Christmas and a Pregnancy Update

We had a fun Christmas this year, we spent Christmas Eve with my family and had our traditional yummy dinner and got our new Pj's and slippers and other fun stuff.

This was right before we left to go to my mom's, I just thought they looked cute.
Auni opening one of her presents, she did so good. She loved ripping the paper off.

All the little boys got hoppy balls and they were bouncing all over the place.

All the grand kids in there matching pajamas.

After Santa came to our house

I didn't get many pictures because we recorded most of it on my new Christmas present.

The Shumway kids got Rock Band, and Auni is quite the drummer. Seriously she's pretty good.

Auni in a bag! Oh and as far as the pregnant business goes I am 38 weeks today, so only two weeks left (yay!) I am dilated to a 1, 50% effaced, and -2 station. Which doesn't sound all that amazing but considering that with Auni I wasn't dilated AT ALL until the day I went in for my induction, I'm happy with it. Plus I thought for sure, since we moved my dates up, that I wouldn't be anything. Needless to say I'm planning on making it to my induction in two weeks, but that's not very long and I'm excited. It gives me just enough time to finish everything I need to and be ready for a baby!

Someone Shoot Me Please!

So it's just been one of those days. I woke up this morning feeling very pregnant and slightly uncomfortable (ha ha), so my mood wasn't tip top to say the least. I'm at that point when 3 1/2 weeks seems like a very long time. And on top of that my house was a disaster, so I finally make my self get off the couch and start cleaning up (starting with the bedrooms) and I come out to find my OH SO CUTE daughter doing this.

Cornstarch, Awesome! And the pictures do not do the mess that it really was justice at all. Oh and Deegan just watched her do it like it was no big deal.

Pregnancy Update

So I went to the doctor for my 32 week appointment and follow up ultrasound this morning and all was well. Great actually, my placenta has moved very much out of the way! Yeah, So no C-Section! And I also had every pregnant lady's dream come true, I went into the office 32wks and came out 34wks. Well 34 tomorrow, the ultrasound showed the baby measuring 2 weeks big. So taking into consideration the previous weights of my first two children, and Auni's shoulder dystocia, (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's when the baby's chest and shoulders are too big for mom's pelvis so they get stuck coming out. Auni's wasn't too bad but Dr. Jones says that's the scariest thing that can happen in delivery because the baby can end up with permanent damage to their arm. It can snap the nerves that go from the neck to the arm and they would lose the use of their arm. scary huh) so we decided the best thing would be to move my dates. So instead of being due the 27 of Jan. I am now due the 14, and my induction is scheduled for that same day. so even though my dates are two weeks ahead I'll only be delivering 1 week sooner.(my first induction was scheduled for the 20th) And I feel good about that. But 6 weeks sounds a lot closer than 7 did and I still have a lot to do, so I guess I better get a move on!

3 in 1 or Something Like That

I have a few things to catch up on so I thought I would do one big post. The weekend before thanksgiving was our annual LGC. (Larsen Girls Club) It was VERY fun I look forward to it every year, but seriously who wouldn't? Really good food, no kids for pretty much all day (their dad's just know that this one day every year is ours so they have the kids all day) and really cute crafts. We also do Secret Sisters every year and that's always fun, except that I suck, but I'm going to do better this year!

These are the queens of the LGC, my Mom and her sisters. (MaryLu, Susie, my Mom, and Shalana)
Tori, Jenica, my Mom, and me (I look like a tank through the hips) Taunya was there too but had left at this point.

The Princess'
A few of my cousins (Gentry, Jessica, Cierra, me, Britney, and Britney!)


And this is totally random but Auni got in the tub with Deeg fully clothed the other day and it was funny, but not funny at the same time :)
This was on Thanksgiving, we tried to do rollers because Auni's hair is curly in the back but not on the top. Needless to say they only lasted about 2 min.

We went to Marla's for Thanksgiving this year, and after dinner we put up the tree and got out the electric train that goes around it. Deegan has been asking about the train ever since Christmas last year and has been on the count down until we could get it out again. He pretty much watched it like this for over an hour.

This is another random picture, Auni got into the markers at my mom's and colored in her ear. All that on her face was just from her previous attempts to get the marker in her ear.

We also took the kids and went to temple square to see the lights on Saturday. I think we spent more time getting through the last two traffic lights to get to the conference center and trying to park than it actually took to walk through the lights. But I guess that's what you get for going on a weekend!

