Another much needed update

Here is another update that is a bit overdue. Nothing like starting a post with a picture of you and your boy showing off your personal hygiene skills. Mason is a pro at brushing his teeth as long as he doesn't have to stand in the bathroom to do it. He probably gets this from me. I am always walking around multitasking while I brush my teeth.

Mason and Reese made some cookie/brownies for one of Mason's friends. Here he is celebrating his brownie whisk and his cookie whisk. He always has a lick of the spoon too.
Here is our weekly pick from our tomato plants. A couple beefsteak tomatoes and a couple handfuls of grape tomatoes.

Here we are happy about our tomatoes.

Our awesome neighbor dropped off these beauties! A GIANT bowl of grapes and two LARGER THAN LIFE zucchinis. This picture doesn't do them justice. I should have had something else in the picture so that you could see the scale of these babies. They were delicious too! Thanks Sarah and Waylin!

Here is a belly picture...

I am 32/40 weeks in this picture. Only 8 weeks to go! I look at this picture and I feel a WHOLE LOT BIGGER than I look in this picture. I believe this picture was also taken before noon, which is when I show a lot less. I look like I have a watermelon under my shirt after about 4:00 pm each day. Everything is measuring right for her to make a big appearance on the 21st of November.

Here are some cupcakes that Mason and I made. First, we made ghosts with chocolate chip eyes. Have you ever seen a happier boy than one that is about to eat a freshly made cupcake?

He is in Heaven.

Here is his "Blue Steel" look. He kept pushing into my head to either be close to me or to just get me out of the picture.

Top of Utah Half Marathon

Last Saturday was the Top of Utah Half Marathon. Most of my family came up to run in the race. Here they are at 5:45 in the morning all energized to run 13.1 miles. I'm so proud to call them my family. Reese, Lynette, Brett, Mom, Sara

My dad, Mason, and I waiting for our crew to pass the finish line. Mason kept saying "Go, go!" I'm sure the runners appreciated it :)

Yet another toy in front of Mason's eyes.

Here come the runners...
Here's Reese still feeling good after running about 1:45. Not bad for just deciding that morning that he wanted to run. He did it for both of us because there is no way I'm going to run that far...I'm more of a sprinter at heart.

Here's my brother Brett.

He looked the least excited that he had just ran 13.1 miles.
Brett's wife Lynette was so fast coming into the finish line that I was only able to take a picture of her flying past us.

How fun to run together!

Here's my sister Sara. She is currently training for a marathon in San Fransisco in October. She was excited to run only 13.1 miles that day because she was actually supposed to run 16 miles for a workout.

Here is my amazing mom cheering down the home stretch.

August

It's kind of sad that I only post on the blog about once a month, but I figure if you miss us that much and want to know what's going on more often...stop on by and see us in person! Usually we are doing something like this...

Mason LOVES Reese's Jeep whose name is Barry (after it's previous owner, not the guy that is currently living in the White House). Mason could play in this Jeep for hours but much to his dismay, we don't let him.

We told him it was time to get out and he just pretended that he was asleep.

We caught him awake!
Can you guess what Mason has made in this picture? It consists of a step stool, a Lego man, 2 blankets, 2 couch pillows followed by his pillow and then the last couch pillow, a pants and a shirt hanger, a dish cloth, a towel, 2 diapers, and one more blanket. So do you know what it is?


It's a train silly! Hop on board! Choo choo!!

Mason covering his eyes yet again for a picture.
I almost got both of his eyes in this shot...after waiting for a few minutes.

Don't you love that face?!?

I also really love this face. Reese makes me smile so much that my cheeks start to hurt.

Mason wearing Reese's old high school hat/cap/beenie while riding his dinosaur Spike.


There is that "I'm trying to look happy" face.

4 Years Down, The Rest of Forever to Go

Yes Reese and I celebrated our anniversary of 4 years last Thursday, August 6! We have been through a lot and can't wait for what the future holds. We have added a great little boy, half of an already active girl, and some amazing life and learning experiences. It has been a blast!

I love you Babe!

