HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARNIE!

Wow- so many exciting things going on with this family! Italy sounds wonderful! As do your trips to Utah (I know I am the only one in this family that actually loves Utah and misses it all the time so I am very jealous of your fun!) Thanks for the pictures of the day Marnie, what great idea, its fun to have something to look forward to, especially in the blogg droughts. I’m glad everyone is keeping so busy.

We’ve been nice and busy ourselves. We thoroughly enjoyed watching the last BYU game and finally seeing a win! Tom got the “I need to buy something bug” last week (I’m sure some of you can relate to that disease) so after convincing him we weren’t getting a plasma TV, I gave into the idea of getting new couches. Of course I would love new couches but I had resigned myself to not getting them until after dental school. Well anyway, Tom started to feel like he couldn’t wait that long. So we spent Saturday shopping for a leather sofa and recliner. It was some fun shopping but fortunately we have decided to take some time to think about things before making such a large purchase. But, the whole shopping trip did lead to something else fun. We really don’t like our wood floors and have wanted carpet ever since we moved here. Well, we stopped by a carpet store to look at the price of a carpet remnant to replace the area rug in the living room because it wouldn’t match the new couches and we found an awesome piece exactly the right size for a great price. We also got a piece for our sunroom so now it looks like our house is carpeted in nice beige/cream carpet. It really makes the house feel bigger and brighter. It’s fabulous and it will be great for the winter when we are stuck in here all the time (although we’ll make people take their shoes off now!)

It is barely starting to feel like fall here. It was still shorts and T-shirts last week and you barely needed a jacket today. It’s great. I had a doctor’s appointment a week or two ago and he discovered that my baby is lying horizontally across my stomach instead of up and down like most babies do. He said it’s not really a problem and that as she gets bigger in the next few weeks she will just be forced to shift down because she won’t fit sideways anymore. Needless to say I am starting to feel what he meant about “not fitting” and I suddenly feel like I am nine months pregnant and that my skin on the sides is just going to pop, hopefully she turn the right way soon! I have some ultrasounds scheduled to check the location of the placenta (it’s not where it should be either) at the end of October so I’ll know more then. What a crazy baby, hopefully we’ll get everything sorted out okay. I’m nearly 30 weeks now which puts me in the home stretch and I can start counting down! Only 10 weeks to go!!!

Hayden continues to be very excited about his baby sister. He is getting to be so big. For Family Home Evening we played a game about how doing different things makes us feel either happy or sad and he caught on so quickly and answered all of the questions right. He never ceases to amaze me. Now if only he would actually remember the right things do instead of just saying the answers…  Another funny thing he likes to do is offer to help me all the time. For instance, I will say I can’t do something for him because I’m tired, or my back hurts or whatever and he will simply say “Don’t worry, I will help you!” and he will hold my hand to help me do whatever it is he has asked for. Funny kid.

Well, this is getting too long but I just wanted to send out an update. A few more quick questions: Brooke and Adina, do your little girls like My Little Pony’s? Marnie and Peter- where will you be spending Christmas? Okay, we hope all is going well.

Tracey