Daddy takes the girls skiing

With Brian working 12 hour shifts he has 2 to 3 days off during the week.  We haven't been able to take Autumn up to Beaver to go skiing (though my dad did take her night skiing one night) Brian had a couple of tickets to use so he decided to try to take BOTH girls up alone.  Autumn had only skied twice and Brooklyn had never gone before.  To tell you the truth I was kind of nervous that he would not have the patience to have 2 new skiers on the mountain.  

We got the girls stuff ready to go on a Monday that Brian had off  but the weather was going to be really bad.  So instead they were going to go on a Tuesday.  The weather was the first BEAUTIFUL and sunny day we have had for a while.  It was a great day to go skiing!

The girls all ready to go skiing

They did get stuck once or twice :)

But after a while both girls were skiing like pros without any bungees to keep their skis together

One of their favorite places to go was in the tunnel

They did try some of the other trails

But really liked playing around the tunnel

They had a lot of fun :)

The kids got home that afternoon and I realized I had forgotten one important thing ... SUNBLOCK.  Everyone had gotten a little burned except for Autumn who ended getting badly burned.  Her eyes swelled shut and then her whole face swelled.  It was the hardest thing to see my little girl is such terrible shape.  She ended up missing a whole week of school.  We got her into the doctor and he gave us a steroid creme that we started Friday night.  I cannot believe how quickly her face improved. After the first crusted layer of skin came off (in only 3 days)  Her face never peeled and didn't even look like she had gotten a second degree burn. 

We are all very grateful that she healed so quickly.  She even said she wants to go skiing again (but next time with sunblock and eye protection)

BABY #4

We went in for our 20 week ultrasound.  The girls decided to go to a friends last minute so Hunter was the only one with us.  It was really cool because We got to see it in live 4D.  They also recorded it on a DVD.  I have a VHS video of both Autumn and Brooklyn's ultrasound.  I only got a CD of pictures when we had Hunter's 3D ultrasound.  So I was pretty excited to see how amazing technology changes over just a few years. 

We decided to go to the ultrasound and not find out what the baby was.  I wanted to have the last baby be a surprise.

side view of baby

I was excited to actually get a good face shot.

 When I had Hunter's #D ultrasound I was sad that we could never see his face.  He would snuggle into the placenta and we could only get and side view of him.

Almost smiling

The foot

Baby put it's hands up

 Well as much as you might plan on something, SOMETIMES the baby has other plans.  While the ultrasound tech was measuring the baby's leg.... The baby decided to reveal itself... So we decided to get the conformation pics...

That's not a third leg :)

Definitely a little BOY!!

Christmas 2011

Catching up on past events (life must be a little crazy right now)

Our insurance company had a big party at the Fun Park.  The kids had a lot of fun.  We all played laser tag...even little Hunter.  He had a blast running around in the dark trying to shoot at people.  Brian took the girls rollerblading while I watched Hunter pay on the soft play.  Then we all went to see Santa to let him know what everyone wanted for Christmas.

Christmas morning the kids woke up and a had a very nice day.  

Merry Christmas

CARS!!

Autumn and her new Sunday dress 

I am not sure why Brookie is into the Monster High dolls

Autumn was excited to get her new 3DS

STAR WARS!! (I have to laugh at Hunter, he looks almost drugged)

Brookie's 7th Birthday

I can't believe how fast time goes by. My little girl is now 7 years old. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that my kids were all so little. We had a family party on her birthday. It was a little hard trying to get everything arranged because Brian worked late that day and it was the last day of school before Christmas break. It all worked out okay with a little help from my sister, Kristin, who kindly agreed to pick up the cake and some pizza for dinner.
Hunter is a little nut. I really don't know what he was doing but somehow got in the way of the camera and decided to be silly :)

We opened up presents and Brooklyn had a blast.

This was Brooklyn's surprised look ans Autumn brought in her last gift....

A brand new bike!

Happy Birthday Brooklyn!!!

Fun Times

We went to the pumpkin walk for the first time. We had a lot of fun. It was nice to get out of the house and do something fun as a family. The different exhibits were really cute. People are really creative.
There were a ton of these wooden picture boards to poke you head through. The kids had a lot of fun running around getting their pictures taken. I will have to put more up after I figure out how to turn them without having to post them of facebook first. We even had a little fun with one. I have an awesome photographer (Autumn).

Number 4!!!

I guess one of the big things that has happened recently is that we found out that we will be adding to our family. The kids are super excited. We decided to tell them while I was taking a picture of them in their shoes. They stood in order from oldest to youngest. At the end I placed a pair of baby shoes. It took a little while of guessing why we had some baby shoes there. I think Autumn figured it out pretty quickly but sat and giggled like she didn't dare ask. Brooklyn thought they were for her baby "Big Baby" Hunter later told his grandma that they were his imaginary friend. We sent the text to different family members to let them know. It was funny to see how quicklysome people figured it out, while it took a few questions from others to figure out what the picture meant.
The official due date is June 23rd, 2012. Autumn's 9th birthday. Hunter has been super cute about it. He keeps asking when I was going to have my baby. He makes sure he doesn't squish the baby, and one day he decided to try to feel the baby in my stomach. It was so funny. He pointed out on one side of my stomach was the feet, the otherside had the bum and the pee pee was in between. He also went to the first ultrasound to find out how far along I was. My doctor, Dr. Noorda, told Hunter that the baby had a gianormous pee pee (he heard about Hunter's feeling the baby story then Hunter told him the baby had a pee pee like his) So now Hunter is sure we are having another boy so he has someone to play cars with. I am more sick with this one then any other pregnancy. For a while people teased me that there was twins...I assure you there is only one. So it will be interesting to find out what this baby is in June (we do not plan on finding out the sex of the baby) We are really excited!

Puppies,Puppies, Everywhere!!

Okay, It has been really crazy at my place lately, so I haven't posted for a little while...okay a long while. One reason is I have been trying to sell puppies that we have and I am either constantly posting on KSL or on my doggy blogs. I seemed to never have the time to update my family blog. So once again, I get to try to catch up on all my past events...starting with our puppies. In less the 2 weeks, we had 2 litters of puppies born!! That made for lots of little puppies!

We had 9 german shorthair puppies...

...And 5 mini schnauzers

They started out small (especially the mini schnauzers) but they grew quickly and soon all puppies found new homes :)