Little One Armed Girl

I'm not sure if we are bad parents, our children are just accident prone, or what, but Emily broke her arm on Saturday. She was on the trampoline with Max and must have landed on it wrong, since she didn't fall off the trampoline. Jeff and I were making dinner and weren't watching the moment it happened. She's got two tiny breaks, one above her elbow and one below. The plan is to just splint it, for the time being at least, until it gets better. She was so cute at the doctors yesturday showing the receptionists her hurt hand. (We thought it was her hand because that is were all the swelling was.) I can't believe what a trouper she is about being one armed. It's amazing how resilient these little kids are. She doesn't let it slow her down at all. So far it's a lot easier than dealing with a 45 lb. boy with a broken leg.

In case you didn't notice, Emily is sporting a new "boy" haircut. I decided to butch her hair Saturday night in the hopes that it will maybe come in a little thicker.

Ward Camp Out

This was our version of the ward camp out this year. We were planning on going until it started pouring rain as Jeff was heading home from work. I didn't want the kids to be to disappointed that we didn't end up going camping, so we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows in our fireplace for dinner. Max especially enjoyed roasting hot dogs in our living room and wanted to do it again for dinner tonight. Hopefully next year we will have some nicer weather for camping.

I guess it's more fun to make mischief when you are in disguise.

Siblings: someone to play with, laugh with, fight with, and someone to make mischief with when Mom isn't paying attention. Emily's room smelled powder fresh for over a week.

Happy Easter

We had a nice, quiet Easter at home this year. It was extra nice because it was the same weekend as General Conference, so we all got to sleep in and have a slow and relaxed Easter morning before watching church in our pajamas. And it was wonderful to get to listen to the Prophet on Easter Sunday.

We got pictures of Max and Emily last Sunday in their new Easter clothes since they wouldn't be wearing them on Easter Sunday. Max was being a little stink that morning and WOULD NOT sit next to Emily on the stairs or sit up straight or smile at the camera. He sure is good at being a stubborn little stinker.

Normally I would make Emily a dress for Easter, but after over 5 months of being tired I've finally come to terms with the fact that I'm not going to get back to my normal energy level until after this baby is born. It makes me a little sad because I had so many things I was planning on getting done BEFORE the baby gets here. I'm kind of scared that having three little kids is going to completely overwhelm me. Oh well. I was able to get Emily two spring dresses along with Max's new church outfit for less than I would normally spend on Max's new church clothes, so that will have to do for this year. I have to admit that it is nice not having one more thing on my to do list that might not get done for several months.

Brimming with Baby Boys

We finally got to meet my new nephew, Jack, a couple of weeks ago when Meghan and Jay came out to visit for a couple of weeks. He is just as cute as I was expecting and I was so sad when it was time for them to go home. After they left, Max told me he wanted to name our baby Jack. He sure loves babies right now.

I love how Emily is oblivious to the fact that Jack is screaming in this picture. She thought they were both just having a grand time.

I had to steel these photos off of Meghan's blog so you can actually see what a cutie baby Jack is. It makes me so sad that they live so far away.

Then we found out right after Meghan left that Erin and Brian were adopting three month old twin boys! We have all been praying and hoping for them to be able to add to their family and now they have beat us to three children. They found out on Monday night, flew back east Tuesday morning, and then did the adoption on Wednesday. We are so excited and can't wait to meet these two cuties when they get back. They have named them Brock and Isaac and they are about a month older than Jack. Now our baby girl will have a whole passel of boy cousins to run and play with.

Jeff and I have decided we like to zig when everyone else zags since Max came in a group of girls (and was the only boy on my side until these three came along) and now we will have a girl with a bunch of boy cousins. Emily, on the other hand, is right in the middle of a four year dry spell with no cousins closer than two years on my side of the family. (She does have one cousin 9 months older than her on Jeff's side.) Good thing she's a tough little sassy pants.

It's a . . . .

For those of you who don't already know, we are expecting baby number 3 in the middle of July and we found out today that we are going to be having another . . . . girl!! I'm actually a little surprised since I've felt almost exactly like I did with Max so I thought we would be having another boy! We are happy to get either, since they are both so much fun in different ways. I guess that's a perk of already having one of each. (Max is very insistent that we are going to have just a baby, not a boy baby or a girl baby, so we're interested to see how he handles the fact that our baby will have a gender.)