Washing the car and 36 weeks

I always forget to put these in reverse order. Oh well. Here are the pics of 36 weeks (V came at exactly 37 weeks!). As you can see I'm beginning to feel like a blimp, and my back is getting sore. I have contractions everyday, so it seems as though this little girl is gearing up to make her big entrance in the next few weeks. Hopefully she'll stay put till after the wedding!

Violet has been very helpful with all of our little errands over the last few weeks. Today she helped Peter wash our car. It was so dirty after coming off the truck!

She was so excited about washing the car. She pitched a major fit when we dumped the water out and it was time to go in for dinner and a bath. tantrums are a daily presence in our home nowadays.

marching around

We are headed out for the weddings tomorrow morning. I just thought I wanted to post this before it was too late. Okay, the 4th of July was a month ago, but better late than too late right?

Anyhow, we had a fun time at the parade and Wesley and Sam were practicing marching the next day.

It's only been 10 days

So it's been about 10 days since we left Texas, it seems like it's been a lot longer than that. We have been busy settling in and I think we are pretty much moved in we just have to get things organized for when everyone starts showing up for Katie's wedding next week.

On Friday we had a birthday dinner at my parents house. It was so much fun. We had ribs, and baked beans and homemade ice cream....with hot fudge of course.

Grandpa got V's swing up just in time for her to come play. She would only get out of it to eat dinner.

Everyone eating ribs. Mmmm....I'm hungry.

Diana has the same size head as Violet aparently because she fit in V's shades, they only look slightly silly on her.

Me and My sister.

Texas gave us one last great sunset before we left. It was so beautiful.

For my birthday we went to lunch and dinner out ( our grocery selection by that point was pretty slim) we had On the Border for dinner. It was so good. I had Mahi Mahi Tacos- Emily you should go to this place the next time you go out, they even have a great kids menu, Violet always eats her dinner right up!

Violet really enjoyed the beach and we were out of clothes for her change into so she rode home in her diaper.

Violet making sure she got enough sand on her. I think she succeeded.

one last trip to the beach before heading home. We went to the east beach this time and the water was so warm.

Lunch out at Whataburger....yum. I wish they had these here, it's a great burger!

Violet gets a little moody when the boxes come out and we start packing. I think she's back to her normal moody toddler self though.

Ready to go!

I to Too

I've been working on a little project that involves some of my photo files and I found this cute video from a couple of months ago.  Violet  says "I to Too" which means "I love you too"  

Pull Ups and extra naps

I am not sleeping so great at night anymore so I end up taking lots of naps during the day.  Peter caught me napping on the couch the other day and snapped a picture when I woke up.  Today I took two naps, so far that is my record.  Only 5-7 weeks left and 7 days till we are back in WA!  

Here is some video of V doing her pull ups.  She really loves to have Peter help her do pull ups,  she is getting pretty strong, she can practically hang there by herself. 

Too much fun in the sun

We went to the water park today with Emily and Jonathan, the kids had a great time!  I was trying to use up an old bottle of sunscreen before the move and it apparently washed off or was no longer effective because I am sunburned!  I'm just calling it my last souvenir of Texas.  This is the first big sunburn I've gotten while we've lived here, so I guess I am lucky.  I better dig out the aloe.  9 days from today and Violet and I are heading home.  Peter and I have just been packing and cleaning, it seems to be coming together.  I'm so sick of moving.

It's going to be a busy couple of months I can tell.

A Texas 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!  To celebrate we went to the Friendswood parade.  It was a lot of fun.  Our ward did a float, the banner on the side reads "In Friendswood Friends and Family are Forever"  It was a fun day.  It was hot!  But really fun.

Violet avoided sunburn under her umbrella, she finally broke the handle off, that's ok I've had it since I left for school in Provo- almost 7 years ago!

The parade was about an hour and the kids really had a lot of fun, they especially liked the fire engines and anything that made a lot of noise.  There was large group of horses at the end that they really enjoyed waving at.

Violet spent a good portion of the day dancing around on the Sidewalk.  

Happy Independence day!  Today marks the official beginning of my 8th month!  5-8 more weeks!  2 weeks from today we leave Texas!  This summer is going by too quickly.