Well....its about time

Well its about time to let everyone know on the blog that....WE ARE EXPECTING!!! I am 12ish weeks...haven't had a ultrasound yet...but did get to hear the heartbeat yesterday and it was absolutely amazing. It was brief because the baby made it hard to find...then when we did find it we got to hear it real quick and then it was gone again. Babies already on the move. Right now our due date is May 27th...but the doctor said that it could also be a week later. When we do a real ultrasound he will determine for sure. But anyway...just wanted to make it official on here!!!

Long needed post...

Many things have happened since our last post...but I'm just going to do a fast forward of the summer and a few pictures. Then I will try to stay on top of it so I don't get so behind. So this summer we have had 3 additions to our family. One in Brian's family, One in mine and also my best friend had her baby.

Dan and Carissa's baby girl, Ellie Paige Jensen born in April

Tyler and Tracy's baby boy, Jaxon Rey Butikofer born in June.

Kendon and Michelle's baby boy, Ethan James Galloway born in August.

Babies, babies everywhere and I am loving having them around. We also had many more born in my extended family, Robyn, Jody, Erin (who had twins, a boy and a girl), Karen is having one anyday now and my cousin Teri Jo was able to adopt two beautiful babies. Also my cousin Miriam is having a baby in Jan or Feb. The family is a growing!!!

A project that we did this summer was covering Turk's digging spot and tearing down the deck. It was a crazy adventure...but it turned out beautifully and a lot better then the nasty deck. Turk wasn't very excited when he couldn't dig anymore....but on a positive side note, he doesn't dig anymore at all. YAY!!!!

Here is the before....

And I need to get a better after picture...but at least you can see the bricks here. And Brian and Tyler built amazing back stairs.

We also got the chance this summer for my neice Alexie to come stay with us for a week. It was a lot of fun to get to spend some time with her now that she is getting so old...and Turk absolutely loved her!

We did lots of camping this summer. We got us a tent camper at the beginning of the summer and we have loved getting to use it this summer. It is a totally different experience having a camper and it is a lot of fun, and will be lots of fun as the years go by.

I got to go to my first concert ever this year on the day before my birthday. Ronnie Dunn was here at the fair and my dad had tickets and he took me. It was so much fun and I absolutely loved it. Ronnie Dunn was amazing!


We had a lot of fun this summer and now it is on to fall and winter!!!

Family pictures and Christmas

Sorry this post is full of lots of pictures. Also they uploaded backwards from where I really wanted them to. But oh well. So Turk is getting huge. As these pictures show. He thinks that he is a lap dog even though he definitely isn't!

We got this bone for him for Christmas and he hasn't even touched it until two days ago and now he is going at it like there is no tomorrow. Since I took this picture an hour ago and since I took it he has already chewed off one of the knobs at the end and is almost done eating that! He loves his rawhides!

This is us watching the total lunal eclipse that we had not to long ago. It was freezing outside and we tried to take pictures of the moon, but of course they didn't work!

This is our christmas tree, which was much bigger when we brought it home, until I accidently cut to much off and had to sit it on a big tuperware thing so that it looked tall again! It was nice to not be in an apartment and get a bigger tree!

This was our dinner after getting Christmas trees and Abby is in love with my new neice Brooklyn. Good thing she is getting a little brother soon so she can have her own baby! But anytime that Brooklyn is around Abby is right there next to her.

This year Brian couldn't come to get Christmas trees with us, so it was me and Turk that had to pick out our tree this year. The snow was so deep that Turk got stuck and started whining, but it was fun to see him playing in the snow with Beau my brother's dog, and Bella my sister's dog. We had lots of fun!

Then for Thanksgiving all of my brothers and sisters were here and so we got the chance to get family pictures done. My brother that is in the military came home from Korea and was moving his family to Spokane so it was absolutely perfect and for some reason they decided to put the littlest sister in charge of it! So here is our Turk who even got his picture taken!! This was mostly for Brian's parents because his mom is scared of him cause he is so big, so we took a picture for her so that she could see her "grandpuppy" as she calls him!

Here are the ones of me and Brian and then our little family!

Then here is my big family! It just keeps growing and growing and the moment this picture was taken it was outdated because my brother and his wife are expecting in June. But it was still so fun to take this picture. Also my oldest neice isn't in the picture but my brother is supposed to photo shop her in where that whole is in the back! I love the pictures and Hanna at theturquoiseframe.blogspot.com did amazing!

So yeah life has been amazing! Thanksgiving and Christmas were really nice and it has been a good year so far! I couldn't ask for a better life!