Thanksgiving surprise

We decided not to find out the sex of our baby until Thanksgiving just for fun, so about a month ago at our targeted ultra sound we had the doctor print off the picture and put it in an envelope for us and our family to open on thanksgiving day. Well it's a boy!!! We are so excited! We think we can see some of Andy features in him from the ultra sound. So excited for this little guy to come into this world. We have about 3 more months of baking.

Trick-or-Treat

I love making memories with my baby girl. I always loved dressing up and now I get to dress her up. I was a little sad I didn't dress up but we weren't going anywhere so I didn't want to put the energy into it.

  We just went trick-or-treating on our street. I was excited to do this to meet some of the neighbors we haven't met yet. Alyeska was a little apprehensive on the first two houses but then she understood the concept that -hey we knock and these people give me something that I can put in this bag here... then she loved it. She would take out her candy and give it to daddy (she loves to share).  I don't think she even knew it was candy, however she has little experience with that stuff. She also loved that people kept coming to our door in costumes. We got a lot more trick-or-treaters then at our Washington Terrace house which is surprising because we live on a hill. We got about 40 kids for my future reference. It was the warmest Halloween I remember which is hilarious because we had 7 inches of snow last week. Andy and I could have probably left our jackets at home, of course we left shortly before 6 p.m. She was tuckered out enough to sleep in until 9 am when I decided to wake her up :)

Fall pics!!

Love the fall!!!  Fall pictures are the best. Andy took all of these pictures a few weeks ago. He's learning so much on our camera.  However, it wasn't easy to use the tripod with a dog and a toddler but so glad we did it. Poor Dakota kept getting yelled at. SIT!!! STAY!!!

Washington Trip

I feel so blessed that I was able to go to Washington to see my sisters brand new baby girl "Belle" and all the rest of my mom's side of the family. This is the first time that I traveled without Andy with our little Alyeska. I was a little nervous but it went fantastic. We flew southwest so we were able to pick our own seats. Both of the flights there and back weren't full so Alyeska was able to have her own seat and she was trapped by an adult stranger so she couldn't run in the aisle. She did great both ways no crying or whining for that matter. The first day we stopped at my sister Brittany's apartment to meet the new beautiful dark haired baby girl. I also got to meet my sisters boyfriend Tony for the first time. He is a great guy and great new daddy. I was able to surprise my family with me being 16 weeks pregnant at the time with Alyeska wearing a "Big Sister" shirt coming out of the airport. My mom was the only one who figured it out right away. 

The week was so busy visiting with family and doing things... I can't remember what we did each day. My grandparents house was very busy with my mom, sister Chelsea, nephew Terran, me, Alyeska, aunt Helena, and my grandparents all staying in one house. My cousin, his wife and their daughter Addison live next door so everyday was noisy but lots of fun. I think Alyeska got used to playing with her cousins all day for a week. 

My mom and aunt Helena watched ALL the babies while us younger people were able to go out and have some fun a couple of times. Once we went on my cousins parents yacht and kayaks and another night we went to have Sushi at a place with a conveyer belt.  That means they had 5 kids all under 3 years old including a newborn. It was so nice of them. I think they loved it but were so exhausted at the end of the night :)

Washington is such a great place to go in the summer because it is so green and it has so much to do when it comes to parks, lakes, restaurants, entertainment etc.. We tried to get out everyday to a park, trail or lake to let the kids play. It couldn't have been better weather. It was in the high 70s and 80s everyday with no rain. When we stayed home during the day/night we were busy playing all kinds of board games and one evening we shot a pellet gun at a puzzle head and heart gallon jug. 

I have a feeling that Washington will be a yearly visit now; especially now that my little sister lives there and my big brother and his wife are looking to move there. My grandparents want my parents to retire and live in their basement. Everyone else is trying to convince us to move there as well but as awesome as Washington is, I love Utah. Maybe our next visit will be when Brittany and Tony gets married??? That was my wonderful visit to Washington! Can't wait until next time!