Silver Lake

I had been wanting to go up the mountains to see the beautiful colors on the trees.  I was disappointed at first because everything looked like it was dying already, but as we went further up the mountain we got to see the beautiful yellow trees.

 

Paxton was so excited to go up the mountain, he kept naming off all the animals we might see up there... ducks, elk, deer, moose, chipmunks, even chinchilla's!  (I guess Go Diego Go says chinchilla's live in the mountains??)

 

'Grandma Peggy' or 'Chuck-a-Rama Grandma' came with us.

Paxton loved climbing on the rocks, it was hard to get him to keep walking.

 

It was such a beautiful day!  I love walking around there.  Paxton even made some new friends, he loves saying hi to everyone that passes by.

Catch-up

Hot Air Balloons

Back in August, Paxton and I woke up early to go see the Sandy City hot air balloons take off.  I try to go every year, we make muffins and juice and walk over to the park.  It was so fun to see all the balloons get blown up and take off.  Not all of took off this year because it was a little bit windy.  We always see lots of neighbors there, it's a lot of fun!

Heber

Paxton's aunt Liana lives in Heber so we spent the day there with her, her baby Keladry and her neice, Andi.  We went to lunch at the train place (they are eating on the train) then back to Liana's parents house for naps and afterwards, swimming!  We had a good time, it was fun to go see all the horses too!

Liana and I

Keladry

 

Twinners

Dan and Jamie showed up on Sunday to hang out and Jamie and I were twinners.  I don't know if I've said anything, but Jamie is pregnant too!  She is due in January, I'm so excited for her and it will be so fun to be pregnant together!

 



They took Paxton for a golf cart ride, his favorite!

1, 2, or more??

We are excited for our ONE little peanut that's growing inside me!

 

Yesterday we got to see the heartbeat and even hear it a little bit at 6 weeks!  It was so cool and made things seem so much more real.  I can't believe we are going to have a baby!  The doctor said they like to see the heartbeat anything over a 110 and ours was a 125.

 

Going into this appointment, I had been preparing myself for twins because we put in 2 embryo's and my doctor from the beginning seemed so sure that if we put in two that we would get two.  So during the ultrasound we both felt a slight disappointment when we couldn't find the second one.  But we were just so happy to see the one in there and hear that heartbeat!  And we both all along just wanted one from the beginning anyway.  It will make the pregnancy, delivery and after the baby comes so much easier than if there were two.  We just feel so blessed to be pregnant!

jake

My brother Trevor and Sandee had their baby.

 

 

Jake Ryan Moss

isn't he so precious?

 

 

I can't wait to meet him in December!

ONLY CHILD

YES!   EXPIRING MAY 2013!!!

 

 After 7 years of marriage

 5 years of trying to get pregnant

 1 amazing adopted Paxton

68 injections of hormones (36 more to go)

lots of bruises

nausea

fatigue

1 migraine

We are finally pregnant!

and can't believe it!

 

It was all worth it, we are so excited to add to our family!  I am only 4 weeks along, I know it's early, but so many people knew we were going through the In Vitro process so we had to tell the good news!  I am actually feeling great now, but I've heard that most women don't feel sickness until a little later 4+ weeks of pregnancy, so I still may get the sickness.

We can't believe it actually came out positive that we did two tests!

 

On the 9th we went in for a blood test to confirm, they like to see your HCG levels above 100.  We had a 295!  And then today (2 days later) I went in again for another blood test and they want to see that number double to make sure things are progressing and we had a 711!  We feel so blessed and are so grateful for such wonderful family and friends and for all your support and prayers!  We pray that this pregnancy will continue go well and that those embryos will stay sticky :)

 

Oh yes, we ended up putting two in, so in a couple of weeks we will go in for an ultrasound to find out how many are in there!  We will keep you posted!

 

It was really cute, before we made the decision of putting in two we had a conversation with Paxton...

 

Us:  Do you want a baby brother and a baby sister?

Paxton:  No just one

Us:  Do you want a brother or sister?

Paxton:  a brother

Us:  do you want 2 baby brothers

Paxton:  no just one

 

Later after we transfered the two, we told him about it and occasionally we'll ask him...

Us:  What's in Mommy's tummy?

Paxton:  a baby, two babies

 

and occasionally he'll say...

lots of 'em

 

Ha, we sure hope there's not LOTS of them.  We are anxious though to find out how many! 

 

 

 

conversations

I need to get back to my blogging again!  I've been terrible.  I have been so bad at taking pictures lately because our camera broke, all I have is either our little sport underwater camera or Rem's cell phone (that is when he is around).  But I do have a little bit of catching up to do and I'm starting to write down some of the things Paxton is saying because he just cracks us up.  So I may post his sayings with no pictures, just so I have record of it and it's fun to share!

So lately there have been a few people around us that are pregnant so we have been telling Paxton that there are babies in their tummies.  So one day...

Paxton:  (touching my tummy) baby in your tummy?
Me:  No, I don't have a baby in my tummy.
Paxton:  (touching my breast) baby?
Me:  No there's no babies in there either, that's my chest.
Paxton:  You have two chests!

:) haha Yes I do, silly kid!

Paxton just loves to talk to people.  The other day while sitting out in our front yard, our neighbor Todd was out.  Paxton says "I'm going to talk to Todd".  He walks over and just starts having this full on conversation with him asking him what he's doing, they were talking about his tree if he should cut it down or not, Paxton said not.  He was smelling his flowers and said that they smelled like candy.  And on and on.  I love this about him!

So in the mornings usually just one of us gets Paxton out of bed.  One morning I went in and was just talking to him as he was waking up when Rem walks in the room.  Pax looks up at him and says, "Oh man.  What's going on here daddy?  Oh man.  Oh man".

Oh we got Paxton a new bike,  a balance bike.  He is just loving it!  It's fun to watch him figure it out and get better and better at it!

the ZOO

We went to the Zoo with my friend, Renee and her two kids.  I was excited to see the new addition!  It was a really nice addition, but I was kind of disappointed.  It looked like it was cleaning day because the water was all murky and you could barely see the one seal that was swimming around.  And then all the bears were sleeping and the sea otters weren't even out or at least you couldn't see them.  So I can't wait to go back and hopefully have a different experience.  I've heard that Polar Bear swims and plays in the water, that would be really fun to see!

This cute girl was telling Paxton and Jackson about the Eagles.

 Paxton loves the Polar Bears.

And he hates the Carousel!  I know he use to hate it, but in Disneyland he went on one and loved it, so I thought he'd be fine.  Nope, I was wrong.  He just kept crying so we sat on this bench and I said to him, "You're being a sticker" and with his angry face, he looked up at me and firmly said, "NO, I'm Paxton!"  I couldn't help but laugh.

He's been in this phase lately that if you call him anything but his name he will tell us that he is Paxton!  Even sometimes when you tell him that he's cute.  Although the other day when I told him he was cute, he said, "no, I'm cool".