It's A....

GIRL!!!

We had the ultrasound today and found out we are having another little girl. The kids loved getting to see the baby in the ultrasound. They both wanted a boy, but they were very excited. Dallin said he will be happy and protect her, but he asked if we could make a boy next time :) I haven't felt the baby very much this time, but they always tell me she is active when they try to find her heartbeat. I thought it was because they weren't very good at their job. I could actually feel her on the way to the appointment and I told Jeff that we were going to just miss seeing her in action. I was wrong. She kicked her legs and did little punches the ENTIRE time. It was fascinating watching her little legs move so fast and all over the place. Both our other kids were sleeping/not moving much during their ultrasounds, but not this time. She had 2 legs and 2 arms and everything looked healthy according the technician. Hopefully, the doctor doesn't see anything alarming. We are very excited, and seeing the ultrasound made it much more real that another one is coming soon :)

Our Christmas Tree is Up!

For our Family Home Evening we put up our Christmas tree!! The kids were so excited and couldn't wait for us to finish assembling the tree. They tried on the Santa hats.

Dallin put the star on the Christmas tree.

Alyssa loved putting ornaments on the tree. She only wanted to put them on the top.

Dallin loved everything about the night :)

The finished product. It kind of takes up way to much room in our living room, but it will do.

Tonight Jeff helped the kids put up some lights on our back porch because Dallin really wanted to put some lights up outside. It was so cold outside, so good thing it was just a porch. The kids had lots of fun, but came inside to get warm a lot.

The finished product.

Happy Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Jeff's sister's house in Iowa. Jeff's brother and his family came also, so there were 6 adults and 8 kids :) The kids LOVED playing with their cousins, and we loved visiting with the family.

My wonderful sisters in law did all the cooking for Thanksgiving so I didn't have to do any cooking, which I'm not gonna lie...was the greatest break. The dinner was excellent and here are the kids enjoying a piece of pie.

It was warm enough for the kids to play outside on their awesome playground. It was too cold for me, but the kids didn't seem to mind the weather at all. They were just so excited to play outside.

Most of the kids in their awesome sunglasses.

Then they played follow the leader with Dallin leading them all. He enjoyed that.

Then they got out the bounce house. All the kids played on it for hours. They were sooo excited.

Not Up to Much!

It has been cold, and I really have not wanted to leave the house. So we really haven't done much lately. The kids are starting to go crazy (so is Mom), so it's a good thing Thanksgiving is coming up to get us out of doing the same thing EVERY day. I have been terrible at taking pictures, but here a few.

Here are the kids before church one day. They are getting so big! They were kind of being goofy so no good pictures.

Dallin's school had a Thanksgiving party. They gave all the kids aprons and had them "make" some food, which Dallin said wasn't very good. As soon as he got home, he had everyone put on aprons and make some chocolate chip cookies. He was very excited.

Today we built the roller coaster out of the k'nex. I thought I could do it before Jeff got up, but between the kids needing lots of attention and not being able to follow the instructions it was not done. Jeff finished it just in time for bedtime. They were having fun trying to race the car.

Jeff's mom is amazing at quilting. She made Dallin a very cute quilt when we moved him up to his big boy bed. Soon we will be moving Alyssa up to a big girl bed, so she made her one too. Alyssa's favorite color is purple, and she LOVES the quilt Grandma made her. She cries a lot because I won't let her have it in her crib. Soon enough...

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween. On Thursday we carved pumpkins. Dallin said it was the best night of his life.

Alyssa painted hers. She was so excited because she got to wear mom's shirt, and she had lots of fun painting her pumpkin purple...her favorite color.

This was the first year we let Dallin actually carve his. Thankfully he let Jeff help so there were no problems. He was so excited to put his hand inside the pumpkin when we took the top off until he felt it. He thought it was sooo nasty so we helped him take the stuff out.


Dallin's Pumpkin

Jeff's Pumpkin

Steph's Pumpkin
All of ours
On Friday night we went to the ward Trunk or Treat. The kids had lots of fun.

On Halloween we went to a friends house for trick or treating. Dallin is a pro and could go forever. Alyssa FREAKED out. Anything with a mask scared her to death. So I spent a lot of time holding and consoling her. They got plenty of candy. The next day the neighbors gave them a whole bag of candy. So we have lots of candy...not a good thing for a pregnant lady :)

Alyssa LOVES candy. With Dallin he had no problem with 1 or 2 a day. Alyssa tries to sneak in as much as possible. One time they were sorting it, and Jeff turned his head for a few minutes and she crammed 6 pieces in her mouth. They are good at sharing though :)