Saturday!

I adore the weekends. I love being home with my three men. This Saturday Gavin started soccer. When he was going to bed on Friday we told to go to sleep quickly so he would have enough energy to play soccer in the morning.
Well bright and early at seven, even though he didn't get to bed so early, he was ready to go. He was at my bedside in his soccer shorts and t-shirt wanting me to put on his new tennis shoes.

He was so excited. So after much anticipation at nine we showed up to practice. It was so cute! And there are two boys from our neighborhood on his team. I haven't seen him smile so big before. His first game is the 18th and he has one more practice before he is ready for the big game.


So the rest of the day we hung out, cleaned up the garage, swam and got ready to take the boys to their grandma's while we went out!
I have so been looking forward to some one on one time with my husband. I feel like I haven't been able to do that in a while. We went to the Pizza Factory and saw Inception. And my mother-in-law had us take her car, a VW convertible beetle, my favorite car! The cherry on top of an already awesome day! Jason didn't even get a chance to drive it.





The only drawback was a rude dude saying, "get in my belly." After I waddled past him and his girl to the bathroom. I know I am big but that was so rude, I wanted to stop and tell him off, but I really had to pee. Then when I came back out he wouldn't look my direction at all so I could give him a dirty look. Oh well I can hardly blame him because I ate so much at the Pizza Factory I was even bigger than normal.

A month from today!

So it's official September 17th is the day. (Unless I go into labor on my own before that). It's kinda of weird for me to have a planned date like this. I waited anxiously for that day to just arrive on its on with the boys. It's tourture but I kinda of like that nature gets to decide when the baby comes.
But, Because I have Group B strep, I have to have antibiotics through an IV. Last time I had Owen so quickly that I didn't get all of the antibiotics before he came. Thus making the stay at the hospital really, really long. So to avoid that I get to go in early, start the antibiotics and then have the doctor break my water. Plus my mom is going to be coming in the day before. I am excited to have here be here to excperience this with.
After the appointment I asked Jason if he was ready to have a new little one in 4 weeks. He said "No!" At first I was shocked and now I am thinking, well neither am I. I haven't done anything to get ready for him to be here. I still have to pull out and wash all the clothes, buy diapers, finish his room, talk to the boys more about it, make a nursing and car seat cover, start hypnobirthing prep etc... How did this creep up on me I am not ready!!! But all of those things are just the small details right? Once he is here I am sure all of that will be taken care of and he will be melting all of our hearts. I just hope we can decide on a name for him before he is home from the hospital. Cause I can't keep calling him little Chit, that's just cruel.

I am huge, I know. This is the one and only picture I am going to take/show.

The AMAZING Race

This past weekend we had our annual family amazing race. This was the sixth year it has been up and running. This year we planned it, cause it's best to be the planner when I have to opt out of a lot of things because I am pregnant. Jason actually took charge of a majority of the planning. It was kinda fun to seem him get all into to it. So this year consisted of a Golfing tournement, and IKEA scavenger hunt, a race up Ensign peak. All of this happened friday morning while I was home with my boys and my sweet 6 month old nephew, Luke. Which was such a good chance for me to get a feel of what life with three little boys will be like. It was a really easy going morning, so I am a little more at ease about things. Then around lunchtime my good friend Rachael, watched my boys so I could go out to eat with the whole family at Firehouse Pizzaria, and to the park for a name that movie game and a water balloon games. After that I headed back home with Luke while the rest of the gang went paintballing. Which sounded like a lot of fun but the welts and bruising looked painful. Ouch!
After that everyone came back to our pad for a pool party and barbaque. We all ate swam and wrapped up the night, so we could rest up for the next day of fun.
The next day we had rented Jetskis and made a comfy spot on the beach at Deer Creek Resevoir. The kids played in sand, muddy water and played all day. I think all of the kids tryed the jetskis. Owen loved it and wanted to go out a couples of times. I convienced Gavin to go out once and he enjoyed it as long as I stayed under 7 mph, but I went a tad faster a few times and he was ok but hesitant. When we got back he said, "I'm going to tell Butch(papo) that was scary-ish fun. It was a good day everyone had a blast. Now we all want to find a way to own a Jetski. Then we ended the day by finding our campsite, eating some yummy meatball subs, starring into the campfire, songs, marshmallows and quality family fun. I truly love the family I have married into. It doesn't matter what we do, it's always fun!

Picture to come later, my father in law Butch took tons of pictures and I didn't even snap a single photo amidst all the fun.

Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

So,
My two little guys have decided to be bed buddies. I went all out a few months ago thinking that I should get them bunk beds, with the arrival of the new little one coming in September. Gavin has loved his bed, which he picked out green stripped bedding for. He has kinda grown up and has been going to bed so much easier for us. Then about a month ago, Owen wanted to try out his bunk on the bottom. I was a little worried about him making the transition so early since he still really has a few months of enjoying his crib, his own space. But once he slept in his bed in Gavin's room there was no going back. He didn't want his crib anymore. In the beggining he didn't want the new bed either. He was way out of sorts. But after a few weeks of working on a routine that worked for both of them them they are so happy to climb into bed and laugh and tickle and yes sometimes bite each other and go to sleep. It's so sweet that they love to be there for each other. I love to check on them before I go to bed and see them both sleeping in the same bed. Gavin has always been a cuddle bug and prefers to sleep next to someone. While Owen has always been a good sleeper and wants to be just like his big brother. So it works, and now I don't have to stress about where to put the baby after he is out of the bassinett, or how to make it all work. Ahh...I love when little life details seem to work themselves out in such a delightful way. What a blessing and huge stress relief.

Notes from Gavin

So,
I frequently get sweet little notes from Gavin. He likes to write to me at night sometimes. I usually collect the note after he has gone to bed. He is a genius in the language department as everyone is probably aware. Sometimes this gets him into trouble. I thought that this was the case with this note.




I thought the note said that I was smart on one side. And then I thought the other side said, I call you won't come, you're dumb. I thought that he wrote me something sweet and then got mad at me and changed his mind and wrote me something me in his frustration.

However the next day, I told him I got his note and I was sad because he called me dumb. He looked shocked and explained what he wrote. Turns out he wrote the words out of order. I had not put them in order. I guess he wrote Mom, you are smart, you are the bom(bomb)...I won't call you dumb. So then I felt much better, I don't even remember him calling me dumb but all is forgiven. I love that sweet smartie pants. As I type this he is reading books to his brother for me. I love it!