Tis the season.....for hauntingly great music!

Alright all you wonderful people. To get you all in the spirit for Halloween, I changed my music to include only fun & scary Halloween music. I promise it will only be for the month of October and then I will bring the other music back. Hope you enjoy. Oh, and if you can think of any other great songs, let me know. (Sorry Keele fam, I couldn't find "There Is A Haunted House In Town...In the town") HAHAHA

5 down...Eternity to go!

WOW, time really does fly! 5 years ago today we got married. It has been a wonderful 5 years with some craziness in the beginning but we have survived and I wouldn't have changed a thing.
Michael is wonderful and I am so blessed. He is a great husband and an even greater father.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
^Look how young Michael looks in our engagement picture :)
^I had to put this picture on here because it is amazing how much our family has changed. I knew my sisters would get a kick out of this..hehehe

I love this picture. It represents everything we have worked, and continue to work towards...eternity. I love you Michael!

Our little Lima Bean

Here is the first picture of the baby. It's kinda obvious what you are looking at. The baby is upside down and you can see one tiny arm and hand sticking out. Also, I don't know what it is with all my kids but every one of them crossed their legs in every ultrasound picture. To put this picture more in perspective...the baby is the size of a lima bean. hehe

Sitting in a Sauna....NOT FUN!

Earlier today when Gavin went down for his nap, I took Tanner with me to go pick up Michael's check. Grandma stayed here with Gavin and read her book. I made sure that the air conditioner was on so that they would be comfortable while we were gone. I was worried that Gavin would be awake when we got home because it took us longer than it should have. It wasn't Gavin that I should have been worried about...when we walked in the front door it felt like we walked into a sauna. It was 94 degrees in our house. For some reason the air conditioner was blowing hot air. I called the heating and air people on our warrenty and they never called me back. I was so mad. I opened all the windows, thankful that there was a cooler breeze outside. After 3 hours of waiting for the service guy to call me back, I called one of the members of the bishopric and he told me that one of the men worked with air conditioners. I called him and he came right over. He told me to turn my air conditioner on so that it was running when her got here...would you know it....it fixed itself! Apparently when I turned it off last night the humidity built up in the house and when I turned it back on today, it was frozen so the heat kicked on. Stupid air condioner!!! Brother Leverknight made sure that everything was working alright and he took the filters out of the furnace and sprayed them off. It is finally starting to get a little cooler in here, the thermostat says 80 degrees.
A little something funny in all of this...once the air condioner fixed itself and cool air was coming out the vent, Gavin went right over to the vent and sat on it to cool off.
We are so thankful to have Bro. Leverknight in our ward..all he wanted for payment was brownies...that's my kind of fix-it guy!

More cute layouts!

I found more cute blog backgrounds today if anyone is interested.
It is scrap-e-blog.blogspot.com. They are so cute! I tried to add the link to my blog but it wouldn't work. Make sure you follow the directions because it is a little different than other sites.

Perplexed & Pregnant

I have always been told that each pregnancy is different and I truly believe that. With Tanner I felt fantastic. I was never sick, I had tons of energy and I thought to myself, "This is easy, I could do this a million times!" Well, then there was Gavin..I was sick (or so I thought) and exhausted, I had kidney infections, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and I was put on bed rest. Now you are probably wondering why I would get pregnant again after all the crazy things with Gavin but we always knew we would have three kids. I guess I shouldn't have complained about being sick when I was pregnant with Gavin because this time is HORRIBLE! I thought being nausiated (?) with Gavin was bad, throwing up all day is even worse. I keep thinking that I should have stopped at 2 but then I look at my children and remember the wonderful and amazing blessing that will join our family in April and somehow it is all OK.
With the first 2 I didn't really have any crazings. I really liked Taco Bell bean burritos with no onions when I was pregnant and that love has returned, kinda strange I know. This time around the cravings have come on very strongly. I took pictures of the things I am craving but for some reason my photo album is being retarded so I will just tell you what they are.....
First: Baby Kosher Dills...anyone who knows me well enough knows that pickles are my favorite food but right now I can't get enough of them...That reminds we, I better put them on my grocery list.
Second: Roasted Vegetable Ritz Crackers...if you have never tried them you really should! They are so fantastic.
Third: Soup...any soup. For dinner tonight we are having Bear Creek Chedder Potato Soup because I feel that I need it :)
Fourth: Nature Valley Fruit & Nut Bars....odd I know...this one still perplexes me
Everyone thinks I am having a girl this time and maybe they are right...so many differences. But I just have to remember...every pregnancy is different.

WOW! 10 months old!

I cannot believe how fast the last 10 months have gone! It just seems impossible that Gavin is 10 months old today. Where did the time go? It feels like yesterday that I was being driven to the hospital every day to see him in the NICU because I couldn't drive after surgery. He got to come home the day before Thanksgiving and we had a quiet little holiday with just the 5 of us. He is such a little love. His smile melts your heart and he is always so happy. He is still refusing to crawl, he actually will only roll over, but they tell me that that is the preemie in him. I love his 8, almost 9, little teeth and is gutteral laugh. Where would we be without him?

Dear "OLD" Dad

Today is Michael's 30th birthday and we have had a ball! Michael has decided everything that we have done today....we took lunch to the park and played for a few hours, right now is "naptime", and later tonight he will pick where we go for dinner. He got a new movie, some candy (daddy has a serious sweet tooth) and a gift card. I included a few pictures of our dear OLD dad :)


Michael and the boys

Michael holding Gavin in the NICU
Michael with his M*A*S*H shirt he got for Christmas. Michael LOVES M*A*S*H and we love Michael!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

Here, There & Everywhere

Here are some pictures of a few things we have done this week...on Saturday Tanner went to a birthday party for his friend Eric at Hollywild Animal Park. He had a lot of fun and saw some cool animals. I wish I would have gotten a picture of the Zebra but Tanner was busy getting attacked by fire ants at that moment.

^Tanner and a few of his church friends


^Tanner loved feeding the goats.
The very beautiful cougar
^The silly birds that repeated everything we said
^ A very lazy bear. It wouldn't move until we did. It got up and walked around as soon as we went on to the next animal
^About 2 miles after we left Hollywild. The poor boy just couldn't handle all the excitement.

^The other day I went out to get the mail and this was stuck to my house. I had to run in and get the camera because it isn't everyday that beautiful butterflies land on your house.

^ I walked into the family room last week and found Tanner sitting in a chair while in a chair playing the computer. What a silly kid!