new mexico

we went to new mexico in april to visit ashley, jeremy, and bryce. sophie could not have been more excited to see bryce. we had lots of fun visiting and checking out santa fe and albuquerque. we got there saturday morning and went to the flea market, a car tour of downtown albuquerque, the mall with the disney store, a sweet new burger place, and watched a movie at ash and jeremy's. bryce and sophie did so good playing together while we watched a movie...minus the one time i found them jumping on the bed with my camera and eating my sugar babies.

sophie was in heaven at the disney store. she had never been before and i'm pretty sure she thought she was in disneyland. she was going nuts with all the princess dressed and shoes. i told her she could pick something out and she had such a hard time deciding. she finally narrowed it down to a flynn rider doll or pascal to go with her rapunzel. she picked pascal and took him everywhere. bryce picked out this minnie mouse cup for her. she loves it!

sunday we went to church and took a car tour of santa fe and old town santa fe. it was a cool, old city with some neat buildings.

old town santa fe.

monday we went to this park with a giant slide, visited jeremy's work in espanola, went shopping, to the mall to ride the carousel and swimming. 

sophie thought this slide was super cool, surprisingly. she gets scared of the baby slides at the park. ash and i had jd take the kids down the slide since we were both 30ish weeks pregnant.

the first time, jd took them down at the same time. everyone made it out ok.

the next time around soph wanted to go by herself. what? who is this kid?

and she made it out ok again. i love the look on her face. priceless.

the last time down didn't go so well...

jd went down with bryce and somehow got turned around on the way down. they both shot out head first at the end and landed on the ground. luckily, jd caught bryce. then came sophie...also on her back and head first. yikes! luckily no one got hurt, but it sure scared me. that's why i didn't get any pictures after this. i was too worried about everyone coming out of the slide.

cousins.

they also had lots of fun at the carousel at the mall. they were the only ones on and they got a nice long ride.

after the mall we headed to the swimming pool. unfortunately, sophie had a couple of accidents there and had a rough night. she was going down a little frog slide, but got scared and tried to climb off. she slipped and fell down the stairs backwards. poor girl.

ash and i went shopping for baby stuff and found the kids some new pajamas. here they are in the new jammies and matching slippers.

they had so much fun and were so excited to see each other. poor bryce was so sad when we went home. thanks for letting us come visit!

march and easter 2012

first of all, i guess i should mention this...

baby #2 is well in his way. yep, his. definitely a boy. obviously this isn't new, i'm just terrible at blogging. we found out while we were on our trip to georgia in october. we told our families right away, but waited til thanksgiving to tell everyone else.

 this is his profile at 20 weeks. he will be here in the next few weeks. a lot of changes are coming our way. we are super excited, but nervous for 2 kids. sophie knows she is going to have a baby brother, but i don't think she really understands how her life is going to change. i'm a little nervous for the both of us. we are in a really good stage right now and i love how sophie can do things for herself. it's going to be a little bit hard to go back to all the baby stuff. i'm sure we'll get used to it, but it's weirds me out to think about having another baby. sophie is getting so big and independent. she is such a good helper lately. i hope she'll still want to be a good helper when the baby gets here!

i just had an ultrasound today to check the size of this baby since sophie was so small. they said i was a lot more likely to have a small baby again. turns out there is nothing small about this baby. the doctor said he is measuring about a week ahead. so, he is measuring about 37 weeks at 36 weeks. and, they estimated his weight to be 6 lbs 14 oz. already. that scares me. how much bigger is he going to get in the next 4 weeks? hopefully he'll come a little bit early and not be too big. yikes!

 here i am at about 26 weeks. i guess i need to take a more recent one.

sophie and i have been having lots of fun doing things before the baby comes. we are going on lots of outings and doing lots of fun stuff. here's what we've been up to.

we had a super warm day in march so we tested out the new water table. she loved it! she was soaked by the time we went inside.

she is totally and completely obsessed with ballerinas. she loves watching angelina ballerina, wearing tutus, and dancing around. here she is in her ballerina outfit.

she also loves to sing while she's dancing around. she sings at the top of her lungs, as loud as she can, and usually you can't understand the words because she just makes them up. she does love to sing rapunzel songs, and you can definitely understand the "and at last i see the light" part. oh, and she is obsessed with rapunzel, too. anything princess, really.

easter 2012

the easter bunny made a stop by our house. good thing we left some carrots outside for him. sophie was so excited to leave carrots for him. she talked about it for days. i forgot about it and put her in bed, so i had to go get her up to put the carrots out, oops!

 he left us some paw prints. sophie thought that was super cool.

 soph with her easter basket. she was lucky and got some cool stuff. a new book, golf clubs, dora jellies, a jump rope, and some treats.

soph in her easter dress. she looked so darling. her toenails and fingernails even matched.

this is kind of picture overload, but i love them all. she's so cute.

 with the cousins. i did really awesome getting a good one of all 3, huh?

grandma's easter egg hunt. sophie kept calling in an easter egg "hunk".

me and baby. about 31 weeks.

soph and daddy checking out the goods. soph was totally spoiled. no wonder she loves grandma and grandpa so much!

the fam.

we had a lovely easter with family and reflecting on the life and resurrection of our Savior. we are especially grateful for the things we have been given: our family, friends, blessings, plan of salvation, the atonement, and the love of our Father in Heaven.