1 Week Left

well this post has no pictures but it is my announcement that i have one week left of this pregnancy and as of yesterday, my body is ready. i hit rock bottom yesterday where i couldn't do anything. i have never felt so miserable at the end of a pregnancy and i have worked my body to much that i just have no energy left. so i am doing nothing every day and waiting to have this baby boy next tuesday. i will be going in for my c section at 7 am. anyway, watch for pictures some time next week and i will be as quick as i can.

BitterSweet

5 weeks ago my grandma parks passed away. she was 5 days away from turning 87 years old. i was very close to her as i did grow up living by her and she has always been involved in my life. i was able to go to arizona for the week and be there for the funeral. it was a bittersweet time as we said good-bye to her. i was able to see lots of family that i haven't seen in a long time and be there for my grandma. she lived a long, wonderful, faithful life and even though i will miss her tremendously, she is with my grandpa now, who passed away 15 years ago. i took a few pictures while i was there...

this is a picture i wanted next to the bouquet that was on her casset. each flower has a name on it and represents every person in her family. there are a lot of us and this bouquet was beautiful

dinner at claim jumper (dad, mom, sister jessica, bro in law josh, bro tyler, grandma weaver, and sis jordann)

me, sis laura, sis in law rachel, bro bobby, sis janell, and cousin danielle

me, laura, and janell

after the funeral, we took pictures. this is the first time my brothers and sisters have been all together since we moved to texas so we enjoyed spending time together

my bros and sis from oldest to youngest

my two nephews, braxton and nixon, that still live in arizona

the sisters

the sisters with my grandma weaver who came from utah

janell and i

31 Weeks

these pictures are per request of my friend kim but i always enjoy seeing other people's pregnant pictures so here i am.

thanks to my photographer, mikenna, she loves taking pictures.

Short and Sweet Update

yeah, i am finally posting pictures again. and it is not really going to be that short but i am going to be brief and just update the past couple month events. first of all if anyone is wondering, the bakers are doing fine. we are busy busy and i am trying hard to get my mind set prepared for the summer and baby to come but so much keeps happening. the time is flying by as i have 9 weeks left. scary but i did buy a car seat and now i feel better since that is pretty important. we have recently moved around the block but i am not posting my address because this is not a private blog, so that has kept me busy. i have switched from being the sunbeam teacher in primary to the 11-12 year old class and that has taken a new challenge for me. the kids are growing, happy, and enjoying playing outside as the weather has been wonderful. john is continuing to work a lot and we enjoy spending all our free time as a family. okay so back to the pictures. these first ones are just random pictures that are cute that i have taken.

kelton sat with my dad one day and was copying everything he was doing. it was so cute i had to take a picture, especially since kelton usually only goes to my dad when he has food.

kelton loves john game controllers so here they are playing together

andon fell asleep on the recliner and he looked so cute and peaceful.

my favorite picture of kelton showing his personality. he put these mr. potato head glasses on and kept making these cheesy faces. my mom, brother, and i could not stop laughing at him. he is so cute and hillarious

easter 2010- it was so wonderful to sleep in since conference here started at 11 and we usually have 9 oclock church. the kids woke up to easter baskets...

then we colored easter eggs...

and later we went to my mom and dad's for dinner and had an easter egg hunt. it was a relaxing and wonderful easter.

spring break in march- last month we decided to go to sea world in san antonio during mikenna's spring break. it wasn't until we got there on sunday that we found out sea world is only open on the weekends during this time of year. we were so bummed when we couldn't go since we were there to go monday and tuesday. we had to make it fun for the kids anyway so we went to the zoo on the first day....

the next day we went to the river walk, saw the alamo

and we took a boat ride around the riverwalk

New Blankets

yesterday i went to the store to pick out material for a fleece blanket that i was going to tie for my friend as a baby gift. i came across a totally cute fabric that i liked for mikenna. i thought to myself that i really wanted to make her a blanket. this was a perfect idea. first of all her blanket is a small ragidy old ripped 28 year old yellow blanket. i know this because it is my baby blanket. some how when she was a baby, i used it for her once and never got it back. i have been trying to preserve it but she is so attached to it. my kids have a blanket maniac obsession. anyway, i bought the fabric and made her a nice big comfy blanket.

this is her old blanket...

and i traded her for it with this new one.. and she loves it. last night i gave it to her and to my shock, andon was very upset he didn't get a new blanket. i felt so bad and his blanket is pretty beat up to... plus this is a new interest that i enjoy doing so .....

i went back to the store today, bought some more fabric, and made andon a new fleece blanket as well. i thought it would be so hard for them to let go of there blankets but they love their new ones so we are all happy

getting ready to go to bed with their blankets... now i am trying to find people and things to make some more blankets for.

First Time Experience

SNOW, a first time experience i had today. i have been in the snow before but living in it is totally different.

last night it started to snow little flurries and left some white ice on the yard. the kids were so excited so they went outside to play.

i woke up this morning to my backyard looking like this...

holy cow that is a lot of snow. it is crazy to me. i know a lot of people reading this are from utah and other way more snowy areas, but when you come from hot arizona this is new.

here is my front yard... it was so pretty to see the trees all white and all the rooftops.

this is part of my house and yard.

so after i take the pictures, i go to wake mikenna up for school. she is not the best morning person so all i had to say was "mikenna come look at all the snow outside, there is enough to make a snowman" she jumped out of bed and we went to look outside. about 15 minutes later john informed me it just was announced on the news that school was cancelled. what? that is weird. nothing ever cancelled school when i was growing up. anyway, the boys were up within a half an hour later and within 15 minutes after that, everyone was dressed and ready to play outside.

the snow was so white and soft and the kids had a blast. we all went outside and had a ton of fun...

mikenna and andon scooped up lots of snow and had snowball fights...

mikenna made a snow angel...

kelton mostly stayed on the side walk and didn't like it when he tried to walk in the snow. he fell a little but enjoyed just being outside and watching everyone...

john and i loved spending the morning with the kids and playing with them...

and of course we made a snowman with a hat, two raison eyes, a carrot nose, three cherry buttons, no mouth, and two yellow straw arms.

was it a fun morning? yes it was different and fun and the kids had a blast, but i still would not survive living in the snow. i am so glad i got this experience, it has been a good day.