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Giveaway....

My wonderful singing friend Audrey is giving away 2 LDS CDs to a whole bunch of people on her blog, go here to enter if you are interested
http://audreybandley.blogspot.com/2011/05/giveaway-oh-giveaway-while-supplies.html

Guess what????

We had a baby, we really did! The blog world and I have been estranged, but maybe I'll be better now. Or not. First to start off, whoever says that once you have 3 children it doesn't matter how many you have because you are already crazy, never had 4 children! With that said, I can do the normal gushing about how perfect and beautiful my baby is. He is so wonderful. I love having him here, and he is such a cutie.

He joined us on November 15th, and was 7 lbs. 2 oz. He was my smallest baby, and lost weight so at his 4 day checkup was 6 lbs. 8 oz. and only in the 14th percentile. He seemed so little. He was loved on immensely. Except for the first few days, when Sydney and Dave were sick and we let them hold him once with masks on, and then they were banned for awhile. Let's just say, they didn't appreciate our caution.


Life is still moving at a crazy pace, and I wish I could hold onto his infancy just a little bit longer. He is growing like crazy and at his 2 month check he was 13 lbs. 8 oz. and into the 81th percentile. That's more like it!


He is just starting to smile, and is such a cutie, we couldn't ask for a better life!

Mutton Bustin

Last year John thought it would be fun to enter Sydney in the mutton busting, but we were concerned with how she would like it, so we just took her to watch instead. She thought it looked like a whole bunch of county fair fun, and has been looking forward to it all year. Last night she took her ride. She said at first when she wrapped her leg around the sheep, she felt something wet, and was a little nervous. She rode sideways most of the time, but held on great! The sheep stepped on her arm and she has some good scratches, of which she is very proud. What a girl! I couldn't get it on video very well, but take my word for it, she did great!

Our Dating . .. . ....

We went on our Valentines date yesterday, and John planned it. (Bonus point #1). He didn't want to do the same old movie, dinner, etc. (Bonus point #2). So we tried cross country skiing...



Don't we look great. Notice how I have to pull John along. Well, obviously I forgot my camera, but oh well you get the point. Actually we had skis we rented from Snow College and our boots kept falling out of the ski. But I did tell John (much to both our surprise) that I enjoyed it, and it would be fun to do again. John was happy with so much progress on our date! Then we went to Snow College's gym and played raquetball.





As you can tell I am a wicked player and John was running all over the court. I haven't played in over 20 years and only a few times with my sister when we were kids before that. So needless to say John beat me pretty soundly. We played to 11 and I started at 9, and even with that cheating only won one game. Oh well, by the end at least John was breathing hard too because I actually hit a few balls back. It was a blast!! We have decided when we are rich, we are going to build a raquetball court in our house. I got more exercise on that date than I have in a long time. (Bonus point #3, and very sad point #1). Anyway, it was a wonderful time, and I am so glad I married a man who is everything I thought he was, and MORE! I LOVE LOVE LOVE him!

Cinderella broke her what?

The week started out innocently enough. Sydney's friend Leah spent the weekend at our house while her parents had a getaway. They planned a wonderful ball. They decorated the basement, picked out clothes for them, and John and I. Sent us an invitation, got the music, etc. We had a wonderful time at the ball. It really was great to see all of these cute decorations they had made, and the planning that went into this dance.




A few days later Sydney had a birthday party for a friend to go to. They were ice skating, and Sydney could not wait. She has been wanting to ice skate for a long time. I told her she would fall quite a few times, but it wouldn't hurt! The mom, Suzie, called me after the party had started, and said Sydney fell, and might have hurt her ankle. I said OK and asked John to go pick her up. After an hour they still weren't back, and no one was answering their phones there, and I was starting to cry because I am a woman, and I am emotional. Anyway, they finally came home and John said he thought she had broken her leg. Well, the rest of this long story short is we spent the night in the ER. She has a spiral break on her tibia. They didn't dare cast it there because they wanted us to see an orthepedic surgeon first. She is in a full leg cast for 4 weeks, and then hopefully a walking cast for another few weeks.



She is a total trooper. She is handling it like a champ. So much I could learn from her. We are now both waiting for the day we can have a ball again, and Cinderella is back up dancing.

I'm just sayin' . . . .

We have all heard the stories about the great pioneers who had to camp in freezing temperatures, and suffered greatly for it. I think if we were to ask these pioneers what they thought about someone who would purposely leave their warm home to camp in subzero temperatures for entertainment, they would call them crazy. Well, I'm with them. With that said, my husband is officially crazy. He went camping this weekend in the Henry mountains to buffalo hunt with some friends. I love camping, don't get me wrong. But I go in the summer, when it is pleasant to get up the mountain. I don't understand the draw of freezing my tail off. I'm just hoping he has all of his toes still on when he gets home, and our ancestors will watch over him, even as they shake their heads at him.

Update: John called on his way home. He rolled the window in the car down, and it won't roll back up. So he's driving in the snow and cold with the window down. Not quite a handcart, but getting chilly!