Time to catch up... before it's too late!

Ralph and the girls enjoying a cookie during movie night. I decided to wait to put clothes on them. There was too much chocolate involved.

Mother's Day. Flowers and treats.

Mother's Day morning. Breakfast in bed and things to pamper me. What a great family I have!

Creative Amber. Look, no hands!

Finishing up the basement. This was a great day. All of the plastic came off the floors and all of the tape came down. Last step - base boards. (Which are all done now, two months later.)

The color of Ralph's office, and Amber in a little bit of a jam. The funny thing is she held still for this!

The great torch has been passed on. Amber's favorite Cherry dress, which she wore at least once a week for two years, is now Hannah's. And they both are ok with it. Nice.

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa Merrill while they were on duty at the Conference Center. The girls had a great time in the great open space. It's a big building.

These two have had a love hate relationship for the first two years of their lives. Mostly it has been Eli trying to hug or play with Hannah, Hannah getting smashed or trampled, or Hannah just crying when Eli walks by. All he wants to do is play. So they can now play together nicely... most of the time.

Cousins and lolly pops, at Gardner Village.

Silly Daddy likes to put the girls on top of the car when he helps them out of their seats. Strangely, they don't seem to mind it.

Ralph's dream coming true... a room of his own, with lots of bookshelves and lots of books to fill them (which have been in boxes for a good number of years now.)

This is Hannah, hiding from the vacuum noise. She was fully awake, head smashed into a pillow, bum up in the air, and stayed that way until the vacuum stopped. She is terrified of loud noises. If they start in the same room as her, she is paralyzed with fear. Any suggestions to help her get over it?

Thanksgiving Point. We watch for horses when we go places around Draper. Today they got to ride on horses. They loved it.

And feed corn to animals. Look at how both of their mouths are open, prompting the animals to open theirs and eat.

The girls caught the tail end of classes at the Little Gym in June. Here is Amber in her tap performance.

And Hannah the dare devil. They love classes and have started new ones for the summer. Hannah asks me every day, Hannah's turn? Class? And when we take Amber, she fusses the whole time saying, No, my turn! Trying to get into the gym.

So little boy is due in two weeks, which means some time after that he will make his appearance. We are just relaxing, trying to have fun each day, trying to keep cool until the baby is born. Ralph and I went away for our 8th Anniversary which was on June 28th. He surprised me with a trip to Park City. We had a wonderful time, relaxing, eating, relaxing, eating, and shopping. That about sums that up. I feel refreshed and ready for the next few weeks before D-day.

Amber's officially 4 now!

At the first of three parties, Amber shared the celebration with her cousin who is four days older then her.

Human bowling.

My attempts at a cute birthday cake. The girls loved it.

After blowing out the candles...

On the big day, Amber got pancakes with ice cream on them. (Her mom forgot to get doughnuts the night before.)

The day after, a friend party. They ate peanut butter sandwiches and decorated mini brownie bites. They loved it.

Happy Birthday to my tall girl. She is a delight, and surprises me every day with how smart she is and what a good helper she is!

Another batch of catch up.

Hannah really enjoyed her first cup of Hot Chocolate. (Usually I would just give her chocolate milk.)

When your three year old is wearing a summer dress and wants to go outside to play in the cold, she can come up with a very creative outfit to maker herself warm.

We had a very special visitor. My grandma Partridge, the girls's Great Grandma!

One fun thing we do is have a tea party with Mickey Mouse chicken nuggets and fruit snacks, eating on the princess tea set (with snow in the back ground.)

They are ready for their Easter Egg hunt!

President Monson and Easter Dresses.

We have started having special seats during Family Home Evening.

And it usually turns into this after about two minutes!

Amber and Great Grandma Hinkson at a cousin's funeral.

Hannah and Great Grandma Hinkson. Our kids are very luck to have three Great Grandmas!

The view from Amber's hight. (Grandpa Hinkson and his brother and sister.)

Ralph captured some fun pictures of the girls playing in the back yard.

Little Girl turns Two!

Hannah on her first birthday.

Hannah now. She's collecting her treats from her string hunt.

And another treat...

She sees the bike and the presents...

One out of the way...

And she's off! Amber gave Hannah her old bike.

A new dress...

A train set...

She has been obsessed with Pooh Bear recently. My attempts at a cutesy cake.

A new hat.

Doesn't she look so grown up now?

Silly Pictures

Our Big Train Adventure. We rode Trax in the free zone.

Finally finishing Hannah's dresser. Silly family.

Amber said, "Mom, I have to get your shoes." Then tromped around in these boots.

Couldn't quite get dressed, another silly one.

What's happened this year so far...

Besides packing, moving, working on the new house, unpacking, organizing, having a birthday, and finding out we are having a boy, we had family fun. Here's Amber at a special lunch after going to the dentist for the first time. She did wonderfully!

Family night treat, ice cream cones.

Coloring with Aunt Gretchen. Gretchen came to help us pack and move. She saved me! I can accomplish 1/4 of what I would usually do in a day. (Or less...)

Lazy mom made Hannah lay by me to read her a book.

Amber fell off of our couch and hurt her shoulder. The girls had a great time waiting for the doctor. Don't worry, nothing was broken in the shoulder.

My loot from the string hunt of a lifetime. I also got a dusbuster vacuum from Ralph. I was so excited. I can't wait for it to get a little warmer so I can clean the cars!

Amber has been really tired since we moved. Here is a never before seen picture. She simply curled up on the couch and fell asleep. We even had visitors over.

Starting young. Hannah playing on an iPhone.

Amber curled up on her bed, in her very favorite pink room, watching Dumbo on my iTouch.

Time to announce.

I told Ralph the other day that I am lazy. He said that is the last word that he would use to describe me. Then I decided I am socially lazy. It's so much easier not to say things sometimes then it is to say things. So here is our news.

We bought a house. In Draper. We will hopefully be in it by the end of January. We are really excited. It's about five minutes from Ralph's work, saving him an hour and a half on the road.

And we are expecting our third child in the middle of July. I have been out of commission for the last six weeks being sick. I was always functional, but not to the best of my abilities. I am feeling better. I even had a good work out at the gym today. I have missed that, and so has my waist line. You aren't suppose to gain as much weight as I have in the fist 12 weeks of pregnancy. It was do to sitting around, eating what ever would keep my stomach calm (usually white flower carbs,) and no gym time. But I'm back. Watch out.