Let the celebration begin!

There are a lot of things going on in this picture. You can see some of the decorations that I woke up at 4:30 to put up for Alexis' birthday. You can also see the sweet glider that my mom bought Alexis for her birthday...it's the only place she sits to watch TV now. Lastly, you can see me in the background preparing the beautiful birthday strawberry shortcake.







There were balloons of all colors...











Streamers...









And beautifully wrapped presents...as you can see no expense was spared.









Check out that cake. Even though I bought the angel food cake already prepared at Target, I feel pretty good about the masterpiece that I created. Look how excited she is, I think I can see the baby making that same face in there.







YOU CAN DO IT!!! She got all but one of the candles and then a gust of wind came and blew out the last one. Good enough for me, I say wish granted. Let them eat cake.

Valentine's Day and Alivia Countdown

For Valentine's Day I surprised Alexis by taking her out to dinner and then to a hotel near Salt Lake to spend a night together. We decided to take some pictures to document the experience...










Apparently we were brushing our teeth the whole time.








Do you remember when you were little and you would make paper chains to countdown to Christmas? That is exactly what is going on here. 50 days until Alivia!








Here it is in all its glory. WOO!

Her eggo is prego

This is a picture of what 32 weeks looks like. Look how happy she is. It is crazy to think that in less than two months there will be a little person living with us. We can't wait. We play music to Alivia all the time, she loves Boston and Journey and every now and then a little old school hip hop. I'm hoping that when she is freaking out we can just put on some of the tunes she likes and it will remind her of being in the womb and calm her down. Anyway it's the final countdown...I guess I should get her room painted.

The Dreaded Soul Patch Phase

So Matt's been bearded for the past couple months and finally got sick of it (thank goodness). So he went upstairs to shave the other day and he came back down looking like this...

At first, I thought it was a joke, because obviously all soul patches are jokes. But no. This thing has stayed around for several days now and I don't see it going away anytime soon... yay.

God Bless Us Everyone

A Little friendly home run derby with my brothers.











Here we are enjoying the sweet swinging memories of childhood.








Everyone was invited to the great feast, but Alexis was the only one who responded.








Here we have Mary and Joseph from the Wiseman Nativity Reenactment. We had a few camera problems, but more or less we have the whole thing on tape. We can show it to you sometime, it will be a real treat. My brother Luke had some choice scenes as the various innkeepers.








Most people looked pretty happy on that blessed Christmas morning. We had to get up at approximately 6 am, maybe even earlier. My nephews were told they could wake everyone up at 6:30...they're still working on the whole time telling thing.




My niece Gabrielle got this little play kennel that had a bunch of cats in it. Amy didn't have many presents this year so she adopted the lonely cats and gave them all names. I guess she is embracing her future as that weird old lady with all the cats.






We escaped for a little bit on Christmas day to the park. My mom had this picnic table dedicated to my brother Adam after he died so we had some friendly hiker taker our picture on the table.





Here is the 27 week picture. Alivia is moving pretty much all day every day now. She is going to be very active for sure. She always stops kicking when I touch the belly though, so I am hoping that will carry over into real life. Whenever I pick her up she is just going to fall asleep immediately.

For Elder DrewbEE

So I came home late the other night and found that Matt had been sitting at the computer for the past 6 hours and here's what he created... I love it.

22 WEEKS!

So here is the latest shot of my two girls. Alivia is starting to throw some good punches and she kicks like Beckham, so I am certain that she is going to be a good soccer player. She might surprise us and be a kick boxer though. Sometimes we can even see Alexis' stomach bulge out when she kicks. We think it is pretty awesome.

Here is one of our ultrasound pictures. Alivia is a little diva already. She is so cramped in there, but don't worry, her legs are crossed and she's just chillin. There was another ultrasound picture where the nurse was checking her spinal column, and she looked like a little dinosaur.

Farmer Joe

Here's Farmer Joe after a tiring day of work. These are Matt's overalls that he got at Costco that he was so excited about. They keep him warm in Mona.

And here is Matt upset that my family and I wouldn't stop calling him Farmer Joe.

THE UTES ARE A BUNCH OF SUCKERS!

Here's the fam preparing for the big game with a big IHOP breakfast. Apparently Ky is very excited about his hat.

Here we are at our killer seats on the front row! Kyler loved that cougar claw which was unfortunately stolen after the game.

Cosmo knew what was going on... I'm not sure Kyler understood, though.

The coolest flyover ever! Also I like to think that they're on their way to kill the terrorists just like my chopper game that I have dedicated hours to. Get 'em!

