34 week belly shot!

Here ya go!

Quick story about the picture. My brother in law, Dallas, is in Peru and always takes jumping pictures, so at my mother in laws birthday party we decided to take some jumping pictures Dallas. Here is Madeline's because it is so stinking cute! My sister in law said she was going to send this picture to my doctor and label it "Why Nia is going to have this baby early."

I had an appointment yesterday and got to get an ultrasound too! She is definitely still a she so that was good to see again and she is also measuring over a week ahead. Her estimated weight at this point is 6 lbs, which could be off by a pound either way. She was practice breathing and everything looked great. So it looks like this baby will be bigger than Madeline's 5 lbs 13 oz at birth! I still haven't decided if I am going to go natural again, or get an epidural! I better figure out that one soon!

I almost forgot to post this...

So we had originally planned not to find out what we were having this time...notice how I said originally...

Well I decided to find out at the end of December at a 16 week u/s. It was confirmed again at the 20 week u/s. Skipper didn't want to know so I respected that and didn't tell anyone and I was content just knowing myself. He made it quite awhile without finding out but one day about a month ago he caved too. So we told our families because it was just stupid to keep it a secret at that point. Lets just say that about 90% of them were wrong. Everyone thought it was a boy but we are having another GIRL!

New Niece!

My brother Marcus and his wife Haley had their first baby, a little girl, last Thursday! She is so cute! Way to go you two! Here is Allison!

What we have been up to lately!

First of all the main reason I haven't blogged in awhile is because we moved! We bought a place in Saratoga Springs. We were supposed to close by the 14th of March so we sold our contract and moved out of our last place and we didn't close by the 14th... So Jon and MarKey were nice enough to let us stay at their home until we closed, which we thought would only take a couple days... Well it took 2 more weeks!! We moved in the last weekend of March and it took another week to get the internet. I am happy to say that we are almost all the way unpacked!

Here are a couple of pictures from the last month.

Skipper's birthday was in the beginning of March. We had a family day at the Gateway discovery center. Madeline got to play in a helicopter and thought it was pretty cool.

We went to the Sportsmans Expo with cousin Natalee, and Grandma Dean. They had these cute little bear cubs that the girls got to play with.

They also had fun looking at all the boats. They ran all over all of them and just as we were getting ready to leave the boats I noticed a sign that said "Please remove shoes before getting on the boats". Ooops!

When we were staying at Markey's it was time to wake Madeline up from her nap and Bennett decided to help! It was really cute because he kept inching toward her so I turned around to get my camera and by the time I turned around this is what he was doing!

We spent the weekends during our homeless period at Grandma Deans. Natalee was up there one weekend and the girls got to fly kites.

Madeline really liked flying kites!

She also went to a birthday party and got her face painted.

She got a new fancy dress.

She loved having tea parties with her dad!

They seriously did this for over an hour. It was cute.

We had a party for Jon and MarKey at the Thanksgiving Point Farm Country. I think that the party was more for the kids than for Jon and MarKey. Here is Madeline riding one of the ponies.

She also got to go on a tractor ride. She has been obsessed with tractors lately. We watched The Secret of Nimh, freaky movie by the way, but she wanted to watch the tractor scene over and over again. Now she loves seeing them in real life.

She loves her pigtails, and asks me to put them in daily.

She loved the tea set at Grandma Deans so much we had to get her one.

Well there you go! Hopefully we will post more pictures soon!

Piss my eye mommy!

So Madeline says piss instead of kiss and believe me this has led to some pretty hilarious comments out of her mouth...

Like last night when she bumped her eye.

"My poor eye! Piss my eye mommy!"

Skipper and I try not to laugh to hard but come on it is funny! She can say the 'k' 'c' sound with other words but for some reason not with kiss!

The "poor eye" comment is funny too. When we are driving in the car and the sun hits her eyes she doesn't like it. As I am blocking the sun from them I say to her "Oh your poor eyes!" Now she says it the "my poor ...." part with anything that she hurts head, toes, etc...

Another great Madeline moment lately was when I told her to shake something and she started singing,
"Shake your booty, shake your booty, oh yeah!"




I love this little girl!

See you in two years!

My little brother Neil went into the MTC today! I can't believe that he is old enough to go on a mission! He honestly is such a genuinely good person. Even though he is my younger brother I look up to him a lot. He is such a hard worker and because of that he has accomplished so much in his 19 years! I will miss him a lot!

I think that Madeline knew something was special about Neil today. She kept hugging him and tickling him and she just wanted to be around him. A couple of hours after we said goodbye to him she started asking us "Where did Neil go?" and "Neil where are you?" as she was looking in closets trying to find him. It was really sweet!

