Countdown to Baby Girl!

We are officially only 7 weeks from baby girl #3's anticipated arrival date! WHAHOO!!
Baby is growing well, and we've started the oh so fun process of bi-weekly check ups. I'm such a boring pregnant person (which is a good thing). So far the greatest complications of our pregnancy have been my never ending heartburn, and the ever so slight anemia I have developed.
The wives tale is that mom's with heartburn issues tend to deliver babies with more hair. We'll see if this is true.

The girls are getting very excited to FINALLY see their baby sister (so are mom & dad!) I am very grateful that all has gone well through our pregnancy. Pregnancy truly is one of the greatest miracles.

Just for laughs, here is a fun shot of me at the Coca-Cola Christmas party, showing off the belly.

A few of my favorite things

In the classic musical, The Sound of Music, governess Maria tells the Von Trapp children when she is having a bad day, she thinks of her favorite things. So here are a few of my favorite things, in no specific order:

Dark Chocolate
My Husband
Brooke's giggle
Brynn singing (even when it is Christmas songs all year long)
Looking out my bedroom window at the snow covered hill behind my house (I love sagebrush!)
Singing!!!!
Working for a great company, which isn't laying off half its workforce
Sunsets on the ocean
Being a mom
The gospel

Not so poetic as Roger's and Hamerstein, but it is good to remind myself how blessed I really am. I know I'm biased, but I have a pretty incredible husband, and three of the most beautiful girls ever (the third is an assumption based on the oldest 2, but the evidence speaks for itself).

Maria is right, thinking of my favorite things does make me feel better!

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!!! 2008 seemed to fly by us. I'm sure the fact that we moved twice, and adding another beautiful girl to our family (well not quite yet) have both been contributed to the zoom factor. Since moving to Utah, the girls have been able to experience a new wonder of winter, playing in snow.

While it did snow regularly in Wyoming (our snowiest months were March and April), the snow seldom fell from the sky, rather it blew in sideways, like icy shards of glass. Growing up in Utah we always heard it won't snow when it gets too cold. Well again in Wyoming, it usually didn't begin snowing until temperatures dipped into the teens, or well below. Add in the wind chill, and snow storms weren't much fun. To add to the adventure, when it stopped snowing, the wind always seemed to pick up, and the temperatures continued to fall. All these conditions combined made it less than pleasant to play in the snow.

This year the girls have been able to play in the snow several times, including adventures with cousins to go sledding. Which they both loved. Brooke is a bit more of a dare devil than Brynn, who has to be coaxed into trying new things.

Brooke spends the first few minutes of her snow adventure falling flat on her face in the snow. She reminds me of the boy in A Christmas Story who can't move. After a few good face plants, she gets her snow legs and is off and running.
Brynn is always the princess, and is more concerned about being cute in the snow, to ever let herself really fall down.
Mostly it is fun for Mom and Dad to watch.