So many things...

To start off the morning, Cadence woke up an hour early after going to bed an hour late last night. Needless to say, I wasn't exactly happy about this. Cadence hasn't been sleeping that well for the last month or so, and I miss my sleep. Most mornings I feel pretty good until about 10am when the morning sickness hits me pretty hard. This morning I was sick before I got up. Not very pleasant. The last thing I want to do while I am sick in the morning is THINK about food, let along touch any. Cadence was of course extremely hungry and wanted some pancakes. I had some in the freezer just for this purpose. She has now eaten 11 pancakes. This is more than she usually eats in a week. She also wants to play "hide me" which involves me hiding and her chasing me with a squirt bottle. This is while eating her pancakes.

I guess what I am trying to say is when it rains it pours. :o)

I was sad to hear about President Hinkley. He was a truely amazing man. My mom and I both commented that he passed on like he did everything else, quickly and with dignity. I have to admire him that. At his age it should be quickly and quietly. I smile to think of the welcome he must have received. I hope that whomever the Lord chooses to fill those shoes is with us just as long. I look forward to the announcement.

Cadence is on pancake 12 now. At this rate we are going to run out and there will be a tantrum tomorrow when we don't have anymore. Lunch time is soon so maybe I can switch her over to a PB&J. :o)

Everything with the baby looked good at my first appointment. My official due date is Sept. 5th. Despite how sick I am I am super excited about this baby. I was worried that I wouldn't be as excited (or scared) as I was with Cadence, but I have surprised myself. There is a lot less fear and worry this time around since I know what to expect. Brady is excited as well and we can't wait to find out what the sex is so that we can pick out a name (or at least try too...I don't remember it being this hard last time!). For all those of you with two, we are looking into getting a double stroller and we are wondering what you ended up doing? I am really interested in the sit and stand deluxe since it has a removable back seat so Cady and stand and see and sleep as well. There are not as many decisions to make this time around and that is always a good thing!

We hope that you are all well and I will try and be better about updating from now on!

P.S. Cadence has moved on to Cherries now, so I won't have to make more pancakes tomorrow! :o)

Morning sickness...ugh

So the morning sickness has struck. I was really hoping that I would pass it by this time around, but alas, no.
For those of you who don't know, I had horrendous morning sickness the first three months I was pregnant with Cadence. I lost 15lbs that I didn't have to lose before it finally released it's iron grasp on my poor stomach and let me enjoy being pregnant. I do feel fortunate that I wasn't sick the entire time. That was a true blessing.
As sad as it is for me to say, being sick is the only truly vivid memory I have of my first pregnancy. The labor pain and recovery are very dim in my mind as was all the discomfort of being huge at the end. But I remember very clearly how it felt to be sick, and I about bawled three days ago when the MS hit me this time around.
I have tried just about everything but true medication for it. I may just ask for it this time around. I have tried the wrist bands, ginger candy, ginger ale, preggie pops, saltine crackers, exercise, half a unisom and B6, ice, sucking on lemons, lemon drops and lemonade. So far sucking on Jolly Ranchers helps a lot, but that will only go so far since a diet made up completely of bad sugars isn't exactly recommended. :o) At least I know when to expect it to go away. Only about 10 more weeks of this to go and it should back off. I hope.
If anyone has any ideas for me to try that I haven't already I would be very grateful. Everything is worth trying once!
In the mean time, I am trying to keep my spirits up. It would be so easy to be in a foul mood all the time because of all this, but it is my goal to try and be my normal self despite the discomfort. After all it isn't my families fault that I am going through all this! Wish me luck!

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!

Whitney is having her baby!

My sister called to let us know that she is officially going to the hospital to have her daughter today! I am so excited to meet her! She wasn't due until Nov. 4th so she is a little early, but Whitney has been contracting for the last two weeks off and on and she was dilated to a 5 at her last appointment! Today she was every five minutes and it was totally time! So good luck Whitney! Hope it goes fast and that everyone is perfectly healthy at the end!

Football Weekend!

Brady and I got a weekend away! We flew out to Arizona to see my sister, Whitney, and her husband Cord. We also saw two football games while we were up there. ASU v Washington and a Pro football game, the Cardinals v the Carolina Panthers. ASU won which made Cord very happy (he is an ASU fan) along with the Panthers. Brady and I were cheering for the Panthers in the second game, mostly because a guy who Brady played football with in High School now plays for Carolina. The stadium was awesome and we had a blast, despite my getting pretty sick the first day! Both games were packed and there were lots of crazy fans all around us!
Also my sister is due any day now (literally, since she has been having contractions daily for the last week or so and is dialated to a 4/5) and I got to take some photos of her! Here is one of my favorites! I will post the rest on my photo blog so check them out and tell me what you think. (Whit I will get you a CD of everything very soon!)