I've been feeling a little sluggish lately....

BUT..... we are very HAPPY to announce that I am pregnant and expecting our 3rd child!! I'm about 2 months along and will be due in July. I've been really tired and quite nauseated for several weeks now.... hence being soooo sluggish. Tyler has been amazing at picking up my slack.




Do you like how the title of my post and the slug picture introduces my pregnancy?


So here is the story about the slug. VERY DISGUSTING! Since we have moved here to Missouri, I've been quite surprised that we haven't had many bugs in our home. BUT... we seem to have a little slug problem instead. I think I would rather have a bug problem rather than a slug problem. OK... it's really not a problem. We've found about 5, but they are the most disgusting things in the world, and I've discovered them in our home in not the most convienant ways (i.e, stepping on it in the middle of the night. I thought it was left over food from dinner, but totally freaked out when I turned on the light.) Luckily this guy made home on the outside of my slippers the other night, instead of the inside! It seriously gives me the creeps to see them!

Awesome Christmas Video

A friend of mine put this together and the music coordinates really well with the video. It is the nativity with Amy Grant's song. Let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQs0H7dvwy0

Mommy Vacation

I took a quick trip back home for 4 days to Cedar City, UT to attend my friend's wedding. Tyler had Thanksgiving week off, so he stayed at home with kids. It was the most lovely Mommy vacation that I have ever had. (The only one that I've ever had thus far.) Too bad I didn't sleep in.... I did get a couple naps in though.

I met up with my beautiful family on Wednesday in Omaha, NE and we ventured up to South Dakota to spend Thanksgiving with Tyler's Grandpa Glanzer. Grandma Marilyn is a collector of antiques.... so it wasn't very fun keeping the kids out of things. "NO NO NO!!" was very common. They were very accommodating though and it was nice just to sit and chat and watch TV. We took the kid's to the Sioux Falls which was all lit with Christmas lights. We also went to their light parade. Grandma is famous for tea parties. Makenzie learned quick on how to hold the tea cup, with pinkie up and all! The kids loved the hot chocolate and goodies.




We came home Saturday and dealt with rain and sleet the whole way home. Luckily the roads weren't bad and we got home at a decent hour. We got all the Christmas stuff out and I must say that this year has been the worst with Makenzie. She is just loving it too much!!! She wants to decorate and redecorate the tree and then she wants to play with the Christmas ornaments as toys. I threatened to take down the tree! With time, the interest is slowing down.



Jordan has been good... he's just fascinated with the lights and will go and touch them. He learned another word today.... "NO." He says it loud and drawn out... so it sounds like " Naaaaa." He uses it a lot in context.


We woke up to 3 inches of snow on Sunday, the first for the winter season. Makenzie was sooo excited and was out there at 8am playing in it.


Tyler started the car for church to warm up and somehow locked the keys in the car, our only set. We called a locksmith and had to pay $50. We were also late for sacrament meeting. The locksmith told us he can make us a key that will open the car, but not start it. Good enough for me.

Monday was catch up day with laundry and cleaning. I had to shop for the fam as well as 2 orders for the club catering thing we do. Tuesday was the BIG Enrichment night that we have been planning for for quite some time. I deemed it a success! And now I'm glad it's over. I played a Christmas Medley on the piano and I think it went well. I don't think I will ever be perfect in playing, but I didn't mess up horribly.

My master's classes started on Monday. We have weekly assignments to do. This week I have to comment at least 10 times on 2 discussions and then write a paper. I feel like a minority in the class, as I have no work experience in health. Everyone else is employed in some way and I'm just the young mom at home. Already a lot of the stuff they talk about is over my head. Luckily Tyler is here to help me in giving me some opinions.

We got a knock on the door tonight and found the missionaries at our door. We were excited to see that Elder McDowell got a new companion.... Elder Glanzer (Tyler's Cousin)!! What are the chances of that happening?!?! It is his first day out in the field! We visited for about 15 minutes. Luckily I just took out some warm pumpkin bread to feed them. Poor guy came on a cold and blistery day! We hope Kirksville treats him good!

Always Baby-Proofing

I feel like it's never ending with the kids ALWAYS getting into things or doing things they aren't suppose to. The latest of baby-proofing is having Jordan keep his clothes and diapers on. He's woken up the last two days with no jammies on. We'll see if this does the trick...



My poor friend Annie always has to "Jordan-proof" her house every time we come over. We have our little system down, but he still always finds trouble! It's a never-ending battle that I'm still determined to win! HA HA HA

Every Mom's Worst Nightmare!

Yes.... it inevitably would have happened sometime. My daughter cut her hair! She actually wasn't meaning to do it. It just got in the way from cutting something else, even though she lost her cutting privleges long ago for cutting some important papers. I took her to a friend that does hair for some emergency TLC. We decided to trim it up a bit, add some layers, and feather it around her face. I'm sad to see her long hair go, but you gotta do what you gotta do! I just think of Elder Wirthlin's talk from conference and have found humor in this whole thing.


The Before: Doesn't she look so guilty?The After:

You would think we had a tree in our yard....

We had a seasonably warm day, so of course we soaked up as many rays as we could before it turns bitter cold. There were tons of leaves in our yard, even though there is not one single tree in our yard. We enjoyed them for a few days before they blew away somewhere else. We had fun building mountains, getting buried in them, and throwing up in the air.

The Before:


The After: Makenzie is there. Jordan didn't like getting his face covered.

Come and Visit Us!

Back in September our good friends, Jay and Melani Talbot, stayed with us for a few days on their way to moving to Ohio for Dental School.  It's always good to have visitors!  It wards off the home-sickness.  They have two adorable little boys, Lennix and Jensen.  Too bad it rained the whole time they were here due to the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.  We made our own fun with the GIANT puddles that formed in our backyard.  

The Dad's got involved too and ended up staying out there and playing longer than the kids did.

Seeking Refuge under the van

We all went bowling.

The kids did better than we did!

Tyler working his magic!

I feel bad that the way we told them to go was closed.  Luckily they had some other options to get around the flooding.