Just in case...

So it has come to my attention that I have successfully and unintentionally hidden my current pregnancy. We are SUPER excited about the upcoming birth of baby #3! I have not intentionally hidden it, I simply chose not to publicly announce it at the "normal" time. After an early miscarriage last year we were hesitant to make an announcement until after the first trimester. When the first trimester was ending we were going to publicly announce. Then the day before that announcement a friend lost her daughter at 28 week gestation. Another friend was actively trying for a baby. As my heart broke for my friends I choose to not add to their pain by making our exciting announcement as their were grieving their loss. We chose to not find out babies gender at the 20 week anatomy scan. We already have enough clothes for both genders since I have saved all the clothes we bought and were given for Piper and Kendell. The only real essential things we need to buy was a new car seat since ours had expired last year and a monitor system. We daily talk about the baby and wonder if we are having a girl or a boy. Piper is adamant that she wants a sister so the baby is a girl. Kendell in the past said girl and in the last couple weeks has changed to boy. I have been horribly sick this time. No matter what I eat it makes me sick. Anything with dairy or lactose in it is worse than other food. The pattern of the pregnancy is following how it was with Piper fairly closely. If you want in on the speculation feel free to make a guess. We will meet baby in about 4-5 weeks. I personally am hoping for spring break week just because it makes child care arrangements so much easier for me.
In other news, I have not updated on here for about a year and a half. In that time I quit my job with the school district. Piper is in kindergarten and loves going to school but hates doing homework. Kendell is finally  making progress in potty training that i am not cleaning up poop messes daily! We went with my parents to Disneyland last May. The kids had a blast and ask when we can go back.

picture overload

I have been really bad about updating here since it is so much easier to check on everyone using my phone. The sad thing about that is that I can't upload pictures from my phone to here and that is where most of my pictures come from. The phone is usually conveniently in my pocket and takes fairly ok pictures. so I have now down loaded my phone pictures and you are going to get to see what has been happening in our lives for the past 6 months or so...

My adorable Grandma wearing my nieces hat, waiting for Tarry at the airport

 Piper said she wasn't tired

 The kids love watching movies on our road trips

 Wes graduated with his bachelors degree

 Piper on the handicap parking spot

 Piper got her face painted at Applebee's

 Toni Marie Waters

 Gregory Waters

 Delbert Waters, we only got to Hazelton and Hyrum cemetaries

 Kendell graduated from his daycare and Piper was flower girl at her Aunt Jordi's ring ceremony

 Kendell and anything that drives...

 Piper running home in T-ball, Kendell being cool watching Piper play

 He was little to cool or hot getting ready for t-ball and took a fully clothed tubby in the toilet

 He does like to play with Piper's toys too

 Go team Red Hots!

 Carving the pumpkin

 story time

 another method of tubby?

 Lava Hot Springs the weekend of Thanksgiving, the kids did enjoy getting their faces in water

 Piper's birthday

 Easter at the Iona City Park, she even got to talk with the Easter Bunny

 Murky water, SCUBA Shu

 Piper was the photographer at Wes' graduation, 2.5 hours of sitting and keeping kids entertained

 The arch at ISU, the have the "old and new" side symbolizing the change or where we are and what we become as we progress through school or something like that

 The neighbors lawn mower is a favorite for Kendell

 Matching hats from Argentina, they came from the same country but different times and cities

 Our family adventure of opening a restaurant in Rexburg

 Piper and Kendell playing at Chic fil'a

 Kendell was listening intently to President Monson speak during conference
Piper has decided the scooter is not so scary anymore

 the play place at Artic Circle, after 2 full days of driving pretty much non-stop I took the kids to get ice cream as a thank you for not driving me crazy during the drive