Our first furniture purchase!

Can you believe that our first piece of furniture that we have bought since we have been married is bunk beds?! Wow we have been blessed. We have been using hand-me downs from parents and grandparents and finding stuff on freecycle.com for the last 5 years. I feel really lucky that people have been so generous. With baby number 3 coming, Rob having a steady income, and the fact that we live in a small house we decided it was time to make the purchase.Bunkbeds...what more could a kid ask for? Seriously the girls love it! We have yet to put the mattresses on. But they love it none the less. (For playing of course, not sleeping yet.)
If my face seems to be lacking excitement in the pics it is due to the fact that Rob and I put it together all afternoon. Rob of course did most the work but it took out a lot of mental energy ;) Aren't I so ridiculous! I'm not a good pregnant lady.
Woo Hoo for bunk beds. I'll keep you updated about how Libby does moving into a big kid bed. She's pretty excited about it but hopefully not for the fact that she is going to be sneaking out of it all night long.

Breakfast in bed

The other night we read a Berenstain Book where the kids brought the mom breakfast in bed. Eliza got in her mind that she was going to do this for me. The next morning when Rob had to rush off to work and she couldn't do this she got really sad, so I said, "How about you have breakfast in bed and you can do it for me another day." She was ecstatic about the idea and ran back to her bed. I was happy the solution was so easy since I wasn't expecting her to be so easily consoled. It ended up being a really fun event. She thought it was so great. (As you can tell by the picture.) Libby saw Eliza and decided she wanted it to. However she got bored of the idea quickly and wanted to get out of her "cage". Perhaps breakfast in bed in a crib feels a little too much like having food in jail.

It was a fun though and a good reminder that I need to loosen up sometimes. I'm always trying to avoid messes and ironically neither of them spilled at all except me. It started out the day in a good mood which continued through out the whole day. I hope to make more effort in the future to do small little fun things like this since it means so much to the kids.

"My mungee birday!"

For the whole week before Libby's birthday she would say, "My mungee birday!" (Translation: My monkey birthday) This all started when I asked if she wanted a monkey or Elmo cake. She quickly replied, "Mungee!" She loves monkeys for some reason. (I think it began when she learned Monkeys jumping on the bed.) After that question if anything was mentioned about birthdays she would quickly say, "My mungee birday!" with excitement. So the day before I attempted a monkey birthday cake. It's ears got a little large which started making it look cowish but I thought it worked out pretty good for an amateur. Libby wasn't quite as excited as I thought she would be about the cake but she could at least tell it was a monkey.

We got ready to go play at Boondocks with Tyler and Maya Teemant.

I also told her that Drew was coming later that night all she could think about was "Babay Boo" so she kept looking out the window and saying, "Airwa" (Sarah) and "Boo". I kept telling her they weren't coming until that night but that just doesn't compute for a 2 year old. (Sadly she got a fever that evening and they couldn't come. Fortunately she has a short memory and didn't remember by then.)

We went and played at Boondocks and then decided that Ikea food sounded better than Boondocks so headed over there, ate and did a little shopping. After that we came home and Libby took a nap. When she woke up she had a little fever :(
She still was quite a trooper, just wanted a lot of snuggles.

When daddy got home we ate a Pizza dinner and then opened presents...

...blew out the candles..

...and then ate cake.

She's 2 people!

(Even though she needs a little help to show it.)
She was so excited when she finally got it!
We love you Libby!

"Go Daddy"

E We love going to watch play all the different sports that he likes and it has been a while since we left BYU. So here we are enjoying it during church ball!


Eliza likes to cheer on her dad! "Go daddy!" And then when that gets boring she runs around with the kids.Libby does a little cheering but mostly just enjoys running around on the stage! Mommy likes coming to watch Rob play (as long as he doesn't get to intenso) and talking with the other moms. Family fun comes in all forms and we just love doing stuff together!

Our snowman family

Rob and Eliza spent a few hours in the snow after a big snow storm a while back. They built the entire family in snowman form. Eliza also added some color to the snowmen with her pink water spray bottle. It was a fun time for Eliza and Daddy. And really relaxing for mommy!

They even put baby girl #3 in my tummy. (Thought the side view showed it better.)
The snowmen welcomed guests for about 4 weeks now. And finally the last bit of it melted and fell down. It lasted forever!

You just can't get enough of them...

...That is girls of course. We are having another little girl on (supposedly) June 2.

This is the photo that supposedly solidified that it was a girl. Unless you are a radiologist you probably think this looks like an abstract painting but the tech did point it out and I will do my best to do it for you. Look at about the middle of the picture and you will see a dark moon shape, at the bottom of the moon shape there are two little white lines. That's the labia. The tech said she was 100% sure it was a girl. Sounds pretty sure to me.
I am so excited to get back out the cute little infant girl clothes. The always look so little. And the name game begins. Hope Rob and I will be able to find one we agree on quickly this time.

Happy New Year!

(Does it get cuter than that?)

