it's been a while...

I forget that I have this blog...I've been a huge slacker about it.
This is what's new in my life since October

-Braden enjoyed his fall soccer and t-ball. I really enjoyed being the soccer mom this year and Paige is so excited to play soccer just like her brother.

-Braden's enjoying school and hanging out with his friends. Paige is now a Sunbeam and is so happy to be in Primary with Daddy and Braden.

-We went home to Vernal this year for Thanksgiving. Everyone was so excited about hanging out together and just having a great time. The mood this year was different. My cousin Luke passed away on November 12th. He fell from a ladder at his house, he was only 24. He called me right before we left for our trip to Disneyland. We grew up together, I used to babysit him... he was like a little brother to me. He served as a Marine for 4 years and had been working in Fort Hood, Texas as a firefighter. He always wanted to be a fireman. He was fasinated with fire trucks and he was our little pyromaniac. He was living his dream...something he always wanted to do. One of the fireman that he worked with sang, "I Can Only Imagine", it was amazing. Having his fireman "brothers" there helped all of us. The Vernal firefighters put his casket on their trucks and we all followed behind them in our cars to the cemetary. He would have loved it! When I see or hear a firetruck, I miss him.

-We spent Christmas here in AZ. We had a great, low-key Christmas. I made homemade waffles that morning and a turkey dinner that night and in between we just played and enjoyed each other, it was great.

-Another big change in our lives in the past little while is that we're going to have baby #3!!! We get to find out on Thursday what we're having so that will give me a good excuse to update my blog. Paige wants a girl and Braden is fine either way. I was very sick the first 3 months. I was so happy to be feeling better around my 3rd month. I was so miserable! But I'm feeling great now. I'm a little scared about taking care of 3 kids...having 2 was super hard for me. I'm hoping I'll adjust easier this time around. And if I don't, I'll just do what I did last time and just roll with it. Moms can be so hard on themselves sometimes...I think we expect too much at times. A baby is an adjustment and it takes time to get a "normal" routine going. Lack of sleep doesn't help either. It'll all work out...

I'll check back in later to tell you what we're having!
k