Well, our families know, most of our friends know, Brian's work knows, most everyone at my work knows, so I might as well tell the world....
WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER BABY!
I'm only nine weeks along, but I just got too excited to hold it in any longer! :) We're so excited, we were actually trying for this one (Sadie was more of a pleasant surprise) and can't wait to become a family of four! The doctor says everything looks good and my due date is June 28th!
Its taken me a while to take some photos, but I finally decided I needed to! This is Sadie's cute little bedroom that we painted weeks ago, before we moved into our new place :) The lighting isn't great because it was kind of dark outside and so I had to use the overhead light, but you get the general idea. She LOVES the flowers, which taper off just above the floor. She used to rub them the first few times she went in the room but I guess she's gotten over that now. I think they turned out pretty cute though.
Cute, huh? At first we thought the green was a little much, but now that there is furniture in there and we've hung some things on the wall, it looks really good. My whole life I've just had white walls, so I was really excited to give Sadie some color!
We finally have all our stuff moved over to our new place (yeah, it took about 1 1/2 weeks- a leisurly move) and we still have some stuff just lying around our living room that we need to find places for.
One of the things is the top part of our entertainment center. I think we're actually just going to give it to D.I., but in the meantime Sadie's having fun with it as her little "house" :) She puts toys in there, climbs in herself, plays with the mirror- all sorts of fun stuff. Yesterday she and I were playing and she started being really cute, so I thought I'd take some pictures and video. I've tried to upload the video about ten times with no luck, which is too bad because it was really cute, but the photos are cute too, so I'll just have to live with posting these :)
This year Sadie was a little cowgirl for Halloween. She absolutely LOVES horses, so it seemed like a good fit :) Then about a month ago we found this really cute horse bucket thing for her to put her candy in and that sealed the deal! So here are just a couple of photos I took inside. I had some really cute ones I took outside at SUU with my phone (of course I forgot to the bring the camera when we went trick-or-treating there), but I don't know how to get them off. If anybody knows, please tell me!
Isn't this cute? She plays with it all the time! Don't mind the little orange ring around its lower half- Sadie took it out in the snow a few weeks ago and filled it up :)
This is Sadie with her best friend Taite. He was a horse and she was a cowgirl, so we tried to get a cute picture of them together- this was the best we got, LOL!
You can see both their costumes a little better in this one. They're both looking at trick-or-treaters, I'm sure trying to figure out what the heck is going on!
For a few months we've been thinking "gosh, house prices have fallen a ton, we should think about buying a house." So about a month ago I went to a broker and got all our financing and everything.....and then we didn't do anything. Well, a couple of weeks ago our broker called to tell us interest rates had dropped a whole percentage from the time I'd gone in and so we decided to call a real estate agent and start looking at homes. We put an offer on one we really wanted last week, but sadly, someone else got it. Then this week our realtor showed us some really nice townhomes. Now, we'd been pretty anti-townhome before seeing these, but thought "what the heck" so I went and looked at a few in this new subdivision and WOW!!! Granite countertops, oil-rubbed bronze fixtures, double the required soundproofing between houses!!!! I was pretty much sold as soon as I walked through them. We showed Brian the next day, took a night to think it over and made an offer yesterday morning which was accepted TODAY!!!!
Next week we're going through to do our inspection and I'll take pictures then to post. We're really so excited- finally homeowners!!!! The only thing that sucks is interest rates went back up while we were looking, but we can lock in the rate any time before we finalize everything at the end of this month, so hopefully they'll come down in the next couple of weeks.
Anyway, I just wanted to share the good news! I can't wait to have some pictures to post- YAY!!!!!!!!!
Fall is my favorite season- I LOOOOOOOVE going up the mountain when the leaves change colors and driving and hiking around. The leaves are just starting to change here, but we decided to take a trip up the mountain to see them anyway. Next week we're having some family photos taken up there, and it should be even more beautiful then!
We usually drive up to the big "C" on Cedar Mountain because there are alot of bushes that turn bright red and orange- I'm not sure what they are, but they're so pretty. Plus its fun to go to the lookout over Cedar City. We tried to take a family picture with the camera on the car, but it didn't really turn out too great :) Oh well....
In this one you can kind of see the leaves changing on the mountain- there's still alot of green, but orange, yellow, and a little bit of red is starting to show up.
After the "C" we drove up to Cedar Breaks. There are alot of Aspens up there (my favorite trees!) so we wanted to see how they're doing with the color change. Still alot of green there too, but there are a couple of areas where all the trees are completely gold! So beautiful! While we were driving around we found a pretty little creek so we got out to take some pictures and let Sadie play for a little bit. I tried to keep her out of the water for as long as possible, because the water was FREEZING, but she eventually got in it anyway. Of course, we have a ton of pictures of her throwing rocks in the water, but since I've had a few posts with water-rock-throwing pictures, I thought I'd exclude most of them from this one ;)
This first picture reminds me of Sasquatch emerging from the woods, LOL :) Its not a great photo, it just made me laugh
This one would have been soooooo cute if we could have gotten her to take her eyes off the water ...
The one we took away from the creek turned out a little better :)
In this one she's standing on a rock that's in the creek. She kept picking up smaller rocks out of the water and throwing them back in, which is why I'm holding onto her arm- I didn't want throwing herself in the creek too! I think this picture turned out really cool though- it looks like we've got some kind of ethereal glow!
On the other side of the road the creek was a little more shallow and she actually made it into the water on that side- it was inevitable! So we just let her play for a while, then headed home.
To finish off Brian's mom's visit, we took a little walk up the Canyon Park trail (its a beautiful walk, for those of you who haven't done it, I highly recommend it!) and then a little family photo shoot at the park. Some of them turned out pretty cute I think :)
Sadie and Grandma!
Three generations of McNeel's
And one with just the girls. We didn't manage to get one with all of us in it, which would have been nice, but I still think these turned out pretty cute :)
Brian's mom came down from Salt Lake this weekend to spend some time with us- well, probably more to spend some time with Sadie :) We had alot of fun, and Saturday afternoon we decided to take her up the mountain to Navajo Lake- which I guess is our favorite mountain hangout since we always end up there. So we relaxed out in nature while Sadie (as usual) played in the lake.
Sadie of course went straight for the water and started throwing rocks, which is a pretty standard activity for her.
This time, she also got a kick out of playing with my shoe when it floated off my foot.
So we made a little boat with it for her giraffe :)
And after a while, we decided she needed to lose the pants- I don't know why I don't carry her swimsuit on me all the time. She always ends up soaked!
I title this photo "Happy Mom- Carefree Baby"
And last, but certainly not least, Brian and Sadie showing his mom which lures are sure-fire winners! Like father, like daughter :)
So Brian's mom got to see some of our beautiful nature, and we got to have a fun and relaxing day at one of our favorite spots!
