12 week check up

Last week I had my 12 week check up. I am now in the lovely fat stage where everyone thinks you've gained a few pounds instead of pregnant. Everything seems to be going well though. The baby's heart beat is strong. At the next appt we will schedule the big one where you find out the gender. I get to go to a special clinic for that since I've had three previous c-sections and the dr wants to make sure the placenta didn't implant in the scar tissue. So we will find out the gender sometime in mid-March for all those who have been asking. As a warning, this has always been a cursed appt for me and with every child it has been rescheduled to a later date. Perhaps in a new town we will be lucky though.

Spring Cleaning

I haven't posted for a little while mainly because I've been spring cleaning. It's January you say? I know, but by Spring I will probably be too pregnant to get on my knees and do the work. Besides, I feel like it now and might not then. I made lists of the things to clean by room. Then I can work on it when I have time and mark it off. It has been working pretty well so far. I have three rooms clean and started on the fourth. The kids tornado through behind me sometimes and I have to take a step back before going forward again, but all in all it is better then not doing it at all. The biggest help has been finally having an excuse to do all those things I put off until later- like reorganizing the book shelf or decluttering that one drawer in the bathroom that has been bothering me forever. The lists are a lifesaver, I think things would be overwhelming without them. So instead of posting here, I've been cleaning. Lame I know, but so it is. I do hope to have some pics up soon of the Draper Temple Open House we went to yesterday with my sisters.

christmas 2008

You can see our Christmas letter here. I realize that this is very lazy, but it is still better than nothing (barely).

New Years

New Years was so exciting for the kids... They tried to stay awake watching mom and dad playing Zelda on the Wii, but midnight took to long and by the time we turned on the broadcast to watch the ball drop they had been asleep for almost an hour. (That probably means we're bad parents for letting our kids stay up even that long... Resolution #1 for next year: be a better parent.)

Christmas morning

Christmas pajamas

It was Christmas Eve, approximately 'jamy time... They were so excited for their new Christmas PJ's.

The race is on...

Shortly before Christmas, we got dumped on. We decided to try and shovel it in the middle so we would be able to shovel it again when it finished without a bobcat. I think we shoveled about 3 times that day, and each time the driveway looked about like in these pictures.

The boys were working hard with us too, each with their own shovel. It was “helping” as long as they didn't dump more snow on the already shoveled parts of the driveway.

Katie was lending moral support, until she saw dad and decided that he should let her in the house because it was too cold.

ElfYourself-Abbott family