Literally the entire month of December and a bit more!!

(Get ready for a very very long post!)

After spending a little over a month in Utah, it has been quite the task to get back in our routine and catch up on everything.

Especially since I've let so much go these past months.

But here is our month of December and it truly was the best.

I really should have taken more pictures of things, but I didn't, so I will try to at least write down all the fun things we did!

I arrived in Utah on the 28th of November with Olivia.

I was so anxious about flying while so sick but thanks to Zofran and wonderful flight attendants we made it safe and sound without too much drama.

I'm now a serious fan of Southwest.

As we were getting our luggage, Elizabeth, Emmaline, and Harrison came flinging through the main doors. 

Olivia screamed with delight and that was pretty much the last I saw of her for the rest of the trip.

Ha just kidding but seriously she loves them so much and had really missed them.

I can't explain to you the relief I felt as we walked out the doors and I saw my mom.

Being away from everyone has been so hard and it doesn't help that I've been so sick.

Seeing everyone was so exciting and I could not wait for all the fun the next month would bring.

I came home to two brand new cars, a Jetta and Jeep.

I still don't know if I see my dad driving a Jeep:)

Nothing else had really changed.

I was home and I couldn't be more excited.

The minute we walked in Sophia was there to greet us and was very excited to let me rest while she took Olivia horseback riding. 

Olivia in the past has been a little afraid of horses.

She loves to look at them and talk about them but doesn't want to go anywhere near them.

But somehow Sophia managed to get her on a horse and since then that's all Olivia's talked about.

"I River" (ride River, Sophia's horse.)

She also met two other horses named Tinkerbell and Sissy whom she calls "Bell and Sissies"

So her lineup goes something like this, " I RiverBell, Sissies."

She talked about these horses 24/7,  even in her sleep.

Lucky for her she was able to spend quite a bit of time with them!

Here are a few pictures of the horse fun!

Aunti "foph", Olivia, and River.

 Elizabeth, Olivia and River.

Riding River with Emmaline.

Now this is one of times where I really lacked in the picture taking.

So here are a few things we did.

* Lunch at Zupas, Target, and missionary package deliveries to Winston and my cousin Nicholas.

We had a blast putting together some fun pre Christmas packages!

* My dad's company party at Los Hermanos.

*Watched both seasons of Downton Abby and completely fell in love. 

* Lunch at Kneaders and shopping at the new outlets right by my parent's house with my cousin Rachel.

Lunch and playtime with my cousin in-law Adriana and her two cute girls Samantha and new baby Emma.

* Olivia loved reading It's Not Easy Being a Bunny with pa. She loved this book so much, especially the way he read it:) She would always wrinkle her little nose up and sniff when she wanted him to read it to her.

* Cuddle time with ma everyday before naps and bedtime. She loved reading the "ruffy and baby" book and then letting grandma rock her to sleep. (Side note: my dad had to build a lid out of cardboard that fit over the top of her little play pack and play since she tends to get out of bed a lot. It was so funny because we would just lay her in bed and put the lid right on. Sometimes she even wanted to give us kisses through the mesh sides. It was pretty cute! I feel so blessed to have such a sweet mom and dad that are always so willing to help!

*On December 8th Michael arrived and that is when the real fun began!

*Michael's cousin's wedding reception where we also got to see Stephen!

* A Christmas party at my aunt Tiffany's house with my mom's side. We had yummy soups and chocolate cupcakes with peppermint cream cheese frosting. (I was so excited to be feeling well enough to cook!)

Olivia loved sing Santa Clause is coming to town. ("Santi Tause foo towe" is how she would say it!)

*Spending hours and hours (sometimes in to the night) chatting.

*Apples to Apples.

*Olivia had a blast playing in the snow and sledding with Elizabeth, Emmaline, and Harrison. She also loved walking across the street to see the "ba bas" (chickens.)

*Olivia also was introduced to the episodes of My little pony. She calls them "mya po" ha. She loves to dance and sing to the intro song!

*Putting together more Christmas packages for Elder Farr!

*A visit from my cousin Joshua who really is more like a brother to me. He had gotten home from his mission in Mexico a few days earlier. We were all ecstatic to see him!

