Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Time for an update

I know it has been awhile since I updated but this pregnancy makes it hard for me to update. Although at the same time I didn't feel like I had much to update on. So here is what is going on with us.
Since Christmas we came back home to Rexburg and packed up our things and moved across the parking lot to another dorm. This dorm is a little different that we decided it was worth the work to move. The things we like about the dorm is that our storage is right next to us instead of clear across the dorm and I have my own office instead of the office being in the lounge. Eric likes that part because he can go into my office to study and no one can bother him. The apartment is also bigger but more narrow so we have more space in different places. The bathroom is much bigger with more storage and our master bedroom is a tad bit bigger which means we can actually fit our dresser in there. In the other apartment we had to put it in the closet.
While in the midst of moving Eric and I somewhat celebrated our 5th year anniversary. We spent most of the day moving and unpacking and then after we put Aaron to bed we got our neighbor to watch him while we went to dinner to Applebee's. We have discovered that we really don't like having our anniversary around Christmas/New years because we always have something going on. I am sure for next year if things go as planned we will be moving again during our anniversary. Oh well.
Aaron turned 18 months old and is now officially in nursery. Now the trick is to keep him in there when we go to classes. We normally can sneek out at first but 10 minutes later Aaron notices that we are gone and starts crying. It will be a great day when we can just leave him in there for the whole two hours and he would be fine with it. I didn't think he would have such a hard time with it because he seems to do fine with babysitters but he doesn't like it when we leave him alone in nursery.
Here are a few pictures of Aaron so you can see how much he is growing.

This is during check-ins when I was busy working so Eric was in charge of Aaron. He took some gel to his hair and gave him this lovely hair style. I think he looked pretty cute.
Aaron sure is growing up fast. He is learning to do a lot more things for himself. One day I found him sitting in the rocking chair looking at some books he found on top of his dresser.
I love how attatched he is to his blanket. It is cute how he drags it around as much as he can. He likes to drap his blanket over his shoulders and wrap it around himself. He has also learned that if it puts the blanket on his head he can keep his blanket on him and have both hands free.



Aaron's favorite game lately is opening and closing doors.
Lastly, Aaron has been trying to talk a lot lately except he isn't speaking English. I am not sure what language this is but I think it is so cute. We can't duplicate what he is saying.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Aaron is going to be a big brother...

to a little sister!
Introducing: Tinker Bell :)

That's right! We went in for our ultrasound today and found out that we are having a little girl! She is to be due around mid may. We are so excited for this news. We were hoping for a girl this time. She is starting to be very active in my tummy and I am loving it.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas in Utah

WARNING: LOTS OF PICTURES

We had a wonderful Christmas this year with my family. Originally it was only suppose to be us with my parents and little sister for Christmas, but two of my sisters with their families drove out to be with us. YEA! Kim and Scott and their 5 kids drove 24 hours from Houston and Melissa and John and their 3 kids drove 31 hours from Maryland all to spend Christmas at home. It was a party! We were just missing Craig and Cherise who were in Texas with their new baby girl who was born on the 23rd (Congratulations you guys!) and Cindy and Billy were stuck in Cedar City working. We sure missed you guys.
Melissa and John showed up on Christmas Eve just in time for our Coleby dinner.
My Parents couldn't be happier to have more grandkids around for Christmas.

Christmas Morning! Here are all the kids on the stairs waiting to go up and see what Santa left for them. Aaron was a little upset that morning because he didn't want to go upstairs.
He cheered up when he saw candy and toys in his stocking.

Santa brought him a fun piano to play with.
He loves the piano and the little talking bear his Grandma Coleby got for him.
The day after Christmas was another fun day for my family. We started out going sledding. Eric took Aaron down the big hill first and the sled sprayed them the whole time. We had to go warm up in the truck a couple of times.
We were able to get these great yellow tubes from Scott's brother. They were a lot of fun. I only went down once but we had a blast going super fast and backwards.
Here is my dad pushing off my sister Kim with her kids Samantha, Alex, and I think that is Jacob.
After we went home we warmed up in the pool, had some pizza for dinner, and then headed off to temple square to see the lights. We drove downtown and then got on the trax light rail to take us the rest of the way to temple square. Most of the boys love trains so they were super excited to ride a train.
Temple Square
The gang:Dad, Kim, Alex, Mom, Eric, Aaron, and Me.
Aaron found this old toy stroller and loved pushing it around.
This is the best picture I could get of Aaron and his cousin Alex. These boys are only 16 days apart.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.