Our family pictures...

These were taken over a couple of days since it is almost impossible to nail down the girls for any pictures, and a pain in the butt to do any with me in them. :o) I like the way they came out this year though.

Christmas with the Lantz's

Well! I hope that everyone has had a very great Holiday Season so far! Ours has had it's ups and downs, but we have had a blast and we are looking forward to a new year filled with wonderful new experiences!

To start things off, thanks for all the birthday wishes! I had a great day topped with Brady's office Christmas Party at Lowery's (where I had to sing the Fa la la la la's with the Carolers...I think that everyone was pleasantly surprised when I could ACTUALLY sing...lol) and then a stay at the Red Rock Hotel that night. I had so much fun and it was nice to take a real bath with bubbles and such without a time limit!

Here is a picture of Cady in Christmas Dress #3:

Yeah she looks good in everything. I really didn't think the Lord was being literal when in my Patriarchal Blessing he said I would have "beautiful children." Apparently He meant just that. Cadence now has two MORE Christmas dresses to wear that she received as Christmas gifts. Don't worry I will post pictures of those as well. :o)

The Sunday before Christmas we had our Family Christmas Party with Brady's side of the family. We were totally SPOILED. Cady got the worst of the spoiling though. Here are a few pictures of the party.

Among all the loot was a kids size rolling luggage with Cadence's name on it (very handy now that her stuff won't fit in with mine anymore when we travel) a Hokey Poky Elmo (really very funny and even funnier is watching Cady try and do what he does) and a new baby doll complete with changes of clothes, diapers and bottles. She LOVED her new baby and when we asked her what her baby's name was she said "Kennedy like mommy." About made me cry it was so sweet.

Christmas came and at our house Cadence got a play dough play table and a baby play set complete with stroller, swing, diaper bag, play mat and a mini pack'and'play. At my aunts she got two more babies (the girl is in baby heaven) and the two new Christmas dresses. She was so excited to go everyone and see all the presents and then open them. She wasn't just excited for her presents either...she wanted to see what everyone got and exclaim "Oh how cute!" over everything. It was wonderful. All my Sib's where in town and it was great to see everyone. Avery was a huge hit with those family members that hadn't seen her yet (which was just about everyone). Here is a picture of Avery and Megan crashing out after all the present opening. Avery has really porked up. She was 6lbs 1oz at birth and now weights a hefty 10lbs.

After Christmas things have settled down a bit. Whitney and Cord headed home and Ryan, Megan and my mom left to go Camping with my uncles (mom has three brothers) and their families in Texas. Those of us left at the house are trying to get things cleaned up and find homes for all the new stuff. This morning we had another surprise...

We weren't exactly trying, but were weren't NOT trying if that makes any sense. We are so excited and figure that my due date is sometime around September 8th or 9th. Yes I took two tests. That is one less than I took when I got a positive with Cadence. The first one is just so unreal to me that I take two just to make sure. I know. I have issues. :o) But we are very excited. According to the Pencil Test we are having another girl (followed by three boys). If you would like more information on the Pencil Test let me know. I would be happy to explain and even conduct it on all you females out there...so far it hasn't been wrong. :o) So any ideas on girls names (heck we will take boys names too) send them my way. We were fresh out after Cady.

Anyway, hope that everyone has a happy new year!

Pumkin Carving

We had some pumpkin carving fun tonight with Ryan and Megan, who are down visiting and getting ready for their All Hallows Eve Wedding Party! It is going to be a total blast, with everyone wearing costumes and a candy bar and just plain all around Halloween fun! Anyway, we carved three of the thirty or so pumpkins that we have for the party and had a great time! Cadence really didn't know what we were doing, but she was having fun watching for a while. When she got bored she pulled out her orange crayons and helped us "color" our pumpkins. She was really stoked when we lit them up though! I love Halloween. Next to Thanksgiving it is totally my favorite holiday. Here are some pictures of all the fun we had!

Here is Brady and Ryan cleaning out their pumpkins...

Here is all of us with the two that we finished before dinner...

This is Brady's throwing up pumpkin...

Here was Ryan's Spider pumpkin (which I actually carved, but he did all the dots for me)

And that one is my mummy. We had some serious fun taking the pictures at the end. I am so glad that I got a tripod and when we started taking them we didn't notice the reflection at first. Way fun!
We will be carving many more pumpkins in the next few days and I will try and post more as we get them! Hope everyone is having as much a blast getting ready for Halloween as we are!