Grandma and Grandpa Kelley

With this Christmas being a last minute stay at home celebration we had to do a majority of our shopping online... but Grandma and Grandpa Kelley were nice enough to come up the week of Christmas and visit with us as well as drop off ALL our gifts from both sides of the family... While here we did some more last minute Christmas shopping, dinner at Tucano's to celebrate our December birthday's and lots more fun.. Enjoy the pictures...

The night Grandma and Grandpa Kelley arrived... Grandma and Grandpa always come with gifts... Here's Abbigail trying on one of her new outfits/costumes...
Here's Allison with her new dress on...

Abbigail again with her cat costume

Another one... It was just too cute and too funny to see her in the costume!

The girls with Grandma and Grandpa Kelley

Grandma and Grandpa Kelley

The girls painting the pots for their great grandparents...

Me helping the girls paint

Grandma Kelley helping the girls paint

Thank you again Grandma and Grandpa Kelley for all the fun and for coming up to visit with us right before Christmas!

Gingerbread House

Another tradition for Christmas is building a gingerbread house with Grandma Ellsworth. Grandma Ellsworth, Allison and Abbigail before decorating...

While decorating...
The end result....

Another view of the end result... Thanks Grandma Ellsworth for all the fun!

Oh Christmas Tree....

This year would be our first year spending at home in Utah. Our original plans were to go down to California to spend Christmas with all our extended family but do to the pregnancy problems the doctors put a strict order for me to stay close to home... With this in mind one of my mom's biggest traditions for Christmas is going out Christmas tree shopping and picking that perfect tree... So we went on our search for the perfect tree... We ended up making our first stop up in Orem and I saw the most beautiful tree but couldn't just settle on the first tree at the first lot so we went around a bit more to find another very pretty tree at another lot but I just couldn't get first tree out of my mind so we went back to the first lot and looked at that first tree for a second time... I had them pull it out and put it on a stand so I could actually see the entire tree and as they were standing it up on the stand I couldn't help but get teary eyed... I know I'm super lame... but it really was MY perfect tree so we got it and brought it home... Later that night we went out to get lights and some new NONBREAKABLE ornaments...
The next morning my dad, brother and sister were scheduled to take off but the girls insisted that we decorate the tree before they left so we did and it was tons of fun and the tree turned out beautiful...

Here are the girls in front of the almost finished tree... My mom and Allison finished the tree a few days later after putting bows and ribbons on the top... Thanks again mom and dad for everything and all the fun memories

Pregnant....

I hate blogging and not posting any pictures.. I rather post pictures to show you what we have been up to rather than write what we have been up to but since I don't really have any pictures I'm going to try to make this short...

Kyle and I are expecting baby # 3 sometime end of April... We are very excited as we are expecting our first little boy! Kyle and I found out that we were expecting sometime end of August and I thought it would be fun not to say anything until we found out the gender... Around my 15 week mark I just had a feeling that we needed to give our parents a clue so a week later Kyle and I thought of a cute idea to announce it... We went out and bought a baby pumpkin (since it was Halloween) and added it to the rest of the pumpkins and took a picture and posted it for friends and family... I was 16 weeks along at the time of announcing we were expecting... One week after announcing we were expecting I got a phone call from my parents stating that my Ahba (grandfather) was passing away. He passed away on Sunday November 7th... We made a quick trip down to California to attend his funeral on Tuesday November 9th we got in super early in the morning. After an hour of sleep I woke up to a gushing of fluids... I woke Kyle up so he could help me and we ended up rushing into the Emergency room around 7 am... The good news was that I WAS NOT miscarrying and that the baby looks to be fine... They just couldn't give us an answer as to where and why I was bleeding... So they told us to stay in California until the bleeding had stopped so after two days of waiting we finally decided to make the long trip back home to Utah... The next day we met up with my doctor so we could get an answer from him and he stated that it looked like the baby was low laying and that was the reason for my problems so again they put me on "bed rest" so the baby could adjust a little higher. A few weeks went by and everything again was looking to be going fine and so I started to do my normal daily things to all of a sudden have another incident... So Kyle and I went in to see the doctors again and they sent me in to labor and delivery so we could see a specialist in their ultrasound department. I was 19 weeks along at this point. They took me in and did a could different ultrasounds to see the baby and see if they could figure out the source of my problems... After the last ultrasound they found the source of the problem... I was diagnosed with a clot close to my cervix. The specialist was concerned of what the clot could do to the baby so again they put me on "bed rest" or limited activity for an entire month until they would see me again on December 20th and then they would be able to determine if they would be preparing us for a premature baby... December 20th came and we went in to do the ultrasounds and the specialist came in very pleased... The fluids around the baby looked to be fine and the growth/development of the baby looks to be fine... The only concern was that I had been bleeding that whole month and the clot was still there... smaller but still there so they have scheduled me to come back end of January to do another check up on the babies fluids and development as well as see if the clot had gotten any smaller or disappeared completely.. So until then I'm still on limited activity...

