Here are some photos of the ultrasound I had yesterday.  See if you can guess the gender!

Here is the little hand waving at big sister Katie.

Cute little profile!

It was hard to get  really good 4D picture.  The placenta is right in the way!

Any guesses?

We are so very excited about having this new addition to our family!  Katie can’t wait to be a big sister and change the baby’s diaper!  Got to love it!

We had so much fun for easter.  It started off a little crazy.  Bryce and I had planned to go to Oak City to visit my sister the day before Easter and then spend Easter with her family.  Wednesday, I decide to call Questar, our gas company, to come and do a quick carbon monoxide test.  I just had a feeling that something was wrong.  They came out, found a gas leak, and several other problems and shut off the gas.  We called the Air Conditioning people to come and fix it but they couldn’t come out until the next day.  That night, half our electricity went off.  The next morning we called the power company to come fix it.  They said that one line had fried and the other was on it’s way out, so, they turned off the power.  They told us we had to update some stuff before they could re-run wire and get us up and running.  And the air conditioning people said they couldn’t fix the gas until the power was back on.  So there we were, no power or gas.  I packed up and headed to Misty’s early.  I was so glad to spend the time with her family.  It was so much fun.  My mom was with me so she got to spend Easter with us as well. 

Here is Sophie and Katie.  They love to play together.  It is so fun to have a cousin Katie’s age.

We had an Easter Egg Hunt with the city on Saturday, but we were 1 minute too late.  Katie did get some eggs from some nice kids who shared.  Sunday we had a hunt at aunt Misty’s house.  This was more fun for Katie.  Not as many kids, and way more eggs!

Bryce stayed home to get things fixed up but was able to come down on Saturday after a sealing and Baptism.  He got there about dinner time.  Misty cut his hair and then shortly after dinner he passed out.  We decorated eggs Saturday night.

Sunday we went to church with Misty’s family.  After church, lunch, and a nap for Katie, we opened baskets and did the Easter Egg Hunt.  It was so much fun.

We headed home that night.  Our power was on, but still so heat.  We finally got the furnace working this morning.  Yeah!  Warm showers tonight.

Again, as soon as I figure out my camera, pictures will be posted.  We found out we are expecting again.  I am so excited and sick.  The sickness has not been as bad as in times past, but the tired as been double!  Whew, I wish I just had an ounce of Katie’s energy to get me through the day.

I will be posting pictures soon!  I got a new camera for Christmas and I am still learning how to use it.  But I have a new closet and I am so very excited!

My dad came out for a couple of weeks to help me with it.  He did most of it, but I still helped so I am taking some credit. Bryce helped too!  It was a family project, even Katie got to mud and paint a little.

Now on to our stairs and then to our fire place!  Hopefully then we can put the house up for sale.  Here’s hoping!

I will be sad when my parents leave.  I actually got to talk to adults during the day.  Katie is fun to talk to, but still just four.  I will miss them.

I am learning not only to blog, but to use Facebook!  Wow, I am really coming up in the world!  It helps that Bryce is such a computer guru.  He’s got me hooked on this thing.  Now he is cooking dinner because I can not tear myself away from the computer!  He he. ….

We had a great Christmas!  Katie had a Christmas concert for dance.  She was so cute as always.  After her concert she got to sit on Santa’s lap.  This is the first year she wasn’t scared silly of him.  She ran right up, jumped on his lap and told him what she wanted for Christmas.

We decided to make this Christmas a little more relaxing.  We only gave 3 gifts for each person to represent the wise mens’ gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  It made Christmas shopping so much easier in some ways, and little more difficult in other ways.  There was so much I wanted to give Bryce and Katie.  I ended up stuffing their stockings pretty full of gifts!

Katie’s favorite gifts were her new doll house and rocking horse.   Bryce loved his new holster for his gun and his concealed carry permit that came in the mail the day after Christmas!  My favorites were my snow boots and camera, but the ring Bryce got me has to be my absolute favorite!  He is always telling me that I am his ruby and so he got my a ruby ring.  He is so romantic!

Hope everyone else had a great holiday!

It seems like it has been just a whirlwind of activities the last few months.  It is time to post what we have been up to and show off some pictures!!  Of course I will start with my all time favorite “I’ve just been caught” picture.  Our family loves Karaoke.  Here I am singing away.  I turned and Bryce took a picture.  We don’t claim to be the best, but we sure love it.

Next, Bryce and I just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary.  I can’t believe it has been 5 years and we are still madly in love.  Every year Bryce hides little notes for me to find on our anniversary.  He’s such a romantic!  This year he told me that I would definatly find the note before I left to go Cross Guarding!  I tried to find it but couldn’t.  Sure enough, right before I left I found it and had to take pictures!

People on the road would honk at us.  I even had one of my sub’s for crossing ask me if I was Aurora of “Bryce and Aurora”.  I said “Yes, I am!”  She then congratulated me for our 5 years.  He is such a sweetie.

October started off fun.  We went on a family vacation to West Yellowstone with our friends the Hanfts.  Mike, Elisa, and Calli.  As you can see it was very cold.

