Stand by...........

This weekend we had the pleasure of having Gary and Jon come down and visit us. Gary brought Allie and Jon brought some of his peeps (girls).

Gary and Allie flew down from Calgary, because they were bumped off two flights out of Edmonton, they fortunately made the last flight of the night out of Calgary.
Jon made his 2nd flight by the skin of his teeth, two people didn't want to split up so he barely made it.

Today on the other hand trying to get home Jon has been on stand by all day since 8:30 this morning and Gary and Allie since 2:00 pm. Don't know if they are going to make it out tonight.

We had a great time, Cooper warmed up really fast to both of them and they were perfect entertainment for a few days.

Alivia and Jon had a word war going on. Livi overheard one of Jon's friends say that he had a lot of nerve and Alivia came upstairs as I was making dinner and said. "mom my uncle Jon has a lot of nerve" I died laughing. It was so funny.

So Livi kept telling Jon that he had a lot of nerve and he would call her onions.

So I met Allie, she is very nice and friendly which I appreciated, unlike Jon's friends:)

We took Gary and Allie to lunch today and Gary ordered Country fried steak, which he said, he has never had.

WHAT???? it looked good at first until Gary got a hold of it.

It was horrible weather here this weekend but today was great.
We put out some of the Halloween decor and made Halloween ghosts and hung them outside so they can blow in the wind.

The kids are getting over some colds, teeth and molars. Other than that, Ben hasn't had a day off in I think going on 18 days now. So he is tired and hungry.

Excited for Halloween, we(activities committee) are planning our neighborhood/ward activity. It is going to be so much fun. Alivia is going to be Tinkerbell, Cooper- Peter pan and Bauer, probably a chicken. You thought I was going to say Captain hook. Nope need to use old costumes and save some cash.

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Scrapbook Expo

CRAZY, with a capital "K"
o'm'gosh.....I went to the scrap book expo today with some friends , and first it was so FUN. Second, the craziest place, and third, the best deals in town.

Needless to say, I am now going to learn how to digital scrapbook. If any of you want a preview, visit my friends blog. Fassio family she is a pro, and I am hooked. I just need to learn the ropes so I can post soon.

I hope I can go again in April. And if anyone is interested in flying in to go with me. I will save you a buddy pass, to go.

All is well here. Getting Chilly. Gary and Jon are coming down next week, excited to see them and kind of excited to meet Allison. Okay I am excited and I won't mention a WORD about marriage. (word:)

Hope all is well, more posts to come. Please take my survey. Will try to update it frequently......

Family reunion

I don't know if you can see these pictures well. We were able to take some great pictures. Unfortunately, we were using a new camera that is a 35mm, I know ancient.

But what I love to point out is the picture of Papa Whidden, we all know him as the human pretzel. I thought it was cute Cooper was taking on some if his similarities.

These were taken in a small town in Canada, about 3 hours north of Vancouver.

It was fun to see Ben's extended family, that I don't know very well. It was also fun to hear Gary's wedding plans:) and play all day with Carter and Haley.

Number 4

So yes this is a picture of baby number four.
This was about 3 weeks ago at my doctors office in West Jordan.
At the time of the appointment I was ten weeks and a day, so just about 13 weeks pregnant.

I personally think it looks like a girl :)
But the official due date(s) is somewhere between march 26 and the 31st.

Feeling much better now, not so good there for a few weeks, especially at night. Just in time for all of my night stand up trips. Quite a few times I felt so sick driving in, I would have to have the a/c on full blast the entire way.

All is well, the kids do not know yet, we will tell them in a couple weeks when it is a little more obvious.

Recent pics

Time flies.............

So where does the time go.......it has almost been 2.5 years that we moved from our old house and moved up the street, where things are frinedly but not the same.
It has almost been 5 years, since I had my first baby. A short 13.5 months later had a second.
I am not sure how much I remember those days, other than looking at pictures and thinking how cute Cooper was and how he is so big now.

I was lying down by Bauer the other day, thinking he is not a baby anymore and then he made the noise, that little babies make when they are sucking on their tongue or side of their mouth or something. I felt a twinge of gratitude that he still seemed little and not so grown up.

Bauer is probably been the easier of the children, we have never REALLY had to let him "cry it out". But he is into his, I like it this way and if you don't do it my way I will lay down and cry.
He is hitting now, more like a gentle pat, but his face says more than the hit.
He has many words, but the many we hear on a daily basis, "puppy" (everything is a puppy though) and airplane. The kids have taught him how to point out every airplane in sight.

So time flies, it is somewhat depressing, but somewhat satisfying. Moving past stages that I am glad to move past and then moving past stages that I am not glad to pass through.

We have had a great summer and I need to blog about that soon, it was filled with fun trips and not so fun trips......more to come..........

A California Adventure..

So Ben had a very unusual 4 days off in a row, so we decided to take advantage of the flight benefits and head over to CA. Luckily we had a car rental voucher to use that was going to expire soon. We made it there and back no problem and the kids did fairly well.

We arrived on Thursday and just cruised around Downtown Disney, that ended up being too much for the kids, being right outside of Disneyland and being able to go in.

Friday DISNEYLAND ALL DAY 9-5 and then we left the park for dinner and went back from 7-11pm. The kids went all day long.

Alivia loved riding the Matterhorn (sp?) Cooper loved Winnie the Pooh land.

Saturday Ben took the kids to the L.A. zoo and I met up with some friends and went to magic mountain. That was SO FUN. Saturday night we just relaxed swam in the hotel pool and relaxed.

We flew home Sunday Morning, it was fast and furious but fun.......