Elsie and Lucas

Elsie and Lucas, Lucas and Elsie. These two had so much fun playing together over the Christmas break. They are only 7 weeks apart in age, so they are pretty evenly matched. They were quite the partners in crime, getting in to everything and looking too dang cute while they did.

"Ready, set, go!"

Elsie is faster than Lucas, so she would always win when they were racing. But Lucas would get even. He's heavier than Elsie, so he would tackle her and she wouldn't be able to get up.

We always found them in the bathtub together fully dressed playing with all the bath toys.

Ring around the Rosie is a good way to while away the time when waiting to see Santa

Yep, these two sure had a good time together.

3 Years

As part of my Christmas present this year, Alan surprised me with a sleepover for Elsie at Grandma's house and a night away at a secret place for us for our anniversary. On the 29th, we dropped Elsie off at Grandma and Grandpa's house, went and saw a movie (Narnia #3), went out to dinner (The Cheesecake Factory), then Alan took me to a little place called the Anniversary Inn. My first night away from Elsie was nice enough, but this place was pretty awesome. Alan had reserved the Bridal Veil Falls suite, which was fitting because we sort of had our first date at Bridal Veil Falls (the details are a little sketchy as to whether or not it was actually a "date").

Anyway, the room was pretty awesome. We arrived to chilled sparkling cider and cheesecake and had breakfast delivered to our door in the morning. The shower was a waterfall, and we didn't have to wake up at 7am with Elsie. This was defiantly my favorite Christmas present.

Unexpected News

I went into my lovely Obgyn yesterday. I had my regular appointment and another ultrasound. The ultrasound was to check the position of the placenta again in kind of a last ditch effort to see if it had moved out of the way. And guess what... IT MOVED!! Even my doctor was astonished. He said he has never seen a placenta previa correct itself this late in a pregnancy. It is still low lying, so it is something to be mindful of when I go into labor, but it won't stop me from having a normal vaginal birth. No C-section!!

We still have the 28th down as baby day, just instead of a scheduled C-section it will be an induction. I'm already dilated to 2cm and having irregular contractions. I sometimes hate it when my doctor gets my hopes up, but since I went into labor early naturally with Elsie, he's doubtful I'll make it to the 28th. We'll just have to see I guess. Either way, we're having another baby in a few weeks!

Temple Square

The day after Christmas we headed up to Temple Square to look at all the lights. We rode the Trax into town and Elsie thought it was pretty cool.
Every time we stopped she would count "one, two, three, go!" until we started moving again.

Man, can I be any more pregnant?

If she wasn't trying to push the stroller, Elsie liked to walk holding Lucas' hand.

Elsie liked looking at the big statue of Christ, but she was very concerned about the "owies" in Jesus' hands.

Very tired and very cold and very ready to go home.

In the end, she commandeered Lucas' stroller while he wore Elsie's doggie and ran around. Fair trade I think.

Merry Christmas

I have more Christmas pictures, some I just need to sort through and some I think are still lurking around on Boyd and Jeanine's computer that I need to copy. We did some fun activities that I will post about later, but for now here's Elsie with all of her loot and our family Christmas picture.

Can my family really be CheeseHeads?

Alan has been applying for jobs for after graduation. After an extensive interview process he has been offered a job with Epic, a company that makes medical software. They made him a very generous offer, and after a lot of talking and thinking and praying about it, we have decided to accept the job. It is a great job with everything Alan wants and everything our family needs, but it means we have to relocate to Wisconsin shortly after graduation.

Really? Wisconsin? That's just something I never would have guessed. But the area seems great, very family friendly, has top rated school districts, and enough members in the area to have 4 family wards and a Spanish branch.

Wisconsin, here we come...

Changing the subject, it snowed a lot the other day. Here are some pictures of Alan and Elsie playing in the snow.

Snow Bunny