swimmingly...

is that a word? oh well. we are doing swimming lessons right now and, not as i expected, avery hates them! crazy girl. she loves to swim, loves baths, loves to be in the pool and she has screamed for each lesson we have had. almost the entire time. the only respite has been the hokey pokey song and a diving ring, but only for a minute or two. her grandpa is coming to video ethan and her today, for posterity, and i think all he may see is avery clinging to me and crying...sad day. ethan loves his lessons. he is doing really well from what i can see, peeking around avery's head while she buries her face in my shoulder and refuses to "kick kick kick" her feet.

avery loves to help, she says, "i want to help" about 40 times a day and we try to let her help as much as possible. this picture is when she was "helping" daddy study his stuff for the BAR exam. pretty sweet. she subsequently colored on part of that page with the pink highlighter when daddy wasn't looking...very helpful;)we have a large bag of starbursts from our houseboat trip and i pulled some out the other day to have a couple and they were ALL orange! what does that mean? good karma? i like to think so:)

i really want to go to IKEA today or tomorrow...i just like to go there and look around. maybe we'll make it today...

Out with the Old...

{toyota corolla...}

and in with the NEW!

{toyota sienna}

on saturday we went to go look at an SUV or something for the impending arrival of baby #3 (who is still nameless...). after about 10 minutes talking with a really nice manager lady at Big 2 Toyota in chandler kendall was convinced an SUV would probably not be the easiest thing to manuever three car seats in and still have cargo space for stroller etc. so we started looking at vans and came across this beauty. it's an 06 with 40K miles on it or something..real low. they gave us a really good deal, ergo why we did it now instead of later, which was my original inclination. the siennas have great crash test ratings and are really good vans (according to a million reviews i read from people and independent companies). hopefully we love it.

i am officially a "van mom" yay!

ultrasound pictures!

yahoooo!!!!! i finally got the CD to open and let me get the pictures off! whew! i don't really know what i did differently...capricious little thing! anyway...here he is...no good face shots...that's why we have to go back for a second one:)

on his back facing away from us, you can see his spine hear the bottom of the framesort of a profile, his arms up on his chestone of the freaky 3D oneswe got lots of good ones of his feet:) this one is perhaps my favorite one that she was able to catch...what's is he doing? looks like he's going to push off to swim or something, but i guess that's what he does all day huh?

done...

two nursing covers finished...whew! now on to the photography prop...and i bought some fabric today that may be for the new little man's bedding or accessories...i am excited to get thinking about that:):)

it's a....

BOY!!!

in keeping with the current trend of all the friends who are due around me...it's a boy. we are very excited and very happy to welcome another little man into our family! everything looked good with him, he weighs about 9 oz and the due date is right on, the ultrasound actually puts it on the 30th of oct and we had the 29th but we'll keep the 29th as the official one. the same happened with ethan, the ultrasound said the day after and he was actually born on that ultrasound date...so we shall see what transpires. he was not shy, though, about letting us know he was a boy, but we was hiding his face pretty well, tucking his chin down into his little chest, so we have to go back {oh darn!} for another ultrasound at my next appointment! yay for seeing him again. no pictures right now. they only printed out one of the "boy" shot and i'd rather not publicize that on the blog:) the others are on a CD which i, awesomely, can't get the computer to open right now. i'll try again tomorrow!



what's his name you say??? well we don't know yet. we are kicking around some suggestions and we'll let you know when we reach a verdict:)

fix it please!

does anyone know how to fix my layout? this weirdness that it is doing right now is really...weird. the first few posts are okay in a column but then the later ones spread out so much that it has bumped my stuff that is supposed to be in the right hand column down the page considerably. right now we are just on the minima layout from blogger, no fancy anything because i didn't know if that was affecting it. but i put a layout from leelou and from cutest blog on, and nothing changed. lame. any suggestions?


*****alright so what i did to "fix" it was to limit the posts on the page to two or three and that bypassed the ones that were making it wonky....so if you wanna see anything older, click on the "older posts" at the bottom button**************

random post with pictures...

kendall is very gifted in many ways, one of which is being able to fall asleep in almost any position at the drop of a hat. i've been talking to him before and watched him fall asleep. really amazing. in high school one time, he fell asleep on his stairs! on the stairs people! so i guess this comes as no surprise that this is how i found him the other night...
(does that even look comfortable?)

i washed our checkbook...man, it comes apart in a lot of pieces too:) i kept pulling pieces of paper out of the dryer. it was like that scarf trick that magicians do where the scarves just keep coming and coming out of his pocket! kind of sad really...what weird things have you washed?
(that flosser fell out of one of ethan's pockets...for some reason he likes to carry them around...)

i am progressing on my list of things i need to do. also, i had to get the prizes ready and mailed for those people that won my giveaways on my other blog, so in the mail today went two burp cloths to one person, a tote bag to another person, presents to the nieces, pictured below. that was really fun to make. erin if you see these before you receive them in the mail, pretend to be surprised:)
and also off in the mail is a box with two car seat canopy covers, and two burp cloths for a really nice girl who has twins! yay! i only seem to be making these things in multiples...anyone want one, just one at a time? i don't even know how long it takes me to make ONE, i just keep making them in twos:) but i think they turned out really cute:)

LAKE POWELL!!!

it was such a fun houseboat trip that we took a couple of weeks ago, thank you to mom and dad wilson for that graduation gift! we had 8 adults and our two kids with us, so it was full and happy:) kendall's grandparents, parents and brother (kraig) and his sweet wifey elise came with us (we missed katie!) and we all had a great time. the weather was overcast and it rained at night and in the mornings a bit but cleared up around lunch time. we were actually on the boat for about 3 days which i thought was good because more than that and i would probably still have sand in my teeth, hair etc.:) but it was really cool that we found some nice beaches and the kids loved playing in the sand and they actually went in the water a few times, even though it was cold. ethan is such a die-hard water kid. avery was a little more like...hello! that's cold! we had bonfires at night and we had s'mores and made "slugs" (biscuits roasted on a stick and filled with jelly etc.). very fun. my SIL elise and i were in charge of the food for our expedition and i think it went well:) we did have some leftovers (okay, a lot of leftovers) but our motto is "better too much than too little." and we had some good food; fajitas, best sloppy joe's ever (mama kara's recipe), hoagies, bbq chicken on the grill (which i tried a brine with and it went really well). so we were well fed too. the boat had a lot of space, it was bigger than i had envisioned it. there was a bedroom in the back with a sliding glass door to the back deck, two beds in the "lower berths" where we slept on one bed, ethan on the other and had room to put avery's pack and play, and there was another bedroom, then the couch made a bed, as well as the bank of seats by the table. i think it could sleep 12. there was a small deck on the front and a huge upper deck. very fun:) we did have some casualities...our tent got blown into lake powell and is now residing at the bottom and ethan's life jacket got blown away as well. there was some pretty fierce wind one night.

who's driving this thing???