Mexican Roll-Up's

Here is Kiera helping me make Mexican Roll-up's for a pot luck at Ryan's work last Friday. She had so much fun making these. She kept saying, "Mmmm, it smells good"! Then she would "accidentally" get a finger in the filling, just so she could eat it. She is such a silly girl!

Enjoying the Sun!

Here is Kiera enjoying the high plains winter. It got up to 72 degrees here yesterday and it was lovely. I have to say that I feel bad for my brother who is enjoying his last winter in Canada, Eh! Today they are suppose to reach a high of 16F, but look out for tomorrow, the high will only be -8F. Seriously, how did I get so lucky? I may not be saying the same thing this summer when I am nine months pregnant and it is who knows how hot. So I'll also add a picture that my brother sent me yesterday of him.

Our new house

Finally, some pictures of our house. There is so much we would like to do to this house we don't even know where to start. So far, we bought a new shower head for our bathroom! Bought a new stove and now Ryan is in the process of replacing the garage door opener because it decided to eat itself up! But we are enjoying having our own home and can't wait to PAINT!

Kiera the Chef

Here are pictures from this morning, Kiera and I made pancakes for breakfast. She LOVES to help in the kitchen!

It was a WHITE and WONDERFUL Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas in Utah with our family. This year Ryan's older brother and his family joined us. Next year my brother will be back from his mission and Ryan's younger brother and his wife will be separated from the military, so hopefully we will be able to see all of our family next Christmas.

We finally made it to New Mexico and get to live in the house we bought December 1st! This has been our first week here since we got home from Utah. So far we replaced the oven because the old one was nasty and I didn't want to clean it and we have done lots of cleaning. No one told us that we could put in the contract to have the house professionally cleaned! I haven't taken any pictures yet simply because I keep forgetting and now that I am thinking about it, it's dark outside.

So here are some pictures from our Christmas in Utah:

Kiera sitting on the first half of the 12' 11'' snowman Ryan and Brandon constructed

Kiera and Duncan enjoying the snow

The finished Giant!

Real Quick...

It's almost time for us to move to our new home in New Mexico! We are so excited. Then we get to go home to Utah for Christmas, we can't wait to see the snow! Oh yes, and our family!! Here are some recent pictures of my little angel and her one and only cousin, Duncan.

New Due Date

As it turns out, I am only seven weeks pregnant. What a let down. I thought I was almost through my first trimester until I had my first ultrasound yesterday. The measurement of the baby said it was seven weeks and one whole day. I am totally bumbed. Although now my due date is July 8th and I don't have to worry anymore about it coming on Kiera's or my birthday and I will most likely be able to travel home in May for when my brother comes home from his mission. Really, it's a good thing, but almost four weeks less than I thought.

Here is a cute picture of Kiera a daddy on the carousel at the local mall here in Florida. I love going to the mall this time of year. I LOVE all the Holiday decorations, the smells, the people. It's just so fun. I know many people, like my husband, disagree with me 100%, but I love going to the mall and Christmas time.

Kiera is...

Going to be a big sister! Baby number two is on it's way!! Not such great planning on our part, (as if we planned to get pregnant the month we did) but I am due on my birthday and Kiera's birthday is four days before mine. So I guess June is our month for having birthday's. I am only nine and a half weeks, which means a lot more to go.

Three things I HATE about being pregnant:
1- If I don't nap with Kiera, I'm ready to go to bed by 7:30pm
2- I hate making bathroom trips everywhere I go
3- Most of all I very much dislike being nauseated. I was doing great until Sunday, then it started. I was praying that this pregnancy would be complete opposite of the first.

Three things I LOVE about being pregnant:
1-Feeling the baby move (obviously hasn't happened yet)
2- Getting a new wardrobe (about to happen)
3-The beautiful gift from Heaven that I get to hold at the end of the nine months

We are extremely excited as a family and feel very blessed!

Happy Halloween!

My sweet little Halloween Princes!

Duncan--not so happy that he had to sit for a picture!

Yummmmm

This is our favorite Mexican restaurant of all time! Now that we are back in Florida, we quickly found ourselves on the hour long drive just to eat dinner. It was worth every second and every penny of gas! Since I have been craving their chimichanga for one year now, I was simply in heaven.