4th of July Weekend

More July Fun

July 2009

Here are some things we did/learned in the month of July:

• Bought a new mower that blows bubbles for Mason since he only had 2 out of the 4 wheels attached on his old mower.
• My parents and sister came for a visit to watch fireworks and help us with our basement construction.
• We held a multifamily yard sale in our yard. We were able to sell a lot of things and now our basement is open and free for more junk. :)
• Anything stacked in a pile is considered a fire by Mason. This includes shoes, blocks, all wood, shredded cheese on his plate, piled up toys, and mounds of dirt.
• That we have a great friend named Bryan that missed his family so much that he took Mason for a night so that Reese and I could have a date night. Thanks again Bry!
• The only thing that Mason loves more than pancakes with syrup is pancakes with syrup in the shape of a truck or airplane.
• Mason has a popcorn bowl and in order to get ready to eat popcorn, he MUST put the bowl on his head before the popcorn comes out of the microwave.
• Mason loves the camera! He finds it, takes it to one of us, says "Cheese" so you can take a picture, and then says "Wanna see" so that he can see how good he looks in pictures.
• Bedtime is really at 8:30 and you sleep in your own bed but when Dad is in charge sometimes the rules get bent and you go to bed at almost 10:00 in Mom and Dad's bed with Dad.
  

It's a...

Girl!!
Mason already calls her " Baby Sis."
And here are the pictures...
(I have added captions to help explain what is what)

Here is her little arm. The elbow is to the right and her hand is over her face.

Here is a good shot of her spine. Her bum is down on the right side.

Spine shot along with her head on the left.

Look at that big ole' foot! She's probably going to be taller than both Reese and I if she ever grows into those feet. Her other leg is crossed over her crotch. Her left knee is to the right of left big toe, and her bum is to the right of her shin. Got it?

Here is a picture of her right leg. Her foot is to the right and her knee is bent. Her legs were crossed and tucked right up under her the whole time so it wasn't until the very end of the ultrasound that we were able to find out that she was in fact a girl. I have the actual picture showing that she is a girl but she was so modest and not wanting to show us that I figure I won't post her exposure on the internet. :)

She was also very camera shy. The arrow is pointing to her upper lip, her nose is to the left and her bottom lip and chin are to the right. This is the best picture we were able to get of her little face. So, like her brother, they both didn't want to show off their cute little faces. We have some 3D images of her face that help you to actually see her face better but they didn't get onto the CD that we have. Here is the picture we have of Mason's face in his ultrasound. They are already alike, only showing their noses and mouths.

So did you guess right...boy or girl?

The Month of June

I haven't updated in a bit and I bet you are all wondering what we have been up to. Well, we have been trying to get as many things accomplished right now while it is summer and while we only have one child running around the house. We ended the month of May with sickness. Mason came home from church the last Sunday in May and was kind of out of it. He just rolled around on the floor and moaned. So we got him changed and checked his temperature, which turned out to be 101F. We were able to get his temperature down with rest and a little bit of Tylenol. We really didn't eat for about a week and we were tempting him with all of his favorite things. Thankfully, he quickly recovered.
This next picture was taken obviously once he was feeling better. What can I say, he likes cookies.

Here is another cookie-enjoying picture.Which oddly looks very much like this next one taken when he was just about to turn 1. Why do I always give him chocolate cookies?

We check on Mason every night before we go to bed. This particular night, he found a new position to sleep in...hanging off the bed.
For our "school time" I made Mason some edible playdough, you can find the recipe here. I shouldn't have told him that it was edible because now he eats more than plays.Here are all the stars he made with the cookie cutters. He gets impatient with taking away the excess dough so the shapes aren't quite as sharp as he would like.

Nothing is better for Mason than coloring with Dad once he gets home from work. Our neighbor Graham was over that night to play too

Mason LOVES my sewing machine. I made a "craft room" out of our unfinished downstairs bedroom. Finally, I have a somewhat permanent place for my sewing machine, scrapbook supplies (even though I no longer scrapbook), and my other storage boxes filled with craft stuff. So here is Mason helping me sew. He is very good at just watching and knows that he does not reach in to actually help me sew

Here is Mason in one of the corners of the "craft room."

Here is one of my most recent sewing creations. Yes it is another nursing cover, but I think I have perfected the pattern. It is a little longer and wider than this one and since I used 2 different coordinating fabrics from Hobby Lobby, I personally think it is cuter! I also made some matching burp cloths. It is not for me though {sigh} but for someone who may or may not check this blog so no names will be mentioned. I cannot wait until we find out what we are having so that I can start sewing things for the new babe.

Speaking of the new babe...here I am at 18 weeks. I have Reese take pictures of me on the days when I have done my hair so here I am, on a Sunday...the one day that I consistently get ready.

Here is our small but very tasty crop of strawberries and raspberries thus far minus a couple strawberries that have already been devoured. Hopefully we will get a few more from our newly planted bushes this year.
Mason helped me make brownies and then he helped me clean the utensils.
He doesn't just eat junk food I promise! We just happen to take pictures of him only when he is into junk food. So here he is eating from a bag of chips.