Still Alive and catching up

Everyone keeps mentioning how I haven't updated my blog so I thought I'd give a short update on our lives... Mostly we've just been busy. With what you ask?

1. Our kids. Blake has more energy than the whole family combined. I get exhausted just watching him. He is constantly going going going! He talks a mile a minute. Anyone at church can attest how he will walk down the halls telling everyone exactly what he is doing. Its his own little play by play of his life. Lizzie and Linnie are still in dance and love it! They are now learning to read (crazy) and want t.o know how to spell EVERYTHING. I'm half tempted to create signs all over our house showing how everything is spelt so I can stop hearing, "Mom how do you spell table? How do you spell carpet?" Its so amazing to see all they are learning. They're such smart little girls.

2. I'm still pregnant... actually very pregnant. I hit my third trimester and have never been more tired in my life :) The baby is growing and doing very well. He's a strong kicker, maybe he'll be a soccer player. He tends to sleep all day and kicks me all night... I can tell already he is going to be trouble! I love being pregnant and am getting excited to meet the little guy. Blake is too! He thinks he can see the baby if he looks through my belly button, like my belly button is a window or something... Its so funny! We still don't have a name for him, it will either be Lucas or Jaxon.

3. Work... enough said... I have 10 weeks left before maternity leave begins, and I'm trying to get everything in order. Its been nuts.

4. The most time consuming of all is, Paul and I decided to start a little vinyl lettering business. When we decided this, I was thinking maybe we sell 1-2 a day and make a couple of bucks, pay off some student loans or something. It took off a lot faster than either of us planned, we sold over 200 this month alone. I basically go to work, come home and work on stickers until I go to bed, occasionally making a meal, starting a load of laundry, talking to my children. It's been crazy but I think we've finally starting managing out time better and are getting back to being normal.

There aren't any pics for this due to the fact that I haven't taken any since Christmas. I don't even know where my camera is... but I will try to get some more updates soon!

Christmas better late than never...

I haven't blogged in forever (besides that little questionaiire I filled out a few weeks ago but that doesn't count). I think I got burnt out in Decemeber. So here is a catch-up of our lives in the last month, starting with our trip to California. We had so much fun being there. Its been about 5 years wsince we were able to leave the area for Christmas due to Paul's job and now that we can, I love it! We spent most of our time with family and had a great time.

The kids got all kinds of great stuff and had a blast. Kade really enjoyed opening presents for the first time.

Christmas dinner was at my parents house so we had a lot of fun hanging out. It was a great Christmas!

Great Grandma and Grandpa (Marcia's grandparents) spoil us rotton but we love it! Part of their Christmas gift was for us to go to Castle Park but since it was so cold we went to John's Incredible Pizza instead. It's kind of like Chuck e Cheese but way better! The kids could eat their all you can eat pizza while watching cartoons. Then they got to play games and ride the rides. My kids adore all their Aunts and Uncles (they have a ton). When they see their Aunt Amanda, they are in heaven. She loves them to death and is so great with them. She even put up with them pulling and tugging on her hair making it all kinds of pretty!

At Great Grandma & Grandpas. The only day it wasn't frigid outside! California is supposed to be warmer than Utah but the week we were there, that was not the case. It was freezing!