Hide, Seek and Eat

Last week Dan was playing Hide and Seek with the kids. He was looking for Gavin and this is where he found him. Funny kid. I think it was pretty creative.

Something that Gavin has been saying a lot lately is "what the...". For example, last night I told him we were going to Grandma Tracey's for dinner on Sunday and he gasped liked he was shocked and said, "what the...". No he doesn't finish the sentence. He just says "what the". It's hilarious!

20 Weeks ~ Half way there!

Here's my belly at 20 weeks. Don't ask why I'm posing this way. This picture took 8 tries and this was the best. I'm not digging the pictures of myself lately. We had our ultrasound today and no we did NOT find out the sex. We haven't found out with any of our kids and that's the way we like to do it. The due date is still June 5th and it couldn't come fast enough. The morning/afternoon/evening/night sickness is pretty much gone now but I still get it every once in a while. This time it lasted until almost 18 weeks! I've got a lot more energy now and even feel like I'm nesting at times. We've been cleaning and dejunking the house the past 2 weekends. Bless Dan's little heart for helping me.

I have back problems when I'm not prego but it is so much worse when I'm prego and this time it's the worst it's been. Thank goodness for my chiropractor who also happens to be my bishop. The only awkward thing about that is that I don't know whether to call him Dr. Miller or Bishop Miller. I usually say Bishop at church, Dr. at his chiro office and Jared when I panic and don't rememeber which to call him. My back and neck are doing a little better.

So people always tell me they need to be prepared when they have their baby so that's why they find out the sex. Well, let me tell you, I'm always prepared, right down to the a boy and girl name picked out including middle name. So with this baby we have a girls name, but are struggling with a boy name, so I'm up for suggestions because I want it picked before hand. We're leaning towards Isaac Bentley, but I'm not set on it yet. Any other thoughts?

I felt the baby move for the first time on Christmas Day and I was only 17 weeks. That is pretty early to feel a baby and the earliest I've felt mine. And it's been jumping all over the place since. At the ultrasound today, they told me my placenta was behind the baby so that is why I can feel it so easily. They couldn't get a very good view of the placenta so I have to go back for another ultrasound so they can check. Also, the baby was facing towards my back with it's belly right up against the placenta so they couldn't get a very good shot of the face, so they will be checking the mouth then as well. But everything else looks great! We got some cool shots of the baby.


This is the baby's leg and foot.
Baby's hand on the right and spine at the top.

This was the best shot of the face they could get. Face is on the upper right side with it's little hand by the face. Belly is towards the left side.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was so good. Our kids kept telling us all day long, "this is the best Christmas ever." We went to my parent's on Christmas Eve for German food, gifts and to watch all of our Christmas videos that we all made (you can see ours a few posts down). We got a lot of fun things. Lindsay got a Cinderella doll that crawls from Granny and Grandpa. Zane got a race track and Gavin got a Spiderman Dry erase board for the car from Granny and Grandpa.

My parents gave a safe to put copies of all of our home videos and pictures in.

Christmas morning, before going downstairs to see the tree.


Gavin hugging his Indiana Jones.



Lindsay has been obsessed with playing Clue lately. Funny thing is, it always ends up scaring her. So we got her Clur Jr., the Case of the missing cake. No one dies in this game.

Santa also brought the kids their own scooter. He sent them on a Treasure Hunt around the house to find them .

Santa totally surprised us with a Wii, and I mean totally surprised. I knew nothings about it. Zane got the Lego Indiana Jones Wii game

After we were all done opening gifts, Gavin took his mints he got in his stocking and lay on the couch eating them. I was making breakfast and didn't know where he was. I came around the corner and there he was. I said, "what are doing?" He said, "just eating my mints."



Christmas Day we went to Dan's parent's for turkey dinner and presents. We got some nice things. His parents made a wood puzzle and puppets for the kids. They also gave them a ton of books with a cd of all of us reading the books that we had prerecorded. So when the kids are reading the stories they can listen to the cd's with their aunts, uncles and Grandma and Grandpa reading the story to them. It is really cute.

Dan and his brother's playing Gavin's fishing game.

Dan's parents gave a wheat grinder and wheat. I'm anxious to try it.

Ma Doney made this for us.

Lindsay

Zane

Gavin

The day after Christmas we went up to see Grandma Skousen and spend some time with her.

Service

One thing Lindsay is always thinking about is ways to serve others. Whenever Dan is baking a dessert (I say Dan because he's the baker at our house), she always wants to take some to the neighbors. Or wants to take dinner to people. The week before Christmas during one of our many snow storms, she begged me to let her go out and shovel our neighbors driveways. I finally gave in, even though the snow was still coming down like crazy, but I told her to do the sidewalks because our driveways are very long. So out she went. I felt bad because by the time she was done, the sidewalks were all covered in snow again. I guess it is the thought that counts. So Zane saw that she was doing that and said, "mom, I want to do something nice." Then he told me not to come in my room. A few minutes later he and Gavin told me to close my eyes and they led me into my bedroom where they had made my bed for me! I was shocked because they even alternated the pillows like I do. I just love these kids!

Lindsay shoveling the Dean's sidewalk.

And then the Lambson's.

My bed after the boys made it.

Testimonies

Yesterday at church, Lindsay and Zane decided they wanted to bare their testimonies. They had never done it before. Lindsay tried a few months ago but got scared when she got up there and just sat back down. So before church, we talked to them about some of the things they could say and what exactly a testimony is. Zane asked me if he was supposed to close his eyes and fold his arms like a prayer. I thought that was cute. During the sacrament, they were both a little antsy. Finally after the bishop was finished with his testimony, I sent them up together. I think they were a lot more comfortable because there were about 6 other kids up there waiting to bare their testimonies. They both did it! All by themselves and they didn't say anything we were embarrassed by. They were short and sweet. When Zane first got up there, he forgot how to start so he just took a deep sigh. Then he said, "I'd like to share my testimony" which I thought was cute. He also said he knew Jesus was really real. It warmed my little heart to see them up there doing that and brought tears to my eyes. Then I was ashamed that my 5 and 4 year olds had more courage to get up there than I did. I guess they are the example I should be trying to follow.

Our Annual Christmas Video

Here's our annual Christmas video that we do every year as a tradition in my familiy. We all do a video (my parents included) then we watch them all on Christmas Eve. It's fun to see what everyone comes up with each year. Click here to see last years video. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! P.S. Pause the music at the bottom of our blog first.