Our Recent Hikes

We have taken Nicholas hiking in Big Cottonwood Canyon the past 2 weekends. He loved it! He just loves being outside and up in the mountains.

Silver Lake Pics

Hidden Falls Pics

More Pics!

I took Nicholas to meet Clifford the Big Red Dog last week!

Helping Daddy mow the grass

Slowly Getting Pics Up!

Mini Golfing for the 1st time

Bowling for the 1st time

Grandpa & Nicholas playing

Pregosaurus Alex

On a walk with Grandpa...finding peppers & pumpkins!

Nicholas's new race car bed in his new "big boy" room

Nicholas's Adventures

Nicholas has had some fun adventures recently! We went to the Animal Planet Expo a few weekends ago. We got to see some animals and Nicholas got his first tattoo. He got a dog :0) After a week of having to stay in the house (because of his asthma episode), Nick was able to go back to MyGym and his other activities. He even went to a camp a MyGym last week. He'll be going again this Tuesday. We also took him to Chuck E. Cheese for the first time last week. John and I were pretty disappointed. You'd think since there is only one in the Salt Lake Valley, it would be real nice. That is not the case! But, Nicholas had a blast, so that is all that matters. Nicholas wore his water wings around the house yesterday, so I took the hint and took him to the pool today :0) We had a lot of fun. We have a few more things going on this week, but we're mainly looking forward to Grandpa (my dad) coming out for 10 days beginning this Friday!!! We cannot wait for him to get here :0) For those of you who keep asking...I will post some pics of me looking like a pregasaurus very soon.

Update

Nicholas has been a busy boy lately! We took a trip to Sandpoint, ID to visit our friends Matt, Val, & Baby Dallen over the 4th of July. I will get those pics up soon...I have 200+ to go through. We had a great time and I will write all about it. I took Nicholas to a petting zoo (that had all mini animals) a few weeks ago and he LOVED it! He was so excited to be able to "hold" all the animals. He was especially interested in the white duck. He is still going to his classes at MyGym and will be starting camps once a week there again next week. Nicholas is on the waiting list to get in to the pre school right up the road from us. We should know by the end of the month if he got in. He'll start that in August. I started taking Nicholas to music classes at the Discovery Gateway Museum. He really liked the class and it looks like we might try to work that into his regular schedule.

I am 22 weeks pregnant now and still getting sick about once a week. Hopefully that sickness will stop all together soon! Everything is going great with the pregnancy and we're just waiting for November to get here! John is doing great. He is in the process of finishing our basement and he hopes to get it done before the baby gets here.

It's a....

BOY!!!!!!

We are so excited that we are having another boy! We had an hour long ultrasound today so we got to see him for a nice long time. We got to see him in 2-D and 3-D. He looks pretty cute :0) Nicholas is excited for his baby brother to get here. Anytime we talk about the baby getting here, he starts looking around for him. We're all just ready for him to get here. It is going to be a long 18 weeks for all of us! Here are some pics from today...

The 3-D pics are crazy. If you look right in the middle, you can make out his cute little face :0) You can see some arms and legs off to the left. He had his legs and arms up by his face. There was a lot going on in front of his face, so we didn't get a super clear face shot. But, I'll take what we got!

Happy Birthday Gretch!!!

2 1/2 Year Photo Shoot

Nicholas is 2 1/2 years old today! I took him to get some pictures taken. They turned out great :0) He was so well-behaved and even let the photographer pose him. I couldn't decide which ones to show you, so there are a lot! Enjoy :0)

Nicholas's News

Nicholas is going to be a BIG BROTHER!!!!!

Baby #2 is due in November. We are 16 weeks pregnant. We don't know what we are having yet, hopefully we'll know in the next few weeks (unless I decide to be surprised this time!). I will keep you updated on the Blog now that all of our family knows. We had an ultrasound at 13 weeks for the 1st Trimester Screening and everything looked great. The picture of the baby is not the best, so we'll post one as soon as we get good one. I have been sick for the entire 16 weeks, so I keep telling that baby they he/she better be very cute ;0) We'll keep you all posted!