Sam, Kristol, Daxton, and Danaka

Well it is a boy! Sam wanted a boy so badly. I don't think I would have been able to choose if I could have; so good thing it doesn't work that way. I was lucky enough to have a good friend of mine that does ultrasound do ours today. Thanks Bliss! She did a great job. We have a video, but I am not computer smart enough to put it on here, and it's pretty long. So here are a few pics below. I could feel him so much this morning before the ultrasound. And he was so active during the ultrasound. There was one part where it looked like he waved at us. It was like he knew we could see him, and he was excited as we were. Here is a little of my history that I should have known it would be a boy. I have an older sister, Shanna. We are just a couple of years apart, so when we were younger, we would get the matching dresses, or similar dolls, ect. She got the pink dress, and I the blue. She got Barbie, I got Ken doll. She had long hair to her butt, and mine wouldn't grow much past...

Sam has worked hard this winter on projects for us. He made me a table and chairs folr my birthday in November. It came as a pretty good surprise. The lighter wood is a curly maple that just shimmers. The darker is one of my favorite kinds of wood, walnut. It is beautiful. Just this last week we decided we needed to get rid of a lot of junk since we only have one spare bedroom and we need to clean some stuff out so we have room for a baby. We got rid of a desk, a table from our old computer, etc. Sam made this beautiful shelf/table. We can use our laptop on top when we have to print, the printer goes in the big slot, books on the shelves, and office supplies in the drawer. Sam designed both of these, and as you can see, does it to fit our needs. It is made of rustic cherry, which he will soon build a crib to match. (:

Now the reason I haven't blogged for so long. On about Halloween I started throwing up, and threw up pretty much every day until New Years. Happy Holidays huh?.... Well yes it was. I am expecting and am due in June. Now that I'm not sick much anymore, I hopefully will be putting up a few more posts. This coming Monday we will find out if we are having a boy or a girl. Let me know what you think we'll have, boy or girl. Sam is pretty sure we're having a boy. I can't decide what I think. We're making bets. Stand by to find out on Monday the 26th.

Since our elf dance has expired, here are some real pictures from our christmas season. Picking the perfect tree. We went with some of Sam's side of the family Thanksgiving weekend and cut down our tree up by Twin Falls, ID. It was hours of hiking around, but we felt it was worth it when we found this tree. Christmas Morning

Sam at our first campsite overlooking Bear Lake Our second campsite. Mariah, Ben, and Sam cooking pancakes. After 4-wheeling one morning, we came back to find a baby moose in our campsite. It came back that night and hung out the whole evening just to the side of our campsite by a creek. It was still there when we went to bed. Talk about tame animals. Sam and Ben at the beach. No they don' t have shirts on. We ate Old Ephriams Pizza down in Garden City one evening. We were able to finish this 28" pizza, but it took us 3 days. Sam getting a little air, and a little dust. Mariah and Ben Sam and Kristol The last night we got rained out and had to go to the cabin. But not before Mariah and I started the fire and cooked dutch oven pizza during a downpour. The boys had had enough rain, but were nice enough to grate the cheese.

Dad, Sam, and I set off for Swan peak one morning. Sam had been waiting all year to take a good long ride to the top. As you see the trail started geting a little questionable. Dad and I got off and started walking to see how bad it was, because it looked as though we may not be able to turn around, and it was really steep. Sam came flying up behind us saying he'll take a look on his 4-wheeler. I missed the picture of when he and his 4-wheeler went head over heels. In the third picture he and dad are pointing to where he had just rolled it. It took all 3 of us to roll it back without it continuing to roll down the mountain. We turned around there, obviously not making it to swan peak. I'm sure we will be off to find another route next year. Sam and I overlooking Bear Lake Sam, Jason, (and Zoey) playing football at the lake We played all afternoon on a fun paddle boat that mom had bought. Here are Mom, Savanna, and Kylee

We were at Sam's parent's house this weekend and were able to get pictures of these cute baby owls nesting in their haystack. We got up at 6AM to pick wild, thorny blackberries. We picked again later that evening when it wasn't as hot. Sam's dad, Sam, and I were able to pick 12 lbs. of wonderful blackberries that day. I made my first pie from scratch out of the blackberries we picked. It was yummy!