Highlight 1: Going home to California/Arizona for Christmas and New Year's. A 75 degree So Cal Christmas with the sun shining? Yes, I'll take that.
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| All three of the boys together on Christmas morning. |
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| Getting ready to open up gifts. |
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| YAY! new toy |
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| Uncle Aaron preventing Evan from escaping. |
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| Working on gingerbread houses Christmas Eve. |
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| Evan supervising as I work on his house. |
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| The finished product. |
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| With an alien gingerbread man! |
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| Loved going outside to play in the dirt. |
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| I love this picture. That's my dirty boy. |
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| Escaping while I was trying to change his diaper, ran outside to feed to dog dirt. |
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| Christmas morning. Evan and Rick both look Asian when waking up. |
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| He loved that silly recorder. |
Highlight 2: DisneylandIt was way packed, but we had fun anyway. Even though I couldn't go on any roller coasters or on the new Star Tours ride... At least I was able to rest on benches...
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| Evan and I at Tom Sawyer Island. He LOVED running around there. |
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Highlight 3: Mexican Food in CA and Phoenix We have a hard time finding real Mexican food here in Maryland (no, Chipotle and Cafe Rio don't count). In California, we went to my favorite place with the best taquitos/guacamole: Pepe's. And in Phoenix, we went to Pedro's, La Parrilla Suiza, and Tortas el Rey. Oh man, I made myself sick quite a bit, but it was totally worth it...
Highlight 4: Getting to my third trimester I am now 32 weeks pregnant, which means that I am losing all my energy, and I just want to lay on the couch all day. I really hope that this baby comes before 40 weeks. At least Evan is happy.
Highlight 5: Throwing a baby shower for a good friendI threw a baby shower for my friend Marta. Thankfully I had some help...It was Dr. Seuss themed, and I think, a big success. She got some great stuff, and I was so glad that we could celebrate the arrival of her first baby.
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| The diaper motorcycle cake that I made. |
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| Lots of presents... |
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| The table set up... with books and balloons as decorations. |
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| Clothes/Balloon line and game table. |
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| Gift table.. |
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| Refreshments: We had Deviled Green Eggs and Ham Sandwiches, cat and hat parfaits, and one fish, two fish jellos. |
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| Another view of the clothes line |
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| Close up of one of the tables. |
Highlight 6: Getting ready for the new little manYou would think that since this is my second one of the same gender, we'd have everything we need already. And, we have everything we need. There was just the whole going through the heaping piles of clothes and organizing everything... And moving Evan's room around to accommodate his bed and the new crib. And me looking for baby gear that will actually fit in our tiny home, since our two bedroom apartment in Phoenix (where we had Evan when he was first born) was bigger than our home now. So we've had to move some things around, and we've had to do some research on some baby items. Evan didn't sleep well unless he was in someone's arms, and this baby can't do that, I've decided. Especially since I'll have an active two year old running around. So, hopefully we can work on that with an awesome swaddling blanket that one of my friends in the ward makes and rock n play sleeper that has raving reviews on all the websites that I've seen it on.
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| We found and put together the car seat. Evan was ecstatic. |
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| So very excited, that he fell asleep in there! |
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| The car seat cover that I made for our little man Logan. |
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| It's so cute. :) |
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| Animal onesies and a t-shirt. These are for pictures after the little guy comes. I might be jinxing myself. |
