32 weeks

And this is my LARGE AND IN CHARGE belly! 8 weeks sure seems like a LOOOOOONG time.

Celine Dion concert

For Valentines Day Lisa, Becky and I all had our sweet husbands give us tickets to the Celine Dion concert. Dona and her two friends also came with us. We had a great time. Celine is just as good or better live. The concert was AMAZING. The woman is incredible. Thank you my love for the ticket :)

A FUN TAG!

I normally hate tags but this one was easy and fun. Lisa my sister posted this tag on her blog so I'm doing the same. So anyone out there who does tags this is a fun one.

So what you do is go to your photos on your computer and pick the 4th picture in your 4th file then explain the picture. It's quite fun.

My picture brings a few tears to my eyes. This picture was taken back in June of 2006. This was a picture taken the night of a Mitt Romney fundraiser we had at my parents house. A very fun night. The reason it brings tears to my eyes a little bit though is because in this picture is my Grandpa and Grandma. My grandpa passed away just a year later and I really miss him. Seeing this picture (which I haven't looked at in a long time) brought back a lot of memories. I was also just a couple months from having my little Isabella. Good times!

Anyone who wants to do this tag do it! It's fun

THE CRUISE

My two little sisters and my mom and I all took a cruise this last week and had so much fun! We had many adventures starting with me leaving my purse on the long term parking shuttle. Ya, great way to start the trip. I obviously got it back and it wasn't too big of a deal, just a little crazy. We had a relaxing time and I actually enjoyed myself quite a bit. The reason I say that is because this was the FIRST time I had EVER been away from my two little babies. I had moments on the trip where I wish I was home with them, but for the most part really had an enjoyable time, sleeping in, reading, laying out. You know, those things that don't happen with a two year old and a one year old. Lisa and I were obsessed with ice and lemon water and drank it like crazy. All of us were obsessed with our card game, hand and foot. Mom was a sport to let us lay out in the sun so much. And also a sport to let us get her all ready for the formal night. We had so much fun getting her all dolled up. If you know my mom you know she doesn't wear much make-up so it was a lot of fun. There were a lot of fun memories made on this trip and I am so glad we all got to go. And to all my other sisters... our BIG sister trip is going to be soooooooooo fun!

Our little SKI BUNNY!

Lance couldn't find anyone to go up skiing with him on Saturday so I suggested he take Bella. He was suprised that I would even suggest it. We dropped Bodie off at Grandma Higginson's to take a nap and Bella, dad and I headed up to Sundance to ski. I was pleasantly suprised that she did so well and she actually loved it. Lance was such an amazing teacher and it was so fun to see how proud he was of her. I have a feeling she is going to turn out just like her dad and become an awesome skiier. Go BELLA!!!

California to see Lala and some Bellies :)

I decided since my best friend from Hawaii was in LA visiting her family that I would make a trip out there to see her too. I was brave and lugged my two babies on an airplane and we went to California for a few days. It was a lot of fun besides the fact that both Bodie and Bella were terribly sick the whole time. Therefore resulting in NO sleep. We played a lot of Settlers and had some yummy yummy food that Grandma Dee Dee made. Bella really took a liking to Grandpa Wayne and Grandma Dee Dee. I wish I had pictures. It was so fun to see Lala with a little tummy. She is having a girl in April. Yay!!! She is going to be the best mommy. Thanks for letting us come visit. Miss you already.

PS if you want to see a few pictures of our Christmas Disney Cruise go to my sisters blog stradlingfam.blogspot.com. I can't figure out how to load pictures from my new cam corder. I'll figure it out

Christmas #1

Yes we had two Christmas's. Because of the family cruise we went on we decided to do and early Christmas with Grandma Ford and we let Bella open her big presents. All she asked Santa for was a vacuum, a kitchen and a baby. We spoiled her. She got it all.

THERE ISN'T ANYTHING BETTER THAN THIS

I FOUND MY TWO LITTLE ANGELS STANDING ON THE COUCH LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AT THE FIRST SNOW STORM TUESDAY MORNING. I SWEAR THEY STOOD THERE FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES AND DIDN'T MOVE. I HAD TO GET MY CAMERA OUT. THIS IS WHAT MAKES BEING A MOM ALL WORTH IT!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BOY!

