Saturday, December 22, 2007

Christmas Party


Matt was called as Activity chairman for the ward this past summer and this years christmas party really gave him a run for his money. Take planning food,etc for 250 people, a handful of people who start planning this in Sept., and my beloved but official procrastinator of a husband serving as their leader.........Yep, it was pretty interesting. After many hours of planning, frustration, more than a hundred phone calls, six fifty pound turkeys, three twenty-five pound hams, 300lbs of mashed potatoes, twenty boxes of stuffing, and our missing christmas tree (Matt decided to take all of the decorations off and donate it for the night for decorations) The night went perfectly!!!Here is the only pic that got taken. Not so good, but oh well. This pregnancy like many others shows in my extremely bloated face :( As for Sariah's hair, yes it is odd, but there is a reason for the point. I didn't start to do things with Seri's hair until she was probably two, and she has hated it from day one. Even now she refuses to let me do her hair and when I do win the battle she complains as if she is dying the whole time. So poor Sariah, when it came to her I swore I would do her hair every day starting with the day she had enough to do anything with. So far it has worked and she sits very patiently and still while I do her hair each day. The only trouble is when she gets mad at me, then she reaches up and pulls the hair band (along with quite a bit of hair) straight out.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Seri

Seri recently joined a group for young women that I was a part of when I was a girl (IORG). So far she has really been enjoying it. A few weeks ago she participated in a workshop focused on leadership. The theme was "How to be a dazzling princess" and they had classes on public speaking, etiquette, posture, taking care of your body, being an effective leader, etc.... From the pics and her non-stop talking, it appears that she had a great time. The workshop concluded with them designing their own formals out of T.P. (not sure how "dazzling"that was) and what appears to be a huge T.P. fight. (she is the one in the pale green sweater)






Tuesday, December 18, 2007

It's a..............

Boy!!!!!!

Yep, the ultrasound and a cooperative child confirmed what everyone thought they "knew", the baby is definetly a boy! About twelve years ago when I was pregnant with Seri, a friend did the "ring trick". You dangle a ring from string over the females left hand and if the ring goes in a circle it is a girl, if it goes from side to side it is a boy. So with us it has always gone in a circle, stopped, side to side, stopped, side to side, stop, circle, stop, side to side, stop and then side to side one more time before finally stopping permanetly, ensuating that our birth order would be girl-boy-boy-girl-boy-boy. Well after Isaac we started thinking hmmm. Maybe it was accurate. Now that we are five children into the pattern that this superstition told us, it is kind of eerie....... So, for those who want to know, "will this be it?", according to "the ring" we still have one more boy to go. We'll see.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

The newest Olson

We went in for our dating Ultrasound on Oct 16 fully expecting to find the little "Lima Bean" blob that is typical of early pregnancy considering we had just found out we were pregnant about three weeks prior. Imagine our surprise when this popped onto the screen! Definetly not a lima bean! Turns out I was closing in on thirteen weeks when the scan was taken. Not sure how we didn't realize we were pregnant before ten weeks. The due date is April 24. Luckily I am able to go to the same mid-wives I had with Sariah and we will be having this one at home. Both Matt and the midwives agreed that he shouldn't be driving me anywhere this time. I am very excited now and am grateful to have this experience once again.
We are trying to get Sarah used to the concept but so far I don't think she gets it. Now that I am showing pretty well we will point or pat my tummy and tell her that there is a baby in there. She responds by looking at us like we are freaks then running off to bring us one of her baby dolls. Close, but not quite.

Pumpkin Patch

Once again it was time to head out to one of our favorite places, the Pumpkin patch and corn maze. As always we had a great time and this year the kids even made it through the second maze all by themselves with Seri guiding them! She was well equipped with a cell phone, however, thanks to last years incident. The crop wasn't as thick this year and much of it had fallen, we are assuming because of the rain and wind.
On the way home we saw a para-glider descending and were hoping to catch him landing. Turns out he was on a motorbike of sorts, I think you can sort of see it in one of the pics. Very interesting!









More of the Princess

I think I have ranted about this before, but man is our camera horrible!! Anyhow bad pics are better than no pics at all right? I am hoping to get a new camera for christmas (hint, hint, wink,wink).Not sure when this pic was taken or why they were out in the yard, but I love it.



Thursday, December 06, 2007

Tis the season

I promise to get some pictures up here soon, but for now here is a video I thought you would all enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAckfn8yiAQ