Halloween 2011

I felt like Halloween was 2 weeks long this year. We had lot's of parties to go to and ended up eating way too much candy. Our first adventure was Hendrix's "school/play group" Halloween party. He refused to wear his Elmo costume and cried when I put it on. So he ended up wearing his UTAH jersey and going as a really cute football fan.

Friday afternoon we were excited to go to my Mom's work for a big in office trick-or-treating and spook alley attraction. This was really cool! My mom works for LDS family services and they dedicated one entire floor to a haunted spook alley, the yellow brick road (with balloon animals at the end), a spooky pumpkin walk with really cooled carved pumpkins and trick-or-treating. The boys absolutely loved it and wanted to go through the spook alley a second time. I thought they would be a little bit scared but I was wrong. We ended up leaving with lot's of candy and balloons. I was a tid bit grumpy due to claustraphobia/nausea but ended up having a great time! Thanks again Mom!

Saturday was out ward truck-or-treat which we ended up sluffing because Hendrix really needed a nap and Jordan was finishing up our fence (whoo hoo! We have a fence again). Later that night was Judy's big Halloween party where we play games, read stories, dance around the cupcake walk and eat get lot's of goodies. Hendrix had so much fun playing with his cousins and finding all of the hidden treasures. Thanks for all of your hard work Judy!

Monday. I had to take Hendrix to the pediatrician this morning because he was up all night with that stupid "barky" cough. I knew he had croup. He was too sick to be out in the cold for a long time so we ended up taking him to 5 or 6 houses and came back home to hand out candy. Hendrix loved running to the door the rest of the night to see all of the trick-or-treaters.

Here are a few pics from the Halloween weekend.

 Trick-or-treating at my Mom's work.

 My cute Mom in her "skeleton chef" costume. I'm sad I didn't get a picture of Hendrix with her but we had already left. And look at those adorble ducks! LOVE THEM!

 Brandon as Harry Potter.

 Annie dressed as a cute little witch! Hendrix snuck into the picture. lol.

 Haylie the adorable bumble bee! I'm surprised I got this picture, she did not want to smile for anyone.

 My fuzzy little Elmo. I could squish him right now!

 Jaden and Brooke as characters from Angry Birds... freakin hilarious and quite impressive that Brooke made these all by herself! Good job Brookie!

 And here is Brooke acting out level 1 in Angry Birds. I love them!

Cutest little bunch you've ever seen, right?

I'm lame and didn't take any more pictures this night. Jordan and I didn't dress up (and never do) but I'm sad I didn't get a picture of Hendrix with Judy and Judd. Next year I guess.....

A long journey with a very happy ending.

Remember how I blogged a few months ago about how I had finally come to terms with the fact that we might only have one child and how I finally felt at peace with our decision to stop our infertility treatments? Funny story......

A couple of days after my long/"come to Jesus" run, I had a dream. I had a dream about the most beautiful baby boy with blonde hair and big brown eyes. He was so real to me and I remember every second of my dream. You see, it had been over a year since I had any sort of dream about a baby and I thought it was kind of weird. I was in a good place, why was I dreaming about babies? I woke up after Jordan had already left for work and thought, "I'll have to tell Jordan about my dream later."

Two hours later, I get a phone call from Jordan at work. He proudly informed me that he was given an award for the last project he worked on they were giving him a bonus of $1,000. My heart skipped a beat and my mind started to race. Each insemination that we do costs $1,000. I immediately made a connection between my dream and this bonus and told Jordan everything that happened. Jordan came home that night and we had a long talk about what we were going to do. My body screamed, "No more" but my heart said, "This is an answer to your prayers, listen." Jordan finally convinced me that we should do ONE more insemination. We didn't want to pass the oppportunity up if this really was a sign from Heavenly Father and our one shot to finally get pregnant.

I called my infertility clinic the next day to see it if was even possible to start hormones this late in my cycle. My nurse replied with, "This is the VERY LAST DAY in any cycle to start any sort of hormone." I got my prescriptions lined up and jumped in. The next few weeks were the hardest few weeks out of the 4 months I had been on treatments. My attitude was not too great (I had serious doubts) and I felt miserable the whole time. I didn't want to get my hopes up but every step of the process seemed to be going perfectly.

On September 15th, I got a positive pregnancy test followed by a series of positive blood tests with rising hormone levels. Two weeks later we saw a heart beat and everything suddenly became real for me. I couldn't believe it. Two years of trying to conceive and it had finally happened. Words can't explain how we felt at that moment and how grateful we were to be blessed with another little baby.

So here we are... 11 weeks pregnant and no sign of miscarriage yet. We had another ultra sound last week and once again saw a heart beat and growing baby. Our little one even waved at us, showing off his/her 5 beautiful, little fingers. My heart immediately melted and my nerves were finally calmed. Our due date is May 25th.

 Miracles do happen, you just have to have faith and listen to the guidence that our Heavenly Father gives us, then thank him every single day for that miracle.

Sleepy Head

Hendrix,

This is what happens when you don't sleep long enough during nap time. No need to wake up early, okay?

Love, Mom

Halloween Cupcakes

I actually made these today for Judy's big Halloween party that's goin down tonight. I was planning on just doing something simple but thought it would be more fun to make spookie cupcakes. I really liked how they turned out! HAPPY HAUNTING!

October Crafting

We had craft night like a month ago for cute Halloween decorations. I picked out Frankenstein because he was so cute and decided to name him Franklin. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

(Don't mind my "no solicitors" sign below. We get a lot of crazy people tryin to sell stuff in our neighborhood.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

I win the award for "Worst blogger of the year." So now I'm playing some catch up.

October is birthday month for our family and I totally love it. Here are the birthdays we get to celebrate!

 October 6th- Meagan

October 14th- Cash

October 17th- ME!

October 20th- Jordan

I love having mine and Jordan's birthdays 3 days apart because we get to celebrate all week and do lot's of fun stuff. Plus, I get to see how much he spends on me for my birthday so that I can buy a present for him that's just a little bit better! Anyway... we celebrated our birthday dinner with my family a little bit early this year because Julie and Balta were up here that weekend. I feel like 1 million pictures were taken but not ONE was taken from my camera, WHOOPS!

First day of school.

My next door neighbor started a little preschool that's once a week for a couple of hours and I signed Hendrix up because I knew he would love it! His first day was this week and he had a blast. We were walking the 10 steps back to our house and he said, "Momma, I want to go back to school please." I feel like my baby is growing up so fast, he looks like such a big boy in this picture.