It's a boy!

Sorry it has been FOREVER since I have posted! I have been sick (from the baby) and stressed (from managing) and all that fun stuff! So I have severely neglected this blog lately. I figured you all would want to know that we found out we are having a boy--no wonder the dairy issues! He measures 10 days ahead! Of course we have those large genes coming from both sides so it is inevitable. So when we told Haela it was a boy she had the saddest face! We have had a feeling it was a boy and so we tried to prepare her but even the preparation didn't stop the sadness. She said she will "still love a baby brother" though but that next time I need to have a girl. So every time we mention her baby brother she adds "and then after the brother we will have a baby sister, right?" I told her that might happen but we never know what the Lord will give us.

"I'm Prego"

So now that I am three months along and have been to two doctor's visits I feel safe telling everyone that I am pregnant! I am guessing it might be a boy because I have been very sick like I was with Enoch and am back to the no-dairy/no-soy thing again. The weird thing is when I was pregnant with Haela I could eat anything. In fact, it was the first time I could handle drinking a glass of milk! But she has a SEVERE allergy to dairy and many other scary allergies including nuts, eggs, soy, dust, mold, etc. Now Enoch--he is a different story. I could not handle a speck of dairy and was so sick when I was pregnant with him but he only has a very minor allergy to dairy. So do any of you have any guesses as to whether handling dairy in pregnancy could be related to the severity of allergies post-partum?

President's Day Fun!

For President's Day we decided to celebrate by driving two hours to a an indoor water park in Wyoming. It was SO fun to see the NON-STOP smiles on my kids' faces as they would fly down the water slides!

Enoch, of course, had to play with every ball he could find. He loved when Daddy helped him slam-dunk the ball!

The water fountains were fun to go under and then stay dry!

Haela and Grandma Johnson going down the smaller slide. It took Haela forever to build up the courage just to go on this one but once she got it down then she tried the big one and to her surprise she ABSOLUTELY LOVED it. From then on she went down the big one non-stop!

Enoch and Grandma Johnson zooming down the BIG slide!

Daddy is under the water so you can't see him. He would lay down to go faster which I thought would scare Haela but she LOVED it!

I Love to see the Temple

Though we feel like poor college students again going from a roomy home to a small dorm room on campus we enjoy being right by the new temple here in Rexburg. Almost everytime we pass it Haela asks to sing, "I Love to see the Temple" so Haela and Enoch know this song even better than the ABC's! For FHE on Monday we had a lesson on the temple--so, of course, we sang our favorite song. Here is Haela's solo!

Christmas

It was nice to have our first Christmas at our own home (we have always traveled to be with family--now that we are near family we didn't have to travel this year). Santa was grateful that Haela's most desired present was a "My Little Pony" ($5 value!). She was SO excited when she opened the gift she so desired! We hope as she gets older her taste will stay this inexpensive : )!





We got a kick out of Enoch's reaction to one of his gifts. We call it the "Lamb Torture"! We hope you all had a great Christmas!

Saying goodbye!

Grandma and Grandpa Checketts and uncle Ian have now moved to Laie, Hawaii! After four years of being away we finally moved back to Idaho close to both grandparents and then they move away?! : ) After they got packed up we spent some fun time with them at the hotel swimming befor they left. We will miss you!

December fun!

Enoch's first full haircut! I thought I did a pretty good job with those clippers-thank goodness for #6 guard--no scissors needed!


Haela's first snow creation! It was too powdery for a snowman so we made a volcano instead!

Yay! Haela isn't scared of Santa anymore (last year she would have nothing to do with him)!

Enoch loved Santa last year but was a little intimidated.

Friday night they gave free carousel rides at the park and the kids could ride as long as they wanted. I had to get off after about 4 rounds my head couldn't handle it as well as the kids! It was fun to see Haela finally excited about sitting on Santa's lap!