The Zoo, and Vi

We took a quick trip up north on Thursday to go up to Hill AFB, go to the zoo, and we wanted to go visit some friends but we didn't make it to see them. The zoo was really the highlight of the trip. Scotty had seen the baby elephant on tv and we told him we'd go see it sometime. Then I found out that the lady who was the YW president when I was secretary in Eagle Mountain was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and given around 6 months to live. I told Eric I wanted to go see her as soon as we could, because I shouldn't be traveling too far away pretty soon. So Eric was able to get an appointment with the people he needed to see at Hill on Thursday afternoon, and Thursday am we headed up. We made it up to Hill just fine and got that taken care of, visited with my step-mom, and got to see her puppies, which Scotty loved! By the time we got done with that we decided to head back to our hotel and get dinner since it was about 8pm. On Friday we decided to go to the zoo first then go see Vi after the zoo. We had a blast at the zoo! The baby elephant was so funny! We got to see 2 of the baby tigers too, which was pretty cool! After the zoo on our way down to EM, we called Vi to let her know we were coming over and she had just gotten to the hospital for a dr. appointment and didn't know when she'd be home. So I guess I should have planned that a little better. But Scotty had fallen asleep before we'd even gotten to the freeway from the zoo, so we decided to just head home.
So a little more on Vi. She is 84 years old, and until recently she has been a real go-getter! She was a nanny for a family of 5 or 6 kids, (I can't remember exactly) was young women's president of our ward, made pies to take to who moved in, she was pretty much non-stop. I've known her for probably 1 1/2 years, since she moved up the street from me. Shortly after she moved in my friend Britany were called to be her visiting teachers. She probably taught us more that we taught her! She was a wonderful example to me while I was up north, and has helped strengthen my testimony in Jesus Christ, and the LDS church. Last week she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and has decided not to do any treatment. The last I've heard is it is spreading quickly, but she's ready for it, and is at peace. I'm grateful for the young women visiting her, and everyone else in the ward for supporting her. This is kind of hard for me to take since my grandma Snowball, & my mom's best friend, Maxine, who was like a second mom to me, both passed away from cancer. I can understand Vi not wanting to do treatment, I just don't deal with death and change very well.
I know this is a really long post, but wanted to let you know about our trip to the zoo and Vi. Please pray for her to be comfortable as possible. Thanks.

Scotty & the big horned sheep. He thought it was cooler than the tigers!

Scotty on the Tiger statue

Mama tiger & 2 of the 3 babies. You can't tell from the pic but the 1 baby is asleep nursing on the mama, I thought it was cute!

The gorilla. I won't even go into what he did while Eric and Scotty were watching him, I'm just glad I was moving the stroller out of the way when he did it or I'd have thrown up! If you really want to know you'll have to ask Eric, just ask him when I'm not in listening distance! It's that gross!

I think this is called baby giraffe yoga!

Eric, Scotty & the rhino

Baby elephant copying mommy elephant

Mom elephant rolling in the mud!

Baby elephant

What we've been up to

I finally got Eric to show me how to put pics from the camera on to the laptop since that's all we have right now. Here are some pics of what we've been doing the last month. The first 9 pics are camping up Cedar Mountain. We borrowed my mom's rhino and Scotty loved it. Eric took him for rides and shot at "wok chops" (rock chucks). Uncle Kelly shot one and it pretty much blew up. So Kelly, Scotty, Eric, Clint, & Sh'kell all went up to look at it and Scotty came back to camp and told me "Unco Kel shot a wok chop & it goes (blow up/blasting noises), and it eew sneeky." (stinky) and waves his hand in front of his face!

All ready to go for a ride with his "hemmet"

Scotty says this is his seat

The first ride in the Rhino, and he fell asleep just before we got back to camp!

Scotty with his chocolate milk and big gun to shoot the rock chucks

Eric & Me

This was a stop on the long ride we took, Scotty was having fun on the ride but at the stop he wanted to climb up on the fence & it's like a cliff on the other side so he was a little mad we wouldn't let him get up on it.

Clint & Bug found a horney toad & Scotty thought it was pretty cool

He wasn't afraid of it at all

Scotty, Clint, & the horney toad

Scotty found these safety glasses in the truck & wore them everytime we went some where for a good couple days. He'd tell us "I need my glasses to see."

