New Year's Yoga

With the New Year, Cubby started a workout program called P90x3.  It's awesome because all of the workouts are only 30 minutes--long enough to get your sweat on, but short enough to be doable when you have a busy family life.

One of the workouts is yoga.  Sooo good for Cubby who isn't exactly the most flexible guy on the planet.  Christian joined in one morning.  It was so cute!

New Years!

 Oh my goodness!  New Year's Eve was sooo fun!  Cubby and I haven't been out on New Year's Eve since we chaperoned a youth dance all the way back when we were engaged!!  In the years since, we either stayed in with his family, or my family, or we've had babies and just been too dang tired to make the effort.  This year, though, we were determined to get out and I'm so glad we did!  Grandma and Grandpa offered to hold down the fort and played games with the big kids so they had fun too :-).

 Cubby and some of his friends that he plays basketball with actually put the evening together!  No planning on my part=AWESOME.  We went to a restaurant called, "Bravo," which, was delicious!  I think we must have been there for 3 hours!  At long last, we headed to one of our friend's home and kept the party going by firing up the deep fryer and experimented with deep-friend twinkies, candy bars, and oreo cookies.  I was thoroughly grossed out...until I tried one.  Super yummy, but definitely just a once-a-year type of a thing for this girl!

After the fat-frying was done, the boys went downstairs to play ping pong and the girls got to hang out and talk.  The guys did break to come up for their midnight kisses though!

Thanks, guys, for putting together such a fun night!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve was a bit different for us this year! We actually partied a bit! Ha! (When I first mentioned the idea of having our neighbors over for a Wii party he said, "Kathleen, you've been in bed by 9:30 the last three New Years. Are you sure you want to have a party??") In my defense, we've usually had a new baby or I've been super pregnant--not just 6 months along!

Well, we went ahead with our plan and had a great night! Three neighbor families came over with all of the kids' friends and the kids took turns playing the Wii and playing downstairs. The girls and boys kind of worked out a system where they'd each take turns since the girls wanted to play "Just Dance" and the boys wanted nothing to do with that! Even the little girls, Kari and Campbell, got in on the dancing action!

The boys then played some sort of Looney Tunes game. Notice Christian's flushed cheeks?? Yeah, they got into it just a tad.

Everyone had a great time and were thoroughly exhausted when it was all over. (And yes, I was exhausted as well and was asleep by 10:00! Hey, I still beat my old record, right??)

Happy 2012!

A New Year's Tradition in the Making, and a New Resolution

It seems that we are making a new New Year's tradition in going to Boingz! It was one of the first family outings we did in 2009 and, we managed to make our way over there this year too! I'm now too big to fit into the little openings so I couldn't participate in the jumping (not that ANYTHING I'm doing right now is putting me into labor...grrr....) but the kids and Cubby had fun. It's cute to compare how much they've grown in just a year too!

WARNING: If you read on, you'll encounter my own personal whinings and reflections. Only those who know me, and like me anyways, need read on :-). Here goes....

As noted above, I'm still pregnant. Now, with both Emily and Christian, I've had to be induced at 41 weeks...not being induced earlier by my choice. I'm officially at 39 weeks and was just told today that the baby, although head down, is still very high and, "could I hold out for one more week to see if there are any changes??" Holding back tears, I agreed. I've reached my "end" and am at the point where I'd rather have a newborn than be pregnant. (And, for me, I definitely have to get to that point. The newborn stage is just such a tough adjustment for me.)

Why am I so whiny and desperate to be done with one week to go still?? Well, for starters, I had Christian, at 41 weeks, 10 lbs ago. I've decided that the extra weight (like I gained with Emily) is either a girl-thing that happens when I have a girl, or, a winter thing, packing it on for "extra" insulation. A very cruel trick, indeed. Also, I have a really bad cold right now. Instead of getting better, it's getting worse. Ick. Maybe by next week it'll be better and so things will feel better. And finally, I am having some major muscle aches and pains that I haven't had in previous pregnancies and so that's probably the difference as well. (The snow and sub-zero temps aren't helping either).

Either way, I had to complain a bit (well, a lot) just to get it out and not loose my mind. I'm now making a short-term resolution to remind myself that maybe I'll actually go into labor on my own this time. AND, there are so many women out there who would give anything to be 39 weeks pregnant, fat, sick, and miserable! Finally, the biggest thing for me to keep in mind, is that no matter what, when this is over, I'll get to hold a new little person who, although will come with her own challenges and tough times, will be another child of our Heavenly Father's, sent here to enrich and bless our lives. These are my new resolutions.