Our day with Grandpa Losee

This past Sunday we took a trip down to Delta to see my Grandpa and Grandma Losee. Grandpa has been sick and not doing too well, so we try and make it down as often as we can. He had lots of visitors that day and we're glad we could be a part of the big gathering. My mom and dad, Hayley and her boyfriend Caleb, Justin and Stephanie, Josh, Rease and I all squeezed into the suburban and had a great trip together (No, if you count all the people I named, we didn't all have seatbelts on. Four of us squeezed into the middle seat of the suburban - luckily it's big enough for even a pregnant girl to have enough room. Funny story, just outside of Nephi a cop started to follow us and we for sure thought we were busted. Dad was sweating bullets of course, but it turned out that he was just out for a friendly drive and didn't pull us over. We all had a good laugh watching dad be nervous for a few minutes.)

Aunt Celia and her girls made us dinner and then of course we had to play Nintendo for a little while. Grandma has an old time Nintendo - the ones you have to blow in or tweak just right to make it work - and we always end up playing Dr. Mario or Mario Bros 3 while we are visiting.

It was such a fun day and we loved seeing Grandpa and Grandma. We love you guys!

My new hobby

So I've picked up a new hobby since I got my wheat grinder for Christmas - making bread. My mother-in-law is a great cook and she has some great bread recipes. She helped Josh find me a wheat grinder for Christmas and I have made a bunch of bread since then. It's easy and fun and makes me feel like a good wife to have Josh come home to fresh-baked bread. Plus, no more buying bread!

Voila! There's the finished product, ready to come out of the oven!

Rhen update

Good news from Dr. Smith today! First of all, everything is going great. Heartbeat is 145 and strong, I am measuring right at 32 1/2 weeks and Dr. Smith said Rhen looks completely normal and healthy! He also thinks that I have a great chance of delivering early because I was 2 weeks early with Rease and said it's about a 50-75% chance that I'll deliver early with this one too. I told him that my brother is getting married on March 13th (the day before my due date of March 14th) and he said that if I haven't delivered on my own before that he would start me on - the best news of all - March 9th! Wahoo!! That way, I will have the baby and be out of the hospital for sure before the wedding! Oh man, best news ever! No more worrying about my water breaking at the wedding (it's been a fear of mine since the graduation incident last time), no more worrying that I will be fat and ugly for all the millions of pictures that will be taken and best of all, everyone that is in town for the wedding will get to see our sweet Rhen in her first week here! Mostly I'm grateful to have a great pregnancy and healthy baby on the way. Good news all around today!

The pee-pee adventure

Well we've started the potty-training journey in our house. I admit I wasn't excpecting to do it this early, but for the past month or so Rease has started telling me before she has to go to the bathroom. She'd come get me and say "poopie" and I'd check her and her diaper was clean...then sure enough 5 minutes later she comes back and says "poopie" and it's the real thing. So this week I decided to get her a toilet just so we could start having her sit on it and try it out when she tells me she needs to go. Well, of course she loves sitting on it and thinks it's a fun new toy to carry around. But as far as actually going to the bathroom, we've had no luck...until today. She was in the bath and said "poopie" (I think she thinks that pee and poo are the same word, so she only says "poopie" even if it's just pee sometimes.) So after the bath I took her straight to the toilet and she sat down and went pee! I was so proud! She got lots of praise and a treat to go with it, so hopefully she keeps this up and gets the hang of it real quick! She's making this potty-training easy for me!

Sorry if the pictures gross you out - but I had to document this exciting event!

Christmas 2008

We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I have been meaning to put these pictures up from Christmas for a couple of weeks now, but between Christmas, New Years and Josh's 30th birthday (yes, can you believe he's that old?) along with the Wii that my parents got as a family gift (and we are taking full advantage of) I just haven't had too much time to get around to posting. So here was our wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Eve started out just like it should with a house of girls - spending plenty of time getting ready in front of the mirror. Rease has mastered how to get more than one thing done at once - hair and brushing teeth in this case.

Once again - hair is drying, so why not have a snack?

We hosted Christmas at our house this year since both of our parents are empty-nesters. So mom and dad Beutler, mom and dad Losee, Andy and Hayley spent two days with us - what a great time! We had the traditional Beutler Family Christmas Eve dinner - french dip sandwiches.

And followed it up with another Beutler family tradition of caroling. We had such a fun time visiting neighbors and friends and I have to say, I think we sounded pretty darn good too!

Us in our Christmas pajamas.

And Grandma Beutler reading us Christmas stories.

Christmas morning we saw that Santa found all of us and left plenty of gifts for everyone. Rease got lots of toys and was a very spoiled girl this year.

Grandma Beutler made us all matching aprons. Perfect because Rease loves helping us cook.

Grandma Losee got her this cute hat and vest with gloves and all.

And Rease's favorite thing this year - a new baby with a stroller and diaper bag. She loves being a mommy! Hopefully this is a sign of what a good big sister she'll be too!

Josh got Rease a new camelbak bottle - great for her!

And along with all her gifts she picked up a new habit of wearing grandma and grandpa's glasses. She kept them on for so long that we decided to take the lenses out so her eyes don't go all crazy. Ever since then, she doesn't want to take them off.

Yes, this is our child most of the time now - quite the grown-up! She even wore them to church last week - what do you do?

Anyway, we had a great great Christmas and loved having family close to spend the days with us!

Happy New Year to you all!