Happy Birthday Gideon!!

Thanks for all those Birthday wishes we received for the little man.  It made his day.  We got special treatment when we dropped off lunch at daddy's work which is the armory.  His boss was there and let us come inside and got to see all the guns.  The boys liked it.  I even knew what a lot of the parts were because I have been helping Joseph study for a test he had yesterday that he got a 98% on.  Way to go Babe!!!

Gideon wanted a spider cake for his birthday so here is a double layer, chocolate and vanilla cake that is cut and customed to make the shape of a spider.....

Here is our m and m covered spider :)  

Happy 6th Gideon!!

Opening presents

Gideon got a transformer remote control car that he has been wanting for a long time.  He was pretty happy.

Kids we had over were...

carter, Joseph and Noah Jackson and Brock Brimhall.

We then all went swimming at cascades here afterwards which we LOVED again :)

YEAH!

I'm 6!

Cute boy and his legos

At the  Knight park as we call it playing in the sunshine we enjoyed for a bit.

The Zipline

Picking Dandelions :)

Here is our baby at 13 weeks along... It is measuring right with it's dates.  Definetly wont be having a bridger sized baby this time.  I was measuring for twins at this stage in pregnancy with Bridger.

This is at 17 weeks

Here is a picture of 'her' face......

We got a look between the legs and it looked like a girl but the umbilical cord was there so we are going to not determine till our next apt.

Side view.... The black circle is her/his stomach

The boys had earned some prize time and chose to go to the arcade and play some games with money they earned.  We had a lesson about time and money and how quickly it can go when you play games.  I think it worked :)

Our garden.... It has been raining non stop for the last couple of weeks so we are looking forward to a nice weekend with just scattered showers :)

Happy Birthday Bridger!!!

Making a robot cake

frosting, m and m's, marshmallows, pretzels, candy kisses and sprinkles

Heading out to get a happy meal for a special birthday boy

Bridger had to wait till daddy came home to open his presents....He loved them!

Cars, legos, the game connect four are a few things Bridger got for his Birthday

they both got goggles

Friends Alyssa and Brock came over

Bridger Gideon and Brock ready for some swim fun!!!

We were too!

Testing daddy's new waterproof camera on the tube slide :)

Underwater Gideon

The boys

Sweet Birthday boy!

Going down the slide

My legs haven't seen the sun for far too long :)

Some sheepy's we saw on the way home with a brand new baby and other young ones

Some random pictures of this past week

Tie Di'ing

Life is good.... Life is Grand!!~

Update on knee, Conference weekend and life

Well I had my MRI finally and got the news back about my knee.
(Just skip this paragraph if you would like to skip my venting)
After my initial visit I decided to wait till I was further along in my pregnancy to have an MRI then I schedule it and go in on Monday and find out they thought I already had it done so I had to reschedule it again and go into the radiology department and the radiologist says I cannot have an MRI because he didn't have my authorization for it in his hand so I had to go to another department and ask for my paperwork then go back to the MRI and the guy then says no this wont work I need my own copy......Arrrrgghhh!!  Being the emotional pregnant woman that I was and already have given them all the paper work they needed on my previous visit and knowing this was their error I was extremely frustrated and lets just say the guy wasn't the most nicest of people.  Then I got the English speaking Liaison lady to come up and as soon as she see's me she turns to the man and says, she does too have her authorization and then they went into a heated conversation in German and he left.  I was so done by this time but then he came back out and said that he had talked to the chief and wanted to clarify for himself that I was cleared for the MRI.  So I get in there and then he goes off on me about protecting my baby...."Now you get ear phones for the noise but your baby does not....(really genius?!!) so if you start to feel your baby kicking around and moving it is saying it can't take it anymore and needs out........( I haven't even felt my baby move yet) so he goes on in this style letting me have it and being a pompous that he was I then finally got my MRI.
It wasn't a pleasant experience and I was just so grateful I didn't have to go all the way into the tube.  Talk about claustrophobia.  I had to go in all the way up to my chest and that was enough for me.  Very confined.  So it lasted 15 minutes with about 5 different sounds.  The sounds were like machine guns that got louder and faster till they went onto the next sound.  It was an interesting experience non the less.  My whole body vibrated with the sound waves.
So the Outcome:  I don't need surgery right away which is a relief!!
So My ACL and PCL are both torn and will need surgery but not till I am ready after my baby comes.  I also stressed pretty much all the other ligaments and muscles in my knee so they are weak and need to not be used for a while the doctor said.  Also the bottom of of my femur and the top of my Tibia have bone bruises witch I did some research appears with the same symptoms as a fracture but is a bruised bone and takes months to heal.  If used to much before it is healed can cause stress fractures.  So I guess it weakens the bone because there is fluid in there.  So doctors orders are to wear my brace all the time, elevate it as much as I can and try to not walk so much...... Fun!~ :)  So we will try to do our best around here.
So that is the update on my knee.
  Now we will just focus on my pregnancy and hope all goes well.  I am 15 weeks and I am feeling my self grow a little more now.  In 2 weeks I will have a doctors apt. and will hopefully find out what the baby is (a boy or girl)  We are excited for that!
We really enjoyed conference and hanging out as a family this past weekend.  We colored eggs and had an Easter egg hunt, we then used the die to tie die some shirts for the boys, baby and I.  The boys camped out in the tent for like four days. (in the garage)  They loved it.
We really enjoyed hearing from the prophet Thomas S. Monson and enjoyed all the talks that brought inspiration and joy to my heart.  It was so nice.  I look forward to going back through the talks and listening to them over again to catch more of the messages presented there.  It was nice to be with my family and having fun.