*Christmas shopping, dinner and visiting Santa Claus. (Olivia was not a fan of Santa and would not sit on his lap but she did manage to quickly grab a "ah pop" (lollipop) from him. We thought she would be excited to see him since she had been talking about "Santy Tause" and how she wanted a "peen tar" (pink car), but apparently not!

*The Zoo lights up in Salt Lake City. We had a complete blast and Olivia loved seeing all the animals!

Now here is the special early Christmas present my parents gave to us married couples!

We were all beyond excited! 

So on Tuesday Dec. 18th we left for St. George.

Now let me give you a little rundown of our ride down there.

Me barfing, Michael and I head to Provo to pick up Sophia and I'm so sick I'm literally in fetal position, get to Sophia's apartment, barf, get in the car, drive a little bit (still in fetal position), barf in my handy sack that I've learned to bring everywhere, stop for lunch in Cedar City, barf again, finish our drive to St. George. Yay, we made it!

We drove straight to the golf course since my mom had a tee time set up for the boys at 2:30 pm.

It was freezing cold so we bundled up and got in the carts.

Sophia and I were literally swaddled in blankets!

(By now I am feeling a bit better. I think it was the fresh air!)

I have no idea what is going on with me in this picture!

It was a beautiful course I just wish it would have been a bit warmer:)

Us!

They boys played really well, at least the holes we saw them play.

Soph and I ended up driving a cart back to the lodge because I was freezing and sick.

We talked by the fire for quite a while. Mostly about baby names:)

I really love talking to my sister.

After golfing we made our way to our hotel and got ready to go to dinner.
Our rooms were so fun because there was a door that connected them!
Anyway, we went to Texas Roadhouse and enjoyed a yummy dinner and then headed over  to Kneaders to get a treat to go for later that night.
We then went back to our hotel, rested a bit and then headed to the hot tub.
Sadly for me I was only able to dangle my legs in the nice warm water.
We didn't want our baby overheating:)
By the time we were done hotubbing I was so tired.
We headed back to our rooms to enjoy our desserts. Mine was the best cream cheese raspberry pie I've ever had.
We watched a bit of the Voice and that was the end of me!
The next morning we woke up, packed, ate breakfast, and then headed to the golf course.
Sophia and I dropped the boys off so that we could head to the local mall,
It was a small mall but we had a blast shopping and spending time together.
After we picked the boys up, we ate lunch at Arby's and then headed for home.
I made a bed for myself in the back and pretty much laid all over Michael the entire way home.
But I am excited to say that we made it without a single barf!
We are so grateful to my parent's for this little getaway!!
It was a complete blast!

Here is our precious Olivia on the Sunday before Christmas.

I'm completely in love with her lace pantaloons and Feltman Brothers white dress!
Thank you mom!

After church we headed up to my aunt Carol's house on the Farr side for a Christmas party!
It was so fun seeing everyone and catching up.
On our way home we stopped at Temple square to see the lights.

Here are a few pictures!

Uncle "Shas" and Olivia!

Pa and Olivia.

Pa made sure Olivia got to see all the horses pulling the carriages.
She was obsessed.

The crew!

Love all of them more than words.

Our little family!

Olivia was exhausted and just wanted to cuddle with aunti "Foph" the whole way home.

On Christmas Eve we woke up and decided to head to Kneaders for their all you can eat french toast.

It was super crowded and we were very lucky to get our tables, but that french toast made it definitely worth it!
(Oh and right before breakfast we had a quick snowball fight with our neighbors, the Hookers. I'm proud of myself for participating being pregnant and all:))

We then headed home and started in with our usual family traditions.

And my mom and I baked a few things for Christmas day dinner.

A very tired and cold little girl.

She had been outside eating snow:)

Making and frosting sugar cookies!

As you can tell most of the frosting didn't make it on to the cookie:)

"tat papa" (Great grandpa) came to visit and bring us our wheel of raclette cheese!

Olivia completely loves him.

It's so funny because usually she is so shy and takes a while to warm up to people but whenever she saw him she just wanted him to hold and cuddle her.

I love watching my grandpa with her.

He is so special to me and I feel so blessed that Olivia has gotten to know him a little bit.

Little girl is definitely tired.
Here she is after a little fit and flinging herself onto the couch!

Our traditional raclette dinner.

Let me tell you, I have literally been craving this since last year.

