Mommy your tummy's growing...

Yesterday we were able to watch the BYU game and we were super excited about it. Then they started to show Y mountain and the stadium and Brandon and I became very home sick. We do really like Michigan it just still doesn't feel like home. We were very excited that our team was able to win and looked good for the most part of it anyways. (Sigh)

I've been asked to post a picture of the "belly" so I decided to have my boys stand in with me. They thought it was fun, Porter kept saying, "boys can't have babies only girls can." With that being said I'm a little worried he's going to assume all girls are pregnant, hopefully not.

(Me in all of my preggo glory :)

Porter has also taken to the great outdoors, peeing in them that is. He will run outside the back door to pee on the bushes. At the park he just decides to pull down his pants wherever he is and go. Many of you might be thinking this sounds familiar, yes we went through this with Logan he's over it now so maybe Porter will be soon. I just don't get what's so great about it, it has to be a guy thing.

So I have a rant I just need to get it off of my chest. I know I've posted about what great garage sales there have been around here. Well I was proven to be wrong yesterday. I went to a garage sale that I had found on craigslist saying they had all girl stuff and were selling clothing for a dollar. So I drove out there, it was about 15 minutes away pulled up and sure enough tons and tons of girl stuff, I thought "yay, I can get a bunch of things for a dollar." Nothing was marked and there were no signs so I asked the lady in charge how much things were before I started making a pile. Her reply, "Well it depends these are all designer brands that I spent about $80.00 for so I probably would want like $40.00, then something like this (a baby hat you'd get in the hospital) would be a dollar." I was a little shocked thinking first off who in their right mind would spend $80.00 on a 3-6 month outfit. Do you not know what babies do? The clothes weren't anything spectacular, to an untrained eye they looked like something you'd find at baby gap or old navy. I was very frustrated. I wanted to tell her about the dynamics of having a garage sale is to get rid of stuff so you don't have to take it to the dump. If you make a dollar off of something you have no use for it's better than having to load it up in the car and dropping it off somewhere. Anyways, I left empty handed and frustrated with this woman. I then went to another garage sale and found a little dress for $2.oo and made a little girl cry for taking it. What a day.

Random, Brandon blowing out his 27 candles.

Happy Birthday Brandon

Today is my favorite person in the whole world birthday. Brandon is 27 today and when I mentioned he'd be 27 he looked at me and said, "I thought I already was!" Yep, it seems we have this incident with the odd year birthdays, when he turned 25 he already thought he was 25 and had told several people that.
Anyways, Brandon is one of the best people I know, he's hard working, self motivated, and the best daddy a kid could ask for. He's patient with our kids and me. He always has shoulders for Porter to crawl up on, wrestling moves for Logan, and lot's of love for all of us. He tries to play like he's tough, but really he's a softy and the boys have him wrapped around their finger, just wait till that girl comes around.
Happy Birthday Brandon we love you, hope you have the best day ever.

2 Tags Play Along if You'd like

I was given two different tags so I thought why not kill 2 birds with one stone and just do them. So here goes...
I usually: get on the computer in the morning while my kids watch cartoons.
I wonder: what my baby will look like
I regret: The way I've reacted to certain situations in my life.
I love: Brandon, Logan, Porter and baby sister
I care: Very much about my Family and Friends
I always: am tired
I worry: that I'm damaging my kids by not being a good mom
I am not: good at being funny
I remember: Funny moments that can make me have laughing fits
I believe: Life is truly good
I dance: When I think no one is around, there have been times when I've been caught.
I sing: quietly when I can hear myself, loudly when I'm in a group
I don’t always: make my bed
I argue: For honest answers, say what you mean and mean what you say.
I write: letters and don't give them to people, my own kind of therapy.
I win: at sports and thats about it.
I lose: my mind
I wish: To magically know all the right decisions for my kids.
I listen: to my boys fighting over everything in the car.
I don't understand: Math
I can usually be found: on the computer
I am scared: of the dark in strange places.
I need: Love and Sleep
I forget: My kids names and call them the others name
I am happy: when I get pictures from my kids or Brandon does something to make my life easier.
Tagging anyone who needs something to blog about

Second Tag, now this one I'm a little nervous about. For anyone who thought I was cool, might not think so now. So here goes,
6 QUIRKS
1. I love to get mail, any kid really, snail mail or email. I check for it at the same time every day and if it's not on time I get frustrated.
2. I could spend hours on the computer looking at peoples blogs and reading what people put on my blog.
3. I love to make up dances or songs to make my kids laugh. Lately I've been doing the F-I-G-H-T cheer for my kids but add other words to it. I know I'm a dork, I wasn't even a cheer leader in high school can you imagine how much worse I would be if I had been.
4. I (like Lisa) make lists for everything, what I need to get done for the day, what I need at the store, what and who we're getting christmas for, bills, etc... If I don't make a list the things don't get done. It must reinforce it in my head to do it.
5. I really don't like talking on the phone that much. I'm fine when people call me, I just don't like to call people. I'm paranoid that I'll call at a bad time and wake sleeping kids or that someone will get bugged that I called. I know this one I really need to get over.
6. I have horrible food cravings. If I get something in my head, food wise I usually can't get it out. Oddly enough it's worse when I'm not pregnant than when I'm pregnant. When I'm pregnant I don't like anything really for the first 4 months.
Anyways there are my quirky quirks. Hope you had fun, and play along.

Playing Catch Up

So I feel like I am playing catch up every time I blog, but I want to get everything in here since I plan on making it into a book, so please bear with me.
Friday night we went to our ward camp out. It was fun, but can I just say I miss Utah. It was so hot and muggy when we were trying to sleep that we were actually taking the extra clothes off of us and our kids. I wanted so bad to have the cold canyon air on me and feel like I needed to be in my sleeping bag. All the boys slept great, once we got settled and they had talked to grandma and papa.

