Here are a few pictures from our old ward. I unfortunately never got a picture of Taylor in her class. I tried twice without any luck. Which is really too bad because she was the one that asked me to take a picture of her class oops.
First of all this is the nursery Natalie was in. It was just one nursery and this was I believe all the kids that are nursery age. We went back to visit a couple weeks ago and Natalie proudly walks in and states " I am 3 and I am tall" When the nursery teachers asked her about her new house she replied "It is tall"

Nathan's primary class. Crazy thing is that his class made up half of the senior primary.

One of the local news stations came to the kids school a few weeks ago. It is a bit called whirly bird Wednesday. At first they had all the kids and parents on the field making FOX 10 out of bodies. In the beginning the kids all stayed with me but soon after they found their friends and I was an afterthought.

So finally a post about me being pregnant with our 4th child. This pregnancy for the most part has been pretty good and uneventful. We at least the first 7 1/2 months were. I am very grateful that things are going pretty smoothly amid all the other chaos in our life the past several months. The pregnancy has flown by. My due date is October 19th and it is another girl. I have to admit I never imagined having 2 daughters much less imagining 3 daughters. It will be fun.
For history sake I am going to post about finding out the gender of this 4th child. It is kind of a long story but here it goes. We debated for weeks on if we would find out the gender or let it be a surprise on delivery day. I really wanted to wait but realistically wasn't sure I could do it. I am too much of a planner. The day of the ultrasound came and we had decided to have the technician determine the gender and right it on a piece of paper put it in an envelope and give it to Preston who would put it in our safe at home until the day we (I) decided to find out. During the actual ultrasound we closed our eyes during the time she was observing gender area. Ultrasound was finished and the tech hands ME two CD envelopes. I put them in the bag and go to the restroom. Preston goes out into the waiting room with the kids. While Preston is taking Natalie to the restroom I decide to look at the ultrasound pictures that I was handed. (Every other time I have had an ultrasound with this practice they give me a disk of all the pictures and some printouts) So I pull out the pictures from the unsealed envelope that the technician handed to ME and after the first picture is a post it note that has GIRL written on it. I am SHOCKED to say the least that I just saw what I did and that it did indeed say GIRL. I shove the picture and paper back in the envelope and try to convince myself that I did not just see the gender while sitting alone in the waiting room. So not how I planned to find out what our 4th child's gender was. But I couldn't undo what happened and so I confessed to Preston that I knew. I decided that to make it special for the rest of the family at least I would go buy girl things at the store and wrap them up for the kids and Preston to open and reveal what gender the baby was. So here they are waiting for their presents.

Revealing their presents. Preston was a little shocked. Judging by my behavior he really thought it was a boy. Nathan and Taylor (mostly Nathan) were disappointed to not be getting a little brother. It was a shock to us all but overall we are all just very happy that she is healthy and well and are excited to have her join our family. We joked before we found out that no matter what the gender we knew what the baby would look like since we seem to have only one mold for our kids. What do you expect when the gene pool is a gene pond. :-)

Well we had a fun and HOT June this past summer. Preston's family was evacuated from Eagar for a week due to the Wallow fire threatening the town. Very fortunately all ended up being fine with their homes but it was a huge fire and at times very intense. The fire hit literally too close to home for them. While they were here we took advantage of the cousin time. One of the days we went to Encanto Amusement Park.

They had a ride that was similar to the Tea Cups at disneyland that I did not go on.



So as you can see we have done a lot of fun things even though I haven't blogged about them all. At least I took the pictures, that is a bit of a miracle all in itself.

We normally go to Eagar for 4th of July but this summer was VERY different from any other. We had home repairs that needed to be done to get the house ready to rent and also many others things to get ready to move. Preston took advantage of the 3 day weekend since the 4th fell on a Monday and the lock shop was closed. His brother Kendall came and helped lay tile in our kitchen on Saturday the 2nd.

My brother and his family took care of our kids for most of that Saturday so I could paint while the boys laid tile and not worry about kids being bored or under foot or wanting to "help". We were in demolition mode for quite a few days. Our table and microwave were in our family room. Our stove was in the entryway, etc. etc.


After we got home Preston went back to work on the tile and went to be about 3 in the morning. So like I said not our normal 4th of July weekend. Hopefully next year will be better.