Broken Promise, Suprise, and Illness...

Yes it is true, I did break the promise I made last time about being more diligent in posting, but I assure you for good or not so good reasons. Let's see how this all started....The kids and I went with my parents on a road trip to see my brother, JJ, graduate from college in Idaho. We had a great time, we got to meet Aaralynn, the newest cousin, my little niece, and wish them off on their journey to Texas. It was nice to see my brother all grown up, but sad to wonder when I will see him and his little family again with even more distance between us now. Texas for the summer and then Indiana for the next four years for dental school. We also got to stop and spend some time with my Grandparents, my Dad's parents. My Grandma's name is Kay and Lilia misheard that for cake, so she calls her Great Grandparents Grandma Cake and Papa Pie, it was really cute. I was also able to see some of my aunts, uncles, and cousins one evening, and that just made our trip even better. The kids were great! 12 hour car ride each way and they both did amazing, no complaining, just a good time. The pictures from this trip were accidently deleted, I was devistated to say the least. I keep telling myself at least we have the memories and that's what counts,but it would have been nice to see the pictures that went with these memories.

Suprise! And that I was. I can home to a new piano. My sweet Matthew and his Aunt Peggy moved it here while we were away. It is beautiful! The piano has been in the family since Matthew's Nana was a little girl. It is wonderful to have in our home, I feel so blessed. I quickly learned my first song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and we are working on getting some lessons.

Now comes the reason good or bad depending on how you look at it for the long delay on the update. Let me recap a little, we pulled in the driveway late on a Monday afternoon, I was quickly overjoyed by the new treasure in our home, then late that evening I promptly and accidently deleted the pictures of our trip. The next morning the kids and I got up and headed to my prenatal appointment at 8:30 am. The appointment went well, baby is growing great, we heard the heartbeat again, we stopped by the donut store, dropped Kaine off at school, and then drove to Matt's work to see his smiling face we'd missed so much and tell him all about the doctor's appointment. On the way home Lilia started projectile vomiting, in the car while I was driving, not a good combination. Luckily the drive is short from Matt's work to our house, as the morning went on she continued to get sick. She ended up in the ER that afternoon already slightly dehydrated. They gave her some meds to stop the vomiting and we were on our way. I got the flu the next evening and Matt got it early the following day. One good thing about this flu was the time period it lasted, about 12 or so hours, but vomiting is never fun, especially when you are pregnant or when you have to take care of each other sick. Just as I was recovering from the mound of laundry from this illness, the second illness hit our home. Fifth's disease. Sweet little Lilia had caught another bug. She had a high fever, rash, and the works. We went into the doctor's again because her fever was so high and that's when they gave us the diagnosis. It was really scary, not for Lilia so much they told me she would be just fine in about a week, but Fifth's disease can be very dangerous in pregnant women and cause serious complications. So I had some blood work done and a long weekend passed. Turns out I had had Fifth's disease as a child and while I had had a fever like Lilia I couldn't have gotten Fifth's disease again. The best news I'd heard in two weeks! So there it is, the last month summed up. Oh yes and we have started our garden.

 The beautiful family treasure.

Lilia playing the piano, she still had her ER bracelet on :(

Easter

Easter was wonderful this year! We went to the Zoo on Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa Westover for the Rabbit Romp, where Lilia got to pet real bunnies and hunt for eggs. A good time was had by all, although it would have been nicer had the temperature been a few degrees warmer. Sunday, Easter, we woke up and Lilia had a egg hunt around the house, so much fun, and got her gift from the Easter bunny, new play food, it was a hit. We watched General Conference on tv in our pjs and had french toast with Grandma and Grandpa. In the afternoon my parents went home and we headed to Grandma Tami's for a delicious Easter feast. Lilia got to play with her cousin Natalie and see her Uncles and Aunt. We picked up Kaine from his spring break stay with his mom and called it a weekend! We are so excited, this coming week/weekend me and the kids are driving with Grandma and Grandpa Westover to see Uncle JJ graduate, should be exciting, we'll keep you posted.

Egg Hunt at the Zoo

Grandpa and his rabbit teeth

Lilia and her rabbit teeth

Family picture with the lions

Hunting for eggs Easter morning in our pjs

Cadbury egg cream on her upper lip... yummy

Grandpa Russ and cousin Natalie

Uncle Casey and the cousins

This is what happens when there is too much Easter fun

Busy Busy Busy...

We've been really busy lately, trying to keep up well just with eachother!

Matt has been doing some Boy Scout Leadership training the past few weekends and staying busy with work. He also gave a talk last Sunday at church about his conversion, it was wonderful to hear him speak and feel the spirit he brought into the room.

Lilia has been busy working on learning new words, using the big girl potty, going to play group and reading group, and best of all mastering the somersault!

I am working on a quilt with some of the ladies from our church. I've never quilted anything before, but this has turned out to be really fun! I've been out in the yard pulling weeds and getting my garden ready to plant in, I can hardly wait. My cub scouts also keeps me pretty busy these days.

Kaine has been working on his cub scout assignments dilligently too. Speaking of which, last week was the pinewood derby! It is something the boys look forward to all year. Kaine spent a good week cutting out his car and sanding it and giving it a sweet paint job! He even had Matt chisel out an area so he could glue in a seat for his lego man, it was pretty creative if you ask me! I am sorry his creativity didn't translate into speed, he finished dead last out of 13 boys, disappointing I know. But not to worry, this didn't break Kaine's spirit, he got an award for "Most Enthusiastic" and an award for the "Slowest Car" along with a cool pinewood derby lunch box! He thought this was the best! The next morning before school he said "At least my car was good at something" I asked him "What's that?" Kaine, "Being the slowest, it just makes me laugh, at least it had the coolest paint job and I got this awesome new lunch box to take to school" I am glad he keeps things in perspective, a glass half full kind of guy, my kind of kid! Sorry there is no pictures, I forgot the camera at home :(

This week is spring break! Kaine will be spending it with his mom this year. He will be coming back on Easter afternoon so Matt and I decided we should do our Easter with Kaine before he left, because well we couldn't wait. We planned out this suprise egg hunt around our neighborhood, Kaine had no idea. We took the kids out for a bike ride Saturday morning and we happened upon our first egg. It had a clue in it that led us to a statue in the cemetary and a second egg with another clue. Kaine didn't get what was going on, so we had to spell it out for him. We had planned the egg hunt, these weren't just random eggs in the cemetary, but something we had put together for him, an egg hunt. He was amazed and the hunt was on! It was so fun for Matt and I to watch as he read each clue and found them with excitement. The hunt ended in our back yard with eggs everywhere for the kids to find. Before we took him to the train station we snapped a few pictures of the kids in their Easter clothes.

Baby's Heartbeat

We heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time! I am a little late on posting this, but late is better than never. Matthew and the kids piled into the doctor's office with me and we heard the pitter patter of our sweet little baby's heart beat two weeks ago. I forgot how truly amazing that sound is! The heartbeat was in the 160's and the doctor said everything looked good and sounded just like it was supposed to. I am 14.5 weeks, the baby is about the size of a lemon now and growing everyday.  My  next appointment is mid-April and I will try to be better about updating then.

Pink Cowboy Boots

Lilia got some new pink cowboy boots this week! I found them at a consignment shop for $3 and couldn't pass them up. She loves to wear them and when she does she does what I call her  happy feet dance. She wore them to church today with a sweater her Great Grandma Westover made her, too cute if you ask me.