Winter in Cache Valley!

It's been such a mild winter, which has been such a blessing in disguise! We've been able to stay busy and out of the house quite a bit, the kids and Warren have done a lot of riding, the kids have played outside after school and everyone is staying sane so far. Luckily, Cache Valley is breaking us in to Northern Winters slowly! If I was cooped up in the house all day with no sun, 6 feet of snow, and roads you couldn't drive on because of 3 inches of ice, plus the kids and Warren cooped up all evening as well, we'd be killing each other by now! So while some are worried about what this mild winter will do to our summer, I'm not going to complain a bit and enjoy every second of it!
These monkeys are two Peas in Pod, they are partners in crime and I'm scared for when they are teens wanting to take the truck and head to town! If they're quiet and you can't see 'em you better be for checking on them because guaranteed they are up to no good!! The only thing that's saving them now is that they are so dang cute! This was a mild play day when I had to go hunt them down and found them in the dog house with the kitty, this was ONE time no damage was done, but I'm sure they caught a case of the FLEAS!! :)

Grandma got an iPad 2 for her Birthday, the kids have had a good time Facetiming with her, and it's going to come in handy when this baby's born and we are far away from everyone!

My Mom came up in January and stayed a while to help out with kids and house work, what a blessing! It was so fun to have her come and visit, the kids loved every minute of it, we went out to eat one night with Cara's family, and on Saturday we went to Hardware Ranch to see if we could see some Elk, it turned out to be a great day to go, they were a ton of elk and they were all close just hanging out. The kids loved it and want to go back, we're going to try and go back if we ever get anymore snow, to see the big bulls, the guide told us you have to go when there is 5 feet of snow on the ground and it's been frigged temps for a week or so. That's the only time the bulls come in, I want Kylan to be able to see a bull somewhat up close, we've seen them in the mountains, but each time Kylan has had such a hard time picking them out because they've been so far away. Kirby definitely won't let us forget about going back either!




The elk were 10 feet away but Kirby still insisted he needed the binocs!

Goal Ball is something Kylan's Mobility Specialist convinced us we needed to try, it's a big sport for the Blind, they even have a Utah team that completes nationally. Carie really wants Kylan to compete in March on the Salt Lake team, this was the first practice we had been to and the first time to even see it played. All the kids have blind folds on, the ball has a bell in it and you try and roll it into the other teams goal. Kylan did so good! He made several goals and blocked several goals, they really want him to compete with them, we'll see how it goes and how interested Kylan is, but as a Mom trying to stay optimistic it was hard to go and be apart of, is that awful of me? But it also made me very grateful for the good vision Kylan does have, the other kids that were there had to walk with a stick for assistance or were completely Blind. I struggled to keep it together to say the least! I'm crying right now just thinking about it again! Oh, Kylan is on the team that's facing me, he has the black shirt on, he's the third player on the right hand side.
My sweet Peepers wrote me this little note after she wouldn't stop hounding me about her Birthday Party in JULY, which is why I told her I'm not worrying about it right now and neither should you! It reads, "Dear Mom, I'm sorry for what I did. We need to get along better!" So cute! We need to work on her spelling a little though!

Baby News

If my Doctor takes her when he said he would I'm at my 5 week count down, Warren keeps telling me to quit planning on it, if I was smart I would. But lets be honest, who wouldn't be excited about the chance to cheat mother nature out of a short 6 weeks?! I really didn't have a lot to report after my last appointment, baby is still growing and staying put which is what we want. The Doctor tested me for Strep B early and sure enough it came back positive, he put me on an antibiotic now instead of waiting in case I do go into labor early, we'll do a dose now and a dose later before my C Section. I want to vent about nerves for a minute... maybe two... The "Butt" nerve as I call it. If anyone comes across a young mother complaining slightly about having Sciatica while Pregnant with her first baby, tell her she needs to run, not walk, to get it fixed! I wish I would've fixed mine as soon as I knew what was going on. 4 pregnancies later I'm so crippled I can hardly move, my Sciatica has gradually gotten worse with each baby. It went from pinching in my final weeks and only on one side and only every once in a while to pinching in the very first few weeks, on both sides ALL the TIME! I've forgotten how it feels to walk without sharp pains shooting from the middle of my back all the way down to my knees! So, like I said, if anyone knows of anyone with Sciatica during Pregnancy to take care of it now so they don't end up like me and thinking, "I'm almost done having babies, I can handle it for one more Pregnancy!" I'm desperate enough right now, if my Doc gives me the go ahead, I'm making a trip to SLC to the Laser guy just to make it through my last few weeks! That's enough whining, Warren paid me a huge compliment the other day to someone he was talking to, they were giving him a hard time about all the cooking and cleaning he was having to do and he laughed and said that really he was very lucky because I wasn't the kind of person to lay around and milk it for all it was worth and that if it was him, he would whine a lot more than I do, what a sweet guy! My next appointment is on the 17th, he said from here on out he would see me every other or every week just depending on how things are going!