Olivia totally downing her sparkling cider!

My plate.

Can you say AMAZING?!

After our yummy dinner we all sat down and watched the newer version  of The Grinch who stole Christmas.
We played Mario Party 9 (or something) on the wii.
And of course watched Luke II.
The kids enjoyed a mug of hot cocoa with a drop of the "secret sleeping potion" (vanilla) and were off to bed.
Us grownups stayed up a little longer doing what we do best on Christmas Eve:)

At 6:30 am my parent's woke up to a phone call from Elder Winston Farr!

He was calling to make sure they were awake and ready for Christmas ha!

(Winston was one of the main rounder uppers of the family on Christmas morning and by morning I seriously mean like 4:00 am.)

He told my mom he would be calling back to talk to the family in a few hours.

So she went back to sleep and when little Olivia woke up at 8:00 am we were ready to party!

As usual, the kids (including Olivia) walked down the stairs slowly as dad (grandpa) videoed and then of course immediately bolted for the tree.

Olivia was not in the most pleasant mood and really did not care about her presents.

Every time we told her to go get one she would scream and fling herself on the ground.

When we would bring her one to open she would just throw it.

So we decided to hold off for a bit.

Luckily a few minutes later she decided she was interested and wanted to see what "Santi tause" had brought her.

"Bef" (Elizabeth), "Ma ma ma ma" (Emmaline), and "Shas" (Harrison) were so cute and loved cheering for her as she opened her gifts.

Yay, a boat with animals!
She calls the zebras "zebbies."

Michael has the best hair in the morning:)

Oh and don't forget cute Emerson in the background with his nappy as heck mustache!

And she got her "peen tar!!"

She was in love!

Looking at everyone's gifts.

I really should have taken more pictures but we had an amazing Christmas and all got some really fun things. I'm mad I forgot to take the traditional picture of Olivia with all her gifts. Oh well!
But the rest of Christmas Day was amazing.
The highlight for me was getting to talk to Winston.
He seems like he has changed so much (in a good way) and is so grown up!
He is such an amazing missionary and we are so proud of him for really just focusing on his mission and nothing else.
I can hardly stand how excited I am to see him at the end of this summer:)

We had yummy food all day.
A breakfast casserole, cinnamon rolls, and orange juice for breakfast.
Homemade spinach artichoke dip, mozzarella/tomato/basil dip, and guacamole. And the boys of course wanted wings.
A nice roast for dinner.
And the best of all were the 2 homemade raspberry cream cheese pies my mom and I made!
It was so relaxing to just hang around, eat, and play and not have to go anywhere.
I stayed in my pajamas all day.
Hence why there is not a single photo of me:)

Now here is another place where I lacked in the picture taking department.
But we of course had a wonderful week following Christmas together.
* We went to  the Thanksgiving Point Deli for dinner. Their fries are to die for. Mostly because of the fry sauce.
I've had intense cravings for that stuff but can't find it in Salem.
* Michael and I were able to go on a date with my very best friend Leslie and her husband Jake to see the Hobbit. (We had quite the time pushing our car up the hill because of all the snow)
*Oh ya I don't think I've mentioned this but the snow was beautiful. I can not explain to you how much I loved having a white Christmas!
*We played lots of Super Mario with Ryan and Sophia.
*Went to Cracker Barrel for dinner with Emerson, Ryan and Sophia. It was a late birthday present for Michael from them!
*Did a tiny bit of after Christmas shopping. Michael got me a Victoria Secret sweat outfit that was a little too big so I had to exchange it. Best present ever! Especially now with me not wanting to get dressed and such.

On New Year's Eve my mom, Sophia, and I went and had a tea party at Dear Lizzy (a local cute vintage store.)

We went shopping for a few food items for dinner.
I had been craving shrimp and cocktail sauce.
Went with our the neighbors, the Hookers and Mortensons to play wally ball at the rec center.
(It's pretty much like volleyball except you can hit the ball off of the walls.
It was a blast!
We had our traditional raclette and sparkling cider for dinner and a nice slice of Magleby's chocolate cake for dessert!
Oh and I really really enjoyed my shrimp. I of course was very protective of my shrimp. Luckily everyone was very understanding of my crazy cravings and did not mess with me!
We played twister, apples to apples, and lots of wii.
We went to bed not too late since Michael and I had a 10 hour drive to Yakima the next morning.