We brought 2010 in with a bang (kinda). We had some of our friends over (Buswells and Gunns), ate some food, threw a 9:00pm New Years celebration with the kids (Eliza loved the silly string), made a big mess, put the kids to bed, played some games, laughed a lot, celebrated midnight New Years and stayed up way to late. It was one of my most favorite New Years I've ever had!

Abby's birthday

I can't ever keep it strait how old I am and then when it changes it just confuses me more. I can't wait for the year that I turn 30. That should be easy to remember.
It was a great birthday! Once again Rob treated me right. He and the girls made me breakfast in the morning (crepes - my favorite!). Then we went swimming at Fairmont pool where Sarah and Jenn surprised me that they came. We swam in the somewhat chilly water, Rob scared Eliza to death on the water slide, and we had cake and candles to end the awesome party! I felt like a kid again! It was awesome. Then we went home and I opened my present. Some new snowboarding boots. I think I am going to be a ten times better snowboarder now (and a warmer one). It was an awesome gift and the girls like pretending to snowboard with me.
Then the whole fam helped clean up the house. That night we had Hannah come over and went on a date to Koyo's restaurant. Rob let me know that he had also signed me up for a photography class that I wanted. I want to be able to take my kids pictures and have them look good. We'll see. It was a great birthday and definitely one to remember.

Merry Christmas

The Saturday before Christmas we saw Santa at the ward Christmas breakfast. Then we hurried up to Twins Falls for the McMillen Christmas Party...


We had a big party at Pat and Tina's house where we were able to see Santa again. Then we went to a rest home and sang carols to the elderly and handed out presents. It was a great activity. The elderly just loved Liberty and Eliza. Libby just couldn't dance enough for them either. Unfortunately a couple days after that Liberty got sick with we think the 24 hour stomack flu. Then I didn't feel very good for a couple of days. We went back home thinking Eliza and Rob were out of the woods. Went to Adam and Chelsea's delicious Christmas Eve brunch (which I still dream of all the delicious food) and then later that night Rob was sick in bed. It made for a little bit of a lonely Christmas Eve nigh but still fun and at least a little less crazy. The girls and I had (by request of Eliza) bread, cheese, and salami for dinner. Then we made Cookies for Santa...

Then went to bed early so Santa could come. (The whole night Eliza kept saying, "we better hurry and get in bed, so Santa can come" this was of course starting at like 6 pm.) So she was eager to go to bed. We woke up that morning with Rob feeling a little bit better. There were so many fun gifts to exchange. Liberty for some reason never wanted to play with what she had been given but just wanted everything that Eliza had recieved. It was a little frustrating but at the same time pretty funny and ironic. (Apparantly she didn't like Elmo as much as she had put on the months before.)

(Rob displaying my new back pack carrier, couldn't quite do it with a child in while being pregnant but sooooo excited to hike with it this summer.)

(Eliza with Baby Alive. It really poops and pees, not quite sure if I will like that.)

(Libby with her new high chair. She loves to feed her babies)

After opening presents with in the morning with our small family. We got all Stevensons on board to let us come up for the family party even with our germs. I was so glad everybody was so willing because I really wanted to be with the whole family for Christmas. We put Rob in quarantine in the basement which I am not so sure he was sad about since he got to watch a lot of TV and relax. We opened presents (everyone was so generous and thoughtful in their gift giving) and ate some delicious food. It was a really great Christmas, even with the stomach flu.

Thanksgiving

Eliza made these super cute costumes of Indian and Pilgrim in preschool and I just loved them! For actual Thanksgiving day we were up in Boise, Idaho at Aunt Chris's house. It was a super delicious dinner even with the "Christmas Vacation" turkey. Eliza was inseparable from Kennedy and Libby found every chance she could to harass either Krew or Taiton. It's so much fun to hang out with the McMillen family.

Happy Anniversary

We had our 6th anniversary on Nov. 22. Rob planned an awesome little anniversary weekend. We first went to Michelangelo's (an Italian restaurant and I love Italian) then we went and checked in at the Little America Hotel in downtown. Then the next morning had a delicious breakfast. Went to the temple and did sealings (where I passed out, totally embarassing). My blood sugar was a little low and I was feeling woozey due to the pregnancy. Luckily it subsided because next we went to the 3D "Christmas Carol" movie. By then I totally couldn't wait to see my kids and we went to pick them up. It was all around just totally relaxing. It was great! Plus it's always fun to have these kind of trips because it makes me realize how much fun we have together. Love you Rob.

Halloween

(We lit our pumpkins like a week after Halloween because we weren't home the night of Halloween but the kids still wanted to see them glow)

(Eliza at her Preschool Halloween Parade, singing a Halloween song)

So I did not realize how far behind I am. I hope to do a quick update. For Halloween we were characters from Snow White. Eliza was snow white, Rob was Prince Charming, Libby was a Dwarf (Happy or Grumpy or Dopey depending on her mood), and I was the Queen/old lady that gave Snow White the poisonous apple. We had a fun day at Grandma and Grandpa Stevenson's Halloween party. In fact we had so much fun we stayed to late to go trick or treating in our own neighborhood and just went around Grandma and Grandpa's neigborhood. The kids loved trick or treating. Liberty learned quickly what to say if she wanted "canny".