baby fun

Last week I got a bunch of the baby stuff out of storage and washed, cleaned and put them back together again in early anticipation of the little guy's arrival. You'd think with the third one we would have everything but after 2 kids and 4 years in storage some things have need to be replaced...ever since I have been on Craig's list looking for good deals. So far I've gotten a really nice changing table, and a boppy with the toy/food tray.

Soren's old baby clothes: these are his NB-3M clothes..im pretty sure baby #3 will most likely be 10 lbs and zoom right past these onto the 3-6, but I've got those all washed as well and ready to go. Except Soren was born in sept and this little guy is due in march so the weather should be about the same for the first little while but for 3-6M Soren was in full blown Winter and this little guy will be full on summer so it seems every 3 months or so we will have the right kind of clothes and then the next 3 month change we will need different.

Bassinet: this has been used by a lot of babies starting with my younger brother Mack who is now 13 (he might have just turned 14 last october..I can't remember now if he turned 13 or 14)

Car Seat with new baby head support.

The Swing/Gilder

New purchase: Changing table (got for $30)

New purchase: Blue Bumbo with tray

Great dilemmas

The last 6 years, being the first 6 years of our marriage, were spent being young poor college students. And starting a family when you are young poor college students leaves you with certain dilemmas that you usually don't get to pick the outcomes of. You aren't usually giving much choice of things to get for the babies or where to put the nursery.... You live in a very small 2 bedroom apartment and the kids are gonna share :) You get the hand me down clothes and cribs you can get your hands on and smile with gratitude :) Being Young I never really felt like I was without anything. Being young and in college you still have the willing help of your parents and they both have been life savers over the years.

We actually have nice sturdy trim around the door so we can actually hang up the jump a roo thing :) I love how the most stressful dilemmas I have is whether or not I am going to put the baby in the SPARE room or if he will share with Soren. I HAVE A SPARE ROOM!!!! Or if I am going to put the swing upstairs in the family room or downstairs near kitchen so I can swing him occupied while I clean up.

We are going to put up our very first christmas tree this year because we will actually be home for christmas. We have always lived far away from both parents and so have taken both holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas) off each year to travel to see them.

It has just been really nice looking forward to the future and being able to plan and choose and experience this new phase in our lives. I am really trying to take it all in and enjoy all these great dilemmas for once before all the really hard dilemmas of this phase in our lives kick in.

Halloween again :)

The kids got all dressed up again for halloween so we could go to the discovery center halloween party. We enjoyed (except kaydence who was scared) the haunted house. We enjoyed a few experiment shows with making slime and liquid nitrogen. Kids made some crafts and we ate some cupcakes. I got some great photos of the kids before we left and before my camera battery died :)

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On a different note the afternoon was fun too. Lindsey had to come to town to get the H1N1 vaccine so we went out to lunch with our kids and took them shopping at "baby's R us" and looked for outfits for our boys in vetro..she is a few weeks behind me and just found out she is having at least one boy...out of two she has in there. Then we stopped by "Kidz Again" a resale store where we could actually afford some baby clothes :) Then when I got home I heard about the Payless Shoes 50% off ENTIRE order coupon and rushed over. I got kaydence her snow boots and a nice black pair of church shoes to go with her early christmas dress her grandma connie got her. I got myself a purse and a scarf. Soren's supply was pretty scarce but did get him his first pair of converse tennies that were already on sale. The line was about an hour or more long and the store was a mad house because of the Oprah 1 day sale, but we got some great deals so the wait was worth it.

OFFICE

We finally filled our downstairs office. It has been a storage room for the last month or so and now we can raise the blinds on the french doors and not be embarrassed to show off this room. :) We got the desk and matching bookcase at Sam's Club for an amazing deal. We need a few more things to complete this room but it's a great start.

HALLOWEEN

We went over to Emmett where my inlaws were having their ward halloween party last friday. The kids had a blast. I forgot my camera, but Lindsey was able to get these few shots of the kids for me in their costumes. Kaydence was minnie mouse and Soren is Superman. I wanted him to be superman becuase of the S...right now while learning letters he is very proud and possessive of everything he see's that has an S in it and thought the superman costume was very fitting. Everyone at the ward would say...oh your superman!!! and he would say no, I'm soren..this is a costume...I don't think he really gets pretending :) But he sure is a cute Soren dressed in a superman costume... And kaydence is cute as a button as always.

kids with grandpa larry after the party... a little hyped up on some sugar :)

It's a.....

Went to the doctor today and found out that the baby is really heathy and everything is as it should be. And we also found out something else.

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IT'S A BOY!!!!!

Soren wasn't at all surprised since he already knew it was a boy because he has short hair. :) But kaydence finally said she wasn't excited about a Brother..first time she has said either way what she wanted. She wanted twins at first so she could have both a brother and a sister...but apparently deep down she just wanted a sister.

maybe next time.

Bishop's Pumpkin Patch

This weekend we went down to california for my little sisters wedding and took advantage of some much needed family bonding on my side. We took all the kids to this pumpkin patch theme park a family has set up on their farm. They have a train that goes all round the farm and a corn maze and ponies and a petting zoo and it is really nice and the kids had a blast.

cutie patutie little ethyn tyler my nephew was so cute and a natural

Serenity Jean would go heeyaa the whole time around...and to think she was scared of these last year when they came.

Soren Craig is my my little cheese bucket!!

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The white horse was "fast" and so they weren't letting anyone ride it, but they let kaydence because she was the oldest...I was like where is it going to go its just going around in circles. But when the horse was up the other horses butt the whole time I got why maybe we should have avoided it.

Soren was pretty brave on the slides and was going down all sorts of different directions.

This green slide came down from this like 3 story tree house.. The kids had a blast until about 50 kids showed up and bombarded the slide, so we moved on to the ponies.

This slide is a converted barn and was pretty fun.. the kids went up and down about 50 times each.

My sister Tammie and her husband Jesse

Kids watching the train go by after our ride.