Imaginary Friends, Various other activites

For those that want to see how huge I am now. Here is a pregnancy photo
Alexis and her new bedding a steal of a deal from Wal-mart.

Winter Quarters Temple

My latest creations

These didn't turn out so well. The pattern was hard to read

For awhile Alexis has had an imaginary friend named Julianna. Julianna sometimes does naughty things and so Alexis has to go and have talks with her or put her on time out. It is so funny to hear her talking to the air. As she has gotten older the imaginary friends have expanded to a Grandma who is a chain smoker and won't quit no matter how much Alexis reprimands her. Today Alexis was telling me about her whole pretend family. What imaginations 4 year olds have. I love it! Her imaginary family consisted of a Grandpa who like her real Grandpa drives a Tahoe. His name is Grandpa Will and her imaginary Grandma is Grandma Pill. They have an aunt named Sarah (her real aunt) and she has a baby named Jan (her real grandma's name). The funny thing is that they all don't have brains. Except for Grandpa who she said went to the doctor and got surgery to have a brain implanted. Later today I heard her saying that her grandpa kept saying stupid. I told her it's not nice to pretend that and she said "remember mom they just don't have brains that's why!"

Lately we have been getting stuff ready for our baby to come. We still need to order a car seat and get some furniture to put clothes in and change the baby on, but I have gotten all the baby clothes washed. For my birthday Shaun got me a few crochet patterns from a website called Etsy. I have been making various hats and shoes. It has been fun. Tomorrow we are going to the temple and I have been trying to find a dress that will fit me while I'm pregnant. The temple here doesn't rent out clothes. I think I found one that might work. It will be really nice to go to the temple with the Branch presidency and the wives. Saturday we are hoping to go to the new Harry Potter movie if we can get a babysitter. I am pretty tired lately and my feet have swelled up considerably. So far I'm measuring exactly on my due date. The baby has already turned upside down and dropped quite a bit. It's nice for my ribs not to feel as cramped but now It's harder to walk! I have had a great pregnancy other than a lot of ligament type pain when walking and sleeping. I didn't even throw up at all with this one! Our last Doctor appointment the doctor was saying the heartbeat sounded like a boy and wanted to know what he had told us we were having at our ultra sound. We told him a girl and he said he has been wrong before. We still think it will be a girl, but it would be quite a shock if she ends up being a boy! It is hard to imagine we are having another little baby. I am so out of the baby mode with having a 4 1/2 year old. We are getting really excited to have our baby girl here!

House

What our house will look like minus the arched window on the right and colors
We really like the colors of this house This is a picture I simulated to try and see what our house might look like with a dark roof and dark soffit and facia like we want to do. What do you think?

Our lot and "our corn field"

We are really excited about building our first home here in Nebraska. Everything has gone through now and we are waiting for the foundation to be dug. We were laughing that we got back from Utah and drove by the lot and there was a whole corn field including where we will have our house built. The builders said they were trying to find out how to get it mowed down. Luckily I took some pictures because just today when we drove by it had been mowed. I will have to take a picture of that too. I guess we are locked into being here in Nebraska for awhile now that we are building a home here. We are excited to have something brand new. We looked at several older homes and almost went for a 1920's home with beautiful woodwork. The utilities were high though and the posssiblities of having to do repairs on older homes are always greater. After praying about the decision we felt that building a new house was a good choice for us. First time home buyers incentives put the cherry on the top. Here is our lot and "our corn field" with Alexis in front. The other picture are what our house layout is and the colors we are leaning toward. Give us you opinion- we would love to hear you input!

Happy 4th Of July!

We just got back from a trip to Utah for the 4th of July. It was a good vacation. The drive is long but it is always worth seeing family. We went fishing in the Uintah's, swimming in Logan, had a barbeque, played games, finished a ceramic project, shopped, and got to see our nephew blessed. We really enjoyed seeing the cute new babies and watching Alexis enjoy the big fireworks. She would say "Oooh, there's a tinkerbell one, there's a rain one, there's a space one". Alexis also really enjoyed playing the game "guess who" with Grandma and Grandpa Hurst. We look forward to our next trip! This one went by so quickly!