Valentines Day

What a busy weekend. But Annika and I still had time to make some yummy cupcakes!
My Family was down here Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for Jordan. He was wrestling in the State Wrestling Tournament. Annika and I went and watched his first match on Wednesday and then came home.
On Thursday we went up to Brian's parents house and Brian's little Brother Matt opened his mission call. He is leaving June 9th and going to Puebla Mexico. We are really excited for him. He will be a great missionary. After he opened the call we went out to eat. That night my family slept over at our house.
On Friday Brian and Annika were both sick. We hung out at home, and me and Annika went and shopped a little bit with my family at Cabela's. Later that night, Jordan got an award "Academic All-State" at the Wrestling tournament. We went and watched him get this award, and the Championship matches.
On Saturday we pretty much hung out at home because Brian and Annika were still sick.
On Sunday we went to Church and Annika came to class with Brian and I. We came home and we made a great dinner of Shrimp and Steak. Mmmm... it was delicious. Annika really liked that we had candles burning during dinner.
On Monday we rearranged Annika's room to make room for the baby and went to home depot to finish up some projects. We went out to dinner at Olive Garden and came home.
It was a great Weekend. The best part of Valentines Day was just being able to spend the weekend with those I love the most!

Gymnastics

A couple days a week 2 of my neighbors and I have been going to the local gym and walking around the track. It is a lot of fun to get out and socialize for a little while. While we have been walking around the track, Annika likes to watch all of the little kid classes they have going on. One of the classes is Gymnastics. I got this "brilliant" idea, to sign Annika up for a class. (It would be great she could run around and get exercise in the winter.) Well last week I signed Annika up for the class, and today was her first day!

We walked into class, hoping we were in the right spot. They have all the kids do stretches to start. Annika wanted nothing to do with the class. She didn't want to do anything. At this point I started to get worried. What did I just sign us up for? Well we made it through stretches and then they called roll. We were in the right place. We got to fly like airplanes to our first group. Annika got to do a obstacle course. Climbing over things and under things... She loved it. Then we drove like cars to the next group. The kids got to hand on the bars, and swing on a rope. Then we moved like a train to the next group and we got to walk on the balance beam. Annika warmed up and loved it, and didn't want to leave. She keeps telling me she wants to go back! I think she is going to have fun in this class!

Recent Projects

A couple weeks ago I decided that I needed to do something for this new little baby. I made Annika a couple of blankets before she was born, and I want this little girl to have some blankets too. I went to the store and bought the fabric and I fell in love with it. I liked it so much I bought extra. I just have to figure out what I am going to make with it. But I finally finished the rag blanket, and here is. I am happy with how it turned out.

Then I have been working on a bow holder for Annika for a long time, it wasn't a hard project I just haven't sat down and finished it. But This week I got it done. Here is what it turned out like. I thought it was kind of fun!

Then I was looking on my friends blog last night and she made a heart wreath for Valentines Day! So last night I made this wreath. Brian is so good about letting me work on my projects. He even cut the heart out of foam for me! What a great husband! Anyway that is what I have been working on lately. There are many more projects that need to get done before this baby gets here!

Lesson Learned

Last night Annika and I were making rice crispy treats. Annika loves to help me cook, and was sitting on the cupboard helping me mix. Well After we had successfully mixed everything together. I turned off the burner and then I took the pan off the burner to dump the rice crispies into the pan. Well while I was doing this, Annika touched the burner. Ahhh ( I know it makes me cringe just thinking about it). Poor kid she was so brave, she cried, and we ran her hand under cold water, and only minutes after it happened, she was holding back her tears and said "I'm okay mom!" Just thinking about this makes me want to cry! I guess I learned my lesson don't put kids on the counter.



You can see the 5 blisters on her fingers!


Well She is such a brave and tough little girl and has been so happy today!
Today We went with some friends and got pedicures, and I think that was a great way to feel better!

Don't Shut the Door!

Last week Annika showed me that she can open the dead bolt on the door. So she will randomly tell me through out the day that she is going to work, or going out to get the mail. It is pretty cute, (but I don't like the fact that she can unlock the door!). I decided to take some pictures today of her on her journey!



So lately I will ask Annika a question and she says well actually. Today I asked her if she wanted to get in the tub, and she said "well actually I'm fixing it."

Today I was telling Annika to stop it. She was touching my sewing machine. She told me she was fixing it. As I am telling her to stop it she is singing "we are a happy family".

We have been having bedtime issues. I think that the holidays threw us off, I think finally this week we are now getting back in the swing of things. But the other night Annika was laying in bed and I told her I was leaving and she said "come check on me mom". Just another way she can get me back in her room.

Another story.... Bedtime had seriously turned into a game, we would put Annika down and she would stay in bed for a while and sneak downstairs behind the couch and then say mom. So we decided that after she got out of bed 2 times the door was going to be closed. It only happened one time and now she stays in bed, but every night as we are leaving she says "no shut the door mom". Or "Don't let dad shut the door". Poor kid, hope we didn't traumatize her too bad.

Random Things

Well I have been a really bad blogger lately. So I thought I would just post some pictures of what we have been doing. Which really hasn't been a lot.
First here is a picture of Annika in her Christmas dress.

Lately she has been really into me taking pictures of her. On Sunday we were sitting in Sacrament meeting and she did something and she says "mommy take a picture". The lady in front of us started laughing and said you know she is an only child. Great!

The other day I was downstairs putting in some laundry and Annika was upstairs coloring. I was downstairs for a minute, and Annika didn't follow or yell for me. That is when I know she is into something. I just didn't want to walk upstairs and find coloring on the walls. Well I walked upstairs and this is what I found. I guess I should just be glad it wasn't the walls, it washed off her hands pretty easy.

This is a cute picture of Annika playing Memory with her great-grandma Nye at their Pizza Party on New Years Day!

Over Christmas break Brian and I worked on some puzzles. I took pictures. I know I am dumb but that is part of what we did over our Christmas break.

And My belly has just been getting bigger and bigger. I really don't enjoy taking pictures of myself when I am pregnant because I feel like such a blob. But I didn't take very many pictures of me pregnant with Annika and I swore I would do better then next time around. Well Here I am 22 weeks along, and I am just taking the first picture.
The baby moves around a lot. Last night Brian and I just sat and watched my belly move around for quite a while. I don't remember being able to see my belly move this early with Annika. But it is a fun experience. Annika got to feel the baby the other day, and now whenever I am laying down she comes over to feel my belly, and then feels her own belly and says feel the baby. I also don't remember being this big this fast with Annika, and I am really nervous with how much father I have to go. I just keep hoping I will have this baby earlier than my current due date. Not to early just a week or so.