Congats Grady

My younger brother got engaged a week ago to a sweet girl, Lauren, who he met at utah state.  I'm so excited for them and can't wait for them to have some kids.  I feel bad that my kids don't have any cousins on my side- I know when they're older they're going to hate going to family functions because they won't have any cousins to play with.

BUt I do hate them because they are getting married a week before I am due in March.  Thanks guys.  I will either have a new baby or be a whale : )

Family Pictures

A few weeks ago we had our family pictures done for the first time. I usually just take Kire to do his, but I decided we needed a family one. I called this cute girl, Brittany-her blogs listed under sites I like, and she did an awesome job. Kire was the grumpiest grump that evening, but she managed to get several good ones of all of us. She also made up the Christmas card above. She had great ideas and was very reasonable.

Twilight!

So I'm a total Twilight freak.  My friend Brittani introduced me a few years ago, THANK YOU, and I have since gotten my sisters and most of my friends hooked too.  I went with a group of friends to the movie today and loved it!  Of course it wasn't as good as the book, but they did a good job.  And Edward was gorgeous.  i loved his hair.  I wish he would have dressed more elegantly-in designer turtle-necks and such like in the book, and I think he was a little too harsh-he was more charming in the book too.  But he still made my heart flutter.  I think I may have to read the series again.

Thanks Casandra, Chanci & Jamey!

Then tonight my friend Megan invited me over for Bunko.  I don't know if this is just like a Utah mormon mom thing, but I've heard of so many groups that do it.  It's just a game of dice and you win prizes, but I think it's just a chance to get together with a bunch of women and eat crap and talk trash on husbands-or at least that's what I do.  But I think I should get together a group of girls and do it.  Anyone interested?

And yesterday I made invitations for Kire's birthday party. He turns 3 in a week! And he's into pirates right now so I made treasure maps and burned the edges and stuck them in bottles for the invites. Then I'm going to make a pirate ship for the cake. I'm excited.

Is it too early for Christmas

I know it's a little early, but I couldn't wait to put up my christmas decorations.  I keep seeing all this cute stuff everywhere I go, so I wanted to go through my things and see what I needed.

Otherwise, nothing much going on with us. Kire is still doing Joy school on Thursday and he goes to daycare a couple of days a week while I work. He does so good at both places. He learns and loves to play with other kids. On days when we're home together we try to go to the treehouse museum, park, library or just Costco to get a hotdog. He's so much fun. Even when we just stay home and clean he makes it fun and makes me laugh.

Kire's big boy room

I've been working on this room for a little while. As soon as we found out we were having another boy I tracked down this Pottery Barn bunk bed at a Downeast. I painted the room tan and added the stripes, which were really easy, but I think they really add to the sports theme I'm going for. Kire loves the bunk bed and our bedrooms are so small that it works great.

I had this old little dresser I painted to match the bed and found this cute baseball bat rack and hung his hats on it.

Erik found this old baseball jersey of his dads while he was cleaning out the closet and I thought it matched the room perfectly!

This room is so small I didn't have room for a book shelf, but these hanging shelves don't take up too much room.

High School Tag

1. Did you date someone from your school? Yes. Too many; I won't even try.

2. What kind of car did you drive? a red Pathfinder, it was pretty sweet

3. What was the most embarrassing moment of High School? everyday when I would have to walk up the stairs below "the rail" where all the "cool" guys would hang out, I'm kind of shy

4. Were you a party animal? No, but I recently admitted to my mom I did "party" a few times. Me and my friends were more into dressing up like idiots, doing kareoke and just hanging out.

5. Were you in a band, orchestra, or choir? no

6. Were you considered a flirt? maybe a little

7. Were you a nerd? I got good grades

8. Were you on any Varsity teams? No athletic ability

9. Did you get suspended/expelled? Never

10. Can you still sing the fight song? heck yes, I have to go to football games every week

11. Who were your favorite teachers? Coach Thompson of course; for all of you that don't know, I married my favorite teacher : ). I used to watch him walk by my locker and check out his butt.

12. Where did you sit during lunch? I don't think I ever ate at school, we always went out

13. What was your school's full name? Northridge High School

14. School Mascot? Knights

15. Did you go to Homecoming and with whom did you go? Spencer Fowler & John Phelps

16. Would you go back and do it again? my life is so fun right now, and kids are so mean, so no

17. What do you remember most about graduation? not much, I had a boyfriend at another school and had to go to his afterwards

18. Where did you go for Sr. Skip Day? that was like every other day for me

19. Were you in any clubs? I was an officer when i was a jr. but otherwise I was pretty unmotivated

20. Who was your Prom Date? Ryan Larsen, Mckay Miller & Elias Larkin, and there was one more I'd rather not remember

21. Are you planning on going to your 10yr. reunion? Uhhh... maybe if some of my girlfriends go

22. Looking back what advice would you give yourself? Don't worry so much about boys and what other people think

I tag: Amber S & Lindsey R since you guys can appreciate this and cause you are the worst bloggers; and anyone else who wants to do it...

Kire says...

I keep forgetting all of the funny things kire says, so here's a few:

• while I'm doing his hair, "mom, I don't want to be cute, I'm not a little girl anymore."
  
• when I ask him if he needs anything, "no, I'm good."
  
• feeling my legs, "mom, you have a beard,"
  
• while I'm trying on a dress, "you're a princess."
  
• when I ask him what he's doing, "don't worry, I'm not making a mess."
  
• after we brush his teeth, "my teeth not going to fall off." (I may have told him they would fall out if we didn't brush them ;)
  
• when I'm watching tv, "mom, I don't like this kind, it's too scary for me, I need carcoons."

I'm so bad at journaling, i need to be better.  Kire makes me laugh everyday, multiple times, but I need to write down everything.

I saw the doc this week and she's still pretty sure it's a boy, but i go in for my big ultrasound in a couple of weeks, so I'm not making any big plans until then.  As for the names, apparently people like bridger, I do too, but it's not my top.   My number 1 is Hayden, then Lincoln, then Kael.  Erik's number 1 is Kael-but he likes Lincoln and Hayden too.  We just both like the sound of Kael & Kire together.  So we're undecided but are leaning that way.  The little guy looks good and the doc said he's already looking big, like Kire was, so to plan on going early-which of course is great for me! It finally feels real now that he's moving and I'm looking more pregnant than fat!