Happy New Year!

New Years Day with my new snow suit and our horse Sugar!
We took my snow machine for the first ride of the season all around our new property. We were walking along the frozen lake at the back of the property (checking out deer tracks of course) and I saw this pretty view of the cattails covered in snow and made Ry pose for a pic.

We took the snow machine over to Burt & Lani's to give Logan (and Lani) their first snow machine ride! I think we got Lani hooked! I was also Logan's 5th birthday.
Ryan and I sitting on lawn chairs enjoying a gorgeous January day! Believe it or not but I think I even got a little bit of a tan on my face!

Merry Christmas

We spent an enjoyable Christmas in Idaho with my family this year. Between receiving at least 2 feet of snow over the space of 2 days and going to multiple family parties, we had a great time. We enjoyed spending so much time with our family in Idaho as well as having our first Christmas in our house.

As you can see Carl enjoyed Christmas as well. He had his own stocking (as seen in pic sitting on him) in which Santa left him a new collar with a shinny bell, cat treats, and a few toys. Carl clearly looks annoyed in the pic although he did fully enjoy playing with his new gifts post picture! Also just a few days later Carl came down with a terrible sickness that resulted in a trip to the vet. So I am blaming his look in the picture on that.

Baby Profiles

18 Week Profile

11 Week Profile

It is amazing how quick she is growing. I have been lazy for few months and not posted these pics and she has already grown so much. As of right now the 18 week profile pic is the most recent picture that we have of her. I will be going in for another ultrasound on Friday. I will be a few days away from being 21 weeks and we will get another picture of our sweet baby girl! I am still holding out on the maternity pants but on my half-way marker day (regardless of whether I needed it or not) I wore my first maternity shirt.

Half way there!

It's a GIRL!!!

Over Thanksgiving break Ryan and I made a trip out to Portland to be with the Orme fam for the holiday. We love to visit Portland and see all of our family and growing number of neices and nephews there. We had a great time and as a special treat we had an early ultrasound done to discover that we are having a GIRL! As soon as we were told that she was a girl I knew that was what I had secretly been hoping for all along! It was great to be able to share that exciting time with all of our family there. We miss them all terribly, especially during the holidays. After discovering the news we went out to a delicious dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in celebration.

Baby News!

Yes, its official, we are PREGNANT! I am sure everyone knows by now, I've been taking my own sweet time to post anything about it. We are quite excited by thought of a new "human" member joining our family. (Carl, the cat, is not nearly as excited as you can see in the picture!) I have been trying for days to get the video of the ultrasound to post on the blog but I just must not be technically inclined enough to get it done. (Any suggestions let me know!) So I am posting the only pic of the baby that I could get to work and this is it! I will at least post an ultrasound pic as soon as I can but for those of you who want to see the video, you are just going to have to come and see us or wait for us to come and see you! This pic is at exactly 4 months. I know, I feel like I am showing way too much for only being 4 months but there's not a whole lot I do about it?! Keep checking back for the revealing of the gender.

(We should find out on November 26th if the baby cooperates!)

The Montana Monster!

I know that all we have is dead animals on our blog but what can we say "tis the season"! This is the monster buck that Ry shot in Montana this past week. He put in on a special hunt with Bing in Roy, MT (aka the middle of nowhere) and this is what he brought home as a souvenir! I must admit that I am looking forward to the jerky!

Jail Birds

Ryan and I went to an awesome Halloween party, hosted by our friends the Binghams. I finally broke Ry out of his rut of dressing up as a hunter for Halloween and we decided to go as jail birds. Ry as a prison inmate and me as a jail inmate. We had a great time and were the proud winners of the "mummy wrap" game as well as best jack-o-lantern! Thanks Bing and Tiff for a great party!

Don't you just love Ry's awesome neck tat!

He was in a scramble Sunday morning trying to scrub it off before teaching the deacons!