An exciting week!!!!

#1) This week we found out my sister is pregnant with her 3rd! I would have to put this as #1 in the exciting news this week! We can not wait for another niece or nephew. We just hope she feels well through this pregnancy and no more preemies sis!!! :)  We love you guys and are so happy for you!

#2) On Friday we are going to drive over to Arlington to meet my parents and grandparents who are flying in to see us and go to the BYU football game. Thanks to Grandma Zona and Grandpa Gary for putting this trip together. We are soooo past due for a visit from family and can’t wait to see them!!!!

#3) I find out if I passed the IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) exam on Friday. It has been a long 4 months waiting for my pass/fail status. I really have no idea how I did on the test last July but it was my one and only shot at taking it before loosing all of my breastfeeding hours so, hopefully I pulled it off. Hopefully I will have good news to share soon!


Below are more pictures of us preparing for Halloween. It is so fun now that Mallory really enjoys all of the excitement that comes with holidays and I get to be a kid again with her.


 Dinner in a pumpkin

 Cat mask and cookies

 Angelo State's Homecomeing football game.

She loved the "bell" (girl ram) mascot.

Carving pumpkins

San Antonio Trip/Seaworld

Last weekend we went on a much needed get-away to San Antonio. It is only about 3 hours from San Angelo and such a neat city to visit. We took Mallory to Seaworld and toured downtown on the river boat tour. It was so nice to get away and be able to fully enjoy each other without any distractions. We really wanted to take Mallory somewhere fun before the new baby arrives. She sure did have a good time as you can tell by the pictures.

 Waiting for the shuttle to Seaworld. Her new thing is to make fists and smile so hard when she gets excited about something. I just missed the smile in this picture but you can still she her fists... it is adorable.

 There is a new Sesame Street section of the park and she really enjoyed all the rides, splashpad, and meeting the characters.

There were a bunch of Halloween things added to the park. This was part of the "under the sea" trick or treating she did. She was amazed by the mermaids fin. She loves little mermaid so I that is why she loved it so much.

 Feeding the ducks and flamingos... We had to go back 3 more times that day to feed them. She loved it.

 SHAMU!!!! And of course.. .the shamu show was pretty neat for her. We had showed her the youtube videos of shamu and the dolphins before going so she knew just what to expect and I think that made her even more excited.

 Her face during the show. She was in awe.... :)

 The "azul" show was probably our favorite. There were dolphins, baluga whales, and acrobatic people. It was amazing.

 Again... the face during the show.

 And... Probably the highlight for her was seeing the characters of Sesame Street. She still can't believe she kissed big bird.

 Us with big bird.... Look at that belly! 31 weeks and huffing it around seaworld.. ha.

She loved seeing Elmo do the "monster mash" show but is still bumbed she didn't get to hug and kiss him.

 The river walk was so neat in downtown

Here we are on the boat tour.

 We went to the Alamo.. (didn't go in but got a pic :)

 There were waterfalls that were really pretty all along the river walk.

Here are some other pictures of Mallory last week. She is soooo into dressing up. She comes up with these lovely outfits for herself and changes into multiple outfits daily. Ha.Within a few hours she was tinkerbell,...

 and then changed into Wendy from peterpan (she thought this blue dress and bow and shoes looked like wendy's)...

She uses her new stepstoll as a table for tea parties. She looks pretty pleased with it doesn't she :) The only problem is it is tiny and she gets stuck from time to time. :) Good thing she is as tiny as she is but before long I think she will be pretty upset when she can't squeeze in to her new "table". haha.

Random

Porter putting together my B-day gift. He looks pretty excited for it himself if you ask me! :) He got me an eliptical and I love it!!! Thanks babe. (nothing like getting my nicest gift when we are in school and have no income :) oh well :)

 I signed Mallory up for the Lowes workshops on Saturdays. This past Saturday she made this cute wooden ambulance with a siren and all. She loved the apron and goggles she got! And it was all free which I liked!!!

 We made a "Jar-o-lanter". Mallory is getting soooo excited for Halloween and I feel like a kid again doing little crafts with her. The joys of have having a fun little kiddo around.

Mallory loves her new "big" bathtub. She thinks it is is huge for some reason.. haha.

 Football player by day...

 Ballerina by night.

 We went to the show at the planetarium here at Porter's school. It was pretty neat. Mallory was impressed. :)

 She is a cheeseball! Such a fun girl to be around.

Well, it seems like more things are thrown at us everyday to keep us busy. I know these next few months before our new little one arrives will be precious time for us to spend with our sweet Mallory. She is really growing up and can't wait to be a big sister. I hope she transitions smoothly... It is just so weird to think of sharing time between two little ones when we are so used to giving 100% to Malli. I think it will be good for her though... Anyway, we are super excited to have another little girl to bring us lots of laughs and memories. (And I am ready to get her out of me :)

3D ultrasound at 27 weeks

We were able to get a 3D ultrasound of our sweet baby girl. Here are a few pictures of her face, hand and foot. Pretty amazing. It seemed so weird to see her and realize that there is a real little girl growing inside of me! We love her so much already!

Abilene Zoo.

On Saturday we needed to go to Abilene ( about 2 hours away ) for Stake meetings and adult session of conference. It is so different having such large stake boundries here. We are learning that we had it pretty easy in AZ! Anyway, we decided to make the trip feel like a little getaway so we decided to go early and hit the zoo and do some shopping. Mallory loved the zoo and wants to go back already. We had a good time other than it being 110 degrees!!! Thank goodness we hit the zoo first thing in the morning.

 Looking at the flamingos and she loved the alligator in the swam. She was singing to him "can't catch me, can't catch me"

 The giraffes were probably the highlight for Mallory. She was a little timid but thought it was pretty neat she got to feed them.

 This little spider monkey came right up to Mallory.

 And worst of all, my daughter LOVED the snakes. She would get right up to the glass as if they were slithering on her face and she loved every minute of it! This zoo had WAYYYYY too many snacks for Porter and I to enjoy but it Mallory was all about it. Crazy girl.

 Driving the zoo-mobile!

 Yes, I know I am huge! Only 24 weeks in the picture beleive it or not!!! haha. I am already getting bugged by everyone wondering how much longer and I tell them... a good 3 months still! haha. I just don't feel like my stomach can streatch much more but I forget how huge I got with Mallory. So, heres to getting "bigger and bigger and bigger" :)  (That is what Mallory says to me everyday. haha). Looks like this little one is growing well though right! We can't wait to meet her!!!

Check out that cute girl pose! Heading off to the ward party. She LOVES ward parties haha. funny.

Breakthrough!!!! YEAH!

So proud of my big girl! She is finally potty trained!!! It was supposed to only take 3 days but ended up taking 8. (LONG 8 DAYS!!) The poor girl finally figured out how to "release" she would hold it for such a long time and get in pain. I just about gave up, then Monday afternoon there was a breakthrough! She goes great now! She tells me "Mom, just "belax"" because I always tell her to "relax"... haha. She is one funny girl. She gets so excited when her duck potty starts to sing. It is hard to believe my little girl is old enough to go in the potty but I am so proud of her and just love her little buns in her panties! :)

Mallory also had her 2 year pictures taken yesterday. She was one cute little cheese ball! Weird to think next photo shoot will be with 2 of them :) Can't wait!!!!