watermelon cake. I only had enough cake batter left after the cupcakes to make one round cake. So I sat there thinking what I could make with just one round cake. I decided if I cut it in half it would make the perfect watermelon shape. I asked her if she liked the idea of having a watermelon. She liked it so it was done. I know super random for a child's birthday cake in November, but hey cake is cake.

She got this Cinderella dress for her birthday and was super excited. We had a little issues with Kali not understanding that the presents were Bristol's.

Look at the joy on her face.

Long time overdue

So I know Halloween was a while ago, but I haven't gotten around to posting our pictures yet. Bristol had a great time running around trick or treating. There are so many kids in our neighborhood it was the crazy with kids everywhere. Bristol wanted to be the pink fairy from Tinkerbell AKA Rosetta. So I decided Kali would be Tinkerbell. I used a lot of Bristol's Tinkerbell costume from when she was one. Poor Kali she always gets the hand-me-downs. I figure I can keep doing this until she cares about what she is for Halloween. Well I enjoyed making Bristol's costume. I didn't have a pattern or a real plan as I started I just kind of played it by ear as I was making it. She loved it and that is all that matters, plus I only spent about $5.

Carving pumpkins the day before. Bristol chose to have a cat face on our pumpkin. We had two pumpkins, but one rotted before we got a chance to carve it.

So yes both of our kids eyes are closed in this picture, but this was like the fourth picture we tried getting. It was good enough.

I love Kali's facial expression here for some reason.

Bristol got tons of candy, which now we don't know what to do with it all. She couldn't even carry her bag halfway through because it was too full. However, she had a blast so that is all that really matters.

A visit from the fam

So a couple of weeks ago two of my sisters came out and visited for a week. We did a lot of hanging out, but we had a lot of fun just seeing each other. Bristol and Kali loved seeing their cousin Asher.Hey there Asher. It was always crazy getting everyone in and out of the car. Look how happy he is.

Lora was Kali's own personal entertainment in the car. She loved having Aunt Lora here.
We were trying to kill a little time before our hayride started so we drove around and decided to take a picture of Bristol with her street.
We took them to the pumpkin patch with the hayride because we thought it was so fun. There were even bigger puddles that we went through this time. It was crazy but way fun.
Making sugar cookies one night. Lora, me, and Michelle.
So this is the same park that we went to as a family on Labor day. I am planning on taking our kids there each season and getting pictures of them. I love seeing the changes of the seasons.
This is after we had to cross a creek. We ditched on of the strollers on the side of the path because it didn't go over the rocks and branches as well. It was still pretty funny to carry these kids across a creek and strollers.
How cute is little Asher boy.