BOY!!!! We are super excited to announce that we will be having a baby boy coming in January. We cant wait and are hoping that everything will be smooth sailing from here. I am a little nervous to start all over again but cant wait to see the little face of this boy. If you have any cute name ideas I would love to hear them. So far Luke really wants us to name him Vader so clearly we need some help on the names. Wish us luck!
We were lucky enough to get a quick trip in this weekend before the kids start school on Wednesday. We got invited to go to Carlsbad with some friends from the ward to go see the caves and the bats!!! We decided to stay at a KOA campground in a cute little cabin Friday night which was also the night that we went to go see the bats. We got up to the caverns around 7:00pm to watch them come out of the cave. It really was so neat. They say that there are a couple hundred thousands of bats that fly out of the cave. I am sad that we couldn't take pictures but that would scare the bats and I wasn't willing to take the chance that they would fly at me and get me for taking a picture:) The next morning we woke up and checked out of the cabin and we were on our way up to explore the caves ourselves. Holy cow is all I have to say. I started to panic at first and my legs were shaking because I was sure that someone was going to fall over the sides. We walked 750ft down to the bottom of the cave and it was amazing. It took about 2hrs or so to walk through and thank goodness we got to take an elevator back up. The kids had so much fun and thought that we were in Batman's cave! They loved sleeping in a cabin but I am thinking that is because we brought stuff to make smores...... yummy! We are so glad that we got a chance to go with friends and see things that were just amazing and beautiful.
Seth has been doing some research on fun things that we could do on the weekends and he came up with the idea for us to take the a train ride to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The train ride was about an 1hr and 15min and it was a double decker train. The kids had alot of fun and thought it was so neat to go through tunnels and see the horses and cows in the fields. When we got there we went to a restaurant called "Flying Star" which was really yummy and it was actually the grand opening so they were sampling all of their desserts. After lunch we walked around for about 30mins and then we were back on the train. It was a super fun thing to do but I tell ya I would never want to live there. It seems to be a really hippy, earthy town that is way out of my liking:) I am definitely a city girl!!!! 
Seth has been asking for a few days if he could cut Lukes hair to be a Mohawk. I made him wait until after church today and told him that he will have to cut it off by Saturday so he will look like a nice boy for church next Sunday. Luke loves it! He thinks that it is so cool and I think he looks so cute:) I just might let him keep it for the summer!
That was all I could say when I saw the picture Haylee was drawing during sacrament meeting. She was looking at her hand trying to copy what her hand looked like. I took the note pad from her and asked her if she knew what it meant to have the middle finger sticking out and she had not idea. I tried to explain to her as quietly as I could that it is not a nice thing to stick your middle finger at anyone because it means bad things. She almost started crying because she had no idea she just was noticing that her middle finger was longer:) I just couldn't resist taking a picture because it was too funny. I am so glad that she didn't hold it up to show me otherwise the people behind us in sacrament could have gotten a litte offended!
Awhile back when I was lost trying to find the place to get Haylee her glasses I found a batting cage and have been wanting to take the kids ever since. Well today was such a nice day we had a little breeze and it was a high of 75 degrees so what better time to give it a try. We got about half way there and looked at the kids and they were both wearing flip flops so we had to turn around to get tennis shoes on and we were off again. I must say I was very nervous that Haylee was going to hurt herself somehow but she did great. Luke did really well too. He really is such a natural at doing most sports and he had so much fun. I actually got in there myself and it was super fun. I cant wait to go back. What a fun thing to do during the summer to keep busy. The guy working there was really nice because of course I still had flip flops on but he said I could go anyways. He must have seen my talent in my eyes! Seth unfortunately didn't get to take a turn because he threw out his back at work and could barley stand. Luke has been talking about it all day and I am so glad that they both had fun.
The kids were so excited this year to participate in field day. They both got to compete in to events and then also got to do the tug-o-war with their class. Luke's field day was on Monday and first up was the scooter race. I totally remember having those scooters when I was a kid and loved doing them in P.E.. Next up was the bean bag toss. He managed to get 9 out of the 10 bags in the whole. He got first place in that. Way to go bud. You know what he actually did three events. 
He told me that he also did the 50 meter run and got first place even though he tripped and fell down. All the kids were getting their faces painted by the 5th graders and he asked for a skull. Pretty small but hey he was excited. Luke did such a great job and had such a fun day. His class got 2nd place in in the all around events. They had some other really fun events that he didn't get to do like the pie eating contest, the licorice game, donut eating contest, toe fishing, water balloon toss, and many more. As for Haylee, well I was a little nervous for her as she is a little clumsy. Her events were the centipede and slip-n-slide baseball. They finished 2nd in the centipede and man that looked hard. She got a little whole in her shorts from dragging her bum across the field. I thinks her favorite of all though was the slip-n-slide baseball. She got soaking wet. Her class lost in the tug-o-war but barley. Over all though her class got 2nd too. It was so fun to see the kids having fun with their classmates and being silly. 
So this morning while I was blow drying Haylees hair she just happened to get a hair in her mouth and right after she pulled it out she said..............."You know mom I really think that the lunch ladies should have to wear hair nets because there is always hair in the food at school"................... What are you kidding me that is disgusting. I thought that it was mandatory for them to wear those things. I know they did in Las Vegas. I am a little annoyed because I just sent her into school with a $20.00 check yesterday for lunches and I hate to waste the money but eating nasty hair is just wrong right? Anyways I know this is gross but I thought this would be funny to read in a couple of years:)
Well I survived another half day with the kids. The weather on Wednesday was super cold and really windy so we had to stay inside so I made sure I planned ahead and was ready to entertain my kids. I went to target earlier that morning and bought some play dough for the kids to do and a box of Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheat's cereal because I found a recipe the other day that I wanted to try. I must say that the day was a success and the time flew by. I actually sat down and played with the kids and made some things with the play dough and I was really impressed with the their imaginations. Haylee made a really cute hamburger that looked real. I made a girl and then we thought it would be fun to put play dough on Luke. I think that we sat and played with it for 2 hours!!!! When we were done with that it was time to move on to the cookies. The recipe was a peanut butter cookie but it was made with crushed up mini wheat's. I thought they were super yummy and was just proud of myself that I ate only 3. I need to get rid of the rest of them though because they are very tempting. I am already thinking of what I am going to do next week. I hope that we will have better weather because that makes things so much nicer. What am I going to do in the summer???? I will have to take a visit to Arizona and Vegas right:)
I cant believe that my 9 year old has to wear glasses. It just seems so crazy to me. Haylee came home a couple of weeks ago from school with a not from the school nurse saying that she had a hard time on the eye exam and that we should check it out. So that is what I did. I took her last week to the eye doctor to get an exam that I must say was very thorough and sure enough she is near sided and has to wear glasses. We just got home yesterday from Arizona and this morning when she woke up she was right by my bed asking if we could finally go and pick up here glasses. I think she looks super cute with them although I do wish she didn't have to have them but she loves them and thinks they are the coolest things ever. By the end of the night she was complaining of a headache so she will have to adjust.
