Comic Life

So, at my new school, I got a sweet MacBook. It is really nice, and it has this neat little program called "Comic Life" and I have been playing around with it tonight. This is my first comic...it is not that funny, but hopefully some will forgive that. Click on it to enlarge it.

Birthday Weekend

I don't know why, but this year I was really thinking a lot about getting older. I was thinking how that when I'm 30, my littlest Katya will be 8! I can't believe that it will come faster than I think. The first year has already gone by so fast and every time I turn around she is older, which makes me older. I don't really obsess over my age, it just seemed that this year I really thought how time has flown and how much life has changed in just the past year. I'm not afraid to get older, except for the fact that my kids will get older too and will no longer be so little. Oh how I will miss it!

My birthday was great. We went to another ultrasound that morning and it was so cute to see our little girl getting big and see how cute she is. It was a very relaxing day and Jethro took care of Katya the whole day so I just st and relaxed. That evening we went down to some friends house for dinner and cake and ice cream. Nice and relaxing. We had big plans for the weekend so relaxing was good. Jethro made me a dark chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate fudge frosting for my b-day and we waited to celebrate with the cake until my family came. The next day, my parents came into town and took me out to dinner. I just love Olive Garden.

Blowing out the candles. Jethro got trick candles so I had
a little trouble. It was such a good cake. I love dark chocolate!

On Friday we went up to Midway to a timeshare condo. Rebekah watched Katya for us so it was a nice getaway. We were supposed to have friends come up on Friday too, but they couldn't come up till Saturday. Jethro And I just enjoyed our alone time together and it was so nice to just relax. We are beginning to realize how important it is to just get away from kids for a little trip every year. Nice and necessary.

On Saturday it was so nice to just sleep in late and lazily get ready. We met our friends in Heber City for lunch at Dairy Keen and I had the best shake. It was Chocolate Dipped Strawberry with real strawberries- so good! We also went up to see the war memorial in Midway, miniature golfing, and playing a ton of board and card games. We also barbecued for dinner. It was so much fun and just great to relax.

Here are some pics from the weekend.

Jethro and I at the war memorial overlooking Heber City.

Tyler, Stephanie, Staci and Jethro

Stephanie and I

Jethro miniature golfing

Jethro playing on the giant outdoor chess board. It was
tons of fun.

She's getting so big...

I can't believe how big Katya is getting. She went to the doctor last week and is 15 pds. 4 oz. and is 27 in. long. I'm glad she finally hit the 15 pd. mark. I was wondering when that was going to happen. She loves to laugh and make mean glares at us and then laugh. So cute! We got Katya a ride on toy and she loves it. She can't sit on it and touch the ground, but she has gotten pretty good at balancing with one foot on the ground. She loves to just sit there and push the horn and dance to the Winnie the Pooh music. She also loves to sit in front of it and push the music buttons.

24 weeks and growing....

Our little baby girl is getting bigger and I can't believe that I'm already 24 weeks along. She moves so much and I can't wait until she finally gets here in December. Here is a picture of me at 24 weeks.

Sacramento Trip

Yesterday we got back from our trip to Sacramento. We left on Saturday and had so much fun. We took Nya with us and I'm sure glad hat we did. Katya watched Nya the whole entire time we were in the car. She wouldn't even take a nap because she just wanted to look at Nya. It was so cute. Nya was so good in the car and the whole time that we were gone that it was so easy to have her with us and so much fun.

Nya loved seeing Kate and Sarah and Katya loved being around everybody and getting so much attention. We took the kids swimming, to the park for a picnic and to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. Mostly the kids just really loved playing together and it was a lot of fun watching them play. As adults we stayed up late many of the nights talking or playing games. That was a lot of fun. It was nice to actually have Jethro be able to go on a trip with us this summer and we had a lot of fun spending time together as a family.

Here are some pics from our trip.

Jethro and I at Discovery Kingdom

The dolphins in the show at Discovery Kingdom.

Shouka the whale.

Katya getting tired during the Shouka show.

Nya wanted to make sure that Katya could watch the movie too.

All the kids at the park. Jethro barked to make Katya look at him
and that's why she's doing her infamous sad face.

Nya, Kate, and George on one of the rides at Discovery Kingdom.

Katya and I on the carousel.

Kate, George, and Katya waiting for the dolphin show.

Nya, Jethro and Katya during the dolphin show.

Katya in her Sunday dress. I've waited a long time for her to grow into it.

Sarah, Kate, Katya, Jethro, and Nya swimming.

Cute Katya.

Katya loves mirrors and these were in our room. She thought it was so cool.
She sat there and playing with the mirror for about 45 minutes. This is
her telling secrets to "her twin".

Nya and Kate at the park. This is one of my favorite pictures.