Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Solomon is two weeks!!

Pretty soon I will journal more about Solomon and what a great baby he is, how much his mom, dad and brother love him, how fun it has been to have Grandma and Papa here, how sweet his smiles are (even if they are just gas smiles!) and just how blessed we are to have his little spirit in our home. But for now these pictures will just have to hold you over!







Sunday, December 7, 2008

Finally...

Well the time has FINALLY come! Tomorrow night I will be checking into the hospital to get things ready to be induced on Tuesday. I am so excited to find out what this little one is (boy/girl). To meet her/him and to just hold and snuggle and kiss her/him! I am anxious to see Max's reaction when he meets his little brother/sister. As much as I hate being pregnant, I am so grateful for the opportunity to give birth. I will never forget the emotion that ran through my entire being the moment I saw Maximo for the first time. It was an emotion that I had never experienced before. I couldn't believe how much love I had for someone I had known for only seconds. I can't wait to experience this emotion again! Only two more day!!!!! We will keep everyone posted. :)

Six Flags

Saturday we took Max to Six Flags. Our plan was to go in the afternoon for a couple hours so we could be back in time for our ward Christmas party. When we pulled up to the gate they were closed and there was a sign showing the holiday hours. The park did not open till 4 PM. This would have been the second time that we told Max that we were going to six flags, pulled up to the gate to find out it was closed, then gone home. Peter did not want to disappoint him again, so we killed time till they opened and decided to miss the Christmas party.

We started out by looking on our navigation system in our car to find a park. A park came up under community playground...we drove there and it was a trailer park, not a playground. Then we found another park (that was actually a preschool). They were having a fund raiser and booths of things that the mothers were selling. They also had a Santa there and a fairy. (I don't think the fairy was supposed to be there...she kept dancing around the playground and inside telling people she was looking for friends) All the kids were a little scared of her. (I am really sad I did not get a picture of her!)

After the playground we drove to Olive Garden to have some of their yummy soup, salad and bread. We still had about an hour to kill so Peter and my dad walked around Best Buy.

Finally...it was time to go to Six Flags!!! Here are some pictures of our day...

Max with Santa

Max riding Harold with Gandma

My mom had so much fun that she wanted to ride it again by herself...she made a couple kids cry because she would not get off the ride.

Max trying to stay warm with daddy

Riding Thomas

Dad and Max clapping with Jacko

Daffy sneaking up on Grandma and Papa

Max and Daddy on the sled hill

thanksgiving continued

I am having trouble getting the pictures to line up correctly so this is just a continued post of some more pictures from Utah...

Peter and Max on the slide...


The cousin's book exchange...




















Rock band with Aaron and Brin...









Peter brainwashing all the nieces and nephews...

Thanksgiving...

Much to my Dr.'s dismay, we decided last minute to go to Utah for Thanksgiving. I had a Dr. appointment the day before we left and I had not progressed at all in a month, so we thought we were pretty safe.

The ride there was long and very uncomfortable. (to say the least) We hit traffic on our way out in Sacramento, then got stuck for 4 hours due to an accident on the freeway. Yes, that is right, they CLOSED the freeway for 4 hours and we just sat in the car from 11:30 PM to 3:30 AM until they finally opened one lane to let cars through. It took us 18 hours to arrive to Utah. I don't know how many times my legs and arms went numb, due to lack of circulation. Not to mention every other part of my body aching!

We had a great time after arriving. We stayed with Peter's parents and ate Thanksgiving dinner with them and then headed over to my sisters house. No one in my family knew we were coming, except one of my sisters. So we decided to surprise them. My sister put together a magic show and one of the tricks held up a blanket having one of the nieces/nephews going behind it and then having another one join them, so when she put the blanket down wallah...she doubled the amount of people behind the blanket. She did it a couple times and on the last time, we joined the kids behind the blanket. When she put the blanket down everyone saw us standing there. It was so much fun to surprise everyone.
On Friday, Peter's brother-in-law brought over a bounce house for the kids to play with. As cold as it was outside the kids still had a blast! Thanks so much Marcus!
































We were able to see lots of people and relax tons! It was a great last "get-a-way" before the baby and we were glad we went.