Once Again...

So apparently once again I have used up all my "FREE" space for this blog.  I started it in October...I am a little irritated at the moment but I will figure something out.  Right now I am in the process of publishing our blog (putting it into a book) and then I will delete a few posts and maybe that will work or we are looking into hosting our own web page.  We are not sure yet.  Anyway...

We have been doing good at our house.  Ryan is getting into his mid-terms this week.  He received his class rank and he is in the top third of his class.  I am very proud of him and all the hard work that he puts into school.  We both feel that this is where he was suppose to be and the right career for him!  He loves dentistry.  Before he started dental school Ryan was considering Oral Surgery but has decided that he likes the general dentistry better.  He will start in the clinic in June.
I have been trying to keep busy, what mom isn't? I have been glad to cut back on my babysitting. I now babysit 2-3 days a week which is nice.  I will also most likely be done babysitting for a while when our little one get here.  We are about ready to get her here.  I am now 28 weeks along.  I think because I have been so busy that this pregnancy has gone by a lot faster.  But I do remember that the last part seems SOOO long! One of my good friends is going to throw me a baby shower the end of March so I am looking forward to that.
Nathanial is signed up to take swimming lessons and T-ball.  The two overlap by one day so I am hoping he wont be too overwhelmed. He is most excited about T-ball.  I am excited to have him learn skills from someone other than me. He is very excited about having a baby sister and is getting anxious for her to get here.  I keep telling him different things that need to happen BEFORE she will come (birthdays, holidays,...). He has also had a lot of anatomy questions...I was not prepared for that!
Christopher stays his normal impish self--if he weren't so cute...! He wants to do everything that Nathanial does including going potty so we have been potty training off and on for 3 or more months!  He will go weeks without accidents (even at night) and then one day decide that he doesn't want to do it anymore and has 5+ accidents in one day.  He is also very excited for his baby sister, Emily, to get here.  The other day he told me that he "ate" baby sister and now she is in HIS tummy!  Ever since then he is persistent that she is in his tummy AND my tummy.  It is cute to watch him try and make sense of all of this.  He tells me that he is going to give baby sister her bottle and pacifier when she cries and not hit her.

That is a little update on our family sorry that I don't have room for pictures but hopefully they will come soon!

January 2011

On New Year's Day Scott, Denisse, and the kids came for a visit.  They were on their way back to Virginia from Utah/Idaho.  They only stayed for a couple of hours but it was fun to see them.  Nathanial and Brielle get along really well...

 On Sunday January 2nd we made Sunday sundaes! Yummy!

 One of the best purchases that I have made is this little hand held vacuum.  I don't like to haul the big vacuum up and down the stairs so I bought this to stay down stairs to clean up small messes in the preschool.  The boys fight over who gets to vacuum...

 The boys LOVE their doctor, here they are playing under the tree house.  You can see to the right of the picture a set of stairs that leads up to the second story and they come down in a tunnel slide that you can see to the left of the picture...

 For Friday night game night Nathanial chose to play "Aggravation".  They boys were really getting into rolling the die...

 I am not sure why we spent so much time making the boys beds, they prefer to have a "sleepover" on the floor...

 On January 17th Ryan didn't have school so he took the boys sledding...

 On January 25th Christopher received a Christmas gift from Keshia...

 I made a gift for a friend of mine and I needed a gift bag to put it in.  I saw this idea a while ago and have been wanting to try it.  It is really simple yet cute!  All it is a cereal box covered with scrapbook paper and ribbons for handles.  It was really easy to do and it turned out really cute!

Ending of the Year 2010

20 week photo (I am measuring small and am not gaining a lot of weight)

The boys wanted to have a camp out in Christopher's new tent. So we sent them downstairs to do just that. If you look at the side of the tent you can see where they are playing in there with the flashlight.

 One day while Ryan and I were downstairs Christopher quietly went upstairs.  After a few minutes of him being quiet we hear him say, "oh no, no wash blankie" over and over again. Ryan ran upstairs to see what kind of trouble he created and this is what he found: Christopher and his blanket covered in a 1/2 bottle of lotion (he was using it as hair gel).

 The night before New Year's Eve Ryan and I decided to have some friends over for New Year's Eve.  We had lots of food and good friends...

 After everyone left to put their own kids to bed we decided to have a little family celebration with some grape cider.  The boys thought that it was so much fun!!

 And the last part of 2010 is our Christmas card...

Ryan and Boards

On December 29th Ryan took the dreaded Part I of the National Dental Boards.  Ryan ended the semester the Friday before Thanksgiving and started to study the week after Thanksgiving up until he took the test.  Yesterday his results came in the mail and he...

PASSED!!!