My little buckaroo turned 4!

Miss C wanted a pony party AGAIN this year. Click here to see last year's pony party at my mom's house. This year I really needed to keep it simple but I still wanted to give her the pony party she wanted. I found a place less then a mile from our new house called The little Buckaroo Ranch. We invited a few friends and family to come enjoy the animals with us.
I'll give the buckaroo ranch a little review here: Overall great experience. Cowgirl Mariam, owner and party leader, well let's just say she never breaks character! She might be a little overly stern when it comes to her rules. For example when Uncle Joe (an adult here people) petted a pony out of turn she busted into song & dance to correct him in front of the group. It was really funny but I'm not sure Uncle Joe and Cowgirl Mariam thought so.  My family thought I was a little crazy for paying perfectly good money to be let around a "farm"

Great Grandma Freddie & LA 

Hay Rides with Hannah and Macy

Miss C and her new friend Miss A

Goldfish Kisses

Baby Wranglers

 

The Fierke's and this was Anna Cate's 1st birthday party

A real cowboy! We love this little guy

She is a natural on Coco

Mr T and Firke in their first father to father to father talk. Oh these to deserved lol girls!

Leslie and Alora

M is a natural, now if we can just get her married so we can get her pregnant! 

We ended up back at our place for a little after party where we could all share stories of how Cowgirl Mariam snapped at us!

future classmates, Bryson and Anna Cate

The party never stops! ANOTHER birthday breakfast, cooked by Pop Joel

Poor only child

Poor only child playing candy land all alone.



Not for long my little girl, not for long. 3 1/2 more months and you will have all the little playmates your heart desires!

Babymoon & Birthdays

This post is long over due but I could not skip posting it.

For Mr. T and Miss C's actual birthdays we flew up to Park City, Utah for a ski trip. This was Miss C first big trip that involved flying. She was super excited about flying and I'm actually glad we waited so long to fly with her because it was really enjoyable and I can't say that for most of the smaller kids and babies on the plane.
I'll have to write a whole post on taking small kids skiing but for now I think the pictures tell the story well...

The birthday festivities started on the ride to the airport well Miss C got her first gift, Unicorn Pillow Pet. I don't get the fasanation but she has been begging for one for months and it might be the best $6 I ever spent.

1st airport check in! 

Who will get the window seat? 

Miss C in do not disturb mode

Hello from Salt Lake

Pep talk before ski school! 

Ready to rock ski school

Hello to 5 hours of Mommy and daddy ski time!It's like having your cake and eating it too!  I love ski school!

I was awesome Trey and I got to explore 2 mountains alone skiing at our pace. Because if you have ever skied with kids its their pace only! 

Little tiny skis

Learning to ski

Good Morning to our birthday Girl!

The balloons were a huge hit! Daddy and the maid service might disagree. Daddy sat in the bathroom blowing them up and with the altitude almost fainted

Birthday breakfast

On Miss C's actual birthday she skipped ski school and and skied with us. She was so cute singing and racing down the mountain that she caused a few crases. I mean people trying to turn a look at how funny she was. Our goal was not perfect downhill at for it was to get her to have fun and love the mountain as much as we do so she will be excited to learn the tuffer skills it takes to be a good skier. 

Bacon stolen from her daddy's plate and the ate every bite! She is a Collins! 

A pro on the lifts! 

Location:Park City, Utah

Guess Babies Gender!

We are getting close to finding out the twins gender! FINALLY!
Week 20 has arrived!
We took a peek at 16 week but it was to vague so we have had to wait till this week as we go for the anatomical ultrasound.

Boys, Girls or one of each?

Miss C has made her vote clear from the start. Boy/Girl and we will name then Ariel & Phineas Ferb
Thanks Miss C now I picture my babies with pointed heads

Cast your vote in the right column

Love notes

Over the years Mr. T and I will leave little notes on each others computer. We sort of stopped when the real-estate agent saw a picture Mr T left me on my computer that was totally an inside joke! But I was pleasantly surprised to find this when I got to my computer today...

translation of the tiny print:
"I vow to do everything I can to help you these next four months!

I love you so so so so so so so so so so much!!!!!

Forever your partner in parenting"

So Sweet! Now Let's hope he says that when the twins actually arrive and we are officially out numbered! 

Texas Bluebonnets

Pregnancy #2 Part 2

To continue the story of pregnancy #2....

If you missed part one you can read it here. 

So only the 3 of us knew! By the way looking back what was I thinking trusting a 3 year old not to tell! Making it thru Christmas and new years at my parents was comical to say the least. I was not feeling well and my mom was giving me medicine and cleaning after I touched anything! She thought I was contagious. Trey had a pocket full of pills I had handed off to him because I could not take them pregnant! We had a mini drug ring!
Come NewYears I kew if I did not drink my secrete would totally be out. So I had a special cooler under the DJ booth where I had O'Douls non-alcoholic beer with the labels peeled off my personalized kookie and sparkling Cider.
Up to  this point I had been to the OB to have a blood work test and the results came back positive, VERY positive! So my first ultrasound was scheduled for January 18th. By this point I had told one friend that I trust. I well swear of the high rate of miscarriage at this point in pregnancy and just like to keep the news private but I had to tell someone!
Me: Baby B is Contagious if you know what I mean
friend: OMG I so sorry he does have a runny nose I am so sorry he got you sick is Campbell ok?
Me: Not that kind of contagious
friend:  (after a long pause) OH! Well he is really cute

By now we had put an offer in our house and were set to close January 20th. All is going according to my evil little plan  We are so blessed everything is falling into place. Off to the Dr's office we go! Trey and I love my Dr. I have been his patient for over 10 years & we share mutual friends. He knew it was a big deal for us to have another baby and everyone was all smiles as we get ready to see what I had going on in my tummy!

Ultrasound is on, I see the nurses eyes get big, Dr. Cowan laughs and says you got twins! Trey is dead silent, I said WHAT!? and Campbell jumps up and says "Yeah Mommy look at the screen there is 2 bubbles in your belly" After I argue with Campbell that the ultra sound is blurry the ruling comes down, Campbell wins...

After a lecture from the Dr and nurse (which Mr. T and I admit we heard none of except gain 50 lb.)

We returned to the car in a state of total shock asking each other how we managed twins! Sorry Campbell I'm sure you never water to hear that conversation! 

So family and friends there you have it, how we were told we were having 

Spontaneous Fraternal Twins! A 3 year old figured it out before me.

Number one Question I'm asked is were you on fertility drugs

umm no and doesn't the look of shock on my face tell you that

Second most asked question is do either Mr T or I have a family history of twins.

Nope, least not in the last 40 years. Looks like I'm just fertile Mertel