8 1/2 months...

This is not the greatest picture, you can't even see it very well. But I'm a little over 33 weeks now and I only have 6 weeks to go! Yea! My doctor said he can induce me a week early which puts my due date on....my birthday. Oh well, I don't really care actually. It's not like you even really celebrate your birthday's past 21 anyway. So we'll see what happens...

New Years 2010

New Years was a little bit of a bummer this year because we were all sick (what's new? Someone's always got to be sick for a holiday it seems) . So we were supposed to spend our traditional weekend at the cabin but ended up only going down and back on New Years day. But it still was fun to chill with the Love's and do some sledding and playing in the deep snow. I was actually a little sad too because I couldn't sled this year, that's my favorite thing to do there...

Joshua Hinckley

It seems every couple of months I am blogging about one of my sisters having another baby! We are all apparently in baby-mode, which is really fun though because all our kids are close in age and will have lots of cousins to play with. On December 30th Paige had her 4th boy (heaven help her with all those boys:) and he was a tiny little thing--5 lbs 14 oz and barely 18 inches long. His entire head is like the size of the palm of my hand, he is so adorable!

Christmas '09

I need to start posting about Christmas and such before I get too far behind. This year we spent Christmas Eve with the Wakefield's where we had great dinner, great company, and the traditional Nativity re-enactment by all the kids. My grandpa and grandma Snow also spent the night there, which was really fun to have them around. My little shepherd with his sheep

Addie was more like a dog than a donkey, Tate wanted to be the shepherd and the star so he held the flashlight and basically rolled around on the ground, and Jesus was a girl this year. Just keeping the Nativity lively at our place:)

Then this year for Christmas morning was the first time we stayed at our house, and it was so nice! We usually spend the night at our parents, but we want Tate to start having Santa come to our house and do our own little traditions. I loved it too, it was so low-key and calm and I don't think Tate got as overwhelmed as he does with all those other people around. Then after a few hours we went over to the Love's to open presents and talk to uncle Chace when he called...Out of all the fun big things Santa brought Tate liked the little bouncy ball the best...I should have known
Opening presents and making a mess. Tate loved the actual unwrapping of things more than what was really inside that wrapping...

Opening Tate's new tool bench from grandma Love

shooting guns with papa Love

This picture is my favorite. Grandma Wakefield got him this vaccuum and he went all over their house with it, including making great grandpa and grandma Snow lift their legs while he got underneath....
After we spent the last few hours of the day at the Wakefield's we were totally exhausted. We went home and crashed, but it was a great Christmas like always!

Merry Christmas!

Boys only weekends.

Tate has always been a daddy's boy; he will copy Jord and follow him everywhere, and I love it. It's so cute to see him idolize his dad and want to do everything like him. Every morning they take their vitamins together and brush their teeth, and every night they have to "shoot hoops" together and wrestle. They are best buddies. Tate lives for the weekends because they are inseparable (and I get a little break:) and this weekend was no different:

eating their corn dogs

making their first snowman

laying on the couch watching football...

Let the season begin!

I love Christmastime! I like to get all my shopping done in November because December is so crazy and busy, and then I can actually enjoy everything going on. So here's what we've been doing so far this season:Enjoying all the fun decorations. Every year my grandma gets us the cutest presents--this was last years. It plays songs and has a train that goes around inside it; Tate's mesmerized by it. But we got everything up a few weeks ago and my pint size destroyer has already had lots of fun with them...2 broken ornaments, 2 broken glass balls, a broken nutcracker...you get the picture. I try so hard to not get mad because I know he's just curious, but I feel it will be a long season if this keeps up.

Eating delicious dirty icicles and playing in the snow...

Seeing the lights at Thanksgiving Point. This is the way to see lights--warm inside my car. It's fun, you just drive through this big maze of cool light displays, and Tate loved it. Why can't temple square have a drive through?

After the lights you can go see Santa's reindeer and get hot chocolate. Tate was so excited to go see Rudolph, it was all he talked about all day.
And seeing Santa! Last year was a little different--Tate was terrified and hated him. So I was worried how he'd react but apparently Santa's grown on him over the past year. He loves him and gets so excited to sit on his lap, we've already seen him twice. Maybe the more we go the more presents we'll get for Christmas...