Just some pictures of what’s been going on this past month besides me being sick.

Kathryn had this idea of exactly how she wanted a ribbon in her hair.  She felt very beautiful going to church like this.

Amelia has been scooting.   And picking her own outfits.

Daniel has been cooking.

A lot.

We even got him his own pot from the Goodwill store.  One day he was trying to eat something hot – a piece of toast or something.  It was too hot to pick up so he put on the oven mitt and then tried to pick it up.

I’ve been taking naps in the afternoon while Daniel naps.  The girls are pretty good about having quiet time, and then playing together.  One afternoon I went down to the playroom to find this:

Remember all the tissues from “Minute to Win it” at the family reunion?

 All the kids watching Sesame Street.

My awesome Darryl made spring rolls at my request.

Then he made bruschetta at my request.

I didn’t get a picture of all the “Sid the Science Kid”, “Super Why”, and “Dinosaur Train” we’ve watched while I laid on the couch.

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I thought I should make an official announcement that I am pregnant.  Since I’ve been so sick we have needed help from many people, so I feel like a lot of people already know.  But now it is official.  I’m only 12 weeks, so the baby won’t come until early March. 

I was really quite sick (more than with Amelia or Daniel), but I won’t dwell on that part.  It has given me the chance to receive a lot of help from others and feel their love and support.  Several people have taken all of my kids for a morning or afternoon, including feeding them meals.  Mostly of my dear Darryl, who stayed home from work for over a week (doing some work from home) to become Mr. Mom.  He was most excited to get back to his other job.  

Darryl gave me a blessing in which he told me to not focus on being sick, but to think of the joy I have experienced from my children.  It really helped!  I mostly thought about Kathryn, because I was the most sick with her.  And I got such joy thinking of the past almost 5 years of joy I have gotten from Kathryn.

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    Part of our trip mentioned in a previous post was a family reunion.  My mom posted a lot about it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, in case you want more details and don’t already read my mom’s blog.  Okay, that was pretty humorous, writing “here” so many times.  It started to look like I spelled it wrong or something.  I will just share a few of my thoughts.

The first night a parade came right past the hotel where we stayed.  Daniel had so much fun, and was so happy, it is a memory I will treasure!  He just got so excited about everything, especially the animals and the candy.  He ran after the candy and brought it to me.  Most of it was hard candy that I wouldn’t let him eat, but there were some other things that I did let him have.  He was just such a happy, excited boy!

On Sunday we went to Temple Square in Salt Lake City.  Kathryn and Amelia had so much fun with their cousins.  I love having lots of cousins their ages.  Kathryn started calling all the girl cousins part of her “team”.  She was very excited to have a white dress just like Hannah’s in this picture, and Courtney’s (not in this picture).  What I love also about this picture, though, is that Amelia doesn’t notice or care that she doesn’t have a white dress like the other girls. 

All the grandkids in order of age in front of the temple.

We also attempted a family picture.  Notice Kathryn’s two headbands.  She insists on wearing two, because one of them acts as the headband, and the other one is “flowers in my hair”.

One evening Darryl and I were in charge of some games.  We brought things to play some of the games from the show “Minute to Win It”.  When we first had the idea we figured we had to make sure we could do the games before challenging anyone else to do them.  So we practiced at home.  The girls spent literally hours playing with the paper cups.

Well, that’s about all I’ve got in me right now.  Maybe more later!

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