Bodie turned 1 today! We threw a Polar Express party and it was tons of fun!!! Happy Birthday buddy!

BANGS!

I don't think I've EVER had bangs... Let alone taken a picture of myself with bangs... I went and got my hair done Saturday and my hair dresser convinced me do do something a little different. Cut bangs. What do you think? Let's be honest.

The Polar Express

Grandma Dona took us to this amazing Polar Express ride in Lindon on Friday. It was so much fun. There's a house that has a built in a train track throughout their property and it's all decorated with lights, pictures and a little train that you can ride on to the North Pole to Santa's Workshop. After the train stops at the workshop you board back on the train and the whole rest of the ride has pictures of Christ in the yard and beautiful music playing to help us all remember the true meaning of Christmas Bella loved it!! I loved it! I hope we can do it every year. We had a great time and will always remember why we celebrate Christmas. To celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas!!!!

While we waited to board the train they had us wait in a huge heated garage and had The Polar Express playing on a big projector. It was all so well organized and so nice we didn't have to wait in a line out in the freezing cold. Not to mention we only waited for like 10 minutes. Amazing!


Bella and Grandma Dona on the Polar Express train


Our family with Santa at our North Pole stop


Before Bella even got to Santa's lap she was already saying as she was approaching him "I want a vacuum and kitchen and a baby, where's my candy cane?" I have been very surprised that the few times Bella has sat on Santa's lap she hasn't freaked out. It's probably because I've been talking about Santa for like 3 months now in hopes she would not be afraid when the time came. I think it's worked. She's done pretty darn good, but she does get on the lap say what she wants, demands her candy cane and is DONE.



My two little bundles of joy!

Thanks for the fun visit Auntie Shanae and Kali!!!

P.S. and the pictures... I stole them :)

We had so much fun visiting with Shanae and Kali and were so glad they took time out of their busy schedule here in Utah to come see us. Next time hopefully Bodie and Krew will be able to play together. It was so funny, about a half hour before Shanae and Kali showed up Bella kept telling herself, and me "Kali's not a monster mom, Kali's not a monster." For those of you who don't know Kali she is a wild little girl with a lot of energy. Bella on the other hand is not so much like that if you know what I mean, so apparently Bella was a little nervous about Kali. I think they had a good time overall, but sorry Kali and Shanae Bella is such a nervous freak about everything. I do have to say though that after they left our house Bella talked about Kali the whole rest of the day and has made sure she's prayed for her every day since then. We love you guys and miss you alot! Thanks again for the visit!!

Twilight...

I went to the midnight showing of Twilight with some of my girlfriends and have mixed feelings about it. It didn't help that we were on the very front row, I was starving the whole movie, and was so tired! ok here's the deal, I read the book and loved it. To me the book was not cheesy at all, it was super good, intense, just awesome. The movie on the other hand... pretty cheesy, but I guess what can you expect, books are always better than the movie... I didn't get home til 2:30am and have been feeling it today. I think I'll try to watch it again not on the front row and not when I'm hungry and tired :)

"She's a mean old witch with a HAT"

This Halloween Bella learned this song and would put the witch hat on and sing this song at the top of her lungs! She found the hat today and I heard her in the other room singing and had to get it on video it was so cute!

IT'S ANOTHER GIRL..... NO WAIT, IT'S A BOY!!!!

We went and found out what we were having last night and found out it was another little peeper... which we are very excited about. I do have to admit though, both Lance and I were hoping for another girl... It didn't really matter either way though cause we have one of each already. Anywho, at our appointment the gay technician prematurely announced that it was a girl about 30 seconds into the ultra sound and for about the first 3 minutes kept pointing to those "three lines" low and behold to her horror after announcing we were having a girl, the baby suddenly grew a peeper. Our baby is definetely a boy. Not a question. It's hillarious though because we have a dvd of it and the first few minutes you see her cursor pointing to the "three lines" and then all the sudden there's no three lines anymore amazingly enough they disappeared and became something sticking straight out. I guess that technician learned her lesson. Thanks for getting our hopes up lady only to shoot them down and tell us it's not really a girl.... Really though I am very excited to have another little guy to be best buddies with Bodie.

