Dec. 16, the day we discovered we were pregnant. The night before, I was cleaning the house for a party we were throwing and I came across the paper that I kept track of my periods on. I noticed that I was a few weeks late again, so I thought, “well I guess I have to take another torturous test to confirm I am not pregnant before taking my meds again.” The last few months, my periods were coming about 2 weeks late, so it was just becoming a torturous routine, where I had to take the test and then within the next few days, my period would start. So cruel.

That morning, I got up for work, and took the test. The test took the full 3 minutes to come up, so I was especially SHOCKED when the test came up PREGNANT! I mean, the whole 3 minutes. It was like it was doubting it itself. It never takes that long to say positive, only negative (it seems like). I wanted to take multiple tests to confirm, but of course that was my last one and I didn’t want to spend more money on more.

As I was sitting there stunned, I thought, “how should I tell Tyson?” I knew I couldn’t hold off on telling him in the evening and since I was working, I wouldn’t be able to prepare a cute way. So I decided it would be fun this time, to say nothing, leave it on the counter in the bathroom, see how long it would take him, and to get his real reaction. Cruel, I know. I didn’t have to wait long for him since he gets up a couple minutes after me.

I am so glad I did it this way because his reaction was PRICELESS! He comes in and as he is getting ready for his shower, he looks down all groggy, triple takes on it, and says “is this for real?” Of course, I said yes and we celebrated. To get that pure reaction was so awesome, I don’t think I will ever forget that look on his face!

We absolutely could not get over the positive result. We are calling it our christmas miracle, even though it technically is a thanksgiving miracle. Ever since the IUI didn’t work, we had decided to take a break from the medicines and doctors, save up money again for another round of insemination, and just let it be until then. That is why we are so shocked that we got pregnant using no fertility medicines this time. I was still taking Metformin, but that is not a fertility drug, it just helps with PCOS. We knew that I would eventually ovulate, but the chances of catching that random month at the right time, are really slim. I did have 3 months in a row, that I thought I possibly could have ovulated though, so maybe it really was meant to be at this time because that never happens to woman with PCOS (to ovulate that many times in a row). I have heard about many couples who get pregnant when they stop trying all the fertility stuff, but it has never been us, and I figured it never would be.

It is such a blessing. We still have a hard time believing it. We are so so so grateful! It will be a Christmas we will never forget.

Dec. 15, I was part of putting on the preschool christmas party. The kids all had a great time. We made reindeer and gingerbread cookies, sang songs, and read a christmas book. It was another successful party and I was glad to be apart of it.

Kids making their cookies

Some of their cookies. I think they turned out cute.

Singing time

Gavin was into it

Dec. 12, Tyson’s parents invited everyone over to make gingerbread houses. It was a lot of fun. Gavin loved helping us decorate it. He did much better at not picking off the candy we were putting on this year. He also loved eating the house the next day after we made it.

It's coming along

Every couples house

Such great friends

Cute cousins

Our family house

Dec. 11, was our ward’s annual Christmas breakfast with Santa. I couldn’t go because I worked but Tyson told me that they had a good time and that Gavin loved Santa this year. Tyson also thought it was pretty funny what shoes santa was wearing. That silly santa.

So excited for santa

More into getting his picture taken than talking to santa

Santa's shoes

Dec. 10, was girls night out. MaryAnne, Tina, and I met up at the nail salon to get a mani/pedi. I haven’t had one for months.

After our nails were dry, we hoped in the same car and went to eat at Tepanyaki. We had a delicious dinner.

At Tepanyaki

After dinner we went to get dessert at Baskin Robins. After sitting and talking there forever we all had to go to the bathroom and the store didn’t have one. Since we were close to Tina’s mom house, we stopped by her house to use her restroom.

MaryAnne, Tina, and I at Baskin Robins

After her house, we went back to our cars, talked a little longer, and then decided we were all tired so we should go home.

We have such a great time together. It is like we have never been apart when we get together. I love our girls night and it is great having some close friends that you can share your secrets with. I love you girls.

Dec. 8, was my turn teaching Gavin’s preschool again. I had to take pics of the kids for the upcoming Christmas party, so I thought I would post a few because these kids are just so cute.

Isn't he adorable?

The cutest group of preschool kids

Gavin having fun after preschool with his floor puzzle. Silly kid.

Dec. 3, the Weiler wedding festivities begin. One of Tyson’s great high school friend, Rob, was finally getting married. He is the last in the group to get married, so it was a wedding we had all been waiting for. When we met his, then girlfriend Katie, at Zion’s, we knew she was the one. So the announcement of his proposal was not a surprising one. We were all so excited that he found a girl worthy of his love. Rob is the guy, all us wife’s, absolutely adore and wanted a great girl for him, since that is all he deserved. Well, that is who he found. Katie is great and fits right in with everyone.