Holy Moly I'm showing!

I can't believe how fast I am showing this pregnancy! This is me at 21 weeks. We had our big ultrasound scan last week and everything looked great, and measuring on time.

Miss Madeline is as sweet as ever. She just got over a horrible stomach bug and is back to her old self. She is saying her own prayers now and says them at random times during the day. It is great. She said one in her sleep the other night! She normally blesses mom, dad, and the baby but we have also heard her talk about ketchup, eggs, Thomas the train, and Emily (her beta fish).

A Once in a Lifetime Oppurtunity

So as some of you may know, Nia was sweet enough to let me go to the Sugar Bowl in January to watch my beloved Utah play. It was hands down, without question, the happiest moment of my life! There is nothing that I can think of that could compare. Maybe the only ones would be the day I met Nia, or the day Madeline was born. That's my top 3...yeah, I'm confident about that. The 30 hour drive each way was well worth it. And such scenic landscapes too.
Honestly, though, the game was phenomenal. You would think that after Utah was up 21-0 in the 1st quarter I would have been rubbing my elbows together, but I think the score made me more nervous. I kept thinking, this is going to really suck if Alabama kicks it up a notch and Utah blows this lead. But Utah just kept pouring it on. I won't lull you non-sports fans with the stats, but lets just say that Utah treated the Tide like they were Cougs. In fact, 90% of the Alabama fans had cleared out of the stadium with four minutes left.


This is us being happy at the end of the greatest game in the history of everything. That counts the time I scored 260,000 on 'Dwarf Throw'.



We ate our faces off. I ate crawfish with every meal. I have never had such great seafood. I take that back, Artic Circle has a pretty good fish sandwich. They trim it into such a nice perfect square.



This was my father and I getting some directions from the guy that was in "Song of the South". This was right after his encore version of "ZipaDeeDoDa"



We paid our respects to all those who have gone before. Marcus is in the back trying to remember what it was he was just doing. He was walking.

The public facilities in the French Quarters were a joke. Fortunately there was no line at this one. (I have to put a disclaimer on this one, because Nia doesn't want anyone to think that I was actually peeing in the street like everyone else.)

Um what to write...

It really has been a slow month, which I don't mind. Skipper made it back safely from his little trip to the Sugar Bowl. Madeline has been a blast! She makes me laugh everyday. She loves to sing and dance. I am feeling good and have been for about a month! I go in for the BIG ultrasound next week, but we are not finding out what it is, so that will be fun!

A few days ago Skipper gave me a compliment. He told me that he didn't know I had a particular talent and that he never imagined it would come into use in our marriage. Well we were leaving the house one night and got to the car and realized that neither of us had the car keys...or the house keys... It was freezing outside and we didn't know what we were going to do. We had only locked the bottom lock, not the dead bolt so I asked Skipper for an old credit card and after a couple minutes of working the card in the door it popped open! I have only done this once before and it was with my roommates back in college. We pulled a prank on some of our guy friends while they were at the priesthood session of conference. So we broke in and switched their bedrooms. Bedding, computers, clothing, pictures, posters, every single thing in their room. It was one of our best pranks, wouldn't you agree Carrie :)?!

Oregon, 4 year Anniversary and Skipper

We were able to spend Christmas in Oregon with my family this year. That hasn't happened since 2005, so I was pretty excited!! We had great food, went to the coast, and stayed up way too late playing games every night. We drove out on monday the 22nd, and it took 18 hours to get there since we were in a snow storm almost the entire way. The drive home only took 13 hours, and we were so excited about that. Madeline was a trooper on both trips and didn't cry at all!! She loved playing with her cousin Levi, and with her aunts and uncles. We went to the coast one day because Skipper needed fish and chips. It was freezing so stayed on the beach for about 2 minutes. We were also able to see my new little niece's baby blessing.

On monday the 29th we drove back and that day just happened to be our 4th anniversary. It was probably the best one EVER!! Okay so not really, but at least we got to spend the whole day talking, and being with each other. Yesterday Skipper surprised me with 2 dozen roses, and a movie to watch while he abandons me for 5 days. I then had an OB appt and they did an ultrasound so Skipper was able to see the babe for the first time. He loved it. We then went to P.F. Changs which I have been craving ever since I got pregnant.

Back to Skipper abandoning me... When Utah's football team made it to a BCS bowl Skipper's father wanted to take his sons and son in laws to the game in Louisiana, so sadly he left me last night. I am very happy for him to go but I sure do miss him, I am sure the hormones are making it worse. I can't wait to see him again on Sunday night!