It's a boy!

If you haven't heard, we had our ultrasound on Monday. We both thought of this song because our doctor said almost exactly what it says in the lyrics. Landon listened to it about 10 times afterwards, along with lots of Daddy songs. The nurse commented how he couldn't stop grinning once we heard it was a boy.

The ultrasound was fun, I will post a picture once we get to washington. The baby was loving the camera attention--waving when she took pictures of his hands, kicking and crossing his legs, and even moving his mouth when she checked his lip so that it looked like he was blowing kisses. Both ultrasounds so far they have told us he's an active one! Landon is convinced he was flexing for the camera--like father like son, I guess. But everything looks healthy and normal!

Ticking Off

It's official.  Landon and I have decided that whoever does this pregnancy ticker (above) really doesn't know their fruits very well.  Since when is a peach sized somewhere between a lime and a lemon?! They definitely don't get their peaches from Washington.  And really, avocado tells me nothing about size because you could be talking about the small ones in the stores, or the large ones, or the gargantuan ones in Hawaii.  There's like a 3 inch difference.  I will just say, I don't know how much I can trust the ticker these days.

Rough Week

First, our co-ed volleyball team of siblings and cousins made it to the championships.  (I, of course, could not do much jumping, so I was the setter).  The semi-finals were a close, and hard battle, but we made it!  With a team name of "The Cherry-Pickers", our huddles included motivational talk about the cannery, and other farm metaphors.  Then, on Thursday, we had to duke it out with the final match.  We won the first game, but faltered a little on the second and had to go into a third.  Sadly, we ended up losing by two points.  It was a heartbreaker.  But it was fun, and we represented pretty well. Landon was pretty bummed that he did not get a T-shirt.

Second, while sitting on the couch I noticed our tree sagging a little to one side.  It makes sense, I guess--we put all of the ornaments and decorations on the front.  But I figured it would be fine. Poor Landon walked up later and the tree attacked him.  Well, it started tipping over, but with his cat-like reflexes he caught it, and we were able to get it back up.  Yet, it still seems to lean a little.

Third, while I was driving over to the grocery store (about 100 yards away), I suddenly heard some funny noise every time the tire rotated.  I realized that my tire was going flat.  Luckily I was close enough to walk back home and get Landon to help me, but he definitely had to change the tire in the cold.  I told him he won the "hero of the day" award, if that was any consolation.

It's been a rough week!

Just to give you an idea...

So, I already wrote about Thanksgiving and moved onto Christmas, but I just got these great pictures from Tami, and thought you might enjoy them.

Tami took advantage of my need for an apron and forced me to wear the husky one.
This was probably in retaliation to Landon purposely planning to wear all BYU shirts
while at her house to help her kids "see the light" :)

Michael, in his eternal quest to pick Mom up.  She found a way
to hold him back, for a moment or two...

The beautiful setup

The fam--minus Chris and Lisa, and Dad was taking the picture.

 I said in our last blog that we were engaged in some warfare during the break.  I'm not sure if you know how serious I was...Here are some lessons I learned for survival:

1. Watch out for snipers.  They could be anywhere.

2.  Get yourself some kind of barricade or hiding place.  You will last much longer.

3.  There is no mercy while reloading.  You can still be shot at point blank range.

 4. It's all about the intimidation faces and sound effects.

5.  Never get caught between the uncles.  The side route is much more effective.

Catching up

So, I have put off posting lately because I couldn't find our camera, and what's a post without pictures?! But I have resigned to the fact that the camera is lost for the immediate future, so I will attempt to catch up without it. 

We went to Las Vegas last month to see Michael and Anita.  Since Landon had never been, we figured this was the best time to go while we had someone to stay with :) It was a quick trip, but we crammed as much entertainment in as we could.  Landon especially liked the Shark Reef, which was one of the only things we paid for, along with the amazing goodness from the Ghirardelli place.  Most of the time we were at the free attractions, and we even had free tickets to the comedy magic show--Thanks Michael and Anita! For pictures and details, I will refer you to Anita's Vegas Blog, since it's so masterfully written.  It was a fun surprise to see the Toblers at church!! I love that family. 

We were also able to go home for Thanksgiving! There seemed to be an intense amount of driving during the weekend, but it was worth it. Landon spent lots of time in the middle of nerf gun warfare with the nephews.  I was enlisted as a dragon, a tiger, and a target--depending on how many other people were involved.  Angie and I made pies again this year--which means a lot of loopy laughter. I don't know what it is about making pies, but Angie and I crack up every time. We enlisted Mom, Lindee and Landon to help with the fillings, so it went pretty quickly.  The dinner was beautiful, thanks to Tami's preparations and everyone's cooking. It was great to spend time with everyone again. I realized it had been almost a year since we saw the Cutler family!!

On Friday we headed over to the Rowley cabin and enjoyed some snow-shoing, and I watched as Landon went sledding and snowmobiling. All the kids definitely got our groove on with the Wii dance game, which never ceases to amuse me.  We were even able to watch Brent's football team win the semi-finals (and they have since won state!). It was a fun trip!

Now we are getting into the holiday gear for Christmas.  We had to buy a tree this year, which is ridiculously expensive.  Guess who we ran into at the tree lot!!

Tow Mater!

After some disagreements on how the lights and ornaments should go, we finally got it all up and decorated! 

And here is me and my belly, at 16.5 weeks!  I had a picture at 12 for comparison, but that was lost with the camera.  I'm sure you can kinda remember how I was before, right :)  All of our tests so far have come out great, so this baby is healthy so far.