Once Upon a Saturday

Elizabeth Loves Helicopters

Helping Cleaning out the van.

Cutting down tree branches.

(The log says Zabriskie)

Gandalf

Feeding the horses in the back field

Yes these pictures were taken in February and no my children didn't need jackets...

Prepping for Baby

We are in the single digits for weeks until baby girl gets here! So now we're major prepping for her.

I organized our laundry area, so I would have a place for our baby bath.

We moved our hutch base into the kids room and turned it into a dresser for Elizabeth, since someone will be needing the changing table for a dresser.

Got Olivia's blessing dress. I am in love with it!

And yes. I made a to do list up til the baby gets here.

Just for Fun!

Sledding in Utah "Winter 2014-2015"

Snuggly in Grandma's Bed!

We had these slippers a week and we had to wash them

Mall Playground

Squishy Bath

Reading time with Daddy

A couple weeks ago Kevin sent a picture of himself in a Superman costume. The next day the boys wanted to be heroes, just like Uncle Kevin!

Elizabeth bit Michael...

Playing in giant boxes.

My shadow while I get ready for the day.

Playing with brother's clothes.

My cuddle buddy making a hard pregnancy day a little better.

Movie time

Grandpa's shadow

Playing puzzles

Mini Christmas

A very good friend sent the kids a Christmas package!

Monster Slippers, Batmas snow gear, and Toy Story Underwear!

Slippers, panda, and bath toys!

Shark Slippers, Spider Man snow gear, and a puzzle!

Elizabeth drags this bear everywhere and we have to hide the slippers if we plan to leave the house.

Slippers matching her ride.

The boys love their puzzle!

Mommy Tip: Playing and Being Pregnant

This pregnancy has been a tough one. There are a lot of days when I am hardly able to stand long enough to make a sandwich for the kids or even just walking to the bathroom will cause me pain. I feel guilty all the time when the kids are so bored and I have to be laying down on my side to keep from cramping.

Here are some games that I have found entertain the kids enough to get the boredom out:

1. Find an online spinner, I used THIS ONE and put different things they can do in the front room on the spinner. I put twirl around, hop on one foot, and dance. This got the wiggles out and didn't make any mess!

2. Legos!  I grabbed our tubs of legos  and the boys made different creatures while I reclined and put blocks together for Elizabeth to take apart (That's really the only way she'll play with them). It does make a mess, but we made a game out of picking them up. I held the buckets and had them race to see who could fill up their lego bucket first. It helped that I made a rule that the Legos had to stay in the front room, so I could point out more block for them to pick up.

3. Fort.

I had the boys pull out the chairs from the dinner table and their big blankets from their beds. I did have to get up once to help keep the blankets from falling down. It entertained them for a while and made reading time fun for them.