Christmas #1

For Christmas this year, my parents are going to Germany, to visit my oldest sister and her family, so we celebrated Christmas with them a week early. It was a lot of fun. It was wet and rainy, so the kids couldn't play outside as much as they would've liked, but they still had a lot of fun playing with one another.

They had lots of fun making gingerbread houses and eating TONS of candy!

Opening gifts was another highlight for the kiddies, and for me! I finally have a Kitchen-Aid!! I was so excited I made 4 different kinds of cookies with it the very next day!!! I LOVE IT! Thanks mom and dad!

New Home

I've been promising pics of our new home for a while, so here are a few. We finally have unpacked almost everything. Mike still needs to finish the office. Don't get jealous of the brown shag carpet now! ;)

At least there is a big backyard for the kids to play in! The girls were not happy with us, when we took all the boxes to the dump. They had fun making forts out of them!

Thanksgiving 2009

For Thanksgiving we went to Priest River and visited both mine and Mike's family. It was fun to be with family. Mike and his dad played in the annual turkey bowl. We had a HUGE feast. Jeff, my brother-in-law and I had a mashed potato contest, the kids jumped on the trampoline - A LOT! And we even helped my parents decorate for Christmas.

Horrible Night

What's worse than a nauseous pregnant woman?

A nauseous kid!

Livia must have thrown up 20 times Tuesday night! It went on ALL NIGHT LONG! Good thing Mike was home. I made him do all the dirty work. And there was a LOT of it! Poor Livia is home sick again today. She's feeling better and the throwing up has stopped, so that's a plus.

But we still don't have our dryer hooked up since our move. So I had to take all our clothes, and Livia's blankets and pillows that she threw up on, and go to the laundry mat. I was there for 3 hours!!!!!!! It took forever! I DID have a TON of clothes, but it still took FOREVER and costs a LOT of quarters! Everything got washed and folded though, thanks to the "help" of Sydney.

I cannot wait until I can go one week without seeing any throw-up! 6 more months to go!!! :)

13 Weeks

I am currently 13 weeks along. My baby is now 3 3/4 inches long and weighs 1 1/4 ounces! I think the hardest part is just about ending. I am starting to feel a little better every day. I have my good days and my bad days still, but for the most part, I am feeling much better. I don't even throw up everyday anymore. :) I just wish my nose would settle down now. I am still very sensitive to smells. I was like this when I was pregnant with my 2 girls as well. Perfumes and lotions set me off the most, but today in 2nd hour of church, I swear I could smell the chalk really bad. It was making me sick! Weird, right?!

Anyway, all is well with the Dean's. We just moved so we are still unpacking and finding everything. I will try to post pics of our new place soon.