Here are a couple pictures.

Riding pa around.

She thought he was like River and Tinkerbell!

Putting up a good fight in twister against Ryan and Sophia!

Oh my gosh, isn't she just the cutest?!

It was sad leaving that next morning.

Olivia cried and cried as she gave everyone goodbye hugs.

And burst out bawling at the airport when we drove away from my mom and dad.

She loves everyone so much and is definitely one lucky girl to have such a wonderful family!

In closing of our month long vacation in Utah I just want to say that it would not have been possible for us to have any more fun than we did. 

It was so nice to to just relax and spend time with everyone.

We were totally spoiled!

I love everyone so much and can hardly wait to go back.

Which hopefully will be very soon!

We were able to drive up to Yakima for a few days to visit the Mickelsons which of course was a blast.

The 10 hour drive went a lot smoother than planned and there was only one throw up the entire way.

(Sorry Wendy's!)

We pretty much got to have another mini Christmas.

Michael loved his Ohio State sweatshirt and socks, and golf pullover, I loved my scensy plug in candle, and adorable locket,  and Olivia loved her new movies, books, "money" (monkey) and bath toys.

Here is Olivia loving her "money!"

We loved spending time with Matthew who was getting ready to leave to Rexburg for school.

Michael loved taking a quick trip to the Tri-Cities
I loved playing cards.

And Olivia loved all of the attention.

Well finally the end has come.

This post was a beast.

But we are so grateful for two incredible families that are always so supportive and make our time with them unforgettable.

We love you all!

 Here's to 2013!!

It's going to be a good year:)

Baby #2 is a..............

Precious little GIRL!!!!!

 I am so excited for Olivia to have a sister that I can hardly stand it!

Everything looked perfect and we just feel so blessed right now.

Bring on lots more pink, lace and bows!

Oh and in case you are curious on her name we are 95% sure that her name will be...

Clara Sophia!

I have loved the name Clara since I was seriously 5 and of course I couldn't resist naming her after my very sister Sophia.

But we will see, it could still change. 

After all we still have 19ish weeks till we get to meet her!

Oh time please go by quickly:)

Baby Mickelson at 11 weeks.

(Look how cute and tiny!!)

Yay I have returned to the world of blogging! 

This post is definitely outdated but since it is our family journal I am going to have to catch up on a few posts.

I had my first appointment with the doctor at around 11 weeks. 

You have no idea how excited I was, mostly because I got to see our little one for the first time.

Seeing him/her made this whole pregnancy more real and gave me much motivation to carry on despite the constant nausea.

The appointment went well and the doctor said the baby was measuring perfectly for a June 8th due date!

Well as I was getting ready to leave, I was standing in the waiting area making some future appointments when I started to get really hot and dizzy. 

I decided to just try and tough it out and get outside to the fresh air as soon as possible.

Well the secretary seemed to be taking forever and I knew it was a matter of seconds before I'd be passed out on the ground so I asked her if I could go sit down while she finished.

The second I sat down, I started to feel better so as soon as she brought me my paperwork I just got up and started walking out.

Well the hallway is extremely long and I immediately started feeling light headed again, so I started to walk faster thinking I just needed to get outside.

Apparently that just made it worse because seconds later I found me self squatting on the ground in the hallway.

Of course I was immediately surrounded by nurses with bags that were asking me questions and taking my blood pressure.

I was then helped into a wheel chair and wheeled back into a room where they gave me orange juice, crackers, took my blood pressure at least 3 more times, and checked my blood sugar.

After 20 minutes of this, I was finally told I could leave but just to be careful and keep drinking LOTS of water.

Oh my gosh I seriously can not believe I almost passed out in a doctor's office.

Although it probably is the safest place:)

Anyway, that being said I am now 18.5 weeks pregnant.

And FINALLY starting to feel better!

The past 12 weeks of this pregnancy have been horrible.

I seriously have never been so sick in my life and woke up every morning wondering how I was going to do it.

I barfed at least 100 times, never found relief from the constant nausea even at nights.

My apartment was a disaster, I couldn't cook a single thing let alone eat it.

Literally everything grossed me out.

I found myself lightheaded and dizzy all the time.

