Christmas - New Years Eve

Felicia, Tom, Noah and Georgia spent the week between Christmas and New Years with us. It was so much fun. While they were here they purchased a new mini van, Mike and I took a trip to the ER for kidney stones...the joys of pregnancy for me (mostly to get a new prescription for pain meds), played games, rang in the New Year and just enjoyed being with each other.

Christmas Eve & Christmas 2015

Mike was supposed to go to work Monday-Wednesday  this week, but they had problems on the range so he didn't have a whole lot to do. He ended up taking Wednesday the 23rd off which was nice because we did some deep cleaning in the basement.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had our traditional dinner out to McDonald's and then drove around to look at Christmas lights. I think the McDonald's tradition may be combining to an end real soon because Emily and Mordecai are getting a bit too big for the play place and bore easily. We will still have to eat out or something...maybe Chinese food will become our new tradition. It has been a fun little memory to have though. 

After dinner and lights we came home and had the kids quickly open their Christmas pajamas from Mom & Dad because we were having a special visitor. BC had an awesome Santa outfit and came to visit our kids. It was very fun watching them scream with excitement. I don't think it will be too long before Emily and Mordecai will lose the magical part, and that's sad. After he left we bathed kids, watched the Nativity video on lds.org, read Luke 2, said prayers and put the kids to bed. Mike and I stayed up and watched the new Mission Impossible movie and then went to bed.

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning started off early-like 5:30 a.m. with a FaceTime call from Mom & Dad in Wisconsin. Mike is constantly teased about owning a Daewoo Nubira so we decided to buy a gag gift for daddy that said, " you can't buy happiness, but you can buy a Daewoo Nubira and that's sort of the same thing." We requested to have them call us so we could watch his reaction when he opened it, we just didn't think they'd call us so early our time. After that Mike and I just cuddled in bed until Mordecai woke up to use the bathroom and realized Santa had come. He woke the girls up about 6:30 a.m. and we headed down to open presents.

The big gifts this year were a
Trampoline - Grandma & Grandpa Bainbridge

Wii-U - Santa

Emily- rollerblades

Mordecai- Legos

Ruby- iPod

Ivy- outfit from grandma & grandpa Rogers

Family- 72 hour kits

Desi- large wall clock, Pureology (shampoo& conditioner) & perfume

Mike- bike pump & leaf blower/vacuum

Felicia & Tom arrived at 3:00 p.m., a day early because they were trying to beat the snow storm we got that evening. So they were here for dinner in addition to the Bank's family that we had invited. It was a fun evening just visiting and eating. Poor Emily got sick that evening and threw up all night long, but luckily nobody else got it.

December 2015 Happenings

Christmas Tree Decorating, Gingerbread Men decorating, Ward Christmas party, School Choir Concerts, City Hall Lights, Christmas Sunday, and finding out we are having another girl, probably named Milly Ann Rogers.

Baby # 5 20 Week Check

I had my 20 week ultrasound and doctors appointment this morning. I took all four kids with me because we woke up to about a foot of snow, so school was cancelled. Emily and Mordecai were pretty excited for the gender reveal part because everyone, except Ivy, Mike and me were expecting it to be a boy. Mike didn't have a feeling one way, Ivy said it was a girl-boy, and I knew it was a girl from symptoms I had while pregnant with the other girls. Anyway, the ultrasound tech asked if we wanted to know the sex and we said yes. When she said "girl" Mordecai looked pretty bummed, and then quickly said, "we aren't done yet. We are going to keep trying until we get another boy." I laughed a little. I feel bad for him, he wants a brother so bad. I can't say if we are for sure done, especially since we've always said we will just trust the Lord, but I can tell you that I felt and still feel like I'm missing a boy. Whether that's because I just want one, we are going to have one, or have one after we are resurrected I dont know.

Anyway, everything went well with the appointment. She is measuring right on track, and her heartbeat it strong. I will have 2 more ultrasounds with her at 30 and 36 weeks to continue to monitor her growth, since after Ivy's 20 week appointment was when growing problems happened. My fundal measurement was almost 21cm which I should have just been around 20cm so that's promising. We are also pretty sure her name is going to be Milly. We decided her name should end in "y" since the other girls do, and that she should be named after one of Mike's grandmas, either Lillian or Mildred. Everyone loves Milly since it's more unique and Ivy talks about her all the time. Mike was able to feel her move this morning so reality is starting sink in.