New Year's Eve 2015

We had a pretty low key New Year's Eve. Phil took the kids downtown Tacoma for a little bit, but then we just made chocolate covered treats, played some games, spent some time rollerblading inside in our new pjs from Christmas and watched the fireworks outside at the neighbors. I was just surprised I made it until midnight.

Korean BBQ

Just another date night with the Newville's in which we ate way too much, but had a great time.

Christmas Break Downtown 2015

Took the train to meet Phil downtown during winter break. They had the lights on the trees and a fun little place set-up outside. They rode the carousel and we had warm mini donuts and hot chocolate. We played ping-pong and foosball. All the kids wanted to get gifts for the rest of the family for Christmas so we took everyone shopping and had a great time.

Christmas 2015

We got to spend Christmas morning with Phil's parents. We had a delicious breakfast before opening presents and playing some games together.

Christmas Eve Dodgeball

Nothing screams Christmas like family dodgeball, but we had a great time with the Newville's on Christmas Eve. We bought these balls years ago and finally got them out a few months before this to play with some families at the church. The kids have fun and if you are lucky enough to be on Phil's team you get a win.

Pregnancy

 15 weeks and thinking I was totally showing! 

 18 weeks and amazed at how different it felt to run at this point.

 20 weeks had found out that I had placenta previa so I had to run slower.

 22 weeks

 26 weeks and not able to run anymore so I was just walking and trying to find as many hills as I could find.

28 weeks and wishing that I was spending the weekend with my sisters in St. George with my parents. I couldn't go because the placenta previa hadn't cleared at this point. I have some pictures of the large belly, but haven't gotten them off the phone. I will post them with the pictures of the new baby once she arrives. Getting super excited and ready to be able to sleep on my stomach again soon.

Talents

Cannon is getting pretty good at painting mascot logos for the local teams and made the Huskies logo for one of his teachers at school that he really likes. He will paint on anything so he will take apart cereal boxes from the recycle bin and paint on them for fun. He definitely takes after his dad.

Annual Trip to the Zoo

So the kids did their library reading program again this last summer so they earned a free trip to the zoo and a personal pizza from Round Table Pizza. I love taking them on this little trip before school starts. We had an overcast day, but enjoyed seeing the animals and feeding the birds at the zoo. It is always so hard to have the kids go back to school and it is crazy that as I type this they only have 45 more days of school this year. We are all getting pretty excited about the countdown to Driggs in June!

Girl's Weekend 2016

Phil's mom rented a great place in Gig Harbor for all of us girls to get together and relax for a weekend. We were missing Darlyn, but had a great time talking, laughing, eating super good food, hanging out in the hot tub (not us pregnant girls) and then we had a joint baby shower for me Katrina and Tamara. Tamara was heading back to her two new adoptive kids coming a day later. She is super amazing and I am so happy for these two kids to be coming to her family. Katrina is having her c-section tomorrow and the kids are hoping I go into labor tomorrow so we could have our baby girls on the same day. I don't think it is going to happen, but I wouldn't mind if it did. I got super blessed with all my in-laws and love hanging out with all these ladies.

Christmas Time 2015

 At 22 weeks pregnant and not able to hide the belly anymore. I finally made the announcement on Facebook.

We made gingerbread houses...Cannon was somewhere else, but that is the problem with being so behind on blogging the details get lost.