Baby Update

Well I know that a lot of you are wondering about our new addition. So... I had my last Dr. appointment today! YES!!! He checked to see where I stood and then striped my membrane. He said that if I don't have the baby today then give him a call tomorrow morning and he will get me in at the hospital. Needless to say we are all very excited! My mom is coming down and bringing her camera so we will be able to post some pictures of our little Rhagen as soon as we get home. We are so excited and have been waiting for her to join our family. I'm hoping for tomorrow because all of us will then be born on the 20th. So maybe we will have all 4 of us on the same day. Thanks for all your love and support. Until next post with a tribute to our little Reggie(as Roxy likes to call her) thanks for your prays.

Christmas with out a camera

So we got one picture of our Christmas tree before our camera died. And the sad thing is that the tree isn't even finished. But I must say that the picture doesn't do it justice. We went up to my father-in-law's property and cut our tree. When we first saw it we thought, "Oh, what a good lookin' tree, it's not too big but just right." Well then we cut it down and our thought was, "Well it's a little bigger than what we thought but it will work." Then we got it ready to put up on the car and then the thought came, "This tree is big!" We came home and set it up then reality hit and our tree was Massive! The picture that we have is after Mark trimmed off about 50 pounds. He took a lot off of the bottom and then the whole back side was gone just so the tree didn't take up the whole front room. And still with all the changes it was about 7 feet wide and about 10 feet tall. Our front room is a really good size but with that tree our front room looked like a smaller to normal size front room. We wanted a bigger tree for that reason but we didn't think that it would take up our whole front room almost. But I must say we Loved it! And I think that every year that we live in this house we will get a big tree. Maybe not this big, but big.

But again I am sad to inform you that our camera died on us before Christmas and we have no pictures of our Christmas. It's all just on our video cam. And I don't think I could post like 45 min of video on our blog. But we did have a nice Christmas. We had our tree full of presents and had a great time opening them. Roxy loved ripping the rapping paper and all that fun jazz! We had Christmas morning at our place then went down and spent the day in Montrose with Mark's family. We had so much fun and stayed tell 11:00 pm tell Mark decided he could leave. That was a long drive home. Even though it's only an hour it still seemed like a 2-3 hr. long drive. Well we woke up the next morning to head to UT for a quick trip. Thanks to my parents we had 2 wonderful Christmas experiences. Roxy loved all her toys and books and we love the new TV! Thanks again Mom, Dad and Tanner. We love it! But of cores what would the holidays be with out someone getting sick? Kade got the stomach flu that has been going around. We thought that we were safe but when we got home it hit Roxy first, then Mark and I couldn't escape it's wrath. So for the new year we had the stomach flu. Thank goodness it was just short lived and we all got over it. But over all we really had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year, and we hope that all of you did the same.

Our Great but Not so Good Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving Mark had a whole week off so we used our time wisely by going up the the family cabin with my side of the family. We love to go up there and it's nice to be around so much family when we go. We had my family, and then Grammy and Papa, Guy and Jen, and Gary and Amy. It was a lot of fun and all the kids had a blast! Roxy was in heaven with all the kids and endless exploring. Mark and Roxy had a lot of fun going out side and playing in the 4 inches of snow, which for the cabin at this time of the year is week. But they had a lot of fun. As for me I was in the cabin staying warm and trying not to move. The Saturday before Thanksgiving I got shingles and let me tell you they are not fun! I didn't want to move, be touched or even think about the two. I didn't know that there is medicine to help out with that until we got back into town and I was at my Dr.'s a week and a half after I broke out in them. But all is well that ends well right? I still have then but they are just about gone and no more pain. Well also when we were up at the cabin, a few people had some colds and poor Roxy got RSV again. Then Mark bless his heart was lucky enough to get a plugged eye duct. We really had it coming for us I guess. But we are all doing much better now. Needless to say it wasn't the best Thanksgiving ever but it will be the Thanksgiving we will never forget.

This was takin' right before Roxy and Mark headed outside.

Mark took Roxy on a 4-wheel ride and she loved it. She thought that she had to drive the whole time. Her hands were a little cold when she got back but she didn't mind at all.

Our family picture before we left the cabin. Thanks to every one that was up there. The food was so good and the company even better. We love you all