Bowl full of jelly!

So to commemorate the end of my pregnancy we took a few belly pics! It's getting absolutely HUGE! We cannot wait for little buddy to be here. I'm so anxious! We had a false alarm this last Tuesday and the doctor had us go in to the hospital. They told me I was having great contractions every 5 minutes but no progress. AH MAN! So home we went. I guess that took care of us having to pre-register though. We can't wait to meet him. I have a feeling that he's huge though. I'm sure all mom's feel that way toward the end of the prego experience but there is a history of big babies with big heads in my family. Oh joy! Pray for me! I'll probably need it!

saying goodbye to the boy

So it's taken me a little bit. Ty went into the MTC on November 12 and I'm just barely blogging about it. I'm a bad blogger, I know.

Anyway... Ty is doing great! It was way hard to say goodbye to the boy. We were all gushing tears! He's the only boy so this is our only missionary and it was kind of hard! People say that it gets easier but we're only doing it once so I guess we'll never know.

He sure keeps us entertained though! His letters are super funny. Tyler will be Tyler :) In his last letter he told us that he was honored that we would have Cash's middle name be Tyler. Uh... Even though it's always been Cash Matthew. He says that this is the first time he's actually had to study. Which for him is a big deal. He's a super smart kid! It's funny though because his english is starting to slip a little bit. It will be interesting to see how his english is in the end of his mission :)

Love and miss you buddy!

Family Pictures

Ty's leaving on his mission next week so my parents wanted to take family pictures before he goes. Rude, I know. Of course they had to wait until I'm at the popping point :) but luckily we know the photographer and she was gracious enough and told me that she'd take some weight off for me. So we'll see what those look like when she gets done. These are just a few that we took.

Matt was really proud of himself because he dressed me. He said that he should do it more often!

I hope they call me on a mission...

So Ty-Boy is getting ready to go on his mission. We went through the temple with him on Saturday. It was really cool to have the whole family there. Who would have thought that within a year we'd all be there together. It was a cool moment. Afterward we went to breakfast at IHOP. We took some pictures and I thought I'd put them up since I've been avoiding pictures for the last few months! :) (Oh... and Britt was being a real dork!)

We love you Dougee...

It has been a really rough week for our family. A week ago I was talking to my Nana about my step-grandpa Doug and she was telling me that he hasn't been doing so well lately and that she had an appointment for him to go to the doctor in a week. They ended up going to the 49'rs game that weekend and Doug was so sick that he had an ambulance waiting for him at the airport on the way home. 

He didn't want to go to the hospital and so they went home and went to his appointment a few days later. The doctor said he was so sick that he needed to go to the hospital right then. Nana called us and told us that the skin cancer had spread throughout his whole body and the doctors didn't think he would be able to come home again, and they didn't know how long he had left. 

It ended up that Dougee didn't have very long. He passed away this last Saturday morning. It has been a heartbreaking blow. We love him dearly and are so grateful that he was a part of our lives. He has been such a great example to all of us by showing us how to overcome life's trials without letting them get the best of you. He endured so much but it was always with a smile on his face. He loved us all so freely. He treated us like we were his own when he really didn't have to... and, most importantly... he loved my Nana.

We love you and will miss you Dougee!

An Explanation :)

I got home from work a couple days ago and checked our blog. The politics thing was Matt's first blog. :) I said "honey you know no one will believe I put that on there right???" He's transitioned into being old, talk radio is ALWAYS on in his car these days. He's not a fan of left wing democrats (if you can't tell!) He is his father's son :)

Politics and The Economy