Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We hope that everyone has had a wonderful year. We have had a great year! The year started with Gabe's 1st birthday. He turned 1 the end of January and is preparing for his 2nd Birthday. He already has the "Terrible Two's" down to an art. His favorite song this holiday season is "Jingle Bells". He sings it,"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all way." He recently discovered that he loves watching Elmo and Kung Fu Panda.

Erin spent the beginning of the year training for her 1st half marathon. She ran in the Famous Idaho Potato on May 17th with her sister Meghan. She didn't do very well but she did finish!
At the end of June we were surprised to find out that there would be a new addition to our family. We are pregnant with a little girl. She is due March 2, 2009. Erin spent the second half of this year sitting around the house due to pregnancy complications. We are happy to say that everything is going really well now, baby and mom are healthy and happy:)

Jon is really happy that he now has his wife back. He is especially glad that she can go back to her duties as homemaker/clean up crew. He has really enjoyed our YMCA membership. At work he has once again switched positions. His parent's company, where he is working, recently had to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy, due to the current economy. We hoping that everything will work out for them and us. He is also considering going back to school to get an MBA. He will be taking the GMAT this month.

We are so grateful at this time of year for family and friends. We could never thank you all enough for all of the help that we have received over the past few months. We are grateful for the gospel and our knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We are so happy to celebrate his birth this Christmas season. We hope that everyone is doing well. We would love to hear from all of you. We try to update our blog at least once a month, sometimes more so check back every now and then to see what we are up to.

Dr. Appt.

We went to the Dr. again today and everything is looking good. He said that it is ok for me to return to normal activities all together! Baby looks great and we are so HAPPY! Only 14 more weeks!

Pregnancy Update!

It has been awhile since I posted anything about this pregnancy and I have had a lot of people asking how things are going. Well, we went to the Dr. yesterday. I haven't had any spotting at all for THREE WHOLE WEEKS!!! YIPEE!!! They did an ultrasound and there is no sign of the original clot. The placenta is also moving up and so it looks like I probably wont have problems with placenta previa either! Baby Lydia is looking good. We got to see her little face and she looks really cute. I am amazed at how fast she is growing. I have been getting ultrasounds every two weeks and every time we get to see her she looks so much bigger than the last time! The Dr. also said that he is 100% sure it is a girl. I do have to continue to take it easy but he told me that I can start easing back into my normal activities. I will be 25 weeks this Monday! Only 15 weeks to go! I will try to do a better job of keeping our blog updated with the lastest. My next appt. is on the 25th.

Our Little Stinker

Gabe was a skunk for Halloween. I took him to Other Mothers when they put out all of their costumes. When we put this one on him I couldnt resist buying it. It was actually one from Old Navy that I wanted to buy for him last year but didn't want to spend that much on. He looked sooo cute! We got together at Grandma and Grandpa's house to take pictures with the cousins. Kyle was a dog and Violet was Princess Aurora.

Trick or Treating Bag!

On Halloween I was thinking about what I would have Gabe us for Trick or Treating. I didnt have one of those little pumpkin buckets. We always used pillowcases. I thought that a pillowcase would be a little large for him to carry especially since we weren't planning on taking him to too many houses. I remembered that I had some fabirc that I bought for another project and never used so I decided to make him a bag. I think that it turned out really cute. I made it reversible so he can use which ever side he wants to. It took me about 2 hours from start to finish. I think that I could do it faster if I ever decide to make another one!

Pumpkin Carving

The day before Halloween we decided to carve our pumpkins. Unfortunately I only got a picture of one of them finished. I carved Gabe's pumpkin. I also helped Jon clean out his pumkin for carving. His was one that we grew in our garden. A lady that he works with gave us starters. When the pumkins started to grow they were yellow instead of green. We figured out that the pumpkins and yellow squash had been crossed so what we got was a big yellow pumpkin. I was harder to clean out but much easier to carve! Jon took the lovely picture of me!