All alone...

in a good way.

I am all alone today. Nobody asking me to get them anything, nobody running around making the house messy, nobody begging for treats before dinner because they are "so hungry!" It is kind of amazing.

Quinn took the boys camping for the day/night and I have now enjoyed about 8 hours of quiet and peace. It is kind of awesome.

I cleaned up the house as soon as they left and it has stayed pristinely clean all day. I made homemade bread, napped and watched a few episodes of Greys Anatomy. It is kind of blissful.

Pretty much blissful...for a very short while:) I really do miss those little ones and all their noise and chaos. I am glad I have many many more years of kids running around, messing up the house and making this place feel like home.

I have not spent a night alone since Jack was born! Life sure changes when you have kids. In a way it feels like I'm not really alone, what with this little girl bumping around inside me. What an active little muchkin!

I have been perusing the old pics on Quinn's laptop here and found this little gem:
I am way excited for this little one on the inside to be this age on the outside...six months, chubby and happy. Also, it will be great to get this body back!!!

A great Pregnancy Picture!

After my last post about never liking pregnancy pics, I finally got a great one!

Look at that little face, doesn't that expression just say it all?

Yeah, pregnancy is weird.

I have looked at my blog a few times and thought, "I should really post something else so the bad news bit will not be first on my page..." but I am so tired when I am pregnant and only get around to the necessities. This is all i can think about:Does anyone out there actually like their pregnancy photos? Maybe if I got them professionally done. I do like this little ditty though:
Probably because those boys are so darn cute! I sure love them. Quinn has been out of town alot lately so it has been lots of time with just me and the muffin men (as i like to call them). And they are so good! They pick things up off the floor and refill my water cup. They play at the park while I sit there like a bump on a log and rarely ask me to get up to help or play with them. (and they are nice when I tell them I can't help them because I don't want to get up!)

Chase is so funny, he does crazy thing like this:
All on his own! and they shower now which helps my back when it comes time to wash them. Cute face.I've been doing more baby-prep. Including another quilt:

The edges of the rounds will fray more as it is washed.And recovering my car seat. Pretty good way to make a blue seat look girly, doncha think?And a few misc: Workouts with daddy...And Easter:

With the priceless egg hunt face:

Only 8 more weeks to go until I have something *really* exciting to blog about. Until then...

The Air Force was handing these out yesterday:

So, of course we got one. It was kind of the thing to do. All the people who signed up for their chance to get out of the Air Force early (with an extra $50,000) and waited and hoped ...and hoped and waited all had their hopes dashed. Meanwhile, those who already only had less than six months left on their commitment were handed a golden 50K ticket. Does that make any sense? Pay people 50K extra to get out when they were already going to get out? No, it makes no sense, that is why the Air Force did it. Ridiculous.

With the way things are going for us lately:

1. Hoping to get a good assignment and getting Del Rio.

2.Hoping to get out of the AF all together and then not.

We are starting to feel like this:
It sucks.

I have been keeping Elder Wirthlin's talk Come what may and love it in mind.

What would we do without the gospel?

People actually came to visit us!

Thats right folks. My sister Julie and her family drove 12 hours to visit us in humble Tucson....and we all had a great time!! Here are the kids together in our house.

Elsa decided to show off her muscles by picking Jack up during the good-bye hug.

Eli had to one-up her by picking them both up..

And Canyon joined in by doing a little airplane style Chase pick-up.

They loved having their cousins here. These are all the pics I took, how lame! I will blame it on the pregnancy. I am 29 weeks now, can you believe I still have 1/4 of this pregnancy to go? I sure can't. Ugh.:)

5 years old!

My Jack boy turned 5!!

We got to be in Utah again this year for his birthday so it was a fun cousin party on the agenda:)

All the fun kids at the spiderman party.

And just for comparison, here he is at about a year...so big now!!!

Girl Quilt Finished

I am in love with this quilt! I couldn't stop working on it until it was done.

The colors really spoke to me, just enough girly-ness without too much pink.

I added the little butterfly trails on some of them, and used a different quilting style for this one.

The back, including the "quilt label":

Wish I had a little baby to wrap in it right now!!

Oh, I had my official ultrasound today. Everything looked good/healthy and she confirmed that it is a girl, hooray!

I had a birthday (30! eek!) shout hooray!

My mother-in-law made this amazing cake, doesn't it look professional? Coconut, my favorite. I got to go on an awesomely long date with my amazing hubby who took me shoe and fabric shopping! Plus, dinner and a movie:) He picked out some wonderful surprise gifts, who could ask for more?

Also, I have caught the sewing bug again: This time a quilt for Jack.

The back:

Details:

I love the little "windows" that show each character, so cute!

Do you think he likes it?

Next in Quilting: the amazing baby girl quilt! I am so excited!

The greatly anticipated news....

Well, at least it has been GREATLY anticipated by me.

I went with my little sister Laura to her ultrasound yesterday because I happened to be in Mesa and her husband happened to not be able to get off of work. She got the happy news that she was having a girl and as the Dr. was finishing up I said, "So, is it my turn?" He said he was a bit curious to know and that as long as we wouldn't tell anyone he would take a quick peek. (I hope this post isn't "telling". I do leave him un-named)

It was so fun for Laura and I to find out together!

Ahhh, what a wonderful day.

p.s. Since I found out about 24 hours ago, I have purchased girly quilt fabric and about 10 super cute outfits. This news may be dangerous for the pocket book.

Glorious Grapefruit!

We planted this little tree in our back yard 5 years ago, with high hopes of having a few years of grapefruit. Unfortunately, we were wrong. No fruit for 4 years.

Fortunately, our fruits have finally come in!!

(and surprisingly we STILL live here to enjoy them)

Aren't they lovely? Lucky for me my in-laws have a huge tree and always supply us with plenty of grapefruit for the winter months. I have eaten at least one a day since we got home from the Christmas break.

Here is a comparison, the ruby red baby is from our tree:

Ahh, all done, I really do eat them 2 at a time....why not?

I must mention that these grapefruit would have never been without Quinn's tireless devotion to fertilizing, flooding, digging about, pruning and general fussing over our little citrus trees. Yet, we will never experience the oranges...if they ever come.