Disney on Ice-Toy Story 3

 The week before the baby was due, Jason, Jon's brother, offered us 4 tickets to Disney on Ice-other than take it easy and get ready for this baby we didn't have any plans. So we decided to take them. Friday, night I was having some contractions but not really painful. I was a little concerned for Saturday so I ended up drinking as often as I could. It was about 85 ounces of water that day. But at least it kept the contractions at bay.

All these pics were taken on Jon's phone since I forgot to bring the camera.  We parked at the Gateway Mall and spent some time at the Clarke Planetarium waiting for the show to start.

Going inside

We'd never been to anything like this show before. I had asked a lady at the planetarium who'd clearly gone to the earlier showing, what to expect. I'm glad I asked b/c it gave us the opportunity to inform the boys what they could get BEFORE getting there. Until we saw the prices, we said they could each get a toy and a snack. Some of the snacks came with a toy and were more spendy.

All the Toy Story 3 loot.

The boys had a really great time!

We got nachos, popcorn and drinks. Max REALLY REALLY wanted the alien hat, that came with the cotton candy, so that was his toy. And Zac chose to get Bullseye. He has a Buzz and Woody that would go great. But he hasn't been able to find the Woody toy :(

Thanks for the tickets Jason and Kari!

Projects

I've been following a few blogs where the ladies are expecting babies shortly before me, and they are doing nesting series' which I've enjoyed as I can't even remember what kinds of things need to be done to get ready for a baby. Through reading about their projects I've had barely enough motivation to do some of them.

I've always wanted a tag blanket for our baby since they started to be popular a some years back. It was really simple to make and I also made one for Wesley, Rachel's baby, and he loves it.

I also saw these carseat blankets and wanted to get one for our baby. But I didn't know where to get one and one of the blogs I follow made one that I had seen previously on another blog, here and here and I was inspired to make one.

I really liked this fun print.

I also decided to make some new receiving blankets so everything wasn't hand me downs.

Zac had the week before the week I was due off so I decided we'd do a bunch of fun things to spend time together before the baby gets here and to make some memories. Some of the things we did were: go to the Kamas pool, meet up with Nani for lunch, read, we went to the Lorax movie, went to breakfast with just Zac (I go with just Max about once a month), hung out with our friends the Nemelkas, and shopped for craft supplies. I anticipated doing more crafts like this onesie (which we didn't get around to, we'll have to do it later), popsicle stick structures, little bean bags, an emergency clutch for me and these altoid tin games. The last two are the only ones I got around to doing. 

They boys each got to pick their own theme, paper and stickers. Unfortunately, Roberts Craft is closed, and JoAnns didn't have a very good selection of themed matching elements.

If you can't tell these are tic tac toe games and the boys are pretty excited about them and the parts that they got to help with. I saw them on pinterest (source here- scroll down about half way) a while back and thought they would be fun to make with the boys.

These are the tops. the boys picked the stickers to go on the front and also painted on the modge podge.

Here are the insides. They glued the paper circles to the magnets.

And the backs, they modge lodged this too.

While thinking about all the "luggage" I'd be carrying around with a new baby, I didn't want to have a diaper bag and a purse. I found a diaper bag that is more purse like. But I also know I wouldn't have room for all the potential stuff I'd carry in a purse. So along with my wallet, I wanted something else small that I could put the little essentials in that typically sit in all the purse pockets, allergy meds, hair ties and bobby pins, a jump drive, gum, tylenol, bandaids, lip gloss, etc. I found this idea on pinterest (here). I went to so many places to find a pot holder that I thought would work well, unfortunately it doesn't have the pocket like the one in the tutorial, but it was the best I could find. I went to target, bed bath beyond (orem/park city), walmart, crafts stores, tj maxx, and I finally found a somewhat stylish one at World Trade Market in Park City.

Valentines Treats

 I'm trying to get caught up on blogging so I can post about our baby. Tomorrow morning is the scheduled c-section. I seriously have so much anxiety I want to puke. And I can't even imagine what it'll be like tomorrow while I wait for over and hour to go into the OR. Anyway...here's my attempt to keep up the record, even though I feel really yucky.

Lexie wanted to get together and make cake pops for Valentines this year. I told her I was really tired, but if she drove the project then we could do it.  I got all the supplies and she did a good part of the work.

We were talking to Rachel on gchat while we were dipping the cake balls.

The finished pops. Lexie finished most of them because I had to head to scouts.

We packaged them in a cute little cup. Unfortunately, they were very top heavy and had a really hard time staying up right if the slightest tip came by.

I volunteered to help with the sugar cookies for Zac's Valentines Party. I ordered them from a local bakery and they were VERY yummy. I just used canned frosting, that I dyed vibrant purple and pink.

 Kindergarteners and their sprinkles....

These are the Valentines that I did this year for both boys.

In an effort to give more purpose to our days, I decided we should make special Valentines for the boys' teachers--especially because I forgot to do Christmas presents. We made these mini wreaths. The boys helped to wrap them with yarn, and chose the colors and placement of the flowers. I forgot to take pictures at home so this is where is was hanging in his classroom on the window of the main door.

Then I purpose ordered extra sugar cookies so I could enjoy some and so I'd have extra for my Visiting Teachees.

I really love the vibrant purple color,

And I love these sprinkles.

Big Snow

Some weekend near the end of January, we finally got some big heavy snow. They even closed Hwy 40 between Heber and Park City for a while. The boys had a great time playing outside...til Zac gave his hat to the snowman and got soaking wet that is.

The snowman they made all on their own.

While daddy was snow blowing. (We bought this used snowblower back in November thinking if this year was anything like year, then we'd really need it.  Especially, since I wasn't in a position to shovel feet of snow at a time.) But as it turns out, it was so mild there were only really 2 times that we needed it.