Is it just me...

or did this snow that we got today today make anyone else want to break out the Christmas tree and make some wassail? I love seeing the first snow but it sure seems to get old by time January rolls around. I took Kylie outside for a few moments and she stuck out that plump little tongue of hers trying to catch a few of them.

On the not-so-bright-side-of-things Jared is still sick. His voice sounds much better today but he's still under the weather. He took another day off of work today but had to go into the office for two hours this afternoon for a conference call. He was originally supposed to be in California today for a business trip today but decided he didn't want to be "that guy" that was coughing up a storm next to you on a plane.

Why is it...

that every year I purposely wait until the week before Halloween to buy candy for the trick or treaters. So I won't eat it all right? And then every year I end up having to buy more because I can't help dipping into the stash.

I swear those sour skittl.es, nerds and almond joys are going to be the end of me.

I've got problems (visitors)

I about had a heart attack yesterday night while Jared was gone at YM's.

I was unloading a small batch of clothes from my washing machine to the dryer when I found a DEAD.MOUSE. in the bottom of my machine. (insert dry heave) that had obviously drowned. I slammed the door shut and made Jared get it out when he got home. That was the most disgusting thing I've seen in the longest time. (insert another dry heave)

I consider myself a pretty tidy housekeeper so it just boggles my mind that another one has found its way into my house! BLEH! Obviously I had to re-wash everything with a boat load of bleach in it. My machine is only five years old so it's not like it could climb up through the inside. I only had a few odd items in there that I had gathered from around the house so I highly doubt I picked him along with the laundry (I shutter just thinking about that). I have no idea how it could have gotten in there.

Last spring we had a dish installed on top of the roof and when they ran some of the wires through the siding on the side of the house they left a hole that was just a bit larger than the cable line. It's next to the laundry room, so I have a hunch that I need to go caulk it up. We've lived here over five years and haven't had a single problem and then all of a sudden within the last year this is the second mouse that has made it's way in. Nasty.

And no he didn't look like this...

It's been kind of an interesting weekend for me. We rarely have to get a sitter for Kylie, but this weekend we needed one two evenings in a row. Last night we had a wedding dinner that we attended at the Zio.ns Bank Building downtown and tonight we had a birthday party for a friend. We've probably only had sitters less than a half dozen times her whole life so it's odd for me to have left her twice in one weekend! I guess it's not too bad when I consider that she was sleeping for half of the time we were gone, but still :).

I found a little shirt to go under her costume this year, since it seems to be always freezing come Halloween. No announcement right now as to what she's going to be (I'll keep it a surprise and post pictures closer to the date) but she's so excited about it. We ask her what she's going to be for Halloween and she pipes right up about it! She begged to wear her costume today and so I caved in and let her roam around in her outfit for a few hours this afternoon. I have a feeling that having a box full of dress-ups might be something that will be in her future. She already loves to put my high heels on and prance around! I'm so excited that this will be her first year to go trick or treating. Since she's a little sugar-hound I'm sure once she catches on she'll be all over this tradition! Halloween and Christmas are the best holidays when you have children! We are so blessed. Incredibly blessed.

We are having Regional Conference tomorrow and looking forward to it.

The munchkin

Kylie has been so good today!!! It's been nice after the past few days (she's been a handful!). I took her grocery shopping and was amazed how good she was for me. She was so well behaved, didn't whine, sat in the cart without screaming. I don't know what's gotten into her.

Since we got back from our trip her vocabulary has probably doubled itself. Where before she'd try parroting back a word for every 4-5 sentences we'd say, now she tries to say something for almost every sentence we say. She can now say cart, bathroom, diaper, home, Jaxon, button, juice, treat, cracker, grape, stop, please, out, bread, apple, cheese, weed, flower, tree, and many more that I can't think of at the moment. We are trying to work on the manners so she'll say "out please" or "juice please" when she would like something. Over the past few days I've started to give her some little chores to help out with. She take her diapers out to the trash (nice huh!), she'll pour the soap and oxyc.lean into the washing machine, and she'll empty the clothes out of the dryer and put them in the basket. She loves to help so I'll take advantage of that while I can!

I've been busy trying to work on some craft projects for Christmas gifts this year. I'm usually the queen of procrastination, but this year I'm trying to get everything done earlier than normal since I probably won't be feeling all ambitions by time I'm eight months along. Plus after doing a bunch of sewing it's jump started the craftiness in myself. I'm pretty handy at sewing, but haven't done it for years, and I do love to paint. Partly to practice, and partly because I've never attempted sewing a crib set before I decided to make one for my sister who just had her baby Ethan last week. It turned out pretty cute if you asked me. We went fabric shopping a few months ago and she purchased all the fabric and I put it together. Took WAAAAAAAAY longer than I expected it to. But we all thought it turned out cute! It makes me wish I had a black crib! Growing up as the granddaughter of a professional quilter I figured it's about time to whip out the sewing machine. Except now I've got all sorts of projects that I want to do now!

And here's the cutie as my model...

Our confession...

(I originally posted this a few days ago... but blogger apparently ate it after posting. Not sure how it disappeared. Sorry about that!)

Well, I guess it's time to come clean on my blog. Most of our friends and family know about our news but I'm sure there are a few online friends out there that haven't heard so this one's for you! (I've been chicken about telling people so I've avoided this as long as possible.)

The past few months have been pretty crazy for us. I still feel like we are walking around in a dreamland some days and that we are living someone else's life. I can't believing it's our family I'm talking about. Long story short, Kylie is going to be a big sister come the end of January.

We are pregnant!!!

It came as quite a shock and was pretty unexpected. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. We were preparing to go down to a clinic in Vegas to do some infertility treatments when several weeks before our deposit was due I wasn't feeling well (I'm sure you know where this is going) took a test and those two little pink lines showed up. I.Was.Just.Speechless. We've essentially been trying for seven years so this has been something I wasn't sure I'd ever experience, let alone have it happen out of the blue. It definitely confirms to us that Kylie was meant to be with our family. We made an appointment with an OB I'd never met before and found out that we were eleven weeks at the time, almost out of the first trimester. WHAT THE HECK!!!! We were shocked by then, if we weren't before.

I'm now twenty five weeks along, the baby is growing well and so far everything has gone very smoothly. I'm due January 21st with a little boy! I started feeling him move a little bit a couple of weeks ago which has been fun. I've been feeling pretty great. I was sick from week 12-14 and have a bad ongoing case of the dry-heaves if anything so much as a toothbrush is in my mouth (going to the dentist was fun let me tell you) but other than that I've felt fine. We've explained a bit to Kylie but I'm not sure if she really understands. She just thinks it's great that mommy has a belly bump like her's so she likes to "belly bump" us. Even dad sometimes too :) She absolutely loves little babies so we know she'll be over the moon to have a little baby in our house. Just today when I was doing her hair she found a little bottle of infant medicine in the drawer that has a top that kind of looks like a bottle. She kept pointing the "bottle" at my belly like she wanted to feed the baby. So she must know more than we think she does! She's such a cutie. We feel so blessed to be able to give her a sibling. It's something we've looked forward to and wanted for the longest time.

We are so excited, I can't even tell you.