Big Step!

My Little Darren is growing up.....I got him to eat TOMATO SOUP! Yes, for those who don't know Darren HATES tomato anything. So here is proof its not all that bad he ate a whole bowl with his cheese sandwich for dinner tonight!

Proof that the Balloon Drop Worked

Click here to view our New Years Eve "balloon drop" my sister-in-law posted it on her blog and it makes it so much more exciting ENJOY!

Well The Belly has "Popped"

Many of you haven't seen me for a while so here is my belly, yes I am showing...I'm officially 26 weeks and 3 days and I just can't believe I'm this far a long, I have too many things I want to finish before she comes. Just a little info, we are as of right now planning on naming her Kloee Belle who knows it might still change, she loves when I play country music to my stomach (she starts moving to the music) and she gets the hiccups all the time. My current cravings are cookies, chips, push up pops and cheeseburgers with MUSTARD (before I would be totally grossed out by the mustard). So far everything is (according to the doctor) right on schedule.

A RE-VISITED SUMMER TRIP

I've had a few people ask if I would blog about our trip to the bahamas last summer. I guess we forgot to tell a lot of people about it which I thought was weird because thats all we talked about for months. So here are some of the highlights.
This is actually our trip in reverse. This is Saying goodbye to the beautiful bahamas. This was seriously THE most relaxing trip I've ever been on the water was gorgeous and the air was warm. Oh and to tell you the truth Darren and I still talk about how we loved the humidity. We didn't need chapstick or lotion the whole time we were there.

This is the beach we spent most of our time on we went snorkeling and swimming and laid out on the beach reading.

This is taken from our balcony this was our view every morning and every night. One day there was actually a wedding going on out there.

Darren wasn't so sure about the octopus, but they put it in everything and I couldn't get enough of it!

All you here all day at the market is.."Can I braid your hair" so right away I sat down and got it done. It was so nice it really helps keep you cool and I was lucky another girl who happened to be passing by mentioned to put sun block on my scalp, she said she didn't think about that the first time she got it done and her head hurt. So I got to skip that pain too.

Here we are actually on the cruise from Florida. We laid out on top and slept most of it truthfully because you have to board really early, they treat you like a queen though. SOOOOO much food you can't even breathe.

This is us wasting some time at the Chicago airport. They REALLY don't call that the windy city for nothing. I thought some of the trees were going to come right out of the ground.

We flew out of Salt Lake so we stayed with Grandpa Parker and had a chance to see Kira and Austin who took us on a Mayan Adventure ( The Mayan Restraunt) It was very entertaining and the food was YUMMY!

New Years Eve (A little Late!)

Setting Up Balloons Dropping....
Kind of last minute my sister and I thought it would be REALLY cool to have balloons dropping from the ceiling at midnight, little did we know how long it would take to first think of a way that will work and second to set it up. We finished right as everyone started to show up. It was really fun though.







We brought in the New Year with lots of family and friends playing games, eating lots of food and kids running around everywhere!

My little sister and her friends all dressed up for the New Year Dance...they are just WAY too cute

Here is a picture after the balloons dropped, we only got them dropping on my sister-in-laws camera but it was a big hit and the kids loved it!






Zakry bring in the New Year right!

Christmas Projects!

APRONS FOR SISTERS!



...and Quiet Books for the kids!





These I would have to say are my favorite projects that I did this year for christmas, it was REALLY fun learning to sew. I've sewn a couple quilts but thats nothing compared to these projects. I loved the sewing so much I've started a new project I'm making a crib set for my baby, I'll have to keep everyone posted as it comes together or not. We will see!

What a Christmas!

We had an amazing Christmas here are just some of the highlights! We have really missed family since moving to Moscow but are glad we are closer to some. It was so nice to see everyone this year and we REALLY miss Chad and Hilarie this year with their cute little one. Hope everyone's christmas was as a Happy as ours!