THE MAKING OF A NURSERY

I can't believe I'm in the 3rd trimester now, and in just a few months baby Emma will be joining our family! CRAZY! I keep getting bigger and bigger, ugh! It's becoming more and more of reality to us everyday...and it's especially become a huge reality these past few days as we've gotten her nursery all ready for her to use.
We were very excited to paint the room all by ourselves...we aren't exactly pros but we are proud of the outcome. We painting the room light pink, then did dark pink and yellow circles bordering the room. We matched the paint for the room exactly to the colors of really cute bedding that I found (with cute little birds on it) that was actually really affordable, BOO-YA!




Clark's parents bought us a crib and mattress for a gift, and we were so pumped to set it up when it arrived. I think the crib and bedding fit perfectly in the room we painted. The nursery still needs some things added, but we are so proud of it so far!






This is the first thing that Clark and I actually bought for baby Emma...her name is Averie, and she's a monster plushy made by one of my sister's friends. We think she's SO cute!

HAIRCUTS

Recently my 3 boys received much needed haircuts! Here are some before/after photos...I'm proud to say that my once shaggy boys are all 3 now clean cut again :o)

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AFTER:

BABY'S FIRST GIFT

This week we were really excited to get our baby's first gift! Mamaw(Alicia's grandma on the Penry side) sent us some money to pick something out for the baby, and we were able to order a really nice Graco Carseat/carrier for her. When it came in the mail on thursday it was like christmas for us...we took it out of the box, and "played" with it- figured out how everything on it worked and so forth. We also took turns carrying it around and pretended like there was a baby in it, HA! Can you tell we're excited to be parents? teeehehehe
*Thanks again to Mamaw for our baby's first gift!

CHUBBY CLARK

I was going through a bunch of Clark's old pictures of when he was little, and came across this pic of him when he was around 7! I can't believe how chubby he used to be :o)
He was really into wrestling when he was little, and this pic is of when he won the mini heavy weight championship in New Jersey (1992). I thought you'd all enjoy this!

VISITORS

This past thursday my sister Natalie came up to SLC with her baby Carson for a Doctors appointment at Primary Childrens. I was able to go with them, then we went shopping and over to Auntie Judy's house to visit and eat dinner. Nat and Carson were able to spend the night at our place, and it was really exciting to finally have visitors. We hardly ever have people come over here...so it was a real treat! YAY!(This isn't the best pic, but it's the only one we took while they were here)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLARKY!!!

Thursday February 5th was Clark's 24th birthday...BOO YEAH! I can't believe how old he is :o) hehehe j/k
Because he was SO busy that day and just about everyday we didn't have a lot of time to celebrate. We did get to go to a late lunch that day at PF Changs-YUM-and Clark ate a whole great wall of chocolate cake (HUGEST piece of cake ever)!
The nest night when he came home from work I surprised him with Ice Cream Cupcake from Maggie Moo's. As far as gifts this year...all he really wanted was a new ipod, so he is saving all his b-day money to buy one from the apple store! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!!

(In these pics Clark has just come home from work at like 1:30 in the morning, so...he was exhausted)

PREGGO PICS & UPDATE

I'm now in my 22nd week of pregnancy, BOO YEAH! It has been very exciting experiencing pregnancy and what comes with it...our baby girl is VERY active and I can feel her moving around and kicking so much now!
Yesterday we had another ultrasound at LDS hospital to check everthing on the baby like the heart, brain, bones, etc. She is perfect- very healthy and measuring just right. And, she is CRAZY ACTIVE!! The ultrasound tech said she has rarely seen a baby this active and move around so much! HA...leave it to us to have a little active/crazy baby girl! :o)
Here are some preggo pics....




And here's a pick of the happy soon-to-be-daddy just for kicks....


As for everthing else going on in our lives....Clark started back at the U for another semester. He's still working for the church in the evenings and he's very busy. I am just about done with my schooling at UCMT, and will probably finish up at the middle/end of february!