Waiting

Yes, the pregnancy countdown now says 40 weeks, 1 day.  I wish it wasn't true, but it is.  This is the biggest I've been with any pregnancy and now the most uncomfortable.  I really wish he would move it along, I've been constantly cleaning, rearranging, and decorating and I'm so done.   My sister is here and I have her to help, but now she may not even get to meet him.  So in the meantime while we sit here, Riley lost her first tooth, Ella's been to the Dr. twice with an ear and eye infection, Jarom has been home from work sick with Ella's cold, and the girls have been playing with their cousin Lydia.

Can you feel the love?

For Valentine's day Riley had her normal ballet class with a little performance at the end.  She loves ballet and poor Ella only wants to join her.  Daddy came with little tulip vases for both the girls and and big bouquet of tulips for me at home.  He loves his girls so much!  We are definitely spoiled, just look at all the cards.

Family/Maternity pictures

The other week my friend, Jamie was gracious enough to take some maternity/family pictures.  I figured since this is probably the last time I'll be pregnant I might as well have it documented ;)  It was a beautiful Saturday morning, the sun was shining, but it was also only 33 degrees!  The girls lasted about the first 10 minutes then had to go warm up in the car.  We did get some good shots in though.  These are just a sample of the great work Jamie did.  Can't wait to have baby boy pictures taken when he gets here.

Christmas 2010

Ok, so we "lost" our camera with the Christmas pics, but just found it under the couch cushions yesterday. That seems to be the place where all lost things go. Anyway, Jarom's parents came out for a week at Christmas. We had a great time going to Zoolights, the Nutcracker, and just hanging out at home making Christmas cookies. Christmas morning was lots of fun watching both girls and their reactions to all the presents. The hit of the presents was probably the big chairs my mom got, they played with those all week figuring out all kinds of ways to make forts or slide off of them. It was nice to have family in town for the holidays, we'll have to require that from now on.

At the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle

Really excited about their chairs

Make a greeting card

Nativity play

This year the Christmas church party had the kids do a short Nativity play.  Riley of course volunteered to be an angel.  Her part was to just stand there and look cute.  Her friend Allie thought it would be better to take control of the mic and sing instead.  Pretty cute.

Traditions & Two year olds

A couple days after our anniversary is my birthday, seriously the celebrations never end around here.  I turned, dare I say it, I won't so here's a picture instead.   I can't believe that number, I certainly don't feel that old.

Anyway, we decided to go get our Christmas tree this past weekend.  Every year for 8 years we've gone to Mitchell's Tree Farm just down the street from our house.  So we attempted to get the girls bundled up.  Ella threw a major fit because she did not want to take off her short sleeve dress and put pants and a jacket on.  It took both of us to hold her down and dress her.  She was still screaming as we strapped her into the car.  We got to the farm and told her she had to wear her jacket to get out of the car. She refused and stomped off into the woods alone.  I sent Jarom after her and here he is bringing her back.

 Still screaming and kicking! We tried walking down the lane to the trees but Ella planted herself in the middle of the road and refused to walk or be carried.  Plan B.  "Let's just go get a pre-cut tree fast at another market."  Left, drove to the other place and Ella refused to leave the car.  Which left just me and Riley walking around looking for a tree.  Couldn't find anything we liked.  Plan C.  Drove back to Mitchell's Tree Farm.  Ella stopped crying but still refused to put on her jacket.  So we walked around the farm for 30 minutes as I watched her hands turn purple.  It didn't seem to phase her too much but I could see her start to shiver.  Luckily we found our tree at the last minute.  And here's some pictures to prove that even a crazy dress wearing 2 yr. old can't break our Christmas tradition!

Riley attempting to help

The trouble maker

The End