Balloon Bounce

Sam got a balloon at church today and he started bouncing around the room with his head on it. It was so funny so I had to share. Enjoy!

Sticker Mischeif

These make me crack up. The kids had found some of my sister's stickers and put them all over themselves. Katie even tried to put one on her eye but her hair got in the way. Their smiles are always so big when they are doing mischief :)

The baby verdict

Today we had our 20 week ultrasound. Everything looks pretty good with the baby. Of course we found out the gender and...

It's a BOY!!!!

We are excited. I think Katie will do better with a brother anyway. She is such a princess and holding that status for longer might help ease the transition to not being the youngest anymore. Possible names:

Benjamin David
Jackson David
Nathan Myron

We'll just see. Of course, if it were up to Sam the baby would be named Cookie Monster, but I don't think we will go with that.

charter school

We signed up Jacob for the local charter schools lottery to see if we could get him in and found out today that he made it! I am so excited! This will be such a great chance for him. It will make shopping for school clothes easy- they have uniforms for the school. There are a whole bunch of moms from our neighborhood that signed up their kids too so I'll have to see if they made it and if he'll have neighborhood kids in with him. That would be so nice. Yeah!

20 weeks

I wasn't expecting to have pictures of me being taken and I've been sick with a bad cold this whole week (this poor baby probably thinks its mom is an elephant or a pig with all the blowing and congestion). Anyway, I am half way! The baby is starting to move around a lot, and that is always reassuring. I am doing pretty good really. Besides the cold and not being able to take nyquil (sigh...), I've had good energy and have been playing with the kids in the warmer weather this week. Life is good.

Sam's Birthday

Samuel's birthday is technically tomorrow but we celebrated it over the weekend so we could do something really special for him. We took him to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. Then we went down to a park in Provo Canyon and got some portraits of him that I think turned out real nice. Everything revolved around a dinosaur theme- dinosaur museum, dinosaur shirt, dinosaur presents, and dinosaur balloons. He really enjoyed it and felt special- which is how you should feel on your birthday. Success!

My first Manual D-SLR Photo

This is my first totally Manual photo I've taken with my SLR camera. I got the camera on an incredible deal on ebay (needed some minor repair work, but I still came up well on top) back in October. Afterwards, I knew I needed to learn to use it for real instead of just auto mode or program mode (sort of like auto, but you can change some of the settings if you want). I didn't want to buy a book without checking it out first so I put my name on the waiting list at the library for a book amazon recommended and finally got the book this last week after waiting 3-4 months for it. So, for those who appreciate SLR photography this picture was taken at f/5.6 with a shutter speed of 1/200 sec and I am quite proud of myself. :)

Emerging artist...

Jacob drew a picture of James to send to Uncle James. He wrote his name at the top, copied the words "To: James" under the picture, and drew waves at the bottom. James has BIG fingers and short arms, a smiley face with a nose, and two eyes.