Christmas

Ok, so I haven't posted anything about Christmas yet because I was hoping that I could get our camcorder footage downloaded cuz that was way better than the pictures we took, and for some reason, I figured out how to download the footage to the computer but I can get it uploaded to the blog so I guess we have to suffer with the camera images which we didn't have very many pictures. :( Christmas this year was so much fun. Maysie was a sleepy head and made us wait until 8:15 am to open presents, which seems like an eternity for me since I am so used to being up Christmas morning by 4:00 am. She was still groggy and a little grumpy so she made Rob carry her down the stairs. Once they turned the corner and she saw her gift from Santa (a rocking horse) she was so excited and squirmed to get down all the while saying neigh, neigh as loud as she could. :) She climbed down the rest of the stairs and ran over to the horse and started petting it and hugging it. Rob helped her get on, and she would just ride it with the biggest smile on her face. (sorry my pictures are out of order- but most of them are of the horse anyways...) After some of the excitement of seeing her fun present from Santa, we went threw our stockings and started opening all of the other presents that were left under the tree. Maysie raked in lots of toys this year which of course is like Heaven for a kid. After she opened up a toy, she made Rob unwrap it and get it in working condition. :)After she opened 4 presents or so, she just wanted to play with all of her new toys. To get her back on track, we let her open up her main present from Rob and I... we got her the baby doll set-up:a baby doll and stroller and a play-pen. Watching her reaction to this was hilarious. When she noticed that it was a doll, she started clapping her hands and yelling baby over and over again.... It was a priceless moment to witness. Rob and I had a great Christmas too. Rob finally installed the new Microwave that we got the day after Thanksgiving and gave it to me as a Christmas gift. (Our old microwave was looking like a red-neck one cuz it was falling apart... seriously, we had duct tape holding it together.) We also got some stuff for when we go camping: a grill, dutch oven, and a table and a lot of fun movies... :) Christmas afternoon, we went to Rob's mom's house for lunch, which ended up being dinner cuz somehow the turkey got turned off and took 2 and 1/2 hours longer to cook than what we were planning on... oops. It was super yummy and great company to be around. On Christmas Eve, we did the tradition of ordering Chinese food from China Star and then played games at Rob's mom's house with family. Maysie was in heaven playing with all the kids and we had a fun time just being around those we love. :) We sure do hope that this Christmas season was as wonderful in your home as it was in ours!

Now for the pictures:

Maysie in her doll play-pin thing. We keep telling her that she is too big for it and it is only for her baby dolls, but for some reason we keep finding her in it. :)























Finally getting the hang of opening presents... This is an ABC train thing that Rob bought for her eons ago.




















Riding her horse. Normally she has a huge smile but she kinda looks scared in this picture...



























Giving her horse a love when she is riding it...




















And this is her normal expression when she is riding her horse. :) Big smiles!

New Discoveries in the Nursery

Yesterday at church, I was helping out in the nursery. Maysie just turned 18 months a little over a week ago and is still getting used to the new routine, and since our ward definitely has no problem with the multiplying and replenishing the Earth commandment they could use another adult in there. Actually, I was planning on just staying there until I could sneak out without Maysie noticing but when I got there they asked if I could stay. Anyways, they have this toy there that is like a cash register of sorts that has one of those scanner paddle things (you know- for the big items on the bottom of the cart). Maysie was playing with the register part on the opposite side of the room from me when she noticed the attached scanner. She looked at that then promptly relocated herself and the toy right next to me. Once she was next to me, she put the scanner on my stomach and kept saying "oh, Baby. Wow!" I'm pretty sure that that was my sign that she has been with me to my Dr's visits a little too much if she sees a resemblance of a cash register toy and an ultrasound machine. I was trying to keep a strait face but it sure was hard and I ended up failing at the task, especially when all the other ladies there noticed what was going on and started laughing at the situation. :)

It's A What!

