Baby Girl!!!

Here is a cute profile of our baby girl! I am keeping the pictures of her girl parts private, so you will just have to believe us that we are having another girl! We are happy. I can't wait to pull out all of the cute girl clothes that have been stored for six years. Claire is happy to have another girl in the family, but is questioning the sharing or her room idea. Six years is quite a few years in between the two for sharing a room, but I think it will work out. We have decided to name our new little one Vivian Laura Houston! This is a combination of grandmother's names on both sides of the family. I think we will call her Vivi for short. We can't wait until August to meet our new little girl!

Our Knight ... Will

Yea, Will has mastered potty training! It took a little longer than Claire, but all in all he did very well considering the day after I started potty training we all got sick with some type of flu. We are still working on nighttime, but during the day he is doing great! I am so happy and proud of him. He is getting so big. He will be three is about a month! I'm also happy that we will have a little break from diapers until the baby gets here! Good job Will!

On the Court at a Jazz Game!!!

Shawn got Jazz Basketball tickets from his work at the end of February, so we were excited to go on a date to see them play. My parents watched the kids that night, so we were able to make a whole night of it! First we went to McGraths Fish House in downtown SLC and had a very yummy salmon dinner. After that we walked over to the Energy Solutions Arena to watch the Jazz play. When we tried to go in the main doors they stopped us and said something was wrong with our tickets and we had to go to the season ticket holder office. When we got there they told us that someone had already come from Shawn's work and they were using those seats. They said they would get us different seats but they had to check with their manager. We waited a good 15 minutes until a man came and told us it was our lucky day. He told us that Greg Miller one of the owners of the Jazz wasn't using two of his tickets and we could use them. We didn't exactly know what that meant until he lead us to our seats and they were right behind the Jazz team. I mean it was The Jazz and then us. We were also sitting right next to Greg Miller! Wow! It was so amazing. I would totally buy season tickets all of the time if we could sit there, but of course that would be too much money. The price value on our new ticket said $600 each. Can you believe it. We felt so cool, and so lame sitting there at the same time. Obviously we were surrounded by some pretty rich people and we felt that we didn't quite belong in those seats, but at the same time we felt soooo cool. It was awesome to sit that close! It was totally amazing- Thank you Greg Miller for letting us experience the rich high life for about 2 hours!

Dinosaur Bones

The other day Shawn was eating leftover ribs for lunch and as he was taking a bite off of one of the rib bones Will comes up and very seriously asks "Dada are those Dinosaur Bones?". It was quite comical! Will is fascinated with Dino's lately and we've been reading a lot of Dino books so this seemed like a natural question :) Shawn of course said yes he was eating dinosaur bones, and so now Will thinks we eat Dinosaur.

Open House

We were able to go to the Draper Temple open house a couple of weeks ago in February! It was so great to be able to do this with the kids! It was so beautiful! The temple within walking distance to our home (The Oquirrh Mountain Temple) will be opening this summer. We can't wait to walk through that one! Here is a picture of the kids in front of the Draper Temple!

Third Times A Charm

Claire started her third kindergarten class at the end of January. All of this moving has been difficult on all of us. Three kindergarten classes within 5 months is quite a lot, but she has done very well. She has been an alligator (Glennwood Elementary), a bear (Granite Elementary), and now hopefully for all of elementary she will be a Dragon at Eastlake Elementary. We've been impressed with the school so far and her teacher Ms. Smith is great! The main difference with this school compared to the others is that it is Year Round school. We will have to get used to this. One great thing about this school is how close it is to our home! We can see it from our home and it only takes 10 minutes to walk to through the neighborhood!Here is a picture of Claire on her first day of her third time starting a new Kindergarten class. What a cute brave Claire bear. And hopefully third time is the charm!

Sick or Lazy....

Maybe it's a little bit of both. I don't want to admit to being lazy, but that is just how I feel lately. Granted, I am pregnant and totally sick because of this little one inside of me, and we just moved and have been trying to get the house organized, and I in the past month have had the flu, food poisoning, and a bad cold. So, maybe I'm not lazy... but all I do lately is sit on the couch and watch TV. As soon as the kids are asleep Shawn and I just veg. There's plenty to get done too, but it will wait for another day I suppose. I haven't blogged for almost two months now, but I have thought about it. I wrote an entire entry in my mind one night about how men don't even know the meaning of selflessness. I was grouchy at the time thinking how unfair it is that I have to suffer with being sick and pregnant while Shawn never has to change his body. I had whole sections outlined on the inequality of this suffering. Don't get me wrong, the baby part = blessing, but the pregnant first trimester part = curse. Anyway, I must be feeling a little better now because I don't think I will write that entry (you're welcome Shawn). I do want to catch up on my blog though. I will catch up, but not now.... maybe when I'm not sick and lazy.