Big Helper!!!

This morning I caught Dakota cleaning his and Brielle's rooms. He made the beds and picked up thier toys. It's one of those moments that is more precious to thier mom, but it was just so cute, he was so proud of it, and excited to show me. I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to be home with them for all these small little moments.
He did a pretty good job for a two year old.

Happy Brithday Mike!

Mike turned *30* on the 12th! I know I'm late on blogging it. We had a party at our house, and me and the kids gave him a bird named Oliver. Mike likes to spend time with family, hunt, and do anything outdoors. He is very artistic and he likes to draw wildlife pictures the most, but he can draw anything. He makes log furniture and likes to build things. Two personality traits that really stand out to me are that he is so hard working and has so much drive and energy to do anything, a lot of wives complain about their husbands sitting around watching tv all the time, but I usually have the opposite problem, I can't get him to sit down for two seconds. And the second thing is that he likes to have fun, and will try just about anything. He's so outgoing, also he can meet a new person and its like he has known them for ever he can carry on an hour long conversation with them, when the weather is the only thing I can come up with to talk about. We love him and are so greatful to have him in our family!!!!!!

Also Mike and I just had our 5 year anniversary on the 17th! It's been a great 5 years, and I'm looking forward to many more!!!!!!

Brielle

Brielle got an easy bake oven for Christmas, and this cake was her final creation the first time she tried it out.

I just had to blog about this. BRIELLE IS FINALLY GETTING HAIR!!! I usually always have to do it in some kind of up do, because it is still pretty thin and the sides had a really hard time growing, but the sides have gotten longer lately and it has started to thicken up so I can finally leave it down!

Growing!!

I just went to my dr. appointment today. Everything looked good, he measured the babies head and it was 3.6 centimeters, he said at 18 weeks it is 4 so I was probably close to 17 1/2 weeks, next time I get to go get my big ultrasound so I will have a better idea of a due date, for now I am not planning anything for the whole month of June. I can tell really easy what is what in this picture, but my mom had no clue so I will try to explain it. It is a side shot, starting from the left is it's foot then it goes up it's leg, you can tell where the knee bends pretty good then it goes up to it's tummy, and then it's head is at the far right. Any votes BOY or GIRL??????

New Years Eve

We had so much good food, Melissa and Shawn went to Salt Lake and picked up fresh shrimp and scallops, and we made Chinese, and lots of other great food. You know your pregnant when....... You blog about the food you ate! On New Years Eve we had a party at my parents. Melissa lives next door so we sent all the kids to her house to have a kid party, while Shay and her friend babysat them and the adults all stayed at my parents, and played the Wii and cards, and of course ate ate ate!

Mike

I can't even begin to say how grateful I am for Mike. In these pictures he was making pumpkin cookies for me to take to the New Years Eve party, he has made most of the food that I was supposed to make to take to our holiday parties. He has done so much extra for me lately, I feel bad but hopefully it will pass soon. I'm so glad to have a husband who is willing to do anything for me, even the cooking and cleaning it helps me out so much, and this is one of his many great qualities.

Christmas!

We had a really good Christmas! On Christmas Eve we went to the church for a ward Christmas program, I was really nervous about it because I just got put in as the primary president the week before ( which we had a sacrament program that first sunday) and the primary kids had parts in the program, and I had no clue what was going on. It turned out pretty good though and we had a fun time, after the program we went to my parents house for treats and opening our family gifts that we exchange. On Christmas morning we woke up around 8, I went into Brielles room around 7:30 and told her that I thought Santa had come, and she said she would go check when she woke up, and she went back to sleep. But when she got up at 8 she was excited and ready to go, she woke Koda up and they both ran into the front room screaming, they had a blast opening their presents Brielle's favorite one was her Baby Alive, and Koda's was of course his horses. We had Christmas breakfast at my parents, and then went out to Kanosh for the rest of the day, where we opened even more presents, ate Christmas dinner and played lots of games. I am very grateful that we live so close to both of our families, it is so nice to be able to share all the holidays with both of them. The day after Christmas Mike pulled the kids behind the 4 wheeler on the sled, and then they came inside for hot chocolate.

Dakota and Brielle modeling their sunday clothes that they both got for Christmas. Dakota was so proud of them after sacrament he ran up on the stand and stood in front of my dad with his arms stretched out to show him.

BABY!!!!!!

Finally I have a picture of our baby blog! We went in last month and couldn't find the baby, so the doctor said I was not as far along as we thought. We still don't know for sure how far along I am but 10 or 11 weeks is a pretty close guess, we will be able to tell better when I am farther along and I go in for my big ultrasound. The end of June or first week of July is our guess for a due date. The good news is the baby looks like it is developing well, and Brielle got to come with me to the appointment and she saw the baby, and it looked liked it waved at us so she thought that was way cool.

Christmas at the Cabin!

Every year in December we go to the Blad Family Cabin for the weekend to have our Christmas party. The girls all have a tradition where we each pick a craft and make 5 of them, we keep them a surprise and then when we get to the cabin, we all exchange our crafts, so we get to come home with 5 new crafts each time, and they are always so cute! The kids get to make gingerbread houses, Christmas crafts, and decorations for the Christmas tree that we cut and put in the cabin. The guys tradition of course is going to the lake fishing and going out hunting. We have a nice Turkey dinner on saturday night, and all the rest of the time is spent watching movies, eating treats, and playing games. It is always a ton of fun and I'm so thankful to be a part of such a great family.

Dakota up on the deck first thing in the morning, isn't it a pretty view!

Brielle's gingerbread house.

Santa Clause

Brielle and Dakota getting ready to go on our hayride. This picture is kind of deceitful though because Dakota loves horses and gets way excited about anything to do with them.

Dakota with Santa- he didn't even cry!

Brielle wasn't sure what to tell Santa that she wanted, so he said he would surprise her.