Busy season is in full swing here at our house! But thankfully Randy is working from home which makes busy season MUCH more manageable. We’ve been playing lots of fun games and doing an at-home preschool which has been a BLAST. Graham loves singing the songs, reading books, and finding letters. He’s getting SO smart and I’m super happy about it. He loves pointing out the letters while we’re driving or just hanging out at home, he is starting to know the sounds, and he loves counting and finding colors! I’m seriously just so in-awe with how smart he is getting!

We’re also having fun baking, doing fun activities like this car wash, fixing his cars and airplanes, and helping me clean. Even though dad has been busy, we’re still getting lots of family time which is great.

I’m officially 16 weeks which is crazy! Four months have gone by SO fast and I can’t believe it. I wanted to do a little update about how this pregnancy is going so far!

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I haven’t been sick at all—I didn’t throw up ever with Graham and haven’t yet with this baby either! I would wake up in the morning and need to eat and would feel kind of sick, but nothing too bad. I was VERY tired and wanted to back to sleep after working in the morning, and luckily Randy is home so he could make Graham breakfast so I could rest for another hour. I’ve been running and working out throughout this whole pregnancy which has been awesome. It’s helped me feel so much better and I’m so grateful I feel good enough to go! I have started to have to pee SO bad after running like half a mile, so I’ve needed a good belly band to help me be able to run haha. I’ve had some headaches here and there but honestly no symptoms that have been really bad!

I had to do the gestational diabetes test early because I had it with Graham. I failed the 1 hour test and was truly convinced I had it again. I started gearing up to have it again and went in for the three hour test. I was SHOCKED when I got the results back that I didn’t have it! I seriously broke down and just cried. I could have done GD again and I totally would have, 5 months is just a really long time to have that strict of a diet and worry about it, so not having that complication is super exciting.

Graham asks to hug the baby brother constantly which is so cute! Sometimes he jumps around and just shouts about how excited he is for a baby brother and how much he wants him to be here RIGHT NOW. He also likes to pretend his toys are babies which is so fun.

Another proud moment for me—I took Graham to get his haircut and usually he cries and is really upset. He’s very shy and even though we go to the same hairdresser every time, he’s still very nervous and doesn’t want to go. But this time he was SO adventurous and brave and sat in the chair all by himself, talked to the hairdresser, and was awesome. I was so proud!

We are so excited to have our little boy come and hope the rest of the pregnancy keeps going smoothly!

BABY BOY! We can’t believe it and we are SO excited to welcome a little boy to our family. Graham is OVER THE MOON and asks to hug the baby so many times a day. He will randomly just say “I’m getting a baby brother!!!” and it’s so sweet. I’m so excited that he’ll have a little buddy and I can’t wait to see them be close friends.

Can’t wait to meet you in June little dude!

What a year! What started out as normal quickly turned into a very strange year. But we still had an amazing time.

I can’t get over how much Graham has grown up this year. He turned 2 and has just changed into such a sweet little person. He loves talking, reading, knows the ABCs, can count, do shapes and colors, and has the best little imagination. He knows SO many songs and will yell at us to JAM in the car with him all the time. We are so obsessed with him.

Sam and Kate got married! The day after Christmas was a whirlwind of heading to the temple, pictures, the lunch, and a brief stop at the reception. Things were different with COVID but it was still beautiful. Graham was a TROOPER and was soooo tired. But he did so awesome and wore his mask, was friendly and kind, and just was so well behaved. We couldn’t be more proud! We are so happy for Sam and Kate and can’t wait to have Kate in our family.

I can’t believe Christmas has come and gone already! It went by too fast. We kicked off the week making gingerbread men and going to the Willard Bay lights. It was so fun to get in the Christmas mood, wrapping presents and getting everything ready for the big day!

Christmas Eve was magic with lots of playing with Mel, good food, games, The Nutcracker, and the sweetest Nativity you ever saw! Except when Mary and Joseph fought over who got to hold the baby, that part made me laugh haha.

Christmas Day was magical. We woke up early and opened presents at our house, and Graham loved his Spider-Man, scooter, Mom’s robot vacuum, Dad’s train tracks, and his kinetic sand!

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa’s and opened presents with everyone else and Graham got RC, loved playing with Mel’s new car track, and just had a blast. We opened gifts for hours and it was seriously so magical. We ate good food and then went over to Grandma and Grandpa Low’s house, where Graham loved playing with his new Toy Story toys.

We helped set up for the wedding lunch that would be the next day, then went to bed, exhausted from one of the best Christmas’s ever.

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We are in CHRISTMAS MODE here at our house. We’ve been doing so many fun activities to get ready for my favorite time of the year. Last week we went to the Farmington Lights with both my family and Randy’s family. Graham was LOOSING HIS MIND he was so excited about seeing so many fun balloons. He loved Woody and Buzz, the Star Wars guys, the Minions, Mr. Potato Head, and the animals that popped in and out of boxes and such. He was just going crazy and didn’t want to leave both times that we went.

We did a fun painting craft making Nutcrackers that Graham loved. He’s kind of obsessed with Nutcrackers and it was really cute to let him make his own. And we also made gingerbread houses which was a BLAST. Graham just wanted to eat the candy and Randy got very into it, sanding it down and using glue, but it was a great time. We’ve been eating yummy food, wrapping presents, and Randy and I even escaped to a little date on a Friday night to take gifts to my friends.

We’ve been doing a Christmas Countdown focused on the idea of “My Own” (Scripture, I come unto MY OWN) and that’s been really fun, full of fun activities. Graham also discovered SNOW this past week and has been WILDLY obsessed. He doesn’t love it on his hands but he loves crunching it and playing as long as it doesn’t get on his hands or face hahaha. He’s the best.

We’re loving this Christmas season and I’m not sure how it’s gone by so fast. And every day we’re getting even closer to a new baby which is wild! We’re just lucky to have such a sweet boy who makes this time of year so amazing and wonderful.

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Every year we try to find a service activity for our family. For the past several years we have adopted a child in foster care for Christmas and it’s seriously been so awesome. We have picked a child close to Graham’s age which has made it so meaningful for him. As he helps us shop and wrap up toys he would love to play with, I think it helps him appreciate it.

My high school friend Jessi has put together this amazing service opportunity and I’m seriously so grateful she has made it such a good experience for our family! Finding service for Christmas makes the season so much more meaningful and special.

Amber is our angel photographer always getting the best shots for our family. I’m obsessed with these two!