Yesterday, Rob and I went and had "the ultrasound" done. Dr. says IT'S A BOY! The baby tended to be a little shy at first and kept the cord in the way but finally he decided to show all, and there is no mistaking, it is definitely a boy. :) Both Rob and I had no idea what it really was. We kinda thought it was another girl considering all of Rob's siblings had 2 girls first thus far but I guess we broke the mold. We are so ecstatic now being thrown off of our rocker so to speak. Pretty much everyone thought that it was a boy but only a small handful of our friends. But if you go by what the family said.... well they were right the whole time. :) Now I can have lots of fun collecting cute little outfits and more manly blankets and stuff. Heaven only knows that if we re-use the ones we have, our son might have some issues later on if he was just surrounded by lots of pink and flowers and stuff! We couldn't get a really good profile pic with any of the ultrasounds that we have done so I wonder who he will look like. With Maysie we could tell that her forehead was a lot like Rob's and bingo, she is almost a spittin' image of her old man, just a female version. All we could really tell is that he has long legs (Obviously not from me, and he likes his hands either in his mouth or by his face... He is quite squirmy though but he does have a laid back feel to his persona where he constantly has his ankles crossed. :) Oh, how much I already love the little guy! Just thinking about him brings a smile to my face. Rob was hilarious at family prayer last night. He thanked Heavenly Father for finally sending us a boy - almost like we already had 7 girls and no boys. Ha Ha. By that simple statement in his prayer, I could tell he was so giddy with excitement.

Yesterday was Rob's "Over the Hill" birthday. Yep the big 40 so that is a main part of why we chose to do the ultrasound yesterday. I think that where it is a boy it was just the icing on the cake for his birthday. (He was hoping so bad for a boy when Maysie was born, but you know, although he wouldn't change it for the world. - yep she's got him totally wrapped up all around her tiny little pinkie toe!) Since Rob is determined that he is going to live to be 120 years old, he wouldn't let me really do much cuz being 40 isn't considered to be over the hill for him. LOL, I think that he is in denial that he is that old. :) We just had some of his family over to play cards last night but the real sha-bang is going to be this weekend!

Going Private!

I was just looking at the traffic feed on the blog and discovered people checking it out from far away lands and countries on which I have no clue to anyone that live there nor would even be visiting there. Because of this, I feel like I need to make my blog private. So on Monday, December 7th I'll make the switch to make it private. If you want an invite to continue to read my families blog, just e-mail me or post me a comment and I'll send the link. Thanks!

Copy Cat and an Update

I have been completely technology AWOL for it seems like forever.... Seriously, who feels like playing on the computer when your either sick to your stomach or when you type, you get shooting pains up you arm.... (For some reason my bad wrist, the one that I have had tons of problems with since I broke it in Volleyball practice in the 8th grade, is flaring up again... I loose my grip on things easily and have came close to dropping Maysie a few times when I am holding her with that arm... - yikes. So I have taken to wearing my lovely, well actually ugly brown brace to help strengthen my wrist and help it not give out so easily. Some people think that I am encountering that Pregnancy carpal tunnel thing but I'm not completely sure yet....) Anyways, I am still alive and kickin'. I keep waiting for the morning sickness to fade but no luck yet... for some reason brushing my teeth and opening the fridge haunt me and tend to be the main triggers of my queasiness. Rob is completely convinced that it is all in my head, but I assure him, I wouldn't fake the sickness practically every morning for days on end... I would have given up long before now. So anyways, the other morning, I think it was on Tuesday if I remember right, I was sick yet again thanks to the fridge. (Can't someone invent a way to keep milk cold without having to put it in the fridge? I would invest in alot of stock right now. :) ) While I was in the bathroom leaning over the toilet, Maysie comes in and of course starts to cry. For some reason she is always terrified when I gag. When I finished, I flushed the toilet then proceeded to the sink so I could wash out my mouth and wash my hands. When I was drying off my hands, I looked at Maysie and she was on her hands and knees over her little potty training potty spitting into it. I guess she has watched me one to many times - or she was just trying to sympathize with me. :)

So, everything else is going good. Busy, yes, but good. Thanksgiving was better than I anticipated, (It was at my brother and sister-in-laws house and having even 60 people crammed into a house didn't sound very appealing to me and I didn't look forward to going at all.) We have so much to be thankful for this year... Maysie is growing by leaps and bounds and is too smart for her own good- or maybe for me :), we have another baby on the way which we were not anticipating but am very much excited for, everyone in our family is blessed with excellent health this last year, and so much more that I would be here all day just listing our blessings.