Life at 31 weeks

Oh me, oh my.. thirty one weeks down. Can you believe I only have about eight weeks left (if my doc still plans on inducing me early)! I was clicking through the "you might also like..." posts the other day and ran across this one where I mentioned I was ten weeks along and had only 30 weeks to go. Talk about a flip flop. Wasn't I just 10 weeks the other day? This year is sure flying by. November was an awesome month full of long weekends and holidays. Now that December is practically here and I've entered the last trimester, I'm fully enjoying maternity clothes that don't fit, Braxton Hicks, every two week doctor appointments, sleepless nights, restless leg syndrome, can't-get-comfortable-no-matter-what syndrome, baby hick ups and lots of movement and growing. I've put on some serious weight and I think we're going to welcome another 10lb baby in January!

Here are some things we've been up to in the last week:
Went to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 premiere

How flippin' awesome was this movie???!
I think its been the best book adaption so far. I loooooooved the 7 Harry's scene. I laughed so hard! "Bill don't look at me, I'm hideous." LOL!
I also loved the Ministry of Magic scene. I think they did a great job staying true to the book. Ron was killing me as Reg, the Ministry worker.
Speaking of Ron (my love), did anyone else cry when left?! Oh.. maybe its just my hormones...
Then the final scene when Voldemort stole Dumbeldore's wand! Wowzazs. Perfect way to transition to the next movie. Per.fec.tion.
If I could sit in the movie theater for another 2 and half hours without dying I'd see it again!!!

Celebrated Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving at the Dalley's. Kristi made some yummy turkey, Corey did a great job mashing the potatoes (safety goggles and all), Grandma's salads and Aunt Susan's pies were to die for! I ate way too much and gain 5lbs... seriously though, just ask my doctor.

Went canoeing

After we ate, most everybody headed to the river to participate in the annual canoe run. It was over all quite a success. Nobody flipped their canoe.. the only wet moments were when Mark got his boots wet and Corey and Caleb bobbed under the water during launch. Estefan and Will even got to paddle their own canoe.. they are quite the grown up's if you did know!

Got a Christmas tree.. or two.. or four!
On Black Friday, we skipped the stores and headed for the hills. We went to Cedar Mountain to get our Christmas tree!!

If you follow the photos you'll see Dustin's hike from getting the "perfect" tree. The snow was up to his waist but he trucked through it to chop down the beauty, while the rest of us sat in the truck with the heater on!

Dust and the tree! He made it through the snow alive. Look how deep it was!!!!

Trimmed the trees

The kids love to decorate the tree, so after Dustin and I got the lights on it was all them! They did a great job. I think its our best tree yet!

Ta-DA! What do you think? Preettty awesome, huh!
And Estefan, Mark and Allie are pretty cute too!!

We may have gotten a little carried away and got little trees for each of the kids' rooms too, but we couldn't help it!!

Watched Christmas movies by the fire
The night we got our tree up and decorated, Dustin made a fire and pulled the kids' mattress into the living room. It was so fun! We ate popcorn, drank hot chocolate and watched Christmas movies til we fell asleep.. which was only about 8:30PM. I think playing in the snow wore the kids right out!!


Hung lights on the house
Saturday morning Dustin and the kids went to work putting lights on the house. We put icicle lights up this year. Love them! Now our house looks like a big ol' gingerbread house! Dustin insisted on putting lights on the chimney. I had to close my eyes and pretend I was okay with it. But he got them up and didn't get hurt!!! Thank goodness, but we won't be doing that again.

So life is good. 31 weeks down... Still can't believe it.
Bring on December. 25 days til Christmas, 59 days til Baby Boy comes!!!

Primary Spotlight

Every Sunday, in Primary a child gets to be the spotlight. One of the members of the Primary presidency reads a poem aloud, about the child of the day and everyone has to guess who they are. Yesterday, one of my children was spotlighted. Maybe you can guess who, here is the poem.

I came down to Las Vegas, Nevada from Heaven above,

My home has 8 people and one animal to love.

I like to ride four-wheelers with my family,

If you see someone with brown eyes and brown hair it could be me.

I like to learn about life skills when I go to school.

When I grow up I want to be a photographer/hiker/archeologist/geologist/artist. 

I think that would be cool!

In my spare time I think building things is fun,

and I like to eat steak with A1 when the day is done.

I like any color except pink when I'm making art.

When I read the scriptures Ammon chopping off arms is my favorite part.

On Sunday CTR 7 is the class I go to.

Singing Book of Mormon Stories is one of my favorite things to do.

On July 20th you can sing Happy Birthday to me.