HALLOWEEN

Nice up side down mustache Lance....


Halloween was so much fun this year. Bella was still creeped out by the scary guys, but would just tell herself evey time she saw something scary "dus pretend, not real, dus pretend mom not real" in a terrified little voice. It was the saddest cutest thing every time she said it. Anyhow, Halloween night we went to trunk-or-treat at my parents ward and it was awesome. When your kids are as young as mine, you still want them to experience the whole trick-or-treating thing, but it's not really worth it to go walk around and knock on doors, so trunk-or-treat is the greatest invention. Bella got her bag full of candy it only took 10 minutes to walk to all the trunks and we were done! Perfect. I'm honestly not a huge fan of Halloween, but this year was actually pretty fun. I dressed up as a boring witch. Lance was a gangster/thug. Bella and Bodie were Pooh and Tigger Super Sluths.

Tigger and Grandma Dona


That would be my nerd brother and my hard core husband



My mom is pretty much the cutest punkin I ever saw :)

More Halloween fun....

We went to this place that I can't even remember the name of it... I know, retarded me. Anyways, its was a cool outdoor boutique thing with shops and lots of Halloween fun. It was fun to spend some time with Grandma Ford and dad was even able to meet us there for a minute on his lunch break.

OPERATION KIDS!!!!!

Lance and I were invited by my wonderful parents to a black tie event. It was so fun to get dressed up! It was the Lifetime Achievement Awards event given by Operation Kids, a nonprofit organization. The award was given to John Walsh (America's Most Wanted host). The night was AMAZING! The host for the night was the President from 24. (I don't know his real name :)) It was so fun to see him in person cause I am a die hard fan of 24. The night started off with a delicious dinner and great enternainment. The award was given to John Walsh and then they asked everybody at their tables to fill out their cards to donate to the Operation Kids Foundation. Someone that looked pretty important came and grabbed my dad from our table and he went somewhere with them. All of the sudden I looked up at the jumbo tron and there was my dad... They were recognizing my dad for his generous donations to the Operation Kids Foundation.... IT WAS AWESOME! My dad is seriously my hero and the best example to me and I admire him so much for all he does for not only our family but so many other people. The night finished off with the country artist Collin Raye and also a few songs by Jim Brickman. AND THEN..... they announced that David Archuleta was in the audience. Oh my gosh, I love that kid! And to my amazement I looked up and he was at the table right in front of us. Hello how did I miss him. So I had to get a picture. A very memorable night for Lance and I. Thank you so much dad and mom for giving us the opportunity to experience this incredible event and Thank you Grandma Dona for taking care of our kids while Lance and I had a wonderful time. PS, Happy 26th birthday to my honey. I love you baby!
PROM 2008. OK JUST KIDDING WE HAD TO GET A PICTURE OF US BEFORE WE LEFT FOR THE EVENING :)


OUR HOST FOR THE NIGHT, THE PRESIDENT FROM 24


IT WAS MY NIECE KORTNEY'S 9TH BIRTHDAY SO SHE GOT TO ATTEND THE EVENT WITH ALL THE ADULTS FOR HER BIRTHDAY. SHE HAD A GREAT TIME.


YES, MY DAD, MY HANDSOME, WONDERFUL DAD UP ON THE JUMBO TRON BEING RECOGNIZED FOR HIS GENEROUS DONATIONS. LOVE YOU DAD!!!!!!!!!!


PRETTY SURE DAVID IS JUST AS CUTE IN PERSON AS ON TV. HE WAS SO CUTE WHEN LISA AND I ASKED FOR A PICTURE, HE DID HIS LITTLE SHY SMILE THING AND KIND OF LAUGHED. I WAS GLAD WE WENT OVER AND GOT A PICTURE WHEN WE DID CAUSE RIGHT AFTER THE EVENT ENDED HE BOOKED IT OUT OF THERE WITH HIS DAD. THANKS FOR THE PICTURE LITTLE ARCHY!!!