The Big News....Drum Roll Please...

What a busy day yesterday was! We got a lot accomplished but I am sure that Matt is tired at work today. Luckily he was able to get yesterday off so that we could find out what we are having. So this is how the day went....

Got up at the crack of dawn...why because I couldn't sleep....heart burn, insomnia, your guess is as good as mine. Matt was up all night. Bridger was up in the night. Just a long night, but I got up did some laundry and Bridger joined me (He is my early riser even if he goes to bed late).

Showered and got Jacoy up and going. Then Taft woke up as like a little bear. I really had no hope for the day at that point. But I just kept going. Decided to wake Matt up about a half hour before we needed to leave.

Finally we were out the door and it was just a little after 11.....where did the morning go. We had to run into West Virginia and pick up a food saver (for a project:)

Then we headed to Washington for the ultrasound. Really I don't know if I like how the hospitals and Docs work out here or hardly work is more like it. We arrived into a waiting room where we should check in....wouldn't you think...well, all I did was sign a paper that was on a clipboard on the ledge right when you got off the elevator. There was no clinic personnel around. And then out of no where a volunteer lady shows up and sends me through a door (we had been there 15 minutes already). Guess what through that door you can check in but not until the volunteer lets you through....what kind of place is this..hmmm.

Then she sends me back out to find the volunteer lady, who then takes me across the waiting room through another door to wait in another waiting room. They wouldn't let Matt and the kids come back until the end of the ultrasound. I finally got in the ultrasound room and the Tech was so impolite the whole time. When she finally let the kids and Matt come back I was almost in tears. I had been in there for 20 minutes and if she wasn't saying that I didn't drink enough water (which I drank exactly what they said too) she just had other mean comments. I was so happy to see my family. We brought a dvd that they were supposed to burn and forgot so she hurried and put a few pics on it but that was it. I was SOOOOOOO disappointed in it all.

But after a lot of giggling we think that we are having a.........GIRL! She said she is 85% positive. Jacoy let out a YES. Bridger, even though he said he wanted another brother, was very happy. He just smiled and started talking a mile a minute. Taft decided to come and blow raspberries on my belly during it. I love Matt and I love my kids and we are excited for this new addition. Matt said, "I knew it".

After the ultrasound and many phone calls we went and picked up 120 ears of corn. We really tried growing some this year but the deer ate it. We like the corn from this farm and so like last year we ordered some and went and picked it up yesterday. We are a little bit earlier then last year but I think we got better corn. It wasn't so old. We then went grocery shopping and came home to unpack the car. While I put groceries away Matt started up the camp chef and grill. We started cooking all of the corn in two ways. We wanted to see how BBQ corn freezes so we did that as well as our regular way. By midnight we were so tired.

Matt had to get up and still go to work in the morning.

Homemade Water Slide!

This is our version of a water slide. The slip n slide was just not enough. So we got out our 100 foot tarp and the slip n slide and this is what you get. HOURS of fun. A dog that is in LOVE with riding down with Bridger....Lost those pics. Taft who was scared of it this day but put on his sandles the next time and watch out. He was all over it the other day. The kids spents 2 1/2 hours on it. They did get sunburnt. I felt bad. BUT they have LOVED every minute of it.

Guess what is new???

Hmmm any guesses?

Well, quite a lot actually.

1. Bridger graduated Kindergarten and Jacoy passed the 2nd grade so we are now getting ready to start 1st and 3rd grade and we are in a different school yet again...(Neither kid has gone two years in a row to the same school. This means new friends yet again.)

2. With that being said we have moved yet again. We are still in Pennsylvania, but in a house and not a duplex:0) No, we didn't buy but are renting from the company that Matt works for. This works for us right now since we still don't know how long we will be here and since we still own a house in Salt Lake (not going to comment more at that.)

This is the new place

This is the back. We are actually up on a hill and the other white building you can see in this picture is our neighbors garage. We have a very steep driveway that I have gotten stuck in. In the HHR you have to get a running start...not lying. In the Truck and the Suburban, I have had to use 4-wheel drive and we don't even have snow yet. I have a feeling this is going to be a long winter.

This is the long driveway. You can't even see the bottom of it because it drops off.
This is actually the side view of our duplex we lived in for a year. There was a wonderful park below our house....but I don't miss the stairs. There were three sets and they were steep.

3. This brings us to the next "new to us" thing.... a suburban. It isn't new by any means but it is nice. We needed something else with 4-wheel drive. Smaller SUV just wouldn't work with our growing family....hint.... and a van wouldn't be good were we live. SO, I got this burgandy beauty:0) I love that it has a DVD player in it for the trips into town. It takes us 30 minutes each way to go and get groceries or to go to church or anything else so it is very useful. I feel spoiled!


