scarf

OK here's the deal. I'm about ready to enter my 3rd tri-mester and I'm ready to get things organized for this baby. Like...today. However, what I really want to do it go through my baby clothes, which I can't reach...in the garage...and I never remember to ask my hubby when he's actually around to do it. SO, instead today I decided to go through all my scrap fabric. Which really isn't much of anything. Just some old clothes that I thought I could maybe refashion into something else and some other randomness or small real scrap fabric. So, I cleaned it out and kept what I needed. I really wanted to make something. I've been wanted to get crafty again for awhile but it's too cold for my big projects (painting my table) and a few things like that. So I've been trying to come up with something else to do. After searching my pinterest boards of what I can do with some old t-shirts, I came up with these fun scarves.

I made one in black too, they were {super} easy...here's the link to the TUTORIAL I used. I like them. I think they will add some new life to my boring maternity clothes, which I'm already sick of wearing. Actually, I was sick of wearing them the moment I pulled them out of storage! Oh well! 

Oakland Temple

A few weeks ago we were able to drive down to the Oakland Temple to meet my family for Aubrey and Jardan's sealing. They've recently adopted 2 of the cutest kids ever, and finally were able to have them sealed to them in the Temple. We had tons of fun, including stopping at the Jelly Belly factory on the way up. My camera was acting bizarre {and may be broken} so I didn't get any pictures there and hardly any at the Temple as well.

Papa with the kids

Aubrey and her cute little family

Here's the whole group! Jardan's aunt and uncle came from Portland to be there as well.

After the sealing we went to the stake center that is on the temple grounds and had lunch. We stayed and visited until Aubrey and her family went back home and Tim and I went to dinner with my parents before we headed to a hotel for the night. We had a lot of fun and wish we had some more time to visit our friends in Sacramento while we were driving by

Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was great. Having kids makes it so much more worth while. Kardyn got a new big girl bed this year! She's been sleeping in the toddler-bed crib, but we will be needing that for the new baby soon so we thought we'd start transitioning her to a big bed. She loves it. 

Chase made me this ornament at school

Chase got lots of Lego's this year. He's had so much fun learning how to put them together all by himself! Him and Dad had lots of fun building lego's and watching Star Wars on Christmas Day.

Kardyn was so cute, she got me finger nail polish so I can paint her nails. She even told me what it was before I opened it :)

Nana and Papa gave Kardyn a "feeding baby" as she calls it. She loves this doll, carries it all day long.

Chase is a little obsessed with Nut Crackers. Don't know why, but we've started giving him one every year for Christmas and it hasn't gotten old yet. He was so excited when he pulled his Pirate Nut Cracker out of the box. 

We didn't have any family visit this year but we had our brother-in-law set up his computer in his front room too so we could skype all morning. It was really fun to see everyone and grandma and grandpa were there too. We will have to do this more often, it was great.

Chase got so many lego's so Kardyn helped him sort them all out into storage bins. 

We had a wonderful Christmas and we hope you did too. This weekend we are traveling up to California to see my sister and her family get sealed in the temple to their adopted kids. We are so excited! We'll post pictures when we get back. Happy New Year!

Baby's UltraSound

Here is our baby's first photo! The ultrasound tech didn't catch the picture in time, but baby was sucking on it's toe! She said she has never seen a baby with it's foot all the way in it's mouth before. It was really cute, we could see it's mouth opening and everything. We didn't find out the gender so we will be surprised in April!

Cruise to the Bahamas

Last week we took a cruise to the Bahamas for our 10th anniversary. We went with some friends of ours and left the kids at home!

These pics are just when we were still docked in Miami before we left

That night a storm blew threw and it was my first time being on a cruise ship. Let's just say we didn't mix. I felt awful that night! Luckily I took my medicine on time the next few days and was totally fine after that.

The first island we stopped at was called Freeport. We were kinda disappointed, there was not much there so we just shopped around the straw market and got back on the boat to catch some rays of what little sun we had that day.

Kathlene and I enjoying a pina colada 

At Nassau we had more fun. This is a picture of the resort Atlantis behind us, but we didn't go there. Instead we decided to walk around the island on our own.

We walked to a few historical sights 

This was called the Queen's staircase, it was carved out of this small canyon of limestone.

Then we decided to try and take a different way back to this ship hoping to run into some better shopping. Well, we got really lost in the slums of Nassau instead. This picture of the house was one of the better ones before it got worse. I was a little scared for my life. Luckily this super nice lady came out of nowhere and took us back to a main road but we were really far away. It makes me thankful that I have a house to live in, some of the people we saw didn't even have a real floor, just dirt, and no doors on the houses. Pretty sad. On our way back to the road, we ran into this warehouse where they were making costumes for the New Years Parade they have in town. Pretty cool. 

The last day we went to the private island owned by Norwegian called Great Stirrup Cay. It was the nicest day we had, and the least windy! So we got to hang out for a bit before heading back to the ship.

Here is a picture of the front of our ship, the Norwegian Sky. We had so much fun, I mean what more could I ask for! We were waited on hand and foot and had all the food we wanted to eat, all the time, sun and good friends. What a great way to celebrate our anniversary! Oh and the kids had fun at home too. My mom came to stay with them and I think they were a little spoiled! Thanks for coming to help Nana, the kids loved it!