Christmas Vacation

Ben and I went to Bakersfield this Christmas and had a wonderful time. The baby scored the best presents. He got a "Pack N Play" and a rug from my parents. Isn't the rug the cutest? Please ignore the round purple person in the background.

The best part of Christmas morning was when the Bucks came over to open presents. Kids make Christmas so much more fun. I love this picture cause Jason is so excited and Madison has the best look of disbelief.

A few days later we went to Hearst Castle. It was the home of William Randolph Hearst back in the day and now you can take tours of it.


I found the perfect design for the indoor pool I want in my house.

Afterwards we took Ben to Morro Bay, which is a town we vacationed to a lot when I was a kid. I took Ben around to all my favorite shops from when I was younger, and being grown up seemed to take the fun out of it. One place we always had to go was a shop that had seals in a back room that you could feed. I don't know why PETA hasn't shut them down. It was very depressing and I don't think I ever want to go back there. The rest of Morro Bay was great though.

Next we drove down to Solvang, which is a Danish town in the middle of California. All the buildings have to have that Danish look to them.

We shopped around and ate some pastries, which is the main reason to go there.

The best part was getting to spend some time with these two.

Finally Another Post

Don't worry, I am aware I am a horrible blogger. I like to think that once I have this baby I will be a lot better. We had a great Christmas and I will be blogging about it with pictures sometime in the near future, but until then I thought I would let you know we are still alive. Today is a great day! This morning I woke up (which that alone usually puts me in a bad mood) and just felt like today was going to be a good day. Then when I left for work I ran into the best thing in the world...FOG! Fog is my favorite weather. I don't even know if I am saying that correctly, or if fog counts as a type of weather. I think it must have something to do with growing up in Bakersfield and having fog delays from school. Hopefully everyone else is having a good day too.

For Natalie

I have been meaning to take pictures every week or two of my growing stomach, but it took flattery from Natalie for it to actually happen. Here I am in all my glory. I will be 29 weeks in two days, so we can just imagine how much bigger I will get in the next 11 weeks.

Scrabble

Ben and I like to play Scrabble against each other on Facebook. Tonight we were playing a pretty evenly tied game, when I made a fatal error at the end. I made the word "rind" as you can see on the top left hand side of the screen. I thought I was safe since Ben only had 6 letters left and I was in the lead. Ben then played the word "amateur" using all of his letters on a triple word score thus blowing me out of the water. Before sending it to me he said "Don't take this personally, but...." I thought it was the best end of a game ever. Too bad it wasn't me who played it.

It's a BOY!

Today we found out we are having a boy. We are so excited. I love all of my little nephews and probably wouldn't know what to do if I had a girl. Now all we have to do is agree on a name!!!

Bikes and Las Vegas

Last week we went to Las Vegas to attend a bike trade show with our friends. Ben's friend is the manager of a shop here in Utah and got us passes to attend. We had a great time and got to attend a professional cyclocross race while we were there.



Trina and I excited to attend the trade show. I think this is the first picture I have posted of me being pregnant.

This is the bike Ben wants

And this is the bike that I want

But the best part was getting to see these little boys and their brother Jackson. Jackson isn't in any of the pictures cause he was at school each time the camera was pulled out.




We even had time to eat at our favorite breakfast place The New Day Cafe. Isaac kept eating all of the lemons at the table and then making this cute face.

Family in Town

Last week Ben's sister and her family were in town before they moved to Japan. Her husband is a doctor in the Navy and will be stationed there for the next three years. We ate a lot, hung out, watch some movies, shot some guns, and took some pictures.