I guess the best way to describe how I felt is to say I pretty much had a constant stomach flu for just over 12 weeks.

Looking back I honestly don't know how I survived.

The only thing that kept me going was my sweet baby growing inside that has already brought me so much joy and will continue to forever.

I also couldn't be more grateful to my sweet Michael who definitely carried not only his large load but mine as well. 

He would come home from a long day at school and immediately start in picking up, doing dishes, giving Olivia much needed attention and so much more.

I couldn't have done it without him.

I'm one lucky girl and feel so blessed to have him as my husband.

I'm also so grateful for my mom for letting us come and stay with them for a month.

I was totally spoiled and it definitely helped me get through the final weeks of morning sickness.

So now that I've laid that all out on the table I just want to say that despite the past 12 weeks I am so grateful for this baby and would go through it all over again if I had to.

I already love our baby so much and can hardly wait for the next 20 weeks to be over!

Stay tuned for Friday, for the baby's gender will be revealed!

SO EXCITED!

Thanksgiving.

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Mickelsons.

We were lucky enough to have grandma Mickelson and Mikaela (Michael's cousin) there as well.

I love thanksgiving and all the yummy food but mostly I love really focusing on what I'm most thankful for.

And there sure is a lot.

But mostly the past few months I've realized how truly blessed I am to have Michael, Olivia, and our little one on the way. I've really had to depend on only them because we live so far away from family.

Michael is amazing beyond words.

The way he has taken care of us and really picked up my slack the past couple months is incredible.

I simply could not have done it without him.

I'm grateful for our Olivia and how understanding she's been of her sick mommy.

She is so willing just to cuddle on the couch or bed for long periods of time.

And she's always giving me hugs and gently rubbing my face saying "mommy sick."

I really have the best little family:)

Anyways, because I am writing this like a month and a half later I've forgotten a lot of the detail but we had a very relaxing trip.

(Besides the car ride there and back which were mostly spent barfing.)

We had the missionaries over for Thanksgiving as well.

And I loved it.

It made me think of Winston so much and just feel so blessed to be a member of the church.

I'm a blessed lady that's for sure.

Here are a couple pictures I managed to take.

Cute "ga mama" (great grandma) was so sweet and brought Olivia up a gift.

She loves her soft little scentsy lamb.

And she loved giving her great grandma hugs.

Making a turkey with "mama."

She is always talking about her uncle "math" 

She became quite good friends with cousin Mikaela and literally laid on the couch with her like this for 30 minutes.

*I also don't want to forget that we were able to go with Matthew and watch him as he was given the Melchizedek Priesthood. It was an amazing night. And we are so proud of him!

 The Mickelson crew!

Our little family.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year.

And we feel so blessed to have been able to spend it with family.

Happy 26th Michael!

This year for Michael's birthday we went to La Hacienda (a yummy Mexican restaurant) for dinner.

I felt so bad because right as we pulled in to the restaurant I barfed.

Michael took Olivia in and got our table.

I of course walked in a few minutes later looking like death and immediately sprawled myself out on the disgusting bench.

I was SO sick.

Michael helped feed and control our yelping Olivia who was trying to fling everything in sight.

I tried to sip my dr. pepper and eat my dinner without barfing all over the place.

I felt so bad.

We made it home and Michael opened his gifts.

Thanks to my family, and the Mickelson's for totally spoiling him:)

He then lit his one little candle on his chocolate cupcake that he picked up himself at our favorite bakery on his way home from school earlier that day.

(I felt so bad for not making him a cake, but I will make it up to him next year!)

We probably had one of our top 5 awkwardest moments when he asked me to sing to him and I refused because I knew I would sound awful.

 So he just started right in singing happy birthday to himself and I joined in softly part way through the song because I felt so bad.

Oh my gosh all we could do after was laugh hysterically.

I wish we would have had a video camera or something because it was probably the worst happy birthday singing of all time.

Hopefully next year Olivia will join in:)

His favorite chapstick.

Yay for giftcards!

And Itunes cards!

You can tell Michael is excited about this gift:)

(Olivia is like "what the crap dad, you're weird!)

His little birthday cupcake!

I really really love this boy.

I'm sure this is one of those birthdays neither of us will forget!

I'm so grateful for my sweet boy and the amazing example he is to me.

