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I don't even know if I ever mentioned on here that I am having a baby.  Well, I was having a baby and now I have a baby.  Here is a picture of me just a couple of days before we found out what we were having.  This picture makes me miss my old house.  Yep, we have moved too.  Lots of catching up to do.

I really wanted to make a cake to tell everyone what we were having.  So I did.  It was really yummy too, but I ended up telling almost everyone what we were having before we got around to eating the cake.  Everyone except for Audrey.

She was the only one who found out via cake that she was getting another little sister and she was thrilled.

The proof.

Evan found out via colored balloons that he was getting another little sister and he was not thrilled with the news.  Poor thing, I really did feel bad.

Sleepover

Sometime last November, Calvin got to sleep over at our house.  He was his usual hilarious self and insisted on sleeping with his Thor hammer and hat.  (I just love taking pictures of kids when they are asleep if you haven't noticed).

He also insisted on feeding the fish beads and grapes while he was there.  Surprisingly, this fish is still alive.

Aggies All the Way

Last year in November, we finally made it to a Utah State football game.  It was a beautiful day and we didn't even need to wear jackets.  Evan was very excited to get an Aggie shirt, he tells everyone he is an Aggies fan.

Audrey was just glad she got to wear blue.

Halloween (2012)

Holy crap!  I just realized how far behind I am.  An entire year.  I also realized that I haven't posted anything since March.  The last eight months have been very busy to say the least.  Hopefully I can get caught up and tell you everything that has happened in the last year.  I have some really good excuses.  So here are the pictures from last Halloween.  We went with a superhero theme.  

Evan of course picked Hulk.

Audrey is Batgirl.  She loves to pose.

Here is the lunch I packed for Audrey on Halloween.  She loved it and was so surprised at school when she opened it up.  She came home yelling "Mom, that was the best lunch ever."  

More posing.

The pumpkins we carved.

The whole family.  If you can't tell Colby is Underdog and I am She-Ra.  It really just made us feel old dressing.  None of the kids in our neighborhood knew who we were.

Even more superheroes.

First Day of School

Here is Audrey on her first day of second grade.  Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of her in the "usual" corner of our house.  She was very excited to go back to school and it was hard for her to wait until after Labor Day.

She had a great day at school and loved her teacher and class.  She wasn't too happy though to come home and find out that her fish had died. 

Here is Evan on his first day of preschool. He too was extremely excited to go back. 

Alivia on the other hand got bored with her siblings gone.  She decided to take on extra responsibilities around the house like feeding the fish. 

Last Hurrah

Being the good procrastinators that we are, we crammed everything into the last two weeks of summer.  First we finally went up to Boise to visit family for the weekend.  While there, we all went to the local jump house.

I didn't get very good pictures while we were there.

After we got back from Boise, it was time to hit all of the local spots before school started.  First up was the splash pad. 

Next stop, the zoo.  We hadn't seen the new polar bear yet.  The kids really enjoyed watching him; they wouldn't even turn around for me to take their picture. 

They were able to take their eyes off of the giraffe so that I could take their picture.

The kids don't think a trip to the zoo is complete without a ride on the carousel.

And finally we made a stop at the Alpine Slides in Park City.  Unfortunately Audrey was the only one that got to go down.  By the time Evan made it to the top, it had started to rain and there was thunder and lighting so he wasn't able to go down. 

After all of that, it was time to rest up for a few days before school started.

The Seven Year (St)Itch(es)

Seven years.  That is how long we made it without our kids needing stitches.  Last August I was cleaning the kitchen and Evan was playing in the basement when I suddenly heard a crash and I could also hear Evan crying and screaming.  I ran downstairs to see what had happened and I found him in my sewing room with blood running down his face.  He told me he was trying to climb like Spider-Man and he had pulled our Total Gym over and it had hit his head.  He had a cut right by his eye and another one on the top of his head.  After I got him cleaned up, I could tell the one by his eye was pretty deep and would require stitches.  So I packed up all three kids and headed to InstaCare.  Here he is after they put some numbing ointment on the wounds and we were waiting for it to take effect.

After that, they prepared him to get the stitches.  A sucker always helps.  He looks calm in this picture, but he was not calm while getting the stitches.  It was a four person job; the doctor doing the stitches, a nurse holding his head, another nurse holding his arms, and me holding his legs.  I don't think it would have been so bad if it had been farther away from his eye. 



Luckily he only needed three stitches and he only needed them on the one cut.  Here he is after we got home.

Six days later, we were back at InstaCare to get the stitches out.  That was only a three person job.  Here's hoping we make it another seven years.