One week to go...

Well here I am one week from the due date and I am ready to have this baby. Lots of Braxton Hicks and not much else, I have another appt on Thursday and I will find out if I'm dilated any. The weather is not very cooperative right now. We just got several more inches of snow so it looks more like January instead of April. Since we have to drive over the pass to Jackson, I am hoping that the next week of forcasted storms will be mild.
Whenever the baby kicks hard or she turns and makes it hurt down lower and I say ouch, Parker always comes over and says, "tiss the beebee" and I have to bend over or get down so he can kiss the, "owie" he is so tender so we finally got a picture of him doing this!

Jr. Jazz Basketball

Hey all you sports fans... here is Brittany and Alex at their Jr. Jazz Basketball games well actually Alex's age doesn't play games just small scrimmages and lots of technique training, Brittany's age plays full on games and I can't believe how aggressive the girls are at this early age. Alex is done for this season and Brittany has several more games. They are signed up for the upcoming baseball/softball season, Abigail too and they are doing 4-H too (cooking and leather) so it's okay for this to be done. They have done extremely well and had a lot of fun too.

Pint Size Ballerina!

This is Abigail at her ballet class she's never taken dance before and she is enjoying it. Heather her teacher is very good with little ones and is teaching them the positions and different form, technique, posture etc... She thinks it's fun to put her hair in a bun and wear her pink leotard or black one or mix and match both. In the first picture she is sliding and the second she is working on leaping where her front leg goes out straight. Girls are so much fun!

The Derby!

Last night was Alex's very first Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Race. He named his car the American Dart. It is the one painted patriotic. He had so much fun designing, building and painting his first car. Way to go Alex :)

Parker's Birthday

Today Parker turned 2 years old! Wow how time flies it seems he just joined our family a few months ago not 2 years. He LOVES tractors and is obsessed with them so we got him a stuffed tractor to sleep with and a big metal one with a disc to play with. I could not get him to look at the camera he was so excited about the new one atop his cake. I asked Parker if he wanted a dump truck cake or a cheesecake and two different times he picked the cheesecake (we had recently had one and he really liked it) It made it super easy for me and he actually ate his birthday cake!
This morning when Parker woke up, Abigail and I sang Happy Birthday to him and at the end of the song he started blowing, he knows what's coming and was practicing for his candle blowing-which he did so cute and perfectly, Yay Parker!
We had the family over for homemade mint oreo ice cream (thanks Daddy), presents, and of course cheesecake with huckleberries on top! It was a fun evening.

Snowsledding!

Here is Brittany, then Abigail and then Alex going off a small jump in the middle of one side of the hill. It was cool to catch them in mid-air!

The weather here has started to get warm (up to 45 degrees) melting a lot of snow and then it will turn super cold again (like 15 degrees) and snow and blow so I wanted the children to get to go sledding again at least once more just in case after one of our warm days it never snows big again. We went to a pit that's near home and it was the perfect size for climbing back up the hill after going down :)

Here is sweet sister Brittany taking Parker for a ride. I love the expressions on their faces. They had just hit a little bump and as you can see, Brittany is concerned to keep the sled upright so her baby brother doesn't experience a whitewash and he is full of pure delight, enjoying the ride down with so much pleasure!

All four of the children went at the same time, they had just started going down even though it looks like they are sitting still. Wonderful Wyatt is the sled pusher getting everyone going.

Mommy's big contribution was making the hot chocolate and photographing the family for posterity and all of you (lol). Daddy is wonderful for going up and down the hill with the kids having fun for me since his belly isn't stuffed with a basketball that weighs 25 lbs.

This was a fun afternoon with hot chocolate waiting back at home to warm us up of course, yum yum!