SURPRISE!

For those of you that don't know, we are expecting again! It was a big surprise! We wanted to be done and did something more permanent. A few days after the big day we found I was pregnant. Apparently, we were supposed to have another one. We had to use fertility on the first three so this was a big change. We are excited and would like another girl to go with Paige, but as long as it's healthy we don't care what it is. The kids are excited too. The first couple of days Blake kept saying "I can't believe we're having another baby!" We kept thinking the same thing. I'm guessing it will be due at the end of September but will find out for sure when I go to the doctor.

It's been a while since I've written so hopefully I'll be able to remember what's happened. Christmas was the usual crazy holiday but was a lot of fun. The kids got too many toys (as usual) but they were good ones. Blake's favorite was, of course, his Nintendo DS. (Justin and I even like to play a little bit.) All the kids enjoy Rock Band, even Paige. Christmas break was fun but I have to admit I was glad when school started again. Cody is a Sunbeam in Primary this year and I'm having a hard time getting him to go. He did go last week and said he wanted to go again and now he's 4 he thinks he's old enough to go. Paige will go into the nursery next month!! I sure hope she will go! Her favorite pasttime right now is bugging Cody. Whenever he turns the Wii on she has to stand in front of the tv (every time). Then he yells (which is what she wants). Cody had his 4th birthday on Wednesday. Justin told him the night before that when he woke up he would be 4. He had the hardest time going to sleep because he was so excited. When I woke him up the next morning and sang Happy Birthday to him he couldn't stop smiling. All day he asked if he was 4 now. We took cookies into preschool and they sang to him there twice. He loved it. He got lots of good stuff for his birthday thanks to Grandma Peggy and Grandpa and Grandma Crick! Thank You! Last of all Blake lost another front tooth. If he looses anymore he won't be able to eat!

Christmas is coming so fast! We're almost ready (I think). I guess it will come whether we are or not. The kids are ready for sure. Blake counts down the days every day. I'm glad it keeps snowing, it makes it seem more like Christmas.

Craziness!

I'm a little behind on writing on here. Hopefully, I'll be able to remember what we've been doing. First, Thanksgiving was really nice. It was too bad Justin had to work, he wasn't able to come to Springerville with us. Then, Paige got sick again and we have to have tubes put back in her ears. We go back to the ENT on Monday the 15th. We'll see when he can get her in for the surgery. Blake gave his first talk in Primary on Sunday. Four years in there and he's never been asked to give one, unless he has and hasn't told me about it. He did really good. I was impressed. I wish I could say the same for Cody. He's a handful in church.

We put up our Christmas trees on Sunday. The boys have their own. They were really excited to decorate it. They are ready for Santa to come, though Blake is more excited for his Nintendo DS that we got him. He helped pay for some of it but he has to wait. We'll be lucky if we get lights on our house this year. It seems like we're a little behind on everything this year.

The kids were really excited about the snow on Tuesday. And they were really excited that there wasn't school and I ended up babysitting a 6 year old girl. Needless to say, it was a long day. But the kids had fun playing in the snow. Then on Wednesday night Cody had a little preschool program. It was really cute. He did a really good job. I'm always impressed when actually gets up there and sings and does the actions. He had been practicing the songs for a few weeks. He is our little singer. His teacher told me he's a good singer in preschool too.

It's a busy couple of weeks. We took Cody to the doctor because he kept getting headaches and was really grouchy. The doctor couldn't see anything wrong so he wanted a CT scan. Cody actually did really good. He threw a fit at first but the lady told him it was like riding in a rocket and that calmed him down. He said it was kind of fun. We found out that ALL of his sinuses were infected. The doctor put him on an antibiotic and hopefully it will clear up. Paige had an ear infection a while back and is now sick again (I think it has to do with teething). I hope it doesn't turn into one this time, now that her tubes fell out. I think that's about it for those two. Blake got to go hunting with Justin last week. He was so excited. Unfortunately, they didn't get anything. He's really been wanting a Nintendo DS. I had to hear about nonstop for about a week. We told him to start saving his money. Those things aren't cheap!

We had an interesting morning. We had a bus hit Justin's truck. Well not really hit it but kind of scraped the side of it putting yellow paint on it. There truck parked on the other side of the road and had a hard time getting through. He almost made before he got the front on it. I felt sorry for all of kids on the bus. They had to sit there for about a half hour before they could get to school.

Also, we started a blog for Elder Justin Crick if you want to see how he's doing. There is a link for it from our blog but it's elderjustincrick.blogspot.com. He's not very good at sending pictures so there isn't a whole lot on there.