No Guilt Whatsoever

Still pregnant...but while I'm waiting for this little one to get here I am having no problem with comfort food. I haven't gained nearly as much weight with this pregnancy as the others, but I am clueless as to why because of this:

and this:

and this:


Ice cream is dairy right?
It"s healthy right?
Peanut butter has protein in it, right?
I know my due date is just over a week, but still ladies, you get to the point where you are done.
Sleeping isn't an option for me now anyway, so I might as well being feeding her or rocking her while I'm awake.
So still here, still pregnant and still hoping that I will still love ice cream when all is said and done because I've definitely had my fair share of it the last 9 months.

Our 8th

Today is our 8th anniversary! I can't believe that we've been married 8 years already. The time has gone by so fast and I swear each year goes by faster than the last. I am so lucky to have a husband who makes me laugh every day just by his funny and outrageous personality. We've dealt with a lot of thingsin these 8 years, as every marriage does, but I am so happy to know that we can get through hard times and love each other even more after its all said and done. Its also amazing to me that we can still learn so much from each other even when I think we know everything there is to know about one another. I love you Cody and I'm excited for all the years to come with you!

6 More Weeks

As I am coming to the end of this pregnancy, I have realized even more that mom's will go through anything for their children. This has been such a different/stressful/tiring/hard pregnancy from the very beginning. Everything has been completely unexpected with this one compared to my other two and it has kind of thrown me for a loop. Nothing has been the same as my other pregnancies. But through it all, I know I would do anything to make sure this little girl gets here safe and healthy. It's amazing to me that we are priviledged enough and trusted enough to carry these babies through pregnancy and then take care of them after they are born. I am so lucky to have two special little children in our home already and I am so excited for this third one. I am so lucky to have a husband who loves our children and is such a wonderful father and husband.

So yeah, one of the unexpected things of this pregnancy that I didn't get with the others is my high, uncontrolled emotions and how easy I cry now! This is one of my emotional moments. I thought I would share.

Christmas Break

We had a really fun Christmas and New Year holiday. We hope everyone else did as well.

We stayed pretty busy during the break...some of it was unexpected busy-ness. Cody was busy remodeling our basement bathroom because we found a leak coming from upstairs into it. He worked on that for a couple weeks straight. The more we fixed the more stuff we found wrong with it. So now we have pretty much a new bathroom! Thanks so much to all of our family who helped us out with that project!

But we also did some fun things...we took the kids to see A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey, we hung out with our families and gained a few pounds on all of our Christmas goodies.

We also went sledding which the kids absolutely loved. Annalyn was fearless! She took her own tube and did her own thing the whole time, which is kind of surprising because usually she is hesitant when it comes to anything new. Jake of course was a daredevil himself. I just took pictures the whole time since I am deprived of that activity at the present time. So here are some shots of Cody and kids sledding.

Cutting Down Our Tree

The day after Thanksgiving we went to cut down our Christmas tree. Its always been a fun tradition and the kids love it. Cody went hiking around to find our tree while the kids and I hung out by the truck and played in the snow.





After awhile Cody came down the mountain with our tree. Hooray! We spent the rest of the day decorating with our Christmas decorations and we loving smelling our fresh cut Christmas tree!