Our family fun filled weekend

Our family has been anticipating this weekend for the past 7 months. Jennie and her husband Kevin had their official court date to adopt Karlie on May 16th and this past Saturday, they went to the Temple to have Karlie sealed to them. It was very special to see them as a family together in the Temple. They were so happy and I'll say it again, Karlie is the cutest little thing and seriously, she looks JUST LIKE KEVIN!

My sister Stephanie flew down on Thursday afternoon and stayed at our house that night. We LOVED having her over, especially William. The two of them played HARD on Friday morning, and I loved the little break it gave me. I did jump in on the fun every once in a while, secretly hoping it would jump start labor, but no such luck.

That afternoon, Stephanie and I met up with Sandra for a little girls lunch and then Stephanie and I took a "short" 2 hour trip to D.I. I have never laughed so hard and had so much fun in a thrift store before. I even found my dress for Daniel and Amanda's upcoming wedding. Don't I look hot? :)

After the sealing on Saturday, we had a nice luncheon at my parents house and later that evening we met around my parents fire pit in the backyard where we roasted marshmallow's and ended with hot dogs. S'mores are SO GOOD!!!

And on Monday we cleaned. Again. I told Lee if I deep clean this house one more time before this baby comes I just might scream! Then we met at my parents that evening for a Memorial Day BBQ. It was good and I are way to much amazing food this weekend. I probably gained another 5 lbs. but it was totally worth it!

39 Weeks

Not the most flattering picture of me, but I love that William wanted to stand by me and hold my hand and take this picture with me.  Last week William was sick.  All weekend Lee has been sick.  I wanted to have this baby today..... UGH!  These boys are messing up my plans!  I guess we'll just stick it out now an let her come when she is good and ready to make her appearance.

We can't wait to meet you Little Miss "M".

Silhouette

 I woke up this morning for some reason wanting to play with my silhouette and the camera.  So I showered, did my hair and got set up in the kids room.  I started to take some shots when William wanted to know what I was doing.  With the remote in my hand I would snap some shots and then go check them out, and then in the place I was standing was William saying, "CHEESE".  He is so cute, so of course I had to get his silhouette as well.  Then I would say, "My turn" and return to my spot for another shot while William would go stand next to the tripod and held onto it.  I would hit the shutter on the remote and he would get so excited.  I think he thought he was taking the picture of Mommy.  It was real cute and he was having fun.  We continued to play our game for another 10 minutes or so.



Finger painting.... a traumatizing experience!

What kid doesn't like to finger paint?  Apparently mine.  My preschool classes always got really excited when I would pull out the paints and let them paint whatever their hearts desired.  Maybe William is still to young, because he wanted NOTHING to do with it.  He cried and cried and I just laughed.  I'm such a nice Mom.  Who knew paint could be so horrifying?  I guess for now we'll stick with crayons and markers.



Our baby has a name!

It took us long enough to agree and on a name that we both love, but we are happy to announce that "Baby Girl" will have a name before she is born.  This name came to me a couple of weeks ago out of the blue, just in the nick of time.  Last night, I told Lee that I wanted to sit down and pick a name because it was driving me crazy.  We talked about the two names that we narrowed it down to and last night agreed that ______ would make the perfect name for our baby girl.  Since we are so close to meeting her, we are going to keep it a secret and reveal it to everyone when she is born.  :)

Picture Dump

"Helping" Dad clean the Garage.  He wants to do everything Lee does.



"My favorite color is DIRT.  When Mom takes the trash out, I escape outside, run to the garden and play.  Later that week, Mom dug 6 slivers out from the bottom of my feet."

"Hey, this used to be my seat!  I would like it back, please.  I'm pretty sure I still fit."

Resting...........................

 I'm at that point in this pregnancy (37 weeks and 1 day) where I am just full on tired and achy from head to toe.  Most of my free time is spent here on the couch.  And while I am laying on the couch, William's favorite place to sit is either on my hips or beind my back.  He is such a silly little man!

He is a really sweet boy.  Here is is giving me "loves".  :)

 This picture was taken about a month ago.  Not to bad looking.

 WARNING: Bare naked face below!  Much scarier than the one above!

And this ladies and gentelman is what complete and total exhaustion taking over your entire body looks like.  WOW, check out those bags under the eyes!  This was taken today.  I told you, I've hit that "point".  It's a "No make-up, I don't care to run a brush through my hair" kind of day.