Unga... Noooo! Don't worry he comes back better than ever. Also in this pic you can see what we were standing next to. Actually there were Ute fans on both sides of us. The ones you see in this picture were ridiculous. Also they got their horn taken away which made me happy. At the end of the game both the Ute fan and I were thanking the ref... although his didn't sound as sincere as mine.

At the end, Matt and Ky rushed the field, it was awesome. I didn't for obvious reasons. At first the staff working at the game stood in front of us with a long rope as if they were going to stop everyone. It didn't quite work out. But here they are in the middle of the crowd. Matt thought of himself as Mufasa as he was saving Ky from the stampede of fans. His face shows how proud he was of the rescue.

They were literally five feet from the players.

After the chaos... GO COUGS! Also if you make this picture big you can get a pretty good look at something hilarious going on behind Matt and Ky. Maybe those two should wait until they're ALONE to celebrate.

Game Day Woo!!!

Does it look like we're on the field? Because we basically are!!! Also Matt hates my "sweatpants headband." Interestingly enough, I happen to love it even more than I use to since he made that comment. It has become the game day headband!

Matt looking forward to the future of the team! It's my artistic-ness.

Oh the blue Y man. He inspires us all! Without fail, he's blue for every game!

I still don't know the whole song by heart but I am dangerously close!

Also Matt told me that one time they spelled BUY... how embarrassing for them. Also the U needs to pick it up! YOU'RE FALLING BEHIND!

This is our favorite cheerleading couple... the girl because Matt loves screaming "last time" with her... and the guy because of an awkward run in I had with him at an institute dance a couple years ago. Interesting boy...

This is Matt's favorite face to make during the football games. He only watches the games so that he can get extremely frustrated with the team!

And this is what happens to me at every game always around the 3rd quarter... As you can see, Matt LOVES it!!! Same face as before.

The day my baby kicked me in the face.

Here is the 19 week shot of the belly. The baby is starting to get a lot bigger now. Last night Alexis and I were joking that it would be really funny if Alivia could speak to us through the womb. I leaned down and put my ear on Alexis' stomach, and Alivia kicked my ear! I thought Alexis was just messing with me, so I put me ear on her belly again and Alivia kicked again! Alexis thinks it was more of a headbutt than a kick, which is fine with me because either way she is going to be a soccer player.

Immediate Repercussions...

So one night before we went to bed, I may or may not have said something sassy just to upset Matt. Anywho, Matt decided to punish me by turning off all of the lights downstairs to scare me. So I ran after him, fearing for my life in the dark. And when Matt got to the top of the stairs he turned the last light off and all of a sudden I hear a huge BANG followed by Matt crying out in pain. So I hurried and turned the light on and found Matt on our bedroom floor in the fetal position, grabbing at his foot. As he went into our bedroom in the dark, he had run into our door, seriously injuring the middle toe as you can see here. It immediately started bleeding through the sock and it was way painful to walk on for the next several days... So maybe he'll stop and think next time before he tries to scare the crap out of me by cruelly leaving me in the dark!

Alivia's First Clothes!!!

So my mom and I were unable to resist every time
we entered any baby section in any store we went into
while I was in CO!!! She's going to be the cutest
freakin kid ever!

October 24, 2007 - The Day My Dad's Life Was Over!!

So here we are dropping Drewbee off at the MTC. Now, I love my brother and we've actually gotten closer recently, but I didn't shed a tear! Does that mean I don't have a soul?? I mean I cry at lifetime movies, baby commercials, and, recently, at the mere sight of a small child... WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Let's, yet again, blame the hormones! Also, gotta love the new maternity dresses! Woo!

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And here's the last family picture ever... Obviously the rest of my family didn't take it to well. So I spent that night with them at my favorite restaurant (IHOP, of course) and my dad made the bold statement that it was the worst day of his life! It was hilarious! I'm so excited for Drew! Farewell Elder DrewbEE! Good luck in Roseville, CA!

Matt's Sweet Moves (and the reason Matt might kill me)

Enjoy it while it lasts! I have a feeling Matt won't think it's as funny as I do!

Check this out

So we went to Colorado for a weekend in October for Alexis' little bro's farewell. Saturday we went through a corn maze and it was literally 85 degrees. Sunday morning we woke up and it looked like this. It just caught us off guard, that's all.

We decided to keep a photo journal of this pregnancy. Here is Alexis at 17 weeks. Little Alivia is really starting to poke out and sometimes Alexis even feels her move! We think it's cool.

It's a girl!

If you look very closely you will see two little tiny legs with nothing in between. How do you like that for cute little bears, Jefferson?

I believe that is an ear.

Cute little girl!

Apparently in Europe, aem mean arm. The "doctor" used to be an OB/GYN in Europe.

Look at that cute little nose!