March Events

Other events that I took phone pictures of in the month of March:

 

 St. Patrick's Day cake (Also Aunt Amy's birthday)

 

 Avery being a nice sister and feeding breakfast to Ross.  :)

 

 A decent day outside, so the kids decided to play in the dirt.

 

We realized that this is fine until we end up planting the garden for the year, but after that we really need to restock the sand in the sandbox.  :)

 

 Our Branch's Easter egg hunt was quite a success!

 

My kids are all older this year and know exactly what to do, so catching them in a photo is nearly impossible.  Ross actually stopped to show me the bunny he made.  He is in love with bunnies!

 

  Happy Easter!

 

 The Smith's came over for Easter dinner, here's Tom playing with the kids.

 

 Sweet Avery in the nursery at Church.

 

Crazy Dan!

Baby Earl #6!

After Evelyn passed away, Dan and I knew that there was at least one baby (if not more) waiting to come to our family.  When my body complications ceased and I was clear to start trying to get pregnant again, we moved forward.  Little did I know that the future held very emotional and trying months.  For anyone that knows me, I'm a fertile myrtle.  I realized quickly that I took that for granted.  I was blessed to just think baby and I was pregnant before, but this time around wasn't happening that way.  Each month I would cry when I wasn't pregnant.  It didn't help when friends would ask when we would get pregnant again.  I gained a new love and empathy for my sisters and friends who struggled to have babies or were never able to have them.  I was a little confused that I would feel that there was a baby in our future, but didn't see that one was coming.  After 7 months, I went to my doctor to get checked out to make sure all was ok.  She was so sweet and caring, and I feel like she knows me and really cares about me.  I didn't feel like just another patient.  She said she thought she'd be seeing me soon, either to get checked out or because I was expecting.  I was told that all looked in order, so she gave me a few suggestions and said she hoped to see us soon.

 

The very next month, I was late.  I was elated!  But when I took those pricey prego tests, it came out negative.  Talk about a quick drop to sadness.  I had a few cues that I was not pregnant a day or two later, but nothing really happened after a week, so I bought a dollar store test.  I didn't want to waste money if it didn't work.

 

I guess dollar store tests work just as well as the pricey ones!  Good to know!  Wahoo!

I can't express how excited I was!  What a miracle pregnancy is!

 

Avery was excited that she gets to be a big sister twice!

 The kids were super excited to hear that a new baby would come to our family.  We had a few discussions when the kids had concerns that this baby would die too.  We agreed as a family that we would move forward with faith and not fear.  We have faith and hope that all will go just fine with this baby.

 

Our little nugget at 7 weeks.  Because of the unsure date, we got to have an early ultrasound.  I was told that we would take things carefully and treat this pregnancy as high-risk because there was no known cause with Evelyn's death, and they hoped that it would not repeat.

 

Our little nugget's due date is November 26, 2013!

Hockey Season

Our boys love to play floor hockey.  This year Donovan and Elliott were in different leagues, therefore different teams.  It was fun seeing them shine on their own.

 

 Elliott as an awesome goalie.  It was hard to get anything past him!

 

 Donovan playing his heart out.

 Donovan chilling out after his game.

 

 They each got a medal for playing.

 

 Elliott's team 2013

Donovan's team 2013

 

This is the weather on the first day of Spring.  Snow!

 



Of course we play our own hockey as well when the snow clears!

Glasses

We got a letter from the school telling us that Donovan had failed his school vision exam.  We were to check up with our eye dr. to see how his vision really was. 

 

 Donovan did really well and wasn't nervous.  Come to find out he is near-sighted in one eye and far-sighted in the other, just like his Aunt Amy!

 

He got to choose these stylish glasses.  He's happy that he can see the board better and that he doesn't have to wear them to play.

Yum!

The lemon tree that we have been growing and caring for for over 5 years has finally decided to grow fruit.  We have 4 lovely specimens that are plumping up nicely.  Though, like in this picture they are awfully orange!  I wonder if they gave us the wrong tree after all these years!  I like oranges too, but I guess time and tasting will tell what they really are.

 

 

My friend Stephanie and I like to get together now that she is not able to go to work.  We have decided that during our time together we will try new things and learn how to make a variety of things.  This last time, I learned how to make bagels!  The very first batch were just plain and tasted lovely!  This time I made cinnamon raisin and plain.  They are not the prettiest bagels out there, but boy are they yummy and sooooo easy to make!