Baby number 3!!!

Jax and Ella are going to have a new little brother or sister the beginning of June! We are all very excited! Jax says he wants a brother and Ella says she wants a sister...go figure! Mommy and Daddy don't care if it's a boy or girl, just as long as we have a healthy baby...and I wouldn't mind it if this nausea and constant sleepiness would go away, but it's well worth it. Hopefully we will find out what we are having in about 3 weeks!

San Francisco

Last weekend I went to San Francisco with my dad, brother, and sister, we left on saturday morning and came back on monday afternoon, it was just a quick trip, but it was great to spend time with them. The main reason we went was to go to a 49ers game. Last year we went to Seattle to a Seahawks game and we had a blast, Colby didn't come with us last year, but he did this year and i was glad he came so I could spend time with him too. On saturday, after arriving in San Francisco and, after finally finding our hotel, we went on a boat out to Alcatraz and  got a tour of the island and inside the prison. It was really neat and creepy at the same time. The prison had a dark, depressing feeling to it, which you would expect, for part of the tour, you had your own headphones and voices of some of the correctional officers and inmates narrated the tour. So it was kind of like you were on your own little tour, which I thought was really neat. You got to see all the cells, which were tiny, some of them had the cots and some blankets and props in there. We got so see where the solitary confinement was. One of the guards let Dani and i go into the cell and the guard shut the door so we could see what it was like to be in solitary confinement...it was pitch black and after about 10 seconds i started getting claustrophobic and wanted out! I can't imagine being in there 24 hours a day. We saw the cafeteria, warden's office, other cells, the library, where the guards would go to have their breaks and the control room. We saw the outside of the apartments where the guards and their families lived, it was hard to believe that children lived on the island too! I wouldn't want my babies living there, but, apparently they felt safe because of all the guards and the belief that the prison was "inescapable". It was really neat and I hope to be able to go back there some day with Nick.

The 49ers game the next day was a lot of fun, our seats were on the 3rd row on the 50 yard line, so we could see everything up close. Colby and Dani got field passes and got to walk around on the field before the game started, Colby even got to have his picture taken with two of the cheerleaders, which made his day! After the game we did a little souvenir shopping for the kids and had some dinner. The weekend went by fast but we had a lot of fun.

Halloween

My mom had her traditional, fantastic halloween party again this year, and again, we had a blast! Her house was totally decorated, we had yummy food, and the kids had a blast. Jax was 'war machine' from Iron Man 2, Ella was a beautiful ladybug, and Nick dressed up as a deer and I was the hunter...he had a target on his chest (with real bullet holes in it) and I had a fake gun. Colby dressed up as Michael Jackson, he looked so much like him I couldn't believe it, my mom was Captain Jack Sparrow, and Dani was a hot dog and Derek was a bottle of beer. All of the costumes were hilarious, and, yes, dressing up is mandatory at the party. We played a few games, watched a Shrek halloween movie and had yummy cupcakes that Dani had decorated to look like witch hats (i know, im shocked too).

On halloween night, we went back up to my mom's house and took the kids trick-or-treating with my cousin and her kids.