Ok, one more post!

Last week we went to the OB and we found out that we are having another GIRL!!! We are so excited for her to come into our family. I have already gone shopping to buy matching outfits for Ava and this little girl, which we have decided to name Harley Jane. It is after my brothers love for his bike and after my grandpa Joe's love for his Harley as well! It was for sure our boy name and then when we found out it was a girl, it grew on us to call her that! I am still trying to decide the spelling, Harley or Harleigh. I can't decide. What do you think?

Last Sunday night, Grace and Kenny came over to play games and have dessert. It was great to visit with them and to see their kids. We miss them living in town with us! We will have to take a drive to St. George soon!

Just some random pictures... Ava helped me make some banana bread about a month ago. This was the first time that I gave up some control (even if it made a mess) and let her "help."

We are trying to potty train and the other night, she had her pull up off and then put Nate's shoes on, I couldn't resist taking a picture of her bare bum in his shoes...priceless!

I realized the other day that I hadn't taken any pictures since Christmas, so I brought the camera with me to play at the park, since we had such great weather. She has so much fun at the park and is so daring and brave, it makes me a little nervous. She thinks that she is one of the big kids and tries to copy what they do.

I know, I know... I am so behind!

Okay, so these are some of our Christmas pictures. Ava was spoiled this year, but she really enjoyed opening everything that she got. She got blocks, a kitchen, a market, food for her kitchen, clothes and a bunch of other stuff. Grandparents spoiled her too! Christmas was a weird day for our family this year (it was the 1 month anniversary of Chad's death). We went to the cemetary and it started to rain on us. I am sure that was a sign from Chad that we were supposed to be enjoying our day and not thinking about the sadness we feel. All in all we enjoyed our day as much as we could. As a family we wrote goals for each of us that would make Chad proud, and then we will review them next Christmas as a family.

Update on our lives...

Okay, so there have been a lot of changes in the past month. The weekend before Chad died, Nate and I had decided to stay here in Vegas. Nate quit his job up in Utah and had his car packed to meet me in SLC for Thanksgiving, the day we found about my brother's death. Instead of me driving up there, Nate met me in Vegas. He is now working at the same law firm I am at, while he is on the waiting list for Nevada Corrections. Hopefully that won't be too long! Anyways... we are now enjoying having Nate back in our home, and Ava is glad to have her daddy back! We now know that there were reasons why we felt so strongly about staying here (despite the $800 a month insurance premiums that his job was going to charge us). I know that I will be able to help out Chad's wife, Cynthia, with my neice Kayden. Chad and Kayden were both really sad when we told them we were moving. I know that he was excited when I told him we had decided to stay!

The next BIG news, is that I forgot to mention that I am PREGNANT! We did an IUI (intrauterine insemination) in October (which I was sure wouldn't work) and I got pregnant the first time! YEAH for us! I am due July 7, but my Doctor said that we would do the C-section on June 27. Since I had a c-section with Ava. I haven't been sick at all this pregnancy (I wasn't with Ava either), just really tired, and I have crazy, severe back pain, like I had with Ava, but not until I was about 5 months along. So, I am hoping that this will be bearable once I get larger. Fun for me! I sometimes forget that I am even pregnant, and it worries me, I have just been really busy with my family alot, but I know that the baby is fine. We will find out what we are having at the end of January. I know that Chad was also very excited that we had finally gotten pregnant, and I know that he is probably telling our child all kinds of stories about our family :)

SNOW in Vegas!!!

It snowed in Vegas, and REALLY snowed, like Iwas in Utah. I left work early on Wednesday to be able to enjoy the weather with Ava. When Nate got home from work we went outside and built a snowman, Ava loves "ho-man" she was really excited. Nate helped her do a snow angel. I can't remember a time where is snowed downtown. I was at work in the middle of downtown and it was snowing there too. Usually it is mostly on the outskirts. We got about 6 inches at our house. I am sad to say that today most of the snow was gone. There was a pile where our snowman was right next to our front porch. Well, it was fun while it lasted. Ava even took some snow in the house to eat!

Magical Forest

We went to the Magical Forest last Friday night with some friends and Kayden. It took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get on to the carousel and then we started to wait in line for the train, but it didn't move for 30 minutes and it was cold and late, so I had Nte take Kayden over to go down the big slide, and then we went home. We loved the lights and so did Ava and Kayden.