Surprise?

Well, we weren't expecting..... to be expecting anytime again in the near future.

 

I mean, at this particular time Adalyn was only 9months old and having any more children was the furthest thing from our minds. (we did wait nearly 4yrs after having Hyrum before having our little Adalyn)

 

I will admit that I was in shock and denial for a very long time. Actually, it still doesn't seem real and we are almost  single digits away in weeks from having our THIRD baby.

 

Someone asked me when I was about 12wks along how I was feeling about it. I replied that I was still in shock... they proceeded to tell me that I couldn't be in shock anymore because I had about 7weeks at the time to wrap my mind around it already.. ? umm, ok.

 

So, here we are.

 

Baby number 3 coming in roughly 13weeks and our little Adalyn will only be 18months old.

 

Oh yes, Baby Number 3 is a BOY!

 

8weeks along

 13wks along

 

Belly photo and ultrasound are at 20wks.

 



Catch-Up

Just for my memories sake, or for those who don't have Facebook, here is a (very) brief updated of events since the last time I blogged.

 

I could go into a spiel about how busy life is but that would be boring I'm sure. Busy life is probably better than non-busy uneventful life any way. :)

 

First off, Adalyn turned 1yr old!

 

I'm an awful party planner when it comes to events for our little family. I'm a last minute, keep it small kind of mom I guess you could say.

 

Adalyn is almost 16months old now. She is a super busy little girl who loves to explore (empty cabinets, toilet paper rolls, dresser drawers). Don't need a gym membership with this little princess in the house. :)

 

At the end of May we took a trip to Great Wolf Lodge (thanks to a groupon purchase) and had lots of fun swimming, riding water slides and playing Magi Quest.

 

The week after our Great Wolf Lodge trip, t-ball ended for Hyrum. I'm not 100% sure that he will want to play again next year. Being just 4yrs old and his first sport ever, it got hard for him at times. He had lots of fun when he was in a position on the field that actually had balls hit his way, or playing catcher.

 

Other than that, it would get boring for him and he wouldn't want to participate.

 

Once t-ball ended I wanted to find something else to get Hyrum involved in to keep him active and busy. We gave him the option of soccer or karate.

 

He chose karate.

 

Because he is only 4yrs old, he had to "tryout" and have a personal evaluation to see if he was mature enough to participate in a Karate/Martial Arts program.

 

Having just finished a season of t-ball and experiencing learning in a group environment like that (and with being super excited to be a 'karate kid' to get bad guys) he was able to get in no problem.

 

He absolutely loves it. He wishes karate was every day instead of just two days a week and always looks forward to going.

 

Late in June we were invited to join some friends on a 4th of July camping trip. We decided to go! :) We went camping in Eastern Washington as usual, except we went to a different camp this time.

 

Our friends took us camping at Keller Ferry Washington. The camp was really nice and we had lots of fun. Did I mention that the people we went camping with had NEVER before been camping in their lives? (except for the husband)

 

It was a big experience for them, and a new experience in ways for us as well since we've never gone camping with an RV and a super nice boat with unlimited access before. I was spoiled and got to sleep in the RV on the master bed with Adalyn. :)

 





 



"Oh this looks fun!"

I'm a beginner at...

 

Sewing.

 

Last Christmas, I decided to be adventurous and hand make and sew our family Christmas stockings.

 

I've never sewn anything without someone first cutting everything out for me, setting up the machine, and telling me what exactly to do.

 

The stockings were my first sewing project to do and complete from start to finish all on my own.

 

I was really proud of myself and liked the finished project.

 

A few days ago I got an itch to sew. So I opened up my pinterest app on my phone and started to browse my craft and DIY boards in search of the perfect project.

 

Once I decided what I wanted to do I headed to JoAnns to purchase the material that I needed. While shopping around I opened up my app to look at the project to see how much fabric I would need..

 

SURPRISE!

 

Apparently all I looked at were the pictures and got excited and ran out the door. What I failed to notice is that the tutorial and blog site for this project was in a different language. awesome

 

I decided I'd just go home and research better and find something else to do but the friend I had with me looked at what I wanted to make and told me to pick out the fabric I wanted, had it cut, then said she would cut it all out for me so all I have to do is assemble the project.

 

The next morning I decided I didn't want to wait around for everything to be cut for me so I sat and studied the pictures of the project, set everything up and got to work. I used manila folders to help me guess the measurements and started cutting!

 

I was determined to do this on my own.

 

After MUCH fighting with the sewing machine and having a friend come take a look at it, ripping seems out about 12 different times, and deciding to give up on sewing (then continuing on with my project), I completed my SECOND ever sewing project!

 

I'm proud of myself and happy with my work.. No, my lines and such aren't perfectly strait and there might be a few ugly seems but I LOVE it and my little man Hyrum is going to EXTRA love it.

 

The finished product!!

 

Art Bag

 

 

 

 

The part of the bag I'm most proud of! I can't believe I was able to actually figure out how to make all of these pockets!

 

 You put the drawing pad or coloring books in this big pocket. :)

 

 

Here is the link to the blog post that inspired this project. I believe it's in French.

http://poussieresdetoiles.petitsmots.net/archives/811-Sac-dartiste.-le-tuto!.html

T-Ball

I am now a 'soccor' mom.

 

Hyrum has started T-ball. His team started practicing at the beginning of March and they had their first game this week on the 9th.

 

We thought his team was the Blue Jays.. That's what they were told at least, but when their box of uniforms arrived...... Surprise! They are not in fact the Blue Jays but instead are the

 

TEXAS RANGERS!

 

We are totally fine with that ;)

 

Hyrum loved being able to finally play his first game. Each time we got ready to go to practice he would ask "am I going to play a baseball game yet?"

 

 

 

I think he enjoyed being the catcher very much. He kept coming to the fence to show us and his friend the gear that he was wearing.. I had to keep reminding him that he was in the middle of a baseball game. :)

 

 

 

TballBat from Laurie Leiser on Vimeo.

What we've beem up to.

I wish I had more time to blog... One of these days life will 'slow' down. :)


Hyrum-
--His toe is still healing but no longer sensitive or bothersom for him.

--we got him registered for T-ball. He starts at the end of April and he is SUPER excited to be a 'baseball guy.'

--he started speech therapy

--He had his very first and second dentist visits in the last 1.5mos.

 

 

--A friend of his got a new baby brother a few weeks back.. Hyrum was so excited to hear about it... I wish I never would have told him. Every day now Hyrum talks about how he wants a baby brother too and what he wants to name his baby brother and what he wants to do with his baby brother....

(not sure if or when THAT will ever happen bud! Sorry!) Silly Boy

 

Adalyn--

--she is now 10mos old!

--she has been crawling for a few months now, she can pull up, stand up, walk along furniture and objects, and will walk along with you if you hold her hand.

--she was finally discharged from physical therapy. no more torticolis.

--she is WILD. loves to explore.

--sleeps great for the most part. :)

 

 

 

The Adults--
--Ricky and I just celebrated out 5yr wedding anniversary.



--Ricky is working tons of crazy hours as usual. Has been on overtime for a year now with extra work and misc. things on top of that.
--I don't have anything super special going on or happening with me.. just stay at home mom, playing and taking care of the kiddos and running them to appointments and school and what have you.

the following photos are some views from our anniversary dinner at the Space Needle rotating restraunt... and our really cool smoking icecream desert that they have been making/serving now for 50yrs.