Soccer Star

Chloe's first game!

Avery was ready to be a part of the action!

Chloe had an AWESOME first season of soccer!  She's always played really well and shown some natural talent when playing with Ronnie, but per her norm, she was really shy around other people and had a hard time warming up to the idea of team playing.  Her first game was all tears and frustration and running to the side line in the middle of the game.  She wasn't sure where to go or what to do, and got very upset when she tripped on the ball and fell down.  Over the next couple weeks, Ronnie worked with her and they had actual practices and she gained a lot more confidence.  Finally, I think on her third game, she really got her game on and scored 5 goals!!!  You could tell that something just clicked for her and she went to town!  We felt a little bad (but mostly proud) that she was stealing the ball left and right and driving it down to the goal!  Nora, her team mate, also got what was going on and it was funny to watch them fight each other for the ball!  We'll work on passing next season!  After that game, she scored at least 4 goals a game and in her last she scored 6!  I am so proud of her and her hard work, but mostly I'm proud of her change in attitude and confidence!  At the end of the season, it did go a little to her head and we had to have a few chats about using our talents, but still being kind and helpful (especially with Avery).  Avery also go in on some practices and was dribbling like a mad man!  I'm totally down with being a soccer mom!!!

Pregnancy Update

Around 19 weeks

Around 24 weeks

My little sweeties, March 30th, 2014

Looking back at these pictures, definitely makes me wish for the 2 trimester again (I'm 36 weeks at the moment)!  I felt huge then, but I could walk and get around easy, bending over wasn't too big of a deal yet and the weather was nice!  HA!  I'm sure if I'd actually written when these pictures were taken, I'd have a few complaints.  Everything's better in retrospect!  Around 24 weeks is when I really started to feel little brother moving, so that was really nice.  Because of the position of my placenta (anterior) I didn't feel him very often, or at least not very strongly, so it was nice to hit that mark and have some peace of mind.  Once I started feeling him, I got to know his high energy personality!  The little guy has got some moves!!!  Always hiccuping and rolling around, which I love!  My girls were very gentle movers, so it's fun to feel the difference with a boy, even in the womb!

It's a......BOY!

                                   19 weeks                                                                  17 weeks

The happy big sisters!!!

Our little man!!!

Well, it's official!  We got the money shot!  We are having a BOY and couldn't be more excited!!!  I had my suspicions that we would be welcoming a little guy, based on my cravings and symptoms this time around, but I was ready and happy for either!  We took the girls to the ultrasound with us to find out and Chloe was fascinated and Avery was bored and busy!  The tech kind of gave us the run around and would make a little "oh" here and there, but kept doing the measurements and didn't indicate the gender at all.  My placenta is anterior (in the front) and he kept curling into a ball away from us, so it was hard to really see anything.  We didn't even get a good face picture!  Finally she said "Do you see that?"  and Ronnie (of course) responded with "is that a little man part?"  She didn't really confirm, so we kept asking and finally she wrote on the screen "IT'S A BOY!"  Looking at the ultrasound now, there's no missing it!  The girls and I baked cookies the day before, so we colored our frosting blue and delivered them to friends and family!  We're so excited for our little brother to join our family!!! 

Update

Just a few pictures of our sweet growing girls!  I can't believe how big they're getting, but at the same time, I have to remind myself that they are still so little and precious and to soak it all up!  They are so full of sillies and big ideas and dreams!  They love Ronnie and me so unconditionally right now and want to be just like us, and I need to take this time to relish in that, because I know that all too soon, this time will be gone :(  Every night, after we have scriptures and pray, they ride their "horsey" daddy to bed and he sings to them songs and tucks them in.  So simple, but so big.

Christmas 2013

Cute girls in their Christmas jammies!

We had to wake Avery up....

She perked up quickly :)

The kitchen won the best present award!

I'm obviously WAAAY behind on blogging, but it is fun to go back and see how much my girls have grown in (almost) the last half year.  This year for Christmas, we tried to go smaller, with the "A want, a need, a wish, a read" approach.  I'm happy to report, that it was a perfect Christmas and the girls never once wished for more presents.  The biggest gift we gave them, was that I was pregnant and they pretty much shrugged it off for the kitchen.  I thought Chloe at least would be excited, since she's been telling everyone since we moved into our house that we were going to have a baby.  Her primary teachers have asked me multiple times if I had news to share with them.  I love our little family so much, and love celebrating holidays with them :)