He's Here!

Oliver Mark Weston joined our family Tuesday night, March 1 weighing 8 lbs. 14 oz. and measuring 21.5 inches long. Both mom and baby are doing well. More on the birth to come.

Huge

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted. I guess I've just been too busy growing a belly to do much else. Now I'm finally down to the last 4 weeks or so and I hope it goes by quickly. Doing a 5-point turn just to roll over in bed, is getting pretty old.

I am positive that I am bigger in person.

It's been fun to have a friend who understands how uncomfortable I am. My sister-in-law is also expecting her first son (after two girls) 6 weeks after I'm due. Hopefully our boys don't get into too much trouble together.

It's a . . .

Baby! In case you haven't heard: we're expecting baby No. 3 at the Weston residence and today I had my 20-week ultrasound. Everything looked great, so I'm very happy about that.



Here's a great shot of the gender. Check the next photo if you're still confused.


:) Mark and I couldn't be more excited (or more surprised!).


And he's already flexing his muscles, explaining why I've been able to feel him since 12 weeks. I'm not looking forward to the 3rd trimester when his kicks and punches will actually hurt!

Miss Sanpete County

(from left to right: me, my sisters Ariel, Deanna, Alexis, and Mandie)

I'm so excited for my sister Ariel. She was crowned Miss Sanpete over the weekend and will compete in Miss Utah next year!
Because of the way things worked out, both she and my sister Deanna competed at the same time. (Ariel won Miss Manti in 2009 and had to finish her year of service before competing in Miss Sanpete, however Deanna competed for Miss Manti earlier this year and won first attendant so she didn't have to wait a year before going to Miss Sanpete). Anyway out of the eleven girls Deanna was one of the six who didn't make it to the royalty (even though I think she did an awesome job!) She was a good sport about it though and plans to do Miss Manti again next year. Go D! And as for Ariel, I wish her the best of luck this coming year.

And just as a side note, I was also "Miss Sanpete" once upon a time (in 2001) so it's fun to share that with Ariel. I would include a picture from my younger days, but they are all in storage at the moment. So we'll just have to go without.

Regret

I should be posting about our new home, or our adventures in Manti but I feel like this instead:
It took ages to grow out Millie's hair (after she took scissors to it). But then she started begging me to cut it short every time I gave Ivy a trim. So one night I gave in and chopped it off.

I've regretted it ever since.

Sneak Peek

We have to be out of our house this Saturday. It came so fast! I'm frantically trying to pack everything up by myself while playing single mom to two needy girls and it's not much fun. I know it will all be over soon enough. And Mark, bless his heart, is working himself to death trying to get our rental home finished. It won't be ready by this weekend, but we don't want to be homeless any longer than we have to be, so work he must. Here's a sneak peek at where we will be living for the next year or so . . . more pictures to come.



I was so excited when I saw the home had peonies! The girls and I brought some home as soon as they bloomed.

And these wild poppies just started growing behind our (current) home this year. Poppies and peonies are my favorite flowers, so I had to include this shot.
It may be while before I'm able to post again, but I'll do my best.

Face Paint and Piccadillies

I took the girls down to Manti over Memorial Day Weekend. We go every year for the Scandinavian Festival. Mark usually joins us, but this year he was too busy fixing up a rental home so we have somewhere to live in a few weeks.

Millie and Ivy were so excited to collect candy at the parade (or at least Millie was). My sister Deanna was on the Miss Manti float. Millie told me that when she grows up she wants to be "First Attendent" and be in a parade. It was so cute.

And here's the famous "First Attendant" after the parade chowing down on Sanpete barbecue turkey and piccadillies -- so good!


Vikings are also a favorite at the festival. Here Marie (a foreign exchange student from Germany who has lived with my family for the past 5 months) poses with one.


My mom took Millie to get her face painted at one of the booths.


She was on cloud nine. Thanks mom.


Sunday morning we took a trip to the Manti Cemetery. Millie was so excited to see where her great-grandfather is buried.


We also visited my friend Emily's grave. It's such a pretty headstone with her signature on one side and her photo on the other. The visit brought back sad memories but it was nice to have my daughters there with me.