2 Photo Highlights of January 2010

I didn’t take many pictures this past December – March. This 3rd pregnancy has been so much rougher then the others, plus I’ve been working full time on campus this winter. In the first half I had swine flu, stomach flu, and 3 months of morning sickness around the clock. The good news is that now I’ve gained back the 10 pounds I lost and food tastes good again (in fact I am ravenous all the time now). Baby is growing on track and seems to always be bumping around.

• New Years trip to Rexburg: movie party with cousins, playing in the snow, and cousin Bailey’s baptism. (cousin Lexi was baptized at the exact same time in Idaho Falls, too) Allie & Kylie loved on baby cousin Addie all week; they are excited to have their own baby soon.

• Allie has been teaching Kylie her dance moves during the cold dark winter. I pulled out my first pair of ballet shoes for Kylie to wear and she was tickled. Get ready to laugh at the video clip below.

0 Photo Highlights of December 2009

• Swimming at ‘Hot Lava Springs’ with Uncle Troy, Aunt Heidi, and cousin Aliyah.  Allie is the swimingest bug, but Kylie is still a bit tentative.

• Annual trip to SLC temple square to see the lights.  We’ve been doing this with the Sorensens’ for years.  As is tradition, we ate at the ‘Red Robin’ in Layton first.  This year we got to ride on the Trax Train, too.

• Christmas Eve at Grandma & Grandpa Schwartz’s home

• Christmas Day at our home.  WE had Troy/Heidi/Aliyah spend the night and open gifts with us.  Then the entire Schwartz clan came for the rest of the day.  It was a full house and pregnant mommy was worn out be the end of the day.

0 Photo Highlights of November 2009

• Annual mommy retreat: Wolf Creek, Utah. This year we did very little scrapbooking and more relaxing. We soaked in the hot tub, played cards, read books, and even did a little shopping in Ogden. (We found the ‘great’ Target top that looked good on all of us. I think we each got one or two.) Between naps we watched the entire LONG movie of ‘The Pride and the Prejudice’ or as Laura calls it, ‘the dancing lady show’.

• First snow to play in.

• Hanging inside more.

• putting up the Christmas decorations.

• Staffords visit for Maren & my Birthday Weekend which nicely fell on the release of the second Twilight movie, ‘New Moon’. We have a nice lunch at the ‘Olive Garden’ before and then did a little Christmas shopping after. When we got home the men (and when I say men, I mean Mike) had prepared a yummy BBQ Ribs dinner complete with flowers and ice cream cake.

0 Picture Highlights of October 2009

• Playing in the Fall leaves at Grandma JoAnne’s home.

• Allie had her first dental appointment. The got to wear the special sunglasses to protect against ‘Mr. Sunshine’ and got her teeth tickled.

• Annual pumpkin carving, complete with a black sharpie.

• North Logan Pumpkin Walk.

• Annual ward carnival put on my the young men and women.

• Trick-or-treat: Kylie was ‘a piglet’ and Allie was a 'princess’.