Just being a wierdo!

Scotty's latest

Scotty has had a hard time adjusting to not having his house. But he still hasn't stopped being Scotty and still says goofy things. Here's a couple of his latest:

"Papa will you put my cowboy boots on? Mom can't do it."

"I fell down the big hole and got an owey at the new house."

(He woke up and told me this one! We are looking at buying a house that is being built and it's almost done framing and the steps to go down stairs is just a big open hole in the floor. We keep telling Scotty not to go by it because he could fall down it and get big oweys!)

It's a girl!!!!

We went in for our ultra sound last Tuesday, and we are having a girl!! It will be the first grand daughter for my parents, and the 6th for Eric's parents. We are pretty excited. We will have one of each and will be done having kids! Scotty doesn't quite understand that the baby will be a girl, but he's understanding that there's a baby in mom's tummy.

On another note, we are pretty much out of our house, and moved to Cedar. There is only a couple things left in the house, and Eric needs to fix the sprinkler system and we will be done. So we have hopefully one more trip up and back to Cedar. We'll miss our great neighborhood, and ward. So if we don't see any of you when we come back up, we love you and will miss you, and thanks for friendships and all the help!

I'm finally getting Scotty's 3 year old pics up! Better late than never!!!! The sepia pics are some I had done when another ward in our stake was dong a fund raiser for their young women to go to camp. It was $10 for the sitting fee and a 10X13, then you had to buy the others you wanted. He was such a good boy during the shoot! He loved the airplane, I think he thought it was his because we have one exactly like it!! The other pics are ones we had done at Wal-mart with Scotty and Chris together. I just put some of the ones with Scotty only in them.

This one is my absolute favorite picture!

Man, he is one good looking boy!!! I'm going to have to chase the girls away from him!!!

My favorite smile of his!!

He thought it was cool he got to hold the "bat ball" and "bay ball"

AAHH, just too cute!!

A few pics for his "Cowboy" Papa's! (That'd be Papa Duck & Papa Bob!)

Thanks for letting him borrow the hat, Chris!

My favorite smile again!

He's being goofy in these last 2 pics!

Another big life changing event

So I know it's been a while since we posted anything, but this probably won't very long.
We are moving back to Cedar City!!! We are very excited about it. It will be great for us to be so close to most of our family, we will be able to go camping in our trailer so much more, Scotty will get to have a better/closer relationship with 2 sets of grandparents and a set of great-grandparents. But on the other hand, we are sad to be moving away from my Dad and step-mom, who Scotty loves so much (and we love them too of course!), and my sister Sarah & her son Chris, Scotty & Chris have lived together since Chris was born so that will be hard for Scotty to not have him around all the time, we will be leaving our first home, and an amazing neighborhood and ward, Eric is sad to leave all the golf courses up here and Uinta Golf! We are planning to be out of our house by July 1st, and have it on the market by then. We've been busy trying to go through stuff and packing. Our neice Sh'Kell has been staying with us to help me with packing and tending, and she's been great! We love having her stay with us!
We'll be staying with Eric's parent's, until our house sells and we can buy a house in Cedar. It won't be a lot of fun staying with them, but I'm sure it will work out! Not that we don't love them, but it's going to be a big change!!! We'll still be coming back up every now and then though!
I'm about 13 weeks pregnant now, and mostly everything is going well. I've been pretty nauseous most of the day so that hasn't been fun. I've also gotten 2 migraine so far, a month apart and my Dr. has given me some stuff to take when I get them which helps, but it's still not fun at all to deal with. When we first told Scotty there was a baby in mom's tummy he looked at me funny for a second and said "Get it out!" We told him that we couldn't get it out until the baby is big and mom has a big tummy because the baby is tiny right now. We keep asking him if he's going to be a big brother and he says "No, I'm a big boy." He's not sure though if he wants a sister or brother, he tells us different every time we ask him.
And that's about all I can think of right now!

A quick update

So this is going to be a quick up date. We found out this week that I am pregnant! Yeay!! We didn't need fertility drugs this time either! And so it kind of surprised us! I am due in December, but don't really know a due date yet. I'm thinking around the 2nd week or so, but we'll see.