Awwwwkward!

So we are now officially coming out with the news that we are expecting our 4th child!  So if you didn't already know, consider yourself in-the-know.  I am currently in the awkward stage of being between wardrobes where I have only 1 pair of pants and 1 skirt and just a few shirts to cover my fat tummy.  And it does look like fat, not a baby bump at all!!  And Dan is nice enough to tell me so too.  Nice huh?  I'm lucky enough to have a husband who tells me the truth and is always honest about what he thinks.  Which is good right?  Except when I want to hear something totally different.  But I'm sure I will appreciate this factor somewhere along the line.  Anyway, since we are going to Arizona for 2 weeks during the holidays I have the luck of being able to pack light with the few clothes that fit me and wear them every day.   Ah, the joys of pregnancy.  

My brother Dave and me at the concert.

Dan and I at the concert last night.

All of us!

Meagan at the Temple Lights.  

Help!

For those of you veteran bloggers, maybe you can help me.  I am trying to figure out how to post pictures as a post and not just on the side like I did with Meagan's picture.  What am I missing??  Thanks in advance for the help!

Tis the Season

Last night we went to the MoTab's Christmas Concert in the Conference Center.  Let me tell you; it is always a hassle to get there with getting a babysitter, leaving on time, finding parking, walking and waiting in line not knowing if you'll even get in even though you have a ticket, and just dealing with the HUGE crowds that are always there.  Anyway, we were successful and got in and enjoyed the awesome program.  The choir is spectacular and the guest singers/performers were amazing.  I'll post pictures of it and a couple of the kids.  

By the way, there is a huge snow storm starting right now so between the snow this morning and the concert last night, I am totally in the Christmas mood!!  Maybe I should do some baking today...(mmmmmmmmm)

It's Christmas!!

I have my Christmas lights up and the tree is decorated and I'm getting ready for my annual Baking Day.  So we were excited to go see Fiona's Christmas program at school.  Fiona would tell me every day how many more days until the play.  She couldn't wait.  We get her all ready and go find a seat in the gym.  The first thing we notice is how packed it was and we still had to wait almost 1/2 hour.  I guess that's good news since it was a fundraiser and the school was raking it in.  They eventually had to stop letting families in and decided to have an encore performance to accommodate everyone.  Sounds promising right?  Skip to the actual program now.  Each grade (the WHOLE grade) was on the stage so it was difficult to find your child in it all.  At least I could get a faint image of what I thought was Fiona.  I know other parents couldn't find their child at all.  Then halfway into the program you realize the whole program is some kind of environmental message of how we can save the world by using electric sleighs and fake trees and use the right kind of light bulbs.  Now I am all for doing our part to not ruin the earth, I just think there are other ways to do our part.  Somehow I don't think we'll change much by buying fake trees.  In making those trees, aren't we using energy and yucky plastic that is just as harmful if not worse than buying a tree that was grown at a farm and can be planted again and while it is growing is helping the environment?  Anyway, after the program I was disappointed because there were no traditional Christmas songs (they just used the tunes to write their own words to).  I certainly didn't feel the Christmas spirit from it at all.  So maybe next year the school will have learned a lesson not to mess with Tradition.  At least I won't donate so much to the "fundraiser" if I know they are going to do this kind of thing again.  

At least the kids had fun though eh?

My new Blog!

I wanted to set up my own blog and let Dan have his own. So we'll see how I do with this. If you have any suggestions please email me!!! I am new at this so bear with me.