We think we may try to go again when it isn’t snowing.  We didn’t see too many animals but we did have a lot of fun.

KATIE’S BIRTHDAY!!!

Katie turned 4 this year.  I can hardly believe it.  She is getting so big.  I took these pictures at the same reception hall Bryce and I had our wedding reception.  Pretty cool.

Katie once again had a dance concert.  This time it was here halloween performance.  She did a chicken dance.  She was so cute in her costume!

She did a great job!  I was a little worried because of last year’s fiasco, but she performed like a pro!

I thought these pictures were funny!  Here is Katie working side by side with Dad.  She had a bloody nose and so to be sure it would stop bleeding, on both sides, she insisted on plugs.

Just makes you hungry doesn’t it!

HALLOWEEN!!

Here is Katie’s costume.  I had to get it finished before I had my gallbladder surgery.  She was so cute, I took lots of pictures!  Here she is.

We called her a disco bug, but she looks more like a fairy.  I was supposed to dress up the same way, but I barely got her costume made 2 days before my surgery.  And I just didn’t feel like sewing afterwards!

Bryce dressed up as Robin Hood again.  I made him his costume a couple of years ago.  And I dressed up like a cat.  No sewing required this time.  But next year will be awesome!

We went to a party on Halloween at the Hanfts’ house.  We had a lot of fun.  I was still not feeling my best but I managed to eat a lot anyway!

November is now here!  Whew what a ride.  I am the Enrichment Leader in our ward and this year for our service project we donated a Christmas tree to the Safe Harbor Christmas tree auction.  Our Relief Society hand made many of the decorations for the tree.  I made the advent quilt and put together a program for the Relief Society Sisters for enrichment night.  Our tree turned out so cute!  Here is the tree and advent quilt. It auctioned out at $800.  That’s pretty good since we only spent $150 on it total.

Whew!  What a ride.

Next was Spencer’s birthday.  I have hit the one year mark for losing our little boy.  I can’t believe it has been a year already.  I will have his page up soon.  Please be patient.  I am still getting used to all this blog stuff.

It will never cease to amaze me how children can fall asleep just about anytime anywhere.  I was working on the computer one day and Katie was into our snack cabinet.  I took a look and got after her for making a mess.  I told her she would not get any privilages until after she cleaned up after herself.  I hear her groaning in the kitchen and I ask her what the matter was.  she says the popcorn is too heavy and she can’t put it away.  I start getting frustrated because I think she is being cranky for no reason and is making excuses for not cleaning up after herself.  So I tell her, the classic “It wasn’t too heavy to take it out and make a mess, it’s not too heavy to put away.”  A couple of minutes pass and I don’t hear anything.  I think maybe she went upstairs or something so I look over and see her draped across the popcorn completely passed out.  Feeling like the world’s worst mom I pick her up and tuck her in for a nap.  Then I went over to finish cleaning up and sure enough, that sucker was heavy.  I felt so bad that I had gotten after her but at the same time, I got the cutest picture!!

Last night our family went to the Utah State Fair where we met Vanessa Hudgens!  (High School Musical Gabriella Montes)  Katie loves High School Musical and is always singing the songs from it.  She has been so excited for this concert.

First we had to get a balloon.  She saw some kid walking around with one and has been wanting one for awhile now since her last one popped.  So here we are getting the balloon.

Meeting any pop personality is always of course,  slightly disappointing.  You don’t get to really know them at all.  All you get is rushed in for a picture and then rushed out.  I was impressed though, that Vanessa made a point to introduce herself to Katie and talk to her a little bit.  Katie was a little awe struck to say the least which made her a bit confused at the whole experience.  Vanessa put Katie on her lap for the picture.  It was really cute and I really appriciated it.  I will insert that picture here as soon as we get it.

As for the concert….I think Bryce and I were totally born in the wrong time period.  I liked the songs but I really like watching bands.  It gets me way more excited to dance.  It was hard to tell if Katie liked it or not.  If we tried to sit down, she just wiggled herself back up to see better.  She did not want to sit, but she wouldn’t clap or dance.  She just had a scowl on her face the whole time.  This morning  though, she is singing the songs.  Unfortuantly the lyrics she remembers  are these “who’s got the hotty body?  she’s got the hotty body…” over and over again.  CRAP!  Here is Katie actually watching the concert.  This is the look she had on her face the whole time.

We were the 7th row back center stage.

All in all we had a fun night!  Katie was pretty tired and finally asked to go home so she can sleep in her bed (aka our bed) and so we left during the last song.  Sorry Vanessa!

January seems to be the longest month!  It’s boring, nothing much is going on, it’s right after the holidays so it seems like life just comes to an abrupt stop.  But then comes August.  August must be the craziest month of them all.  I thought December is bad.  But in August everyone is trying to get in their last camping trips and vacations before school starts and then they are rushing to get ready for school.  Katie isn’t even in school and I still felt the rush.  All the parties and farmer’s market and of course I started doing the cross guard thing again.  I wonder when we will finally stop to take a breath.  Anyone else feel like August just blew by?  And I don’t mean a pleasant breeze, I mean like a hurricane!