The Official Announcement

Some of you already know, but for those of you who don't....we are expecting our 3rd baby! It's exciting, but scary all at the same time. My due date is May 31st, my doctor's due date is June 1st. I told him that I know that it's only one day difference, but it sounds a whole heck of a lot worse than May 31st. He said with my history he'll be delivering the baby at least a week early, so it'll still be a May baby, but I'm still sticking with May 31st as my due date. As you can probably tell from the picture above, I am hoping and giving out vibes that the baby will be a girl, and also an angel baby. Let's be honest...with a little baby on the way and with big baby Granty, it's gonna be a little bit of a challenge. So this baby really doesn't have a choice but to be an angel baby. I'm hoping Heavenly Father and I are on the same page on that one. So Mikkele and I want a girl, but Jeremy wants a boy. Really all I want is a healthy baby, with no complications...that's not too much to ask for, right???
Something else that is exciting is that 3 of my best friends are pregnant also, and we are all due within a month and a half of each other. Jenny is due at the beginning of May, Tina the middle of May, then me at the end, and Michelle F. the middle of June. It's kinda crazy, but it will be fun to have kids the same age. They all happen to be 3 of my 4 babysitters also. So I guess Grant and Mikkele have some sort of a vibe that is released when they are watched. So if you are wanting to get pregnant, just let me know and I'll bring the kids over. :)
I guess we are still not out of the woods as far as the "scary" time of pregnancy goes, but I'm past the time when I have miscarried in the past. So hopefully everything will continue to go well and the time will pass quickly.

Silly Granty

***WARNING: Some germaphobes may get grossed out by this post.

This morning Grant woke up at 6:50. Not too bad, especially for sleeping in his bed all night. So I got him up, fed him, and then hoped that he would go back to sleep so I could go back to sleep. It's Saturday, let's sleep in. Anyway he wasn't having it. So we got up and went in to the computer to mess around. What else is there to do that early on a Saturday morning??? Well after a little while I went in to use the bathroom and laid him on the floor. After I was done I left him in there and returned to the computer. For some reason he really likes to lay on the bathroom floor. I know it's a little weird and a little gross, but if he's happy, I'm happy. So after a little while of him being in there, Mikkele went in to check on him and found this....He had fallen asleep! That little punk won't go back to sleep when I want him to, but he'll go when he's good and ready and after I'm fully awake and can't go back to sleep. Silly Granty. It bought me about 45 min to an hour of being able to use both of my arms. Too bad I didn't get anything productive done.

***New post on Mikkele's blog. If you're not invited to see her blog and would like to let me know.

8 things...

My sister keeps tagging me, then wondering why my tag's aren't done. Well mostly because they're dumb, Alisha. But I will do this one for you. Hopefully this will satisfy you.
8 Shows I like to watch...

1. The Office
2. ER
3. Trading Spaces
4. Lingo
5. American Idol
6. So You Think You Can Dance
7. Big Brother
8. The Amazing Race

I know I watch way too much reality TV. They just don't make any good regular shows anymore. At least in my opinion.

8 Restaurants I Like...

1. Joe Banditos
2. Cracker Barrell
3. Cafe Rio
4. Magleby's Fresh
5. Chuck-A-Rama, Upchuck-A-Rama, Chuck-A-Grandma, however you say it...it's a favorite because you can please just about everyone.
6. PF Chang's
7. Village Baker
8. Chin Wah

8 Things that happened yesterday...in no particular order

1. Found out that I have to get a new furnace :(
2. Watched a crap load of kids.
3. Forgot to pick up one of the kids from school until 40 min after...blaming this one on the shock of the furnace.
4. Washed and dried some laundry...note it hasn't been folded yet, maybe that'll happen today.
5. Went to Costco with 5 children. Tina came also, so it wasn't that bad of an adult to kid ratio.
6. The dishes.
7. Made eggrolls and fried rice for dinner. It was delicious I might add.
8. Went to bed early. :)

8 I things I'm looking forward to...

1. Going to TX in a couple weeks!
2. The good food we'll be enjoying while in TX.
3. The good weather we'll be enjoying while in TX. Hopefully.
4. The conversation Alisha and I will get to have with our little brother while driving to TX. This will be fun. :) Are you nervous Adam???
5. The end of may.
6. Dinner party with the Woods and Brownings tomorrow night.
7. Winter to be over, even though it's just starting
8. My grandparents coming home in a year.

8 things on my wish list...

1. Winter to be over, even though it's just beginning. I know I just said that, but I really do wish it was summer. Although it's more more reasons than just the weather. :)
2. People to stop playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving. People...are you not thankful for anything???
3. My parents to move back to UT-not gonna happen, but it's a wish list right. :)
4. The end of May to come quickly.
5. To have healthy winter.
6. Furnaces didn't cost so much.
7. Grant able to run around and play like a normal 3 1/2 year old.
8. To be done working. I love what I do, but wish I could not work and still get paid.

And there you have it. It actually took WAY more thought than I was really wanting to give this morning.

I tag...anyone who wants to do it. That way there's no pressure.

Halloween 2008

We had a busy, but fun Halloween this year. Thursday night I guilt tripped Mikkele into staying home from a party to carve pumpkins with me. I know...I'm a horrible, selfish mother. But if we didn't carve them that night it just wasn't gonna get done, and what's a Halloween without carving pumpkins??? So she stayed home and carved them with me. I think she still had fun and didn't think about the party too much. She did a really good job gutting the pumpkins this year. She did hers and Grant's. Even though she made some faces, she was having fun. She decided she wanted to do a more complicated pumpkin this year. She got all the holes poked around the stencil, but when it came to carving she had a little bit of a tough time. So I finished carving hers while she carved Grant's. Her tongue cracks me up. It is always sticking out when she is concentrating on something. I guess she's our little Michael Jordan.

Here are the finished products. Grant and Mikkele's are on the top and mine is the puking pumpkin on the bottom.

Mikkele got to her ditch her uniform and wear her costume to school on Friday.

They had a party at school. She was excited to be a fairy because her teacher, Mrs. Beagles, and her BFF, Rietta were also fairy's.

In Springville they do trick-or-treating on Main Street. All the local businesses in "downtown" Springville give out candy and it brings out quite the crowd. Luckily we got there early and didn't have to wait in too many lines.

This witch is a teacher's aid at their school. She also works at one of the shops on Main St and the kids were excited to see her.

Skyler, Mikkele, Tienna, Katelyn, Rietta, Gunner, and Grant with their loot after trick-or-treating on Main St. Gunner was so funny. His face totally fit the role of Eeore. He wasn't so thrilled to be there.After Main St., Mikkele had her music class to go to. They also had a party. After music class we went to our ward trunk-or-treat. Mikkele went around to all the cars, then came back and took Grant around. He is loving trying all the candy. We gave him a sucker and he thought he was pretty funny when he bit down on the stick and wouldn't open. He is such a tease. Mikkele turned his hat sideways so he is a G-funk train conductor here.

Mikkele the fairy and Grant the train conductor at the trunk-or-treat.

After the trunk-or-treat we met up with Jeremy's family for his mom's birthday dinner at Sizzler. She gets to share her birthday with Halloween. Mikkele commented that she wishes her birthday was on Halloween, but I think Dorene would tell you differently. Happy Birthday Dorene! Dillon and Connor both dressed up as Indiana Jones, or as Dillon says "Dr. Jones". I couldn't get a picture of Connor looking at the camera. His hat won that battle.

We had a fun, busy Halloween. Mikkele is already planning her costume for next year. We'll see if she changes her mind.