I sure am blessed to have him as my husband.

10 weeks, horribly sick, and no energy to blog.

I might as well kiss this cute blog of mine goodbye for a while.

I thought that I'd be able to keep it updated but each day, each week I just seem to get sicker.

If that is even possible.

It is all I can do to take care of our little Olivia.

The house is a disaster.

It desperately needs to be cleaned and you should see the larger than life pile of who knows what on our desk.

Just a quick update on the pregnancy.
I am now just 10 weeks along.
1/4 of the way done!

Everything is going fine besides the fact that I've already lost track of how many times I've barfed and the fact that sleeping through the night is nearly impossible.

I wake up at least 5 times.

I just don't remember being this sick with Olivia.

Every morning I wake up wondering how I'm going to make it through the day. 

But somehow I do.

But, despite my constant nausea and barfing, lack of energy, homesickness and much more I still every moment feel so blessed to be a mother.

A mother to Olivia and a mother to this sweet baby.

I wouldn't trade what I'm going through for anything.

I'm also so grateful for Michael.

I could not do this without his love and support.

He has been so busy with school and finals being just 3 short weeks away, yet he still spends those few spare moments helping with Olivia, picking up the house, doing the dishes, comforting me, ect.

I've felt so guilty about not having a nice dinner ready for him when he gets home, a clean house, perfectly folded laundry and all those things I did before the morning sickness.

But not once has he made me feel guilty or bad about my constant couch laying, constant talking about how sick I feel and how badly I want to move back to Utah.

He instead continues to reassure me that this is only for a short time. That it will pass.

That everything will be okay.

Oh how I love him and am truly honored and blessed to have him as my husband.

Last but not least I would like to end with some exciting news.

Olivia and I will be flying to Utah Nov. 28th and will be there until the 27th of December.

Michael has finals and so he will be joining us on the 8th of December.

Michael will be able to focus on studying for finals and not have to worry about me and Olivia while I will get some relief and sweet Olivia will get everybody's undivided attention.

As hard as it will be for me to be away from Michael, I really am excited.

And hey he'll be joining us just 10 days later.

I'm so grateful for my parents and their willingness to take in a very sick girl and a very hyper toddler.

I'm hoping to feel better as I enter my second trimester just days upon arriving in Utah!

So the countdown begins.

16 more days!!

I can't promise any updates for a while. But we'll see.

Maybe I'll post a picture of our little one next week when we get our first ultrasound!

Halloween.

Halloween did not go exactly as planned this year due to my severe morning sickness. 

We had plans of going to the ward trunk or treat, making and frosting halloween sugar cookies, having a yummy spooky dinner and then taking Olivia to the mall to trick or treat.

Of course really none of these "fun" ideas happened, but we did try to make the best of things with our cute little giraffe.

We did somehow manage to attend the ward trunk or treat a few nights before Halloween and then have dinner with some friends in the ward.

Olivia wasn't very in to the whole trick or treat thing.

She just wanted to eat the candy without having to go get it:)

On Halloween we were lucky enough to have Michael's dad visiting so we pretty much just took it easy that night.

Olivia got all dressed up but we didn't go trick or treating since they don't really do it in our neighborhood.

She obviously didn't mind since we just gave her all of the leftover candy from the trunk or treat!

We had a yummy dinner of Toscana soup and that pretty much wrapped up our Halloween.

Yummy "ah pop"

Trunk or treating.

Us. 

(Definitely not looking my best here!)

Our little giraffe on Halloween!

We're excited for next year.

I'm sure it will be crazy with 2 little ones!

8 weeks.

So we're 8 weeks along with 32 more to go!

Although I would be dead shocked if the baby was born around 40 weeks.

Olivia was born at 37 weeks so I'm thinking this baby will be a little early too.

I can not believe how much my little tummy is growing. 

It is still cute and small now but oh my gosh, I can't believe I already have a tummy at 8 weeks.

It is just crazy to me.

When my tummy looked like this when I was pregnant with Olivia I was 20 weeks along.

Well besides the fact that our little raspberry is growing so very quickly the only other real symptom I've had is the morning sickness.

And it has been bad.

Really bad.

I don't want to complain about it because a huge part of me is so relieved when I wake up sick in the morning because I know our little one is safe and sound, but the other part of me has really been struggling.

