Happy New Years!

Hope everyone has a fun, safe time tonight. We are enjoying the nice weather after a week filled with the stomach flu. :-(  Each day someone new was sick, no fun at all! Not how we planned to spend daddy's week off with us, but I guess that is life. One more fun week off then it will be back to school. Hoping for healthy, fun-filled days ahead of us.

Testing from the phone..

Hoping I linked this right, testing it out! And just to test another part, I'm including a picture of our tumbleweed man!

Let's see if this works... Testing, testing,1,2,3...

It's a....

GIRL!!!!!

Yay! We went for our ultrasound last week and though she tried to hide her goods in the beginning, eventually she moved around and gave us a nice clear view of her bits. Most definitely girl #3 is joining our family! She weighed in right on track at 11 oz, no change in the due date, so guessing from my track record we will be meeting little miss the last week of April, probably in the early 20's (due the 29th). I felt a little bad for Caleb, he was REALLY rooting for a boy, but I pretty much knew it was a girl, that mommy gut feeling, so I had tried really hard to prepare him, point out the good points to staying the only boy (he still gets his own room, privacy!!). He is over it now and even came home from school yesterday with a little paper bracelet he made for her. :) We are 20 weeks along now and I can't believe we are halfway there! It is just flying by.

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Oak Glen!

It's not fall without a trip up to Oak Glen! We decided spur of the moment this morning that we needed to go today and boy were we glad we did, the place was empty! I'm used to seeing huge crowds in September, but I guess we were just late enough in the season, not many people were up there early, although lots of people were arriving by the time we were heading out after lunch.

The parking lot at Riley's. We got there at 8:50 and they officially opened at 9. We couldn't believe how empty it was and it was so nice!

Isabelle thought it smelled when we first got there, lol.

Pretty harvest corn. I love all the different colors.

My attempt at a pretty picture of the raspberries.

Didn't quite work. :)

Hello pretty Rory-girl!

Jared was trying to get her to smell the flowers.

The kids thought the handcart was pretty cool.

Trying to get a picture of them, Rory wants mommy to come over with them too.

So many pumpkins to choose from!

The fields were perfect, so many pretty pumpkins to choose from! They weren't all trampled over yet or anything.

At Los Rios, trying to get a picture of my kids in their pumpkin spot.

It was so fun! We went to Snowline too, but my camera battery died before we got there. :( We ate lots of donuts and came home loaded with pumpkins, harvest corn, apples and cider. My pumpkins are all cleaned and lined up in front of my fireplace, I am so ready for fall!!!

Baby #4???

Yep!!! Baby #4 is on the way!!! We are super excited! I went to my first appt last Friday and got to check up on little baby and see how things are progressing. When Jared gets home tonight we'll hook the scanner up so I can scan the ultrasound image. Heart was beating away, everything is measuring right on track, so we are happy to share our news! I am 9 weeks today, baby will be joining our family at the end of April, just in time for all of the end of the school year craziness, lol. :)

Happy Birthday to Aurora!

Happy First Birthday to my Rory!!! Such a big girl, she is now walking more and more, loves to eat and is trying so hard to talk. She is in LOVE with Bubble Guppies, its the only show she'll watch, but of course nothing exists in stores yet, so all she got was a super cute outfit a wonderful woman in our ward made for her. We loved having family and a couple friends over to celebrate her day with us last Sunday! Thanks to all who came. :)

Pics by Presley!

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I want one of these carriers!!!

3 Little Monkeys is giving away the BEST baby carrier! I want one of these so bad and the new Petunia Pickle Bottom fabrics are so beautiful! For the giveaway, go here. Also, you can check out their blog here.

School time!!!

Yay!!! School is back in session!! We have been counting down the days, Isabelle got to start Kindergarten and Caleb was soooo ready to get back to his routine. We loved summer, but we definitely hit that point about 2 weeks ago where we were DONE!!! I'm so glad it's just a 2 month summer break, not the 3 month one I had growing up. :)

My handsome Caleb!

He's so big!

Watch out second grade, here he comes!!

My pretty, pretty Belle

Love this girl! Her hair is slowly growing out. She said that she doesn't want to cut her hair again until high school, so it can be like "Tangled" hair. Thank goodness!!

Don't they look so nice!

I LOVE my kids and I LOVE this picture!!

Walking into the kindergarten area

Got her nametag and ready to go!

Rory's striking a pose. She was happy to be there, really. :)

Looking at a picture of herself on Daddy's camera.

Such a big girl already!

Isabelle saying hi to her new teacher, Mrs. Ruiz (the woman in the black pants).

Bye Belle!!! Have a good day!!

Time to take Mr. Stud to his class!

All lined up and ready to go!

We are soooo excited for this upcoming year!!

Rory vs. The Marshmallow

Jared decided that giving Rory a marshmallow would be a GREAT way to keep her occupied so we could eat dinner together. One thing. Not a mini, not a jumbo, but a HUGE roaster marshmallow. Have you seen them at Walmart? Cause yeah, they're humongous. Well, we ate dinner together. And Rory was in HEAVEN!!! Want to see the proof?

That is the remnant of the marshmallow down in the last picture. That is how big it is AFTER she attacked it for a good 15 minutes. Needless to say, she went straight into the shower. But she sure was a happy girl!

Yep, it's that time!

It was that time! I have been tossing back and forth for the last month or so and I finally decided last Saturday that I was done! Done with my hair! So I called, got an appointment, and off we went to get it chopped!

15 inches of my hair is on it's way to Locks of Love. :)

Summer so far...

We've been busy!!! Swim lessons every day, summer movie festival, and my sister and her family brought their jet ski out to Lake Perris.

Isabelle went out with Aunt Tawny. She was a little daredevil and wanted to help steer. She loved going fast and had the best time!

I took Caleb out and he was not so into it. Very unsure in the beginning and was done after one loop around the lake. He had more fun just playing in the water on the beach.

Rory hung out under the pop-up in the shade and looked cute. :)