Kami and the Bear

Kam, Teri and Alisa saw a bear on their little bike ride this last weekend, and Alisa took a video of Kami's reaction. If you want to check it out, go to Teri's blog. Kami is the one I'd want to have around if anything came to attack me.

Cool Scary Movie

I just wanted to let everyone know that Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn is one of the coolest scary movies ever. We watched it with my family a few days ago, and it was super cool. I'd suggest it to pretty much everybody.

Brother Highlight

Sharon did a little highlight on her sisters and I thought that was so cool, so I wanted to do the same thing, but starting with my brothers.
Ryan is number 3 out of 8, and the oldest boy. He has the most tender loving heart, and does the best at everything he tries. This guy is amazing fast and was part of the Bingham varsity cross country team that won nationals back in 1996 (Right, Ryan?). His PR in a 5K is 15:52. I was basically his shadow because I followed him into running (even though I'm not as good) and went to BYU-Idaho too. Right now he is the father of 3 and is working to become a college level professor. Yeah Ryan!
And here's Cody...Just Kidding!
Here's the real Cody. He's number 4 out of 8, and the only other boy. He's a really fast runner, too and is really fun to be around. I'll never forget his face when we ate smoked turkey together for the first time. I'll also never forget him taking me hunting with him in Meyersvalley or on other horse back rides at the ranch. He's amazing with horses, and likes to ride a scooter. He is the father of 2 and sells life insurance with Prudential.

I'm mega blessed to have such awesome brothers.

News Flash

So, Paul is having serious anti-Gavin name issues. He says he likes Braxton or Gabriel better. Well, I guess we'll wait for the day and see what he looks like. I'm still set on Gavin. I also want Paul for a middle name, but Paul wants Sean. We're both pretty equal on other middle names like Kurt, or Cuyler. What do you guys think? Paul was saying we should have people guess when we're going to have the baby, and whoever wins gets to have their name as his middle name....I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want a girls name in there, though. We'll have to pass that one up.

This is so funny...Shayden is learning things every day, and I was trying to teach her "belly button," but she pats her belly button and says, "Butt." Every time I say button..."Butt."

Annalisa's Blessing

Proud Daddy.
Proud Mommy
Cute GirlPullin' a face.
Happy Family

Oh yah, here's another one from Halloween. There's little Gavin as a basketball.

Halloween!

Halloween was super fun. Our ward had a soup and rolls dinner, games and then a trunk-or-treat on Halloween night. Shayden had a blast. When I put her in the car I asked her "Did you have a ball?" And she said, "Ball." Half way through the trunk-or-treat she just started running around all the cars and through the parking lot having so much fun. Paul had fun as a Gorilla. He went to work and school in his suit. At the ward party kids were following him around saying, "You're not a monkey, you're a kid!" Shayden would pick up his mask when he had it off and say please in sign language like she wanted him to put it on. She'd give him kisses in it too. Most other kids her age were pretty scared of it. Lee seemed to be not as scared as last year, but not the biggest fan of masks. He stuck to Cody's side most of the night. I dressed up as a hula girl and Gavin was a basketball.
Earlier in the day we carved our pumpkin with the missionaries upstairs. Our other neighbors are super cool, too. They both dressed up as bubble bees, and spent some time talking to us before they went to their party. Yeah for Halloween! ...Cody was a pregnant woman, and some girls in our ward said they had all of one kind of their candy like he was having some craving. It's fun to be in the same ward as them. Also my doctor is the bishop of the ward that meets in our same building, so I see him sometimes on Sundays and he was there Halloween dressed up pretty scary. He said, "Do you still want to claim me as your doctor?" It was funny.

8 Things

8 TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH
1. Little House on the Prairie (My dad calls it big house on the little prairie or something like that.)
2. I Love Lucy
3. The Andy Grifith Show
4. The Price is Right
5. School House Rock (Haven't seen it since I was 6, though)
6. Full House when I was a kid
7. VeggieTales should count as a TV Show
8. Loony Tunes
--If Paul were doing this he'd add The Office and The Tick
8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
1. Olive Garden
2. Subway
3. Cafe Sabor
4. Little Caesars, Pizza Pizza
5. Sweet Tomatoes?
6. Cafe Rio, Costa Vida
7. IHOP
8. Fazoli's
8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY
1. Had a Halloween Party with Ryan, Bridget, Cody, and Lisa. We decorated sugar cookies, bobbed for apples, and had breakfast for dinner...mmm, pumpkin pancakes.
2. Got Shayden ready for the day...did her hair in pigtales even though she cries.
3. Went shopping with Alisa...bank, Macey's, and the Book Table. I bought a 40 lb. box of chicken...yah, that's a lot of chicken.
4. I signed up to receive more violin students at the music store here in Logan.
5. Made sugar cookies for the party yesterday night.
6. Did dishes with Shayden...one of her favorite things. It's actually pretty hard sometimes though, because she spills the water, and when she gets water into anything that holds water she drinks it and says, "Ahhh" like it was refreshing or something. "Dish water is dangerous to drink," I tell her, and I try to get her to dump it out, but she screams and tries to drink it. As a side note, I'm crazy I know, we do all of our dishes by hand even though we have an awesome dishwasher. It saves us about $15 a month.
7. I tried to read Harry Potter, Book 6, even though I didn't read more than one word, literally. Every time I sat down I had to get up to do something.
8. I played with Shayden before she went to bed.
8 THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
1. Halloween trunk or treat with our ward. Paul will be in his Gorilla suit and Shayden will be an Indian girl or a little bumblebee.
2. To see all my family on Saturday. Yay for Annalisa being born!
3. Gavin to be born. Paul tinks it will be on Thanksgiving Day.
4. Thanksgiving and to be with family, but I try and be thankful everyday.
5. Christmas--I am already shopping and have most of the presents I plan on buying for Paul and Shayden
6. The snow to come so we can play in it.
7. The chance to run again, long and hard.
8. The chance to ride Dixie...wild thing.
8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST
1. A trip to Hawaii someday
2. A trip to Europe someday
3. Some really nice couches someday
4. A really nice road bike? That won't happen for a while.
5. That I could be a really good mom.
6. Some tomatoes and bacon so I can have a BLT for lunch today.
7. A horse...someday. Paul would want a 4-wheeler first.
8. New strings for my violin...and some violin polish.
8 PEOPLE I TAG...
Everyone who wants to do this!!!!

I was trying to post this yesterday, but it didn't get all the way done, so I'm trying to post it this morning.

I also wanted to share that my ears are doing okay. They felt almost completely normal and I had a good routine for cleaning them, but last night as I was pulling one out far enough to clean around it it came completely out. I tried to put it back in by myself, but it wouldn't go, and I got really light headed and almost threw up. Paul came and forced it back in, but I had to lay down and couldn't finish cleaning them because I felt too faint. It bled a little, but feels okay now.

I'm 34 weeks and I feel huge. Shayden is growing like crazy.

Sad day! I totally missed out on the pumpkin walk this year in North Logan. I was bummed we missed it last year, but this year was even worse because I got all excited for it, and we didn't go. Yesterday was the last day. Well, there's always next year.