It's a boy!

We are expecting our third baby due June 22, 2010. We went to the doctor on January 20th and found out we are having a boy. We are all excited except for Audrey. She thinks the matter is still debatable. She keeps saying, "that's not a boy I want a girl." I'm sure she'll like him once he's born.

Christmas

This year we spent Christmas in Safford with Mark's family. It was nice not o have to travel for hours or drive in the snow. There was plenty of cousins around for the girls to play with. Unfortunately a few days before Christmas Hailey got strep throat and pink eye. Luckily we caught both really early so we were able to enjoy Christmas eve with the family. ( and thankfully no one else got either of the illnesses)

Christmas eve we had a dinner and the children and Uncle Jason acted out the nativity. It's always fun to see the kids dress up.





Hailey, Kaylee, Emily and Brock were the angels.


Audrey was suppose to be a wise man, but she wasn't really in the mood to participate.

After the nativity the girls got to open their new PJs and a present from Mimi and Papa.



Christmas Morning we opened presents at mark's parent's house. Hailey wanted a new Belle Barbie, and Audrey wanted princess makeup. Mark got a guitar and new football and I got a new wallet and a gym membership, both of which I love.

Locks of love

In November Hailey donated 10 inches of her hair for Locks of Love. She had been growing it out for a year. I took her to a salon to get her first professional hair cut. She looked so grownup sitting in the chair. We are so proud of her.

Graham County Fair

Last weekend was the fair and this year we enter about 28 things. Mostly we enter produce that we grew either in our garden or we planted at Mark's parents. The girls each got 7 ribbons. Mark got 5 or 6 and I got one blue for my grape jelly. We had a good time looking at exhibits and seeing the animals. I'm pretty sure the animals were the girls favorite part. They wanted to ride the carousel, but it was 3 dollars a person. Next year we hope to have even more to enter in the fair, now that we have an idea of how it works and what things we can enter.

General conference

I always look forward to general conference, however I don't look forward to entertaining the girls and trying to keep them quite so we can actually learn something. So we put up a tent for the girls to sit in and listen like the people did for King Benjamin's talk. They were both really excited. Audrey was a little too excited about the "camping". Hailey got the idea a little better. I printed off the church's conference booklet for her to color. I also gave her cheerios and a bingo game. She did pretty good. I've seen a big a difference in Hailey just in the last 6 months since the last conference.

I really enjoyed this conference, especially Elder Bednar's talk about family.

What do you want for Christmas?

Audrey is really interested in Santa lately. At the end of summer I went to pull out the girls fall clothes and I found a swimming suite that I thought Audrey could have worn this summer. I let her try it on and she danced around the house like a ballerina. (it had a little ruffle) Then she said "Santa gave this to me for my birthday." A few weeks later we were sitting on the back porch of Mark's parent's house watching the dogs and Audrey said, "Mom, Wucy (Lucy) doesn't have any eyes. Santa will bring her some for Christmas." The innocence of a child is so sweet. Now when I ask her what she wants for Christmas she said ,"Eyes for Lucy"

Nightmare

Early this morning I woke up to Audrey crying "mama!". When I got to her room she was thrashing around in her bed (still asleep) saying, "I want to brush my teeth!, I want to brush my teeth!"