Holidays & Our Big News...

Its kind of hard to blog about things that happened over a month ago. Maybe I'm a slacker, maybe I'm just super busy like the rest of the world. Usually winter slows way down for us and we can catch up on things around our house. This winter is just plain weird. We are both working a lot, we are both taking 8 college credits, and our family is growing at a rapid rate...

Christmas was hard this year, we had a flood and so Graidy's entire room had to come out into our living room. Having a bunk bed in front room for a month is no bueno. I had no clue that my 2 year old had so much stuff! It made me feel like I moved all over again. We made things work and had a very nice Christmas. Graidy got his "cycle bike" and was spoiled rotten from his grandparents of course. This year was the first year he really got into it. He would grab a present and say "Ohhhh Man!" then when he opened it he would say something like "COOL" and then of course toss it right over his shoulder and move on to the next one.

New Years was a blast a few of my siblings rented a cabin up by my dads house and we just ate good food, and sledded a whole bunch. Graidy asks me about on a daily basis "We go sledding?" The kid is a dare devil if you didn't know... I think Brett would move up there in a heart beat he loves how much snow they get. I felt really old this year, it was so hard to stay awake until midnight, then the martinelli's sparkling cider just gave me killer heart burn.

Now that you've had a big update on our holiday festivities I introduce you to our baby GIRL!!

Isn't she cute?? Now this is where I start to feel bad I'm officially 16 weeks and I'm just barely blogging that I'm even pregnant. I wanted to be one of those cute girls (like all of my friends that blog) and do a cool count down, a really fun announcement, and probably a poll to see if you all think I'm having a boy or girl. Well when it comes to your second things just change! Not that it isn't any more special than your first, its actually been a very different, but more rewarding process this time around.

We tried for quite a while and the funny thing once you stop stressing about it, it happens! I for some wierdo reason didn't want to tell anyone, not anyone! I found out when I was only 3 weeks and had an ear infection. I work with my sister in law Tina and this girl has intuition (did I mention she is only 3 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy) "Kiley, I know your pregnant just have them do the test when you go in!" I totally wanted to just shrug her off, get my antibiotic and be done with it. Then at the end of the appointment when I was being dismissed I asked if I could take one, and what do you know?? POSITIVE. A very interesting conversation with Brett soon followed. For our typical marriage we got in a "bickerment" as I call them on my way to the office. So I called him back after I was done and we said the usual...

"You done being a prick?" -K

"Yeah you done?" -B

"We'll the due date is July 25th" -K

"What in the hell are you talking about?" -B

"You know the due date?" -K

"Your kidding! That is awesome!" -B Then he started rambling on about how far apart they will be and if they will be in school together and all those other cute things.

It was so surreal. But as I said before I didn't want to tell anyone... A few figured it out, some of those few spilled the beans, but the crazy thing is we were able to keep it from our siblings and our parents. So on Christmas Eve we told each of them with giving them a gift from Graidy. I made these magnet boards and put a picture of the sonogram, and the picture below on it. People were in shock, they kept asking now did you know about this at G's party? Remember when... you were pregnant then? and so on. It was a really fun Christmas gift to give everyone.

I'm already having a nervous break down about redoing a nursery. My crib and baby dresser are black and I don't want to do hot pink and black, not that it isn't cute, I just want something different. Pottery Barn has a really cute black and purple nursery set right now. My mom has some old fashioned fabric that she picked up at a yard sale that I've had my eye on, and she finally submitted and said she would make a quilt out of it. She has whole bunch of yo-yo's already made. They are in all sorts of colors, pink, blue, orange, yellow, and minty green. I think this is more of what I am shooting for, not so matchy matchy. But we will see...

Now for an update on the boys... They both were pretty sad about the out come of yesterdays big game. Brett even changed his shirt during the 4th quarter.

Brett has been working an unusual amount for how cold it has been. It looks like around March 1st he'll get finally transfered from Beck St. to closer to home. Things are finally looking up and the economy doesn't have to kiss my you know what lately. We have saved a good amount of money living with my grandma and will hopefully buy a house this spring or summer. Graidy is getting funnier and more controlling by the minute. He has been using the toilet more and more and the other day in the car he happened to dropped deuce, he started screaming that...

"my cheeks hurt!" -G

"cheeks?" -K

"yeah, my butt cheeks!" -G

Now for the controlling part, not that I always let my 2 year old boss me around, sometimes it is just funny. This morning he wanted cereal for breakfast, so in return I had to have cereal for breakfast. He told me where to sit and where to put my apple juice and bowl. Then he said "drink your milk mom." So together we had to lift our bowls to our lips and drink the milk together. Then we could start eating again. It was like I was his shadow. I have plenty of more stories about this but this one just happened to happen today. I have no clue who he gets it from, hmm...

Don't you think he could be a gap model, yeah me too.

We'll hopefully I start blogging more often, it is kind of therapeutic.