Valentines Day!

David had to work on Valentines Day so I got to spend it with Aleecia. We spent the day making valentine cards and heart and star sugar cookies.

For breakfast I made these valentine pancakes. She loved them. Now whenever I make pancakes she always asks for the pink ones with the heart.

She loves frosting sugar cookies. We do this every year. This year she wanted to make star cookies too. She gave the star cookies to grandpa and the heart cookies to grandma.

These are the valentine cards we made. The first one was for grandpa. I asked her what she wanted to write and she said "love you". I said you mean "I love you". She told me no she just wanted to say "love you". The second valentine was for grandma. Its a book mark with her thumb print on it. She was hesitant about putting her thumb in the paint finally I persuaded her to do it. The last was for Daddy. I had a bunch of different pink and red paper and she wanted all the poka-dot paper for his valentine. There is nothing like homemade valentines!

Aleecia drew this picture of me! I am mad because her room is not clean. I had no idea I was so mean when it came to cleaning her room I thought it was Dad that got more mad. Of course there is her baby sister nicely tucked inside my belly.

Here is one of the whole family! Notice all the hair on Dave. It cracks me up what her imagination thinks of.

This is my most favorite picture yet. I have been trying to teach Aleecia about where babies come from so that there will be no surprises when her sister is born. When I was younger I was in the room when my brother was born. It was such a great experience that I want Aleecia to experience it as well. This picture is her idea of what to expect. I think I am smiling, we'll see if the picture changes any after the baby is born.

32!

32 weeks! I can't believe how much I've grown!

31 and counting

31 weeks pregnant! I am now sad that I don't have any pictures of when I was pregnant with Aleecia so this time I am determined to take pictures. This baby has grown up and down and not out. It has its disadvantages, like I can't breathe. She has been getting the hiccups at least once a day which drives me crazy but all and all this has been a much better pregnancy then the last. Happy to report that I haven't had any swelling YET.

Shooting

For my dad's birthday we went shooting. Aleecia got to shoot her pink gun for the first time.

New Years 2009!

Every year for New Years we have made it a tradition to eat at Dave's sisters restaurant. And then as always we go home maybe watch a movie and are in bed before 10. I would like to thank all those who sent texts at midnight and woke us up. I know this is just the most exciting New Years tradition but Dave has never been one for celebrating New Years and I guess its age but staying up late never happens for Dave. Maybe next year we can have a party or something to celebrate.

Our Christmas

It has been a while since my last post. I accidently left my camera at my parents house. Here a few pictures of our Christmas.

Dave's family every year get together Christmas Eve and have dinner. At midnight we all open presents. Just to give you an idea of this experience Dave has 5 sisters who are all married and have kids. Every year we all buy for EVERYBODY! So, you can imagine how many presents we have to open. Usually it takes us a good 3 hours to open them all. My sister-in-law got this cute little puppy just before Christmas and Aleecia was more interested in playing with the puppy then opening her presents. For those who know Aleecia are probably not surprised by this at all.

Every year we try to get a family picture.

Aleecia got her Pink Gun!

Santa came to our house! That naughty Santa he brought in the snow and made a mess.