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The last picture is of hunter dressed like papa steve for his 50th birthday. The first two are Hunter and his cousin Elyse with Grammie's african necklaces on.

Mother in law

i know the term "mother in law" has a negative connotation, but MY mother in law changes that. She is just the best! First of all she raised 5 boys close in age and survived!! How she did that i dont know. She is such a great gramma and hunter loves her, as do all the grandkids. I just love how when we were in the hospital to have hunter, she was so helpful and understanding and such a great mom, which is what any woman wants in that situation.
Last night when we called her to tell her we were having a girl, she was willing to meet up with us and look at girl clothes for the heck of it. I just wanted to get out of the house and "do something!" and so we did. It was so nice to be with her and she actually bought little things. i think i am still in shock going in the girls section. Anyway, it is always nice to be with her, i wish we could do it more often.
I just had to brag about how great my mother in law is.

Baby

I am so glad brad and i put a little wager on this because i won! I could hardly sleep last night because i was having these weird dreams about the baby and what the ultra sound would show. Well we went to the dr today and we were with the ultra sound lady for a long time which was nice. I want to see my baby for as long as possible. Brad was standing the whole time with hunter in his arms who kept saying "baby". and then it was announced, "ITS A GIRL!!" I beamed, brad looked like a deer caught in the headlights and hunter said "NO!" and started crying. i really think hunter wanted a puppy instead of a girl.
So i am so excited and brad is too. i think he will be even more excited when she is born a baby and not a 12-13 year old girl which is what he fears about having a girl. You know, brad is still getting a hang of the whole female hormone thing.
Well we are excited. the hardest part will be agreeing on a name. he likes on and i like another. we have plenty of time though!

9 days in utah

So we drove to utah last friday, the 21st. this was the day mom and dad came home. we met everyone at the airport, they didnt get in until 10:20 pm. We were waiting there with our sign, the grandkids (those that were there) holding the sign and we were waiting and waiting. everyone kept telling us they were coming and they finally came!!! It is so good to have them home. Poor things are so off their sleeping schedule. the whole week dad could be found asleep on the couch at anytime during the day. So i didnt have to work at all so i got to stay all week. brad however left sunday morning and came back to utah wednesday, he had to work. Thanksgiving was nice and relaxing and it was fun to be together. This last week i saw twilight, james bond and just relaxed. it was great to be with my oldest nephew who is at byu-hawaii. it was just fun. brad was able to go to a jazz game with my brother and others in a box suite. Another higlight for me was Utah beating Byu.i was the only Ute fan in the whole family, and i must say i was persecuted. we got home sunday night. hunter missed a nap and was just a beast!!! Mom and Dad come to stay with us this saturday. This week they are in California visiting the siblings there that werent able to come to utah. Well tomorrow we found out what our baby is! any guesses?

Why i love You Tube

Those who have really seen me completely comfortable know that i will sing random songs. A trait i have inherited from my mother. If it is not a real song, i will make one up for the occasion. But when i do sing real songs, brad has no idea what i am singing and doesnt believe its a real song. this is when i turn to youtube. i have proven two songs to him. the first one was "mail myself to you". you know, "i'm gonna wrap myself with paper, i'm gonna stick myself with glue....." The other song was from an old disney short cartoon with the andrew sisters singing. Its about Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet. "johnny fedora met alice blue bonnet, in the window of the department store....." so i found the whole cartoon and brad watched it with me singing along. it was great, to me anyway. Then we watched Lambert the Sheepish lion too! good ole you tube.

Trick or Treat

Usually i am all into halloween, decorations etc. It is my favorite holiday.But seeing as lately i have a struggle with even doing my hair and makeup, i didnt do too much. We didnt even get pumpkins which i know, its blasphemous! Reading Jaime's blog about the pumpkin patch sounded so fun though. Maybe we can go with them next year. I am glad they had a fun time. You really must check her blog out and see how beautiful their girls are. hunter loves averee, she is such a good cousin to him.

So for halloween what we did do was our annual party with berret and tanya, zak and sam and my niece Jocelyn gracing us with her appearance. seriously, she is single and gorgeous yet she is so good to come to our little gatherings. i had two
old roommates who have been home from thier missions for 5 months now, come over too. It was fun to cath up with them and stay up late and talk like old times. they are good friends. Bethany was actually there when i picked out my wedding dress, paper for the announcements and they were both there while brad and i were dating.

So Hunter was a lion, brad was a cook that had the ingredients for the bun in my oven. i was the oven. Zak and sam were the perfect Dwight K. Shrute and Angela, and Berret was a basketball player and tanya was the ball. Check out their blog for pictures of them and video of hunter.

We decided to take hunter trick or treating. Brad and tanya and berret stayed behind. they were tired. So we went to the HUGE houses up by the temple. Hunter was so funny and after the first house had it all down. it was so fun! thank you jocey, sam and zak for your help with trick or treating. i cant believe all they gave out was tootsie rolls though. we'll do better next year!!