Brandon had used this stick for our hot dogs for dinner the night before and Logan decided to adopt it. He carried it around with him everywhere and gave it a name. He also tried to sneak it into our van so he could take it home, we have enough sticks around our house we don't need more.
It rained after we got there and got our tent set up. I sat inside the tent with the boys while Brandon cooked our hot dogs and brought them to us. What a great dad. The rain didn't last long and soon the boys were outside playing soccer and tag with all of the other kids. Every time Porter went out of the tent the dirt just seemed to jump on him. It didn't help that his favorite place to play was right in the black, ash dirt that comes from the fire. I think we used 3/4 of a new wipes pagkage. But he had fun.

I've been working on some projects these last few weeks. I made a couple of blankets for our new baby and then the white things are burp cloths. I saw a really cute website where they used cloth diapers and covered one side with material so they look cute too. I have used the cloth diapers with both of my kids in the hospital and loved them. But I hated how they looked so now hopefully they still work great and look a lot better.
This week I also got a really fun package in the mail this week from my good friend Lisa. I was asking her how to make bows, (she's an expert) and she sent me a fun package with some bows and a cute outfit and some other stuff. So I'm just showing off what a great talent she has and that I'm glad she's my friend. The bow actually clips on and off of the head band so I can change it with other bows, can't wait.
Lastly we've come to this. This is what we've had to do in order to get Porter to sit long enough to get all of his eh-um out. He's so busy and just wants to play all the time that he was cutting his time on the toilet short and having accidents right after. So we gave him a book in hopes that his love for them would still exsist on the toilet. So far it's worked but I'm afraid to say that because tomorrow he'll probably have an accident.

The name poll is just something we're doing for fun to help with names. We really aren't using that to determine what the name will be, just fun to see what other's think of the names we like.

Dream Cruise

Since we live in auto city, USA there's a fun "little" event called the Woodward Dream Cruise. Classic car lovers from all over the country come to this event and drive their car up and down this long stretch of road, Woodward Ave. We went down there today and I have never seen so many classic cars in my entire life, probably all put together. The boys were in heaven yelling and screaming at every car they saw as their favorites.
Yes these guys were driving these dinky cars up and down the road, I just had to take a picture.
Here's a little piece of news Brandon and I found out right before we left Utah. Here's a picture of my mom's Dream Car. I thinks it's a 68 Camaro, (Brandon's not here to ask and I forget these things really easy.) So you learn something new every day.I decided that I liked the Belairs the most, doesn't this look like so much fun to go on a sunday cruise in??
Back to the future car. There was a whole row full of these cars.

This is Brandons Dream car, I could go cruisn' in this one too.

Here's the old verses the new. There were a lot of smart cars driving around too.

Even the golf carts were decked out with classic style.
The boys Dream Car. They didn't understand why they couldn't climb all over the cars and pretend to drive. Eventually Logan got sick of sitting on the grass, "it was too weird!" So we came home after a couple of hours.

Random Thoughts

Warning this is mostly for journaling purposes and is going to be random.

So since finding out that we're having a girl, which I am very excited about. I realized how overwhelming it is going to be in just buying things for her. Yes, she's not even here yet and I'm overwhelmed by her or by having a girl. I wanted to buy some cute little dress for her and then when I went to go look it was like, "how do I decide?" I want her to look cute and pretty, but what if I make her look like a dweeb? There's just too many options for girls, I've been so used to having just t-shirts and polo's for boys and now there's millions of choices. So I haven't really found much, but I did find the bedding that I want for her crib. It's at Target, it's pink and brown with flowers and other things on it and I'm going to save up for it and get it.

Our boys are totally excited about having a baby and even more excited now since it will be a girl. I've woken up a few times with Porter laying his head on my belly singing "I am a Child of God", and "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" for the baby. It is one of the cutest things ever. He also says that he wants to "listen" to the baby. He'll put his head on my belly and tell me she's sleeping, or blowing spit bubbles, or if she's sad or happy. Today he asked me if the baby was going to like him, when I reassured him that she would he said, "I'm going to be the best big brother."

Logan has taken on the role to tell me when the baby is growing, aka mommy's belly is getting bigger. He doesn't quietly tell me when we're alone or anything, that would be too nice. This usually happens at the store or library and he'll yell, "Mommy, your baby's growing!" He is also taking the role of being a "great helper" to heart. I think he might be turning a little OCD. He loves to help pick up and won't let Porter help. Yes that's right he won't let Porter, no matter how much Porter wants to help. Logan will tell him to go and do something else, he's very good at redirecting Porter to somewhere else. Another thing is Logan saw a commercial for St. Judes Childrens Hospital, those tear jerking ones. It traumatized him for a couple of weeks, he kept telling me, "mom kids aren't suppose to die, they just need to go to St. Judes hospital." He would tell me this a couple of times a day for the first couple of weeks. It seems to have gotten better now, but if kids are sick or anything he'll bring up St. Judes hospital.

It's a....

Girl

We had our ultrasound today and found out that it's a sweet baby girl. We are so excited, Brandon looked like he was in shock during the ultrasound, he's a little nervous for a girl, but still very excited. When we told Logan it was a baby sister he said, "see mom I told you it was a baby girl. You just needed to listen to me."
There are a couple of things that needed to be checked again in a couple of weeks, but hopefully it turns out to be nothing.

Logan's swimming Lesson

Porter's swimming lessons