Snow Day

We went to do our little pre-winter clean up at the cabin last weekend and got a little taste of winter. It was the first time Auni has ever played in the snow and she and Deeg both had a blast. The boys had the job of chopping down a tree that was too close to the porch. (snow hazard)

Auni went for a little ride in the sled around the cabin.

Deeg just pretty much wanted to be where ever Dad, Grandpa, an James were. He was an excellent helper!

Doesn't she just look too cute?

Trick or Treat

We had a lot of fun on Halloween this year, the kids both loved their costumes and of course all the candy they got! I thought my pumpkin costume was very appropriate this year :) I had a lot of fun with Auni's hair if you can't tell, I should have taken a picture of the back because it was hilarious. She had about 5 different colors in it all together that matched her costume. I used this stuff that I bought at a hair show in California when I was in Beauty school and it worked great and washed out really easy. Spiderman thought he was the coolest thing ever (except he wouldn't wear his mask for more than about 3 min at a time).

Pumpkin Torture!

This was suppose to be a fun little family activity for us, but by the time we (but pretty much just me) got done I was ready to go throw the pumpkins off the front porch into the road! And for some reason my pictures ended up in the wrong order so you get the finished product first.

For the record, the one says SPOOKY not spanky, the two O's are eyes.

This picture pretty much sums up my excitement for the night. This was the only part Deegan enjoyed. He hates the pumpkin guts he thinks that they are scary and yucky, which Clint says is my fault because I was so paranoid about him ever getting dirty or touching anything gross when he was little. But that was before I had two kids.

Auni on the other hand dove right in. She actually tried to eat the goo!

It started out well, with everyone participating. But after Clint got the tops off he disappeared into the computer room for like an hour (he actually did come and clean out one and a half when I said there was no way I was doing all three), and like I said when it comes to the cleaning them part Deeg is not a fan so he was off to his room to play with toys. That big one in the middle is the thickest pumpkin I have ever carved, it was like 2 1/2 inches thick! I ended up carving two of them and Clint carved the other one. I had actually wanted to get patterns off the Internet but like I said, I lost patience with the whole thing. Really we just started too late so it didn't go as well as planned, maybe we'll have better luck next year!

Cornbelly's with the Fam

We went to Cornbelly's last night with the family and we had a lot of fun. The kids absolutely loved it. Its something that we look forward to doing every year so thanks Mom for taking all of us!

Deegan and Auni

I just had some cute pictures of the two of them so I figured I would post them. They always look so cute before we go to church that I wanted to take a picture. After we get there is another story, the tie comes off and so does Auni's flower. Then the clothes get all wrinkled from playing on the floor and all those other fun things that entertain them through sacrement meeting. There are two pictures because getting one that they both look cute in is next to impossible. We almost had it in the second one but Auni had to put her foot up at the last minute.

This one was from a day that my patience had all but run out. Deeg had been playing with his cousin and one of the two had gone to the bathroom and didn't flush and left the door open. (I have to keep the doors shut on all the bathrooms because Auni is terrible with the toilets and getting into everything in the drawers and cupboards) So shortly after Deeg's cousin left I am looking for Auni and find her in my bathroom with mine and Clint's toothbrushes in both hands soaking wet with, well it could have been worse, but lets just call it YELLOW water. Yes so not only was she contaminated but so were our toothbrushes (that have since been disposed of)! I got her all stripped down and washed her hands and face really well so that I could put her in the tub, went to check on Deeg real quick, come back to get her and she has gotten into another cupboard and dumped powdered sugar all over the kitchen floor and my sink rug! Obviously I wasn't in a very humorous mood or I would have taken a picture. That's why she ended up in the sink for her bath, so I could see her and clean at the same time. Deeg just got in because her thought it looked like fun.

Weekend Vacations

We have had a couple of fun weekend trips this this month. We spent UEA in St George with my family, and it was fun. But I feel like a bad mom because I didn't get any pictures of Deeg while we were there because I either forgot the camera or was waiting for a better opportunity. So I got some really cute pictures of Auni, she was the swimming queen. She absolutely loved the pool and spent more time in there than Deeg!

She did have a swimming suit on at one point but she got a little cold so we ditched it since she was pretty well covered, minus the plunging neck line.

Deegan caught himself in his bug net!
For Conference weekend we went to the cabin with all the girls because it was the duck hunt opener and all of our husbands were in Idaho. The kids built themselves an awesome hut that they thoroughly enjoyed.Deeg and Auni enjoyed some popsicles, Auni (thanks to mamie aka my mom) actually had 4!

It was actually snowing in these two pictures and the kids loved it but they didn't last long because it was so cold!