It's a BOY!!!!

We found out yesterday that our little one is a little BOY! We are thrilled! He seems to be progressing just fine. The doctor says he's measuring a little big. (Big surprise......I knew that before we went in.......I just don't have petite little children :) Anyway, his dad was not upset to hear that. I think he's hoping for a linebacker with this one. :) Emily continues to insist we name him Hercules. So, until we make a final decision on a name we are looking forward to meeting baby "Hercules" in June!!!!

Happy Birthday Dallin!

I can't believe my baby boy is 2 !!!!!!!
We just had a quiet little family party today.
We made the mistake of having the celebration right after he woke up from his nap so he has a scowl on his face for most of his pictures.

Chocolate frosting is AWESOME!


The Cake......

Present time!

Make a wish...

Dallin has been obsessed with Dinosaurs after becoming a fan of the movie "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". So we got him a huge T-Rex that roars and walks. We were so excited to give it to him thinking he was going to love it! The funny thing was he was terrified of it for the first 3 hours after opening it. Every time it got with in 10 feet of Dallin he would scream and cry!
Luckily he got over it eventually and it has been is favorite toy ever since.
We love our little D-man soooo much!
Happy Birthday TANK!

Happy New Year!

We've been with out internet for a while now so I haven't been able to update about our Christmas vacation and new year.
We had a great time spending time together as a family these last few weeks. Joe has been crazy busy at work during the fourth quarter so we haven't seen much of him lately. But because Christmas fell on a Friday we actually got to spend the whole weekend with him!!! Yahoo!
Some highlights of our vacation were:
Playing in the snow
Going bowling
Taking the big girls to see "The Princess and the Frog"
New Year's Eve with Padilla's
And just relaxing!



Emily didn't quite make it to midnight........

Dallin barely made it to midnight...(I normally wouldn't have let him stay up but he had a late nap at 6pm :)
"Happy New Year!"

We were so blessed in 2009. A few highlights of the year were:
Building, finishing, and moving into our first home
Visits with family and friends
Celebrating our 10th Wedding Anniversary
Family weddings
Joe finishing his first year as a working attorney
and Julianne's Baptism

We are excited for an even better 2010!
We feel so blessed to have family and friends who bless our lives every day.
We are excited to set and achieve new goals and hopefully bless others as well.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Merry Christmas!

We had our first Christmas in our new house and it was so fun!! Little things like actually have a fire place to hang stockings made this year extra special.
Joe roasted an amazing prime rib roast for Christmas Eve dinner. Then we read from the scriptures and acted out the Nativity. (Not quite so amazing but definitely memorable.)
Emily was Mary, Dallin was Joseph, JJ was the Angel, Becky was a Shepherd, and Joe was the Donkey. It started off a little rough when 'Joseph' decided to shove 'Mary' off the 'donkey' because he wanted to ride instead. Finally we reached a compromise and both 'Mary' and 'Joseph' rode the 'donkey' to bethlehem. Then when 'Mary' wouldn't let 'Joseph' hold baby Jesus so 'Joseph' pulled out his staff (a golf club) and started wackin' her with it. After all that we kind of rushed through the shepherd and angel part so we could separate everyone before someone lost a limb. Better luck next year I guess. Later on the kids opened pajamas and it was off to bed!

Christmas morning was so fun. The kids were so excited! (I don't think Becky of JJ slept all night.) We were so blessed to have such a great Christmas.

Becky's Birthday!

Although it's kind of cool having a Christmas Eve baby. It's always a challenge trying to do Becky's birthday and Christmas at the same time. This year we tried celebrating her birthday the afternoon of the 24th. Becky got to pick a place to go to lunch then we came home and did presents. That night Padilla's came over for Christmas Eve festivities and Becky blew out her candles.

I can't believe she's 10!!!! She is so excited about growing up. I don't know how I feel about it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY REBECCA LYNN!!!

Let it Snow!

Well, I was just talking to my parents about how much I miss the snow in Utah.
I guess this is what happens when you complain:
It snowed hard for a whole night and the entire next day until when it was all said and done we had almost 3 feet of snow on our lawn! Luckily we didn't have anywhere to go so we just sipped hot chocolate and enjoyed looking forward to our first "White Christmas" in Virginia.
We all loved it except for Joe who spent hours and hours clearing snow off our driveway.

Coming Soon!

Announcing Walker baby #5!!!!
Due June of 2010!

I had my first Dr. appointment today and everything looks good. It's been a long few months as I have been sicker with this one than the last two pregnancies, but hopefully we'll be through that in a few weeks.