"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"

We have finally gotten the first real snow of the season! I love to watch Lilly's reaction to the snow. She gets so excited about it and can't stop talking about the snow. This is the first winter that she has been able to walk and play in the snow, and she loves it. While Aaron was shoveling the driveway, Lilly insisted on watching the whole time and kept chanting "Scoop it Daddy, Scoop it!" Hopefully the snow will stay around for Christmas or that we will get a new snow fall in time. That would make for the perfect "White Christmas!"


Aaron Shoveling the snow
Look at all the snow we got! (I know, it's not very much, but at least it's something)

"Oh Christmas Tree..."

This year we got a beautiful Christmas tree. It is even more fun because Lilly really wants to help with everything! She could hardly contain her excitement. The funny thing is that she kept calling the angel a "pretty barbie"
She couldn't wait to get started

Aaron putting the lights on the tree

Hanging the ornaments
This is what I got to do! I put on a few ornaments that I could reach from the couch! (darn bed rest!)

Lilly and Aaron. Lilly was really tired by the end, but they sure did a great job on the tree!

She's Ready!

A little while ago we were watching Grant for my sister April. Lilly wanted to help do everything for him. I love watching her interact with him. She tries to give him toys to play with and she will get down on the ground in his face to talk to him. When he got fussy she just ignored him and did her own thing. I sure hope this continues when Molly comes home! (Yeah I know, Keep on Dream'n)

She really wanted to help feed him and wouldn't let go of the bottle for anything!

26 and 29 Years Old

Last week Aaron and I celebrated our Birthdays. Mine was on the 3rd and Aaron's was on the 5th. My birthday was wonderful. Aaron really worked hard to make it special. He bought me flowers and tried to recreate one of my favorite Italian dishes. I thought he did a great job. I also got flowers from Aaron's parents and from my sister April. It was a great day!

On Aaron's birthday he actually had the flu, so I didn't feel too bad about not being able to do much for him. Our friends Dan and Candace came to visit and that really helped make his day better. I ordered him dinner (so he wouldn't have to make anything), and we just relaxed the day away. Aaron's mom had sent him a cake earlier in the day, so we blew out the candles and celebrated the fact that he has one more year in his twenties!

The cake

Lilly really wanted to help blow out the candles. Lately she has become little miss helper!
This is what happens when you turn your back. She loved the frosting, so we just let her go for it. She ate all the blue flowers!

By the time she was done her mouth was dyed blue as well as her fingers. The next day her bum was dyed blue too!

Parade of Lights

After Thanksgiving Pocatello has a Parade of Lights. The School District always enters a bus and always wins some kind of trophy or prize, so this is a huge deal. Aaron volunteered to help with all the preparations and the decorating of the bus, mostly because it meant he would get paid big time in overtime! I can't complain about that! He happened to be the only man on the team! Oh well, those ladies are really funny so he had a good time.

The start of decorating the bus

Aaron hanging an ice skater

The Crew. We unfortunately didn't get a picture of the bus afterwards because that is about the time I was put on bed rest so Aaron came home to take care of me. What a great husband!

Pictures from our "Week in Review"

The following are some pictures that came from our Thanksgiving Week.


The following is the BSU Game:
The Smurf Turf (don't you just love the blue!?!)

Part of the group: Chad, Cody, Roy, Aaron, Aunt Karen, Uncle Jim, and Amber

Dad and Aaron

This is our Beautiful Thanksgiving Dinner courtesy of Aaron. Good thing I have a husband who can cook!

Here is our Car from where Aaron got hit. Luckily it is now all fixed and ready to go again!

A Week in Review

Well here we are 1 week after the start of being on bed rest. I have to say that I had hoped the baby would come last week, but alas she did not. We sent Lilly packing to my parent's house for Thanksgiving on Monday. Everyone said she was pretty good and no trouble at all (thank goodness, I always worry about how she acts when she is away from us!). On Tuesday Aaron went out to get me some lunch and he was sideswiped by a nice old lady! I am so glad that I wasn't in the car. Luckily no one got hurt (except our poor car) and the woman who hit us seems to have pretty good insurance. Things are running smoothly and we are pretty sure that all that will need to be replaced is the passenger side door. Then on Tuesday evening my blood pressure was a little too high for comfort so we packed a bag (just in case) and headed to the hospital for some blood work. Miraculously everything looked fine (except my blood pressure) and they sent me home. We spent Wednesday doing pretty much nothing. On Thursday Aaron cooked us Thanksgiving Dinner (pictures to follow), it was yummy and definitely helped keep the holiday blues at bay! We were really missing Lilly by Thursday so we decided to head to Boise on Friday to pick her up. My parents got tickets for everyone to go to the Boise State Game and so they would all be in Boise. Aaron loaded me into the car and we picked up Lilly. We actually ended up staying so that Aaron could go to the game and Lilly and I went to my parent's hotel room to relax. My Grandma couldn't go to the game either so we hung out with my mom and had a good time. We ended up staying in Boise that night and the next day we went home to get Lilly back into her routine.

Today we went to the doctor and he said that he would like me to go a few more weeks, but he really isn't sure how much more he will get out of me. So we could have a baby next week sometime. I am pretty sure it won't be this week. Until then I am still on bed rest! I also have to go to the hospital twice a week now for non-stress tests. I sure hope we are nearing the end.