4. This brings us to the next new thing....it is an addition to the family. Yes! we got a dog. His name is Striker and he is a black lab. He is getting HUGE. He loves wanter and loves the kids....a little to much. He wants to sit on their lap and be right with them. We still are working on manners with him. He LOVES water. You will see many other pictures of him in some of the following posts:) We thought he would help keep some of the wild animals away but he has become friends with the raccoons. NOT a good thing.
5. We also moved from a ward to a branch. It is so tiny......Taft is so noisy:) There isn't pews just chairs. And there is usually less then 50 there on Sundays. By the time Primary starts a few more kids show up. I think that there was about 12 there this last week. Taft is the only one that age and so they don't have a nursery. I end up just sticking in there for sunday school and then sitting in the foyer listening to RS. He will not go in that room. He tells the ladies NO. However Matt kept him this last week in Priestood. It is funny because we get a seat in sacrament and can stay in that same seat for Sunday School and Matt stays in the same seat for Priestood. Too funny.

6. Well, that is it. All the things that are new......okay except that we are expecting baby number 4 in December. We didn't tell any of our family until we went out to Utah in July and saw them. Moving stunk since I was really sick with all day sickness, and I was so tired. I have a little more energy now which is good. The kids are excited. We should have found out in July what we were having but we were in Utah. Since we have been back in PA Matt has had to work everyday except for the day he laid in bed dying (he thought he was) and this past Sunday. It has been the first Sunday off since the end of May (with the exception of the one in Utah). So we are hoping to find out sometime next week. Stay tuned to find out:0)

Updates Are On The Way!!!

Yes, you have read that correctly. I am really going to be working on updating the blog with all of the new happenings with us. Hopefully there will be many real fast because there is a lot of new things that have happened to us lately......Stick with us and you will see:0)

Christmas PJ's

Christmas PJ's from Grandma LeeAnn! Thanks Mom.

Sometimes he smiles and when he does it can just warm your heart and make up for him still not sleeping.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. We still had kids getting over being sick and so we some down time, but we had so many ups. They all still had colds and Taft wasn't 100% yet, but he was soooo much better than he was. We actually woke up to snow. Not much but it was still a white Christmas. Our kids actually didn't wake up too early since Taft was up all night still not feeling good, Bridger was up in the night running a high fever, and Jacoy just woke up crying...still not sure why. But with all that happened that day we enjoyed being together and talking to our families either by phone or on skype. We love and miss everyone.

I can't move this one, but this was after the presents were open. She was coplaining about her eye hurting and so she got a washcloth and was to sleep in about 3 minutes...not kidding. She slept while I went up and got breakfast ready. He just wasn't sure.

She was so excite for Zhu Zhu pets and track

Just what he wanted.

I know that this picture is kind of weird but it is the only one that I got of the tree. Hmmmm. I guess I was just too busy. The back lights aren't on and that is why it is half dark.

Santa did make it!

Mrs. Mayor

Mrs. Mayor played by JACOY! Isn't she cute!

Playing

Singing

So the 2nd Grades all put on the play "Christmas at the O.K. Corral". Each class put on the same play just at different times. This is not Jacoy's whole class only a few because they separated her class and put a few with every other 2nd Grade so that they only had four plays and not five. Jacoy was Mrs. Mayor and such a cute on at that. She is one of the best little singers. I sure love and was so proud of all FOUR parts that she had. They asked if she wanted to try out for a character that had more and she said no that is alright. Matt was able to take the day off and come which was great and such a big help. He ran the video camera and I took the picture camera. They even let Bridger come in. Taft and Bridger just played. She did great! I just love her.

Bridger Wrestling

This is the whole team at least that was there that day.

What can I say about wrestling except that this kid tries so hard and usually always has a smile on his face:0) I am so proud of him. He hasn't actually won one but he has wrestled five people so far and has only been pinned twice. I don't think that is too bad. He puts up a fight everytime. The first time he was pinned, the kid he wrestled was actually a second grader. That really makes a big difference when this is Bridger's first year. (By the way he came out of this match crying because he said his side hurt. I took a look and the kid had been pinching him. He had little bruises all over his side. Some kids are brutal. Did I ever mention how big sports is out here;)

The second time was at a tournament and the kid was ten pounds more than him and a grade older. Again, age and size makes a difference. But at that same tournament he had to wrestle a kid from his team that is slightly heavier and in his second year, and the kid could not get Bridger pinned no matter how hard he tried. (This kid is one of the better ones) I am so proud of him and how hard he tries. I think he has improved so much in such a short time. Maybe by the end of the season he will win one;) There is hope.

By the way every time he goes out their I get knots in my stomache and feel like I am going to burst. Is that normal? I am not so sure that kids starting out at a young age to play sports is such a great thing for a mothers health.

Look at these moves;0)

Yes that is Bridger on TOP!

Check out that SMILE!

Christmas Lights at Oglebay

This year we went to Oglebay and saw their lights. We had a fun night. We were missing our annual trip to Temple Square to see the lights though. Here were some of lights we saw. We loved the flowers and thought that Grandma Marshall would too. Oglebay is located in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Santa

Sorry for the red eye. I haven't had the extra time to fix it:) These pictures speak for themselves. You can see who likes Santa, who is deep in thought, and who really was not impressed with him:) He was so worked up that he threw up...haha. Good times:0) This was at our Ward Kids Christmas Party.