Big Brother!!

We are excited to welcome a new baby to our family in May!! We got pregnant a month earlier than we were planning, since I ended up being pregnant during our last month of training and before our half marathon race. Luckily I didn't find out until after the race since I was a little preoccupied. I think I would of struggled a lot more if I had known. As it was I was wondering why I had to stop to go to the bathroom twice, I passed it off as my nerves. It also helped explained why my last couple long runs were tougher than they should of been.

I am finally in my second trimester so I am really hoping that I start to feel better soon, and get some energy back. As Ky says, I am sick of being sick and tired of being tired :) Hopefully that will change soon. It seems like each pregnancy gets a little worse, so it's probably good that this is it! I have had so many food adversions this time around. At the moment I can't eat hamburger, chicken or mozzerella cheese, plus a lot of other things, but those are the main ones. If anyones has any good meatless receipes I am all ears!! So I usually settle for peanut butter and honey toast for dinner. It has caused a little bit of a stir at dinner time though, because the girl's decide that they don't like dinner and they want something else too. So I had to explain that it is because there is a baby in my tummy, and it makes it hard for me to eat things. And when they have babies in their tummies than they can choose to eat other things then too. I haven't had too many cravings, or at least different cravings. It has mainly just been a fish filet sandwich from mcdonalds with extra tarter sauce, with fries and sweet and sour sauce and a diet coke. And if it is missing one of those items, it's just not good. Ky told me last time I had a fish filet that I am going to get sick of them one of these days, and I told him that I am waiting for the day! So hopefully that ends soon too.

We have already had 2 ultrasounds done due to some first trimester bleeding. Everything is perfect with the baby. It was fun to see our baby and to see the heart beating. At my last appointment we got to hear the heartbeat, which is amazing! This ultrasound was done at 8 weeks. We are eagerly awaiting our next ultrasound so we can find out what we are having!

Well anyways, enough rambling, there is our news. We are all pretty excited around here!!

Mesa Verde

Over the weekend we went up and stayed a couple nights in Durango. It was nice to just get away, and go to a new place. The kids just love staying in hotels, especially if it has a swimming pool, and breakfast. Bethany came down with croup over the weekend, so that was a little frustrating. She gets fever's with it, so by 5-6 at night she was wiped out with her fever. But she was a trooper and we all had fun. One of the reasons we went to Durango was to go to Mesa Verde. We first went and saw the Spruce Tree House dwellings.

It was about 1/2 mile hike with a 100 ft descent and ascent. That was the tough part. On the way up we stopped at the benches so the girls could rest.

Then we were feeling adventurous and bought tickets to go to the Cliff Palace. This was only a 1/4 mile hike, but there were five 8-10 ft ladders, and also a 100 ft vertical climb. I was a little nervous how the kids would do on the ladders, but they did well. Before we started the hike down, the tour guide pointed out where the last ladder was that we had to climb up. It was right behind me in the bottom picture just to the right. I should of taken a picture of it, but it was way at the top of the cliff, and from where we started it looked like it was open on one side to the cliff. So that really freaked me out, but it was just an optical allusion. It was really surrounded by the cliff on all sides. It was fun doing the tour and learning about more of the history of the ruins.

We were worried about it being freezing there. We started the day with our heavy jackets and hats on the kids, but the sun came out and really warmed it up. So we ended the day with just our long sleeve shirts. It was really nice weather that day.

We also went down to historic downtown Durango. They have a train there that we were hoping to do, but is closed 3 weeks in November. But they do a polar express train starting Thanksgiving weekend that we are going to go back up sometime to go on. They take you to the north pole to meet Santa. We were telling the girls about it, and they were so excited!

While we were walking around town, we also ran into a rocky mountain chocolate factory!! So we got some yummy chocolate!

On Sunday before we headed home, we stopped at a park to eat lunch and let the kids play. We didn't last too long, because it was pretty cold, but it was good for the kids to get some energy out before our drive.

It was a nice little getaway, but after just a couple days, it so funny how much you enjoy being home again. To have everyone sleeping in their own beds!!

Down by the river

Yesterday we went down by the river to take some pictures. Bethany threw a fit while getting ready, she didn't want to go and she didn't want to wear jeans. Rylan is cutting his bottom molars, so he has been very needy and whiny. I wasn't sure how they were going to do, but we brought along enough candy to bribe them with, that we got some cute pictures.

I thought this was funny, with Hannah yelling at Rylan. I think he sat too close to her or something.

Good bye October, Hello November

We had a good Halloween. The kids were so excited to dress up yet again. We went to our ward trunk or treat, then went to a couple of our neighbor's houses, and came home. It was fun, and the kids got some yummy candy!

Hannah was a doggie this time around.

Rylan was his giraffe again, and this was the only time he had the hat on. But he really wanted to be a.....

purple and pink butterfly! While Bethany was in the process of getting ready, Rylan found the top of her costume, and really wanted to put it on. So I let him wear it until Bethany was ready for it. He wasn't very happy when I took it off of him, but promised he could wear it around the house tomorrow!

The real butterfly! Old Navy had all their costumes for $5 last Saturday. So we went and found Hannah's and Bethany's costumes. Their selection wasn't very good...all the boy's costumes were gone, and they only had 2-3T for girls. So Bethany squeezed into the small size, and it fits pretty good, they are just a little bit of high waters. But she didn't care, she loved having a new costume that was purple and pink!

On Thursday the girls had a Halloween party at joyschool. They did a little parade around. Bethany didn't have school this week, so she was excited to get to go "back" to joyschool. I wondered if she may be a little bored, but she loved it. Thanks again Carrie!

Sunday night we carved our pumpkins. I really didn't want to deal with the mess, so I gave the responsibility to Ky. They had fun. The girls enjoyed getting the guts out of the pumpkins.

Rylan kept trying to play with the guts that were in the bowls. He got a little messy. We put shirts on the kids to keep their clothes clean. It's so funny how much they drown in them! Rylan's actually fell off. We had a great 2 weeks of Halloween! This morning Bethany asked, "When do we get to go trick or treating today?" I told her that Halloween was over and we had to wait until next year. She said, "Well the month isn't over yet." And I told her that October was over, it was now November today. She says, "Well that was a short month!" She summed it up good. October did fly by, but November here we come!

Onto other things, the girls are trying to start a new fashion trend. They have started to wear long sleeve shirts and pants underneath their nightgowns. They get cold, so they want to be warm, but they can't give up the nightgowns. I thought it was pretty funny. It doesn't seem very comfortable, trying to sleep with layers on, but it works for them! Rylan wanted to be a part of it too.