Christmas 08

This one was taken about 28 1/2 weeks.

Well, this picture was taken Christmas eve. I am 29 weeks here. My husband graciously shared his cold with me. This past week I have woken up in the middle of the night coughing my lungs out. The only thing that seemed to help was sleeping in the recliner. The worst of the cold is that you can't take anything for it. The saline nose spray only lasts 4 -5 hours. Besides the cold everything is going A-OK. We have finished our "baby school" (Tim's term for prenatal class) I was expecting to be scared completely after they were all done. But Tim and I both came out very excited for the arrival of Timbit.

After chores on Christmas morning Tim was hungry and wanted to make me a "super duper Tim pan scramble". I had to take a picture of it cuz it was delicious.

We went down to my folks on the weekend. Pam brought Gavin up wearing this suit. He was sooooo cute.

Dave was given some lego in his stocking. Tim and he were quite content putting it together.

My sister and I are not fans of hot dogs. However, one of my families favorite summer past times is having wiener roasts. So mom found a cast iron hamburger cooker for over the fire and each of us girls got one in our stockings. The weather was nice and the boys decided to light the fire. So here they are cooking us our lunch. Sadie got to have the first few cuz they were burnt so bad.
On Sunday we got a fresh little snowfall and a gorgeous sunny day afterwards. I wanted to get out for a walk so we bundled Owen up so he could try out his new sled. He was not so sure about it at first but on the way back he was chatting away.
Dad just finished building a new pig shelter this past fall. So we had to go check it out.
We wanted to see what Owen thought of going down a little hill of snow. Let's just say I think we will wait till next year to try it again.
Then we thought he would like riding Sadie. He loved it! Sadie didn't get it at first but then did her duty well.

I've been tagged

Doris over at http://beckbulletin.blogspot.com/ tagged me to do a picture post.

You're supposed to do the following:
1. Open the 4th picture folder on your computer
2. Open the 4th picture and post it on your blog.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 people to do the same!

Due to computer failure all my old pictures are backed up on discs and only my recent pictures from this summer on are in my picture file. This picture was taken during our Earle Family reunion this past August. The sun was super intense and we were all camping out on the north side of Granny and Gramps' house. The balls that the boys are sitting on gave adults and children hours of entertainment.


I really don't have anybody to keep this tag going, sorry.

It is beginning to feel like Christmas

I know that the new weekend is here but I have a few pictures to post from last weekend. Friday night and Saturday Tim and I attended our labour and delivery prenatal classes. We learned lots. Pam and the family came over Saturday night and stayed till Monday morning. It was so nice to have family stay at our place again. The boys are great. Owen is so active. I have a little booster chair that Owen sat on for meals. After each meal he would have to take it off his chair and sit it in front of the window to talk to Sadie. He loved Sadie - it was too cute. Gavin is 4 months old now and a complete angel. I pray that we will have such a content baby. Sunday brought another fresh snowfall and Christmas tree hunting. We didn`t out west till 4:30 so we had to be very decisive as it gets dark at 5. But we found a perfect tree. It isn`t decorated though cuz I haven`t been home since to do it. Oh well, this weekend is supposed to be -30 so I think I`ll have lots of time to do it.
After I did books on Monday I decided to test the new snow. I clipped on my x-country skis and started breaking a trail. Sadie was so excited to play in the snow and go at a faster pace than walking - but she was kinda sceptical of the skis.

This is just past our place. I always love walking this direction from home cuz there are no roads or people to interrupt my time, just lots of space and beautiful scenery. I can let my mind think of anything and have no distractions.

Breaking trail isn`t all that hard but a lot harder than skiing on groomed trails. Especially when you hit the odd cow pie! On the way back Sadie decided that the trail was meant for her to walk on too. She often runs ahead of me exploring and sniffing things out. She will stop and wait for me to call her and then she comes running my direction. Here she is running back to me on my trail!! Oh well she didn`t wreck anything. My trail will be all covered up after this weekend anyways.

You gotta love `em!

Yup, you gotta love maternity pants. They are the most forgiving piece of clothing I own. They are almost as comfy as my Winnie the pooh flannel pj's. The only complaint I have about them is they fall down a little too easily. It seems like every time I stand up they have slid down a little. But I can live with that.

Anyways, I know I haven`t posted many prego pictures lately and I am sorry. Last week I came to work one day and I had every single person (ok maybe a little exaggeration) tell me than I really look pregnant. Comments like "woo mama you look pregnant today" or "man you have popped out" or "you can definitely tell your pregnant now". I know I am supposed to look pregnant when I am almost 6 months but when everybody makes a comment about it; it made me feel really fat. To top that day off I was on the verge of tears the whole day - thanks to those lovely hormones. So I didn`t really feel like taking pictures last week. I really hope that I never made comments like that to my friends when they were pregnant. It isn`t all that flattering.