It's been hard to take care of Olivia and have all our usual fun together as well as do all the other things wifes do like cleaning, cooking, and laundry when I feel like I need sit by the toilet all day.

But it will pass.

And as hard as it is be sick and emotional all day everyday, I couldn't be more grateful for our little baby. And I honestly would go through anything to get them here.

I had my first doctor's appointment.

I met with a nurse and went over a bunch of things and then had a bunch of lab work done.

They prescribed me some anti-nausea medication but it makes me so tired I can hardly function.

So it looks like I'm going to have to deal with the sickness.

So enough about the sickness and more about our plans for this baby.

Well name plans at least!

I really would be thrilled to have either gender.

I think Michael would prefer a boy but he did say he would be excited about another girl.

Here is our name list:

 Girl: 

Clara Rose

Charlotte Isabel

(Not 100% sure on the middle names yet)

Boy:

Joshua Michael

William Michael

We still are not 100 percent sure on boy names. We just know we would want his middle name to be Michael.

But I guess we'll find out in like 12 weeks!

Oh my gosh it seems like forever.

I can hardly wait!

This girl LOVES to dance.

I know I've posted other videos of her dancing but I just can't get enough.

She absolutely loves to dance and sing.

Of course she gets that from her dad:)

I love how you can hear her saying (singing) some of the words in this song.

She is just so dang cute.

Fall harvest festival and my family's visit.

Sorry it's been a while.

Things have been a little interesting around here with me being sick and all so blogging has kind of been put on the back burner.

I have lots of things I want to post about so I'll try to update more!

Anyway, my mom, the twins, and Harrison came to visit on Wednesday Oct. 10th and left on Monday the 15th.

We had such a fun time together and I'm so glad they were willing to make the long 12 hour drive up here to see us.

We went shopping at the outlets in Woodburn, ate all the yummy food I talked about in this post, my mom and I were even able to escape for a few minutes and go to breakfast at my most favorite crepe place. My mom helped me ( well she mostly did it) paint 2 pieces of furniture that I would never have gotten to had it not been for her, we all watched Snow White and the Huntsman for the first time, Michael and I were able to go out on a romantic date to Applebees, and last but not least we were able to go to a fall harvest festival they have here in Salem. 

I am so grateful for my mom. She seriously is such a lifesaver.

The few days she was here were the days that my morning sickness really started to set in.

She completely babied me, let me sleep in, made sure everything stayed clean, helped stock us up with food for the week, and of course spoiled Olivia like nobody's business.

The three littles of course are a huge help too in that they literally played with Olivia every second of the day.

She was in heaven and was so sad to see them leave.

She cried as she gave each of them their goodbye hugs.

She now walks around saying "mama, tits, shas, twooo monts"

(We told her we would be going to visit them in two months)

I'm just really grateful to have such loving and supportive families.

The only pictures I managed to take were of us at the Harvest festival so enjoy!

Hello cutie!

Olivia talks about horses "shorse" until she's blue in the face, but when it came time to ride one she refused. She hardly even wanted to pet one.

She loved the little petting zoo.

Mostly the "ba bas" (In a high voice) (Chickens) and the "dots" (goats).

Not the best picture of us haha.

Olivia did agree to ride the wooden horse with Emmaline.

The duck racing.

Michael was helping Olivia pump that thing so fast her little bow came out!

Us!

Climbing up the giant haystack.

They made it!

She was a little reluctant to go down the slide but after getting a little push from one of the twins she decided that she loved it and wanted to do it again!

For lunch we had hotdogs, fries, and fresh apple cider!

Eating her very own hotdog!

She loved riding the tractors.

This is seriously one of my favorite pictures because she seriously looks EXACTLY like Michael.

Showing off to daddy.

Sometimes she finds herself in crazy places when dad's playing with her!

She picked her pumpkin all by herself and is definitely proud!

Michael would sit on the pumpkins so of course Olivia wanted to do the same. So as we walked around the patch she would just plop her little self right on a pumpkin.

I love her face in this picture!

Riding in the wagon with Elizabeth.

Having a blast!

Us again!

So happy to be with grandma on the hay ride!

Thank you so much mom and littles for your visit, your help, and everything else you do for us.

We love you and can't wait to see everyone in December!