January was a calm month after the craziness of the holidays. We enjoyed family time together with a day trip to Idaho Falls and Sloan loved chasing the ducks through the snow :) Scott and I got invited to Portneuf's employee party my mom planned. He had to work so I went with my family and cousins and had a blast. It was a star wars theme and as you can see my parents got really into it ;)
February- Scott started receiving interviews for D.O. programs and we started planning all 4 trips! I also made a ton of baby gifts for a bunch of friends who were all pregnant. I love to make baby things so I had a blast! There are pictures of those projects in the last post so I won't repost them. I recovered my rocking chair! It was a fun project I would never want to do again! Tom gave me this when I was pregnant with Sloan. It belonged to his mom and I am so honored to be able to rock my babies in it now too. It needed a little face lift though so I finally did it and love the way it turned out! We celebrated Valentine's Day as a family at home with a nice dinner and movies. It was perfect! Sloan also got really sick for the first time and it was probably one of the saddest things I have had to watch. Thank goodness it was just the flu and it passed in a couple of days!
March was absolutely craziness!! Scott had 4 interviews, one every other weekend, and I traveled with him to all except one! It was a blast. I had went to the doctor for my yearly physical, which I hadn't done since having Sloan, and we found out I had abnormal results so we started on the long process of figuring out what was wrong and how bad it was. Every week we weren't traveling I had a visit to the doctor. I was crazy, scary and overall life changing thing. Thank goodness I went to the doctor when I did and that is was easy to take care of! Scott's first interview was in Denver and we were able to go and visit my Uncle Ryan and his family! It was such a blast!! We took Sloan to the aquarium with my cousins and my aunt! 2 weeks later Scott and I went to Arizona and stayed with my grandparents. We had such a fun time just the two of us in the warm weather. It was 80+ degrees for our whole trip in mid March! We played shuffle board walked around my grandparents neighborhood and swim in the pool :) We were able to take their car and drive around to see the areas of his interviews ( his last interview was also in the Phoenix area but I wasn't coming and wanted to see that area too!) and stumbled upon the Mesa temple while it was being built. While Scott was in his interview my grandma and I went to a flea market and someone was actually selling these silly dog sunglasses! Naturally I took a picture and sent it to my mom asking if she wanted some for Jasper but sadly she said no :) We came home and had Easter with my family while Taysen was home and the boys got to pay have an egg hunt together. My grandpa Roger put his truck in The Chrome in the Dome car show again and Sloan did not want to leave! Poor boy loved the cars! We finished March with a trip to Yakima, WA for Scott's interview here. We had a fun exploring and found a fun little mall that was all in train cars. It is now a parking lot not even a year later which is kinda sad. Like I said March was CRAZY!
April- I turned 23 this year. I went and saw my friend Jessica and cut all of my hair off! I loved it so much! We had a family dinner at my favorite mexican restaurant and just had a good time! We planted strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. Scott and Sloan made my some planters for the strawberries and they were amazing! I had such a blast taking care of them and being able to have fresh ones every few days! We ended April with a trip to Mackay! We played at the park, went for a hike, Sloan decided to skinny dip in the FREEZING cold water during the hike, and we started Insanity.
June- Scott turned 26 this year! We celebrated with homemade Cafe Rio and a Watermelon "cake". We were being really good about our diet since we were doing Insanity, and LOVING it, so we went for a more healthy dessert! I cleaned my grandparents house once a week and Sloan LOVED playing in their backyard in the warmth. I really miss all of our weekly visits and family time. We celebrated Father's Day and had a great time showing them how much we love them all! We are super lucky to have so many great guys in our lives! I took Sloan swimming a few times too and he was always SO tired after! We celebrated our 4th Anniversary! It has flown by and I have loved every minute of it! I also had to go for a recheck at my doctor to make sure that everything was growing back normal! Thank goodness we got the good news that everything was normal!
July- We finished Insanity! I am so proud of us that we stuck with it and had AMAZING results! We are looking forward to restarting it after Avery gets here. We went to Mackay with my family and had lots of crazy fun. I made a fun sugar cookie cake which was a huge hit with everyone. Tom bought a scratch ticket with Sloan during dinner one night and he actually won $6! He was so excited when we went to cash it! We were able to make a day trip to Bear Lake and my mother in law Cindy was able to come with us! It was so much fun! Sloan loved the sand and being able to walk out into the water by himself :) He did really good and would ask for food and water when he needed it! Both Scott and I have brother's named Kyle. Their birthdays are literally 1 day apart! It is super fun! So I decided to send both of them a birthday package. Kyle S. was almost done with his mission in West Virginia and Kyle W. was in L.A. going to school! Sloan and I went shopping and he got to pick out most of their presents! We wrapped the inside with birthday wrapping paper, filled water balloons with birthday confetti, made brownies and included frosting and 21 candles! They also got a pirate card and a Happy Birthday banner that popped up when they opened them! Sloan helped decorate the outside of the box with Mickey Mouse stickers that he picked out for them too!
September- Sloan started Joy School! He really liked it! Sloan and I went to Disney Junior Live to see Jake and Sophie! It was a BLAST!! We found out we are expecting our second baby! It was a great surprise and we couldn't be happier! We spent one of our family Saturdays at the u-pick farm and picked 94 lbs of apples! We made apple pie filling and apple sauce! Yes we went a little crazy but we used it as Christmas presents and have really enjoyed being able to have local apple desserts.Sloan and I traveled back home to Idaho and we did great on the drive just the two of us.
October- While we were home I flew to L.A. with my parents and grandparents while Sloan stayed with Scott's family. We watched my brother be the lead in his musical and I am SO proud of him! We celebrated Sloan's 3rd birthday! Just a small party at my parent's house with family but it was super fun! All of us, including Sloan this time, went back to L.A. for Kyle's graduation. We went to the beach, boardwalk and the L.A. zoo! We had a blast. It was hard since I was struggling with morning sickness and we were't telling anyone yet. I am proud to say that I was able to keep our secret the whole trip and completely surprise everyone once we hit 12 weeks! Sloan and I spent Conference weekend with the Syndergaards and got to see Kyle S. for the first time since he came home from his mission! Sloan LOVED him! We celebrated Halloween with our ward trunk or treat and since it was test block it was a short event for us but it was fun none the less! Sloan was Jake the pirate!
November- I found an OB here and were able to have an ultrasound to see our new baby! Sloan came with me and it was so fun to have him see the baby! Sloan started gymnastics class and loved it for a few weeks. We told everyone about the baby! It was SO much fun! My mom and Tom came up for Thanksgiving and I made almost the whole meal! I am still pretty proud of that meal! Even though it was cold and there wasn't much to do we had a blast!
December- We went to Leavenworth, WA to see all the lights! It was SO much fun! I am glad we decided to drive up! I was busy getting us all ready to go home for Christmas. I did a cookie exchange party right before we left too! It was a blast and a fun way to get a bunch of different cookies! We drove home through the worst conditions I have ever been in. Finally made it after almost 12 hours. We had such a blast playing with family and cousins! We got spoiled rotten!! We drove back and found out we are having a little girl!! What a great way to end the year!!
