Congrats Uncle Louie

My brother Louie participated in the State track meet. He qualified in all his events (100 m dash, 200m dash, 4 x 100, and the 4 x 200). We went down on Thursday and watched him qualify in the 100 and 200 for the finals on Saturday. because I was so burnt :( we decided to skip Friday where he and his 4 x 200 team took 2nd placce and the 4 x 100 team qualified him for the fnal on Sat. Sadie and I with all the kiddos went down on Saturday to watch the finals. It was very exciting and the kids were good. Louie ended up getting 6th in the 100m dash and second in the 200m dash, the 4 x 200 and the 4 x 100. And the best news of all is that Madrid won the class 1A state track title! It was so exciting and we are so proud of him. Now it is on to baseball!

Sesame Street Live

Well Ellie went to her first musical/show. Friday night we went to see Elmo grows up with our good friends the Bergs. The kids had so much fun! Ellie was intrigued by the characters and danced the whole time. She loved the popcorn and took it all in. Here are a few pics. Abby was by far her favorite.

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getting closer!

On Sunday I will be 30 weeks! I cannot believe how fast this pregnnacy is going. I cannot believe how much I still have left to do! This time with Ellie her room was done put together, and I had washed her clothes 2 times! This time I have the closet cleaned out (both the baby's and ellie's) and I have gone thru the tote and picked out the gender neutral clothes. I also have a good assortment of boy clothes hanging in the closet from garage sales. My grandma, Maggie, and myself have found boys clothes and bought them. We all think it is a boy. We are 100% set on girls clothes since Ellie was a July baby too so we have not been getting any of those.

These pics are of me this week at 29 weeks 3 days. I am figuring I have only about 8-10 weeks before this baby is born. I thought not finding out the gender would be hard but worth it, but honestly things have flown by so fast the suspense is not killing me and I am loving not knowing! We have a LONG list of boys names, not started on girls names, and no way of finalizing the choice. I think we will try to narrow it down a bit more and then wait until he/she gets here and decide the name for him/her. The added bonus of not sharing is you wont have to hear the negative comments about your choice. I can't see someone coming to the hospital and saying anything after the babyis already named, although I honestly would not put it past anyone. :)

Honesty

Well our very good friends Marshall and Lisa had baby #2 today and I am more than happy to announce Ellie finally has a baby girl to play with! Mallory Jean entered into our wonderful world at 2:05am weighing in at 8lbs 1oz. She is so small, you just forget how small they are at first.

On to my honesty story. Since Jess and I wanted to go see Miss Mallory, I asked Sadie to take Ellie for a few hours. She more than happily agreed. Well I watch Jayce almost daily and here lately him and ellie fight like brother and sister. they want the same toys, same book , and to both sit not just on my lap at the same time but think they actually need the same leg and with my belly there is not much room anymore!

We went and cuddled and kissed on our new "niece" and then went and picked Ellie up. As I was getting her ready for bed tonight I asked her if she went to Sadies today and she said yes. I asked her what she did there and she said "hit". I asked who hit and she replied "I hit". I then asked who she hit and she said "I hit Jayce". UGH! I then went on to say it hurts when we hit others and we dont hit, it is not nice. Ellie tells me "hit naughty". Ok she gets it. I put her to bed and I call Sadie and ask "did ellie hit Jayce today?" "Um yeah why?" I then told her, "well she told me she did. did you put her in time out?"

and what is Sadie's reply...............




"No! I can't put her in time out! I would feel bad!" To this I responded, "Jayce goes to timeout here." Her answer, "Thats different!"

Oh Ellie has everyone wrapped around her finger! But hey at least she was honest!

Easter Fun

Well Ellie LOVED Easter this year. Over the past two weeks we have done five egg hunts and she really got into it. We even have hidden the empty eggs just for her to find. Here are some pics of our hunts.

monkeys on the bed

My sister Maggie taught Ellie the 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed and now she wants to do it all the time. Her and Jayce wanted to do it today. and yes we let them jump on the bed! It is fun and we are fun! LOL