Does anyone know who I could be?

I'm Estefan Nelson!!!

Angel Kisses

A few days ago Allie was in the bathroom brushing her teeth. All the sudden she started yelling and calling my name and ran into the living room where I was sitting.

I said, "Allie, what is wrong?"
and she answered, "Mom! There are dots all over my nose."





I giggled a little and told her to come look at my nose. I showed her that I had the dots too and that they're called freckles. I told her they are little angel kisses.

She thought about that for a minute and then said, "Did the angels kiss me because I'm so cute?"
"Yes, Allie they did."

Aloha Chase and Melissa!!!

Dustin and I got super lucky, our best friends married each other. Chase and Melissa are the coolest couple ever. I think Chase is secretly Will Farrell's little brother by the way.

But alas, the time has come to say good-bye, Chase's job has called him to the islands of Hawaii!!! Yes, our besties are moving to Hawaii. So sad.. I guess we'll just have to go and visit. Darn...


Call me sentimental.. or just mental, but I made them pose for some pictures. Dustin and Chase and a camera are not always a good mix but we got some good one's.. I think. Then we drank a Cream Soda to their future and said good-bye. We're starting to save our money now so we can come visit when you have your super human child. We'll miss you guys so much!! Love ya!!!

Little Lumberjacks

Dustin was cutting firewood the other day and the kids thought they needed to help him.

My Big Workin Men!

Mark has a wicked swing! Hi-YA!!!

Dustin cut Allie a little seat with the chainsaw. But don't let her innocent face fool you...

She a little crazy with the hatchet! Watch out!!!

 

Now we have lots of firewood ready for the winter and Allie and Mark have a greater appreciation for sharp objects. Not to worry, no one was greatly injured in the making of this blog post. ;)

No snow? No problem!

When you live in the desert you learn to get creative with your winter sports. 

We don't let the lack of snow get us down! We just head to the dirt and go sand sledding!!!

I'll take the sand over the snow any day!

86 years and 200,000 miles later

This past Sunday we went to Cedar City to celebrate Grandpa Bill Nelson's 86th birthday!

Before the party we stopped at Woods' ranch and played in the snow. The kids loved the snow and had a great time making and throwing snowballs. There was just one rule -- NO throwing snowballs at MOM!!! Dad broke the rule once, but she forgave him. ;)




We also build a snowman. It was great fun!!




After playing in the snow we met up with my sisters, Ashley and Heather, and ate some pizza at Pizza Hut. Then we headed to the party!

JuneAnn, Big Mark, (Jack) Jolene, Marie, Grandpa Bill and Grandma Bonnie

Grandpa seemed to have had a good time. He even wore one of the party hats! All the kids loved playing with the party favors and the adults had fun visiting.

Grandpa and Grandma with most of the grandkids and great-grandkids

Grandpa Bill's sister, Aunt Shanna even made an appearance! 

We were so glad to be able to see her again.

Happy Birthday Wild Bill!!!

On the way home, we noticed that the mileage on the car was about to hit 200,000 miles. That got Dustin and me reminiscing about the past. Just six years earlier we were newly weds, in our new/used car headed to Grandpa Bill's 80th birthday in Panguitch. Estefan was only two years old. We even stopped at the same place to play in the snow! Now we've added two and a half kids to the bunch and lots of great memories in the ol' red car.

We hit 200,000 miles just before St. George. It has been a great 200,000 miles for us and I'm sure some wild 86 years for Grandpa Bill. Here's to lots more good years, good miles, good family and good times!!

On Veteran's Day, we play!

I'm so crazy... I always take way too many pictures of everything we do and today was no different!

This morning was the Veteran's Day parade. Papa Stan called Dustin about five minutes before we were ready to go, to help him load some hay to take to the Pig Farm. So Dustin and Mark worked while Allie and I played!

I was running late to the parade and decided to take the airport road to get around the traffic and dang construction work. We'll I'm so glad I did.. cuz when I parked next to Maverick I saw Kyle Leavitt.. so I ran (read waddled) up to him and we got to sit with the whole Leavitt crew!

The girls were a little nervous about going in the road.. but eventually they caught on and we came home loaded with candy!

And it begins!

Addison, Alyanna, Allie and Grace

Allie said, "Mom, why are those boys wearing dresses?"

Little Miss America

Allie and Taytum Yardley

The Dalley's in the bucket truck!

When we got home the boys were done workin and they were playin! So we joined in.

Cutest little cowboy!

and purdiest little cowgirl!

Well its only noon and we've had a good day so far.. now its nap time! Hope the rest of the day is as good as the start.

Happy Veteran's Day!