Our Christmas

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was been a crazy year for us full of up's and down's. We are so thankful for our families and how close they both live to us. They are such a inspiration and blessing in our lives. We had another great christmas as well, Sydney loved it this year. This is the first real year that she has been into Christmas so it was so much fun for us. She still asks about Santa and even wondered if he was going to be at church last sunday. We got her tons of baby stuff for all her baby needs and needless to say she loves it all. Both grandparents got her great gifts that I know she will love throughout the year. One of my favorites is a potty training book, something we are going to start the beginning of the year ( wish us luck). Then we went to my parents for a great lunch then up to Quintons for a fabulous dinner. It was a packed filled day full of family and lots of sweet memories.

Us at Quinton's Parents house, nice smile Sydney

Sydney Christmas morning... don't you love the hair?

Colter and Holly were able to come down from Utah. It was so much fun seeing them both and we miss them dearly.

My mom and I at my parents house

                                                      Quinton, his parents and brother.

Here she is... our little girl Bella

So the other day I got another ultrasound ( the perks on going to a specialist for this pregnancy). Don't worry everything is going great and she is doing fabulous. I just have to see a specialist because of some certain medications that I am on. However, she is now 1lb 5 oz, it is amazing that they can tell that isn't it? But here is our little girl Bella or more of a profile of her. She is quite photogenic and she always poses for the technician every time there is an ultrasound. But here she is and hope everyone has a wonderful Merry Christmas.

More belly shots..

Here is an updated picture of my belly, personally I think I am getting huge. The 1st pic. is of  me at 23 weeks with Bella, the bottom picture is of me at 24 weeks with Sydney. I think I am bigger with this pregnancy then Sydney but we will let you all decide. However, everything is going great and I feel even better. So far no swollen feet and Carpal Tunnel ( knock on wood) but I am only 24 weeks so we will see. Bella is a lot lower then Sydney too, that has me concerned to the point that I think she will come quicker too. But only time will tell.

                                        

It's my birthday!!!

Last wednesday I had my 27th birthday. Can you believe it? Seriously where does the time go? But it was a great birthday, more of a good birthday week. We had a birthday dinner with my family last sunday with a cheese cake as my birthday cake...yummy. And since Quinton was out of town I stayed with my parents for the week, so my mom took me out to see New Moon again ( yes my mom and I are twihards). Then when Quinton got back he took me out to dinner on friday. Not bad huh. It was a great week and even Sydney wished me Happy Birthday and gave me a hug and kiss. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful family that loves me. Thanks to everyone for making me feel so special. I love you all!!!

Christmas time!!!

I love Christmas time so much. It seems like everyone is just a little bit nicer and everything. Besides, my birthday and Christmas happen to be 9 days apart. We always get a real christmas tree every year and this was a extra special christmas since Sydney could help us decorate this year. She loved putting on the christmas ornaments and she thought she was pretty cool that she got to put them wherever she wanted ( yeah, she is a big girl now). She absolutely goes crazy over the christmas lights, especially at night when we are driving. This is a conversation we have every time she sees more lights ( probably about 10-15 times while driving)

Sydney " Mommy look, lights"

Mommy "yes sydney, look at the pretty lights"

Sydney " O Thank you mommy"

Mommy " Your welcome princess"

Sydney " look mommy more lights"

Mommy " yes baby, more lights"

Sydney " O thank you Mommy"

  Seriously we go through that conversation every time she sees new lights, we think it is hilarious. She always thanks us for the lights every time. I think she thinks we put all the lights out just for her. Whatever she thinks, we are just happy she likes Christmas time and can not wait till Christmas morning. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

The new little mommy

So since I have been pregnant, Sydney has gotten way into babies. She now wakes up and makes her babies breakfast from her little kitchen and feeds them in her high chair. Don't worry, we got her lots of stuff for her babies this christmas. She rocks them in her rocking chair, tells me to be quiet when they are sleeping and everything. It really is so cute and I am highly encouraging all of this. So when our little baby girl comes  She has even started potty training her babies as well ( something we just started too). Sydney can take care of her babies when I am taking care of Bella. She takes her babies everywhere with us now. So here are some pictures of Sydney feeding her babies and rocking them. Enjoy!!!

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So we are having a ....

So 2 days before thanksgiving we found out what are baby is. We are having another little girl!!! We are so excited to be having another girl to the house hold. I know that Sydney is stoked about having a sister. I think this is going to be perfect since the girls will be 2 1/2 years apart. One of the nicest things about having another girl is that we already have all her clothes. Sydney has so many cute clothes and I am way excited to use them all over again. We do have a name for her and before we tell you the name let me say we decided this name over a year ago. Her name will be Bella, not Isabella or anything like that just Bella. We fell in love with the name when we went over to Spain last summer. I know that everyone will think it is after Twilight, and even though we are big fans of the Twilight series, our little girl is not named after the main character. However, we can not wait to see our little Bella when she comes into this world in April!!!

A review

Okay, so can I just say that our life never slows down. It seems we are constantly on the go. Everything is going great in our family. Quinton is still working hard as ever, Sydney continues to go and become more of a little girl and my pregnancy is going great. Here is a little over view of what has been going on lately.

Halloween was good, Sydney was a witch and a cheetah. Everything went well until we took her trick or treating and the very first house scared her to death. It scared her so bad that she is still talking about the scary.

Thanksgiving was so much fun. My sister Tara, her husband David and all 5 of their kids came to Colorado for a Rocky Mountain Thanksgiving. I wish we could of given them more snow but they loved the 1/2 inch of snow that we received that week. Anything that you could do with 1/2 inch of snow, they did it. It was so fun to watch them all. We loved seeing everyone and how big all their kids are getting. Probably the best thing was seeing my sister. She is also pregnant and is due 4 weeks before me. She is having another little girl, which makes it 2 boys and 4 girls. It was a wonderful visit and we can not wait to see them again We love you guys!!!

Which leaves me to one of our last updates. We finally had to say farewell to my beloved PC. It had been a great computer, which lasted through collage and 3 1/2 years of our marriage. Unfortunately after it's accident over the summer that involved the lightning it was finally on its last legs. So what did we get you ask? Well if you ask Quinton a SEXY LOOKING COMPUTER as he puts it. We are now Mac people!!! It is a really nice computer and so far we love it. So farewell PC, hello MAC!!!

Sydney and Quinton

So this is Sydney and Quinton right before he lives for work. I am highly impressed that we got a smile so early in the morning. O how she loves her daddy. Sometimes she does not want to let him go. She is such a snuggle bug with her daddy.

Falling for Sydney

So a couple of weeks ago we were up at Quinton's parents home and I decided to take some pictures of Sydney in the fall. They turned out pretty well considering she is a rambunctious little 2 year old that will not hold still for a second. O how we love this little girl, She is the light of our lives.

Here is the belly...

Okay, after many requests here is a belly shot Quinton took last night ( sorry about the pajama bottoms... it was Sunday night). I am 16 weeks now and everything is going great. The babies heart beat has been consistently between 170-178. I have my own theory about heart rates and the sex of the baby. But we will see soon enough ( next month... yeah) on what we are having. I personally think I am huge for 16 weeks, but I hear you show sooner with the 2nd pregnancy. Enjoy the picture!!!