We are just very grateful and excited to have this little boy join our family...

We also want to send our gratitude to all of our family and friends that came to help, sent meals and prayers our way... We have truly been blessed!! Thank you all again for everything you do to help our little family...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving 2010... This was the second year in a row we were able to spend Thanksgiving in our own home but this year was extra fun as my family was able to join us for the festivities. Some of the yummy food that we made...

Allison drew a pretty picture for Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth for Thanksgiving
Me right before dinner... Like the belly???

My mom waiting for the rolls to come out...

My dad

Dale and Abbigail....

Thanks again Dad and Mom for coming up and spending Thanksgiving with us! It was tons of fun!

Playing Catch up...

Today I'm going to try to play a little catch up... One because it's been forever and two as I've been going through my pictures I've noticed a lot that I've forgotten to blog about so enjoy all the pictures and hopefully within the next week or two I'll get completely caught up with my blogging... Here we go...

Disney on Ice... I won tickets to Disney on Ice thanks to my friend Jessica! Allison, Kyle and Abbigail at Disney on Ice here in Salt Lake

Disney on Ice characters... I was unable to go to the Disney on Ice but Kyle, Allison, Abbigail and Grandma Kelley were all able to go and enjoy the fun!

Disneyland... In early November my Ahba (Grandfather) passed away and so we went down to California for this funeral. While we were down in California Kyle and Grandma Kelley were able to take the girls to Disneyland. Here's Allison with Snow White.

Allison with Cinderella... Kyle was very disappointed with Cinderella..

After hours of waiting in line to have Cinderella just take a picture and send Allison on her way was not going to fly... Allison with The Little Mermaid... She was Allison's favorite because she was the nicest of all the princesses... Allison was very disappointed that Sleeping Beauty was not there that day... But Aerial made her happy.. Abbigail on the Tea Cups... Kyle said that this was probably Abbigail's favorite ride...

Grandma Kelley and Allison on the Tea Cups...

Grandma Kelley, Abbigail and Allison in front of the Dumbo ride...

Grandma Kelley and Allison on the Dumbo ride... Kyle said this was Allison's favorite ride of the day...

Kyle with the girls on the carousel... Allison loved it Abbigail not so much...

Kyle and his girls waiting in line....

Kyle and Abbigail waiting in line....

Kyle, Abbigail and Allison in front of the Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse statue.

Allison and Abbigail standing next to the letter "A" and California Disney...

Abbigail at Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth's waiting to go to Disneyland and enjoying a snack...

Halloween... This is the picture we posted to announce that we are expecting another little bundle of joy... We are expecting a little BOY sometime end of April... We are very excited...

Friday before Halloween we went to my cousins work Halloween party were the decorate all the areas and hand out lots of candy...

Abbigail and Allison all dressed up for Halloween... Abbigail is Snow White and Allison was a Ballerina..

Picture of the buck in our backyard... We were excited to actually see a buck..

Allison all dressed up for her school Halloween party...

Allison, Kyle and Abbigail carving pumpkins... Kyle was in charge of carving while I was in charge of scraping out all the seeds... Allison and Abbigail got to color and design the faces...

The girls pulling out the seeds...

Abbigail and Allison with our pumpkins...

Abbigail and Allison with the pumpkins again....

Me and My sister Karly at mini golf... Karly came up to visit with us in August and we had a blast doing lots of fun activities...

Kyle, Abbigail and Allison at the in door mini golf...

Allison, Abbigail and myself by the gorillas...

Us looking at all the little monkeys...

Allison with a warthog in the background

Karly at Hogal Zoo

Hogal Zoo...

Karly and I took the girls to the splash pad... This is Allison's favorite thing to do during the summer... Here's Allison taking a little lunch break...

Abbigail and I walking around in the splash pond...

Abbigail and Allison at Thanksgiving point in the dinosaur museum

Allison and Karly at the dinosaur museum