Friday night was their wedding dinner at the Old MIll golf course, only fitting for a sports fanatic like Rob. It was a great dinner. The food was delicious, the program was great, and catching up with the old crew was fun. At least one person in the friend group was able to travel back to Utah for Rob’s wedding. That is how important he is to everyone. I was especially happy that MaryAnne was able to make it back for the wedding and that was the first night seeing her, so it was great catching up with her.

Dec. 4, wedding day. We went to the Salt Lake Temple for their wedding. Tyson discovered that morning, that his temple recommend has expired, so he wasn’t able to go. He did come meet up with us for pictures afterwards. The ceremony was beautiful and we were thrilled for them. We took some pictures at the temple and then it was off for decorating their hotel room (MaryAnne took our pics, but I didn’t get them from her, so I took a few from Rob).

It has become a tradition, that when one of the guys get married, we all pitch in money for their first night hotel stay, and then we decorate it. This tradition has come a long ways. We started out with the rooms looking a little more trashy then romantic, but as more wife’s got involved, the rooms have turned into a very romantic setting for the couple to come back to. We have always been able to get really nice suites, with all the groups money and of course, we all left the best for last. Their suite was at the Little America. Their room was beautiful and the decorations looked great, if you ask me. It was fun being apart of the decorating team. I think this has been one of the best traditions ever.

The cute couple

The gang

We had a few hours at home and then it was off to the reception. The reception was at Le Jardin Gardens, where Katie works. It was a great reception and a little bittersweet that there will be no more friend weddings (well, until our kids are getting married ). Katie looked beautiful. We are so happy for Rob and Katie. Congrats you guys!

Their cake

MaryAnne and I back together again.

Best Friends

The departure

Nov. 28, we decided to leave and drive the whole way through to Utah. We took a scenic route home that goes through Fort Collins to try to help beat the bad weather. The drive was really pretty along that route and less time in Wyoming is always better.

The drive home was good with Gavin, but we were racing snow storms again. When we got to about Rock Springs, we had officially got caught in the snow storm. Of course, we don’t get in it until it is in my stretch of driving. It was really dark, heavy snow every where, poor visibility, going down major mountains, and big rig trucks every where. I was scared and nervous driving through it. We had the heavy snow for the rest of the drive. I eventually asked Tyson to switch me again because I was just too scared of getting in an accident.

We eventually made it home and had a great trip with my family.

Nov. 27, Chelsea’s 1st birthday party. Kim’s housing community comes with a little community center. Anyone who lives there can rent it out for parties. So Kim thought it would be a place for a fun family activity/birthday party. She was right. It was a lot of fun. They have a big movie projector that the kids played wii on. The men went into the bar area to watch football, we ate pizza, played board games, puzzles, and Minute to Win it.

Men watching football

Building puzzles while eating pizza

While everyone was doing their own thing, my sister Jenny thought it would be nice to do some sister pictures since we never have. So Tyson took lots of girl pictures for us. He is such a nice guy. We had fun acting silly together and it went a lot faster not having to deal with kids in the pic.

We thought this was such a funny pic of my mom, she's crazy sometimes

Ann

Kim

Jenny

Me

Jenny and I acting silly

After the girls finished, Ann and Kim wanted Tyson to take some quick shots of their families. Ann’s pics didn’t really turn out too well, but Kim got a lot of good one’s, I thought. She also wanted some birthday shots of Chelsea, so Tyson took some of just her.

Ann's family

Kim's family

I love this pic of Trevor, he seriously looks like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame St. (not because he looks grouchy either)

Chelsea is 1

I love this pic even though she is upset

Isn't she the cutest?

After all the pictures, we got a family game of volleyball going. Even though it was a bit cold outside, it was a ton of fun playing volleyball as a family. I actually don’t think we have ever played that game together. We played the game twice since we were having so much fun.

We were finally too cold to continue and it was getting dark, so we went in for Chelsea’s birthday cupcakes and presents.

Singing to her

Opening her presents

After she opened all her gifts, we did the Christmas gift exchange between all the cousins and adults. The kids were all excited to get an early Christmas gift.

The gift exchange

Gavin opening his gift

It was another great family day and Kim did a good job of planning the party.

Nov. 26, Black Friday. Kim, Jenny, and I decided it would be fun to try out Black Friday for real for the first time. We got up at 3:45am and drove to Target for the 4am opening. We made our list the night before and all 3 of us split up to get the most important gifts for everyone first. We pulled up, the line was behind the store, so Kim dropped Jenny and I off to get in line while she looked for parking. We stood there for 2 mins. and then the line started moving because they opened their doors. When we got to the front, Kim was waiting to meet us, she got in with us, and we took off to our different items. I got the razors, Jenny got the GPS’s, and Kim got something I don’t remember. After we got our items, we planned for Kim to wait in line while Jenny and I walked around separately looking for the different discounted items. When we felt like we got all the items we wanted to met up in line, Kim walked around, and then we all exchanged, added, and divided all the items we got before we checked out. The line didn’t take that long. We were there for a total of an hour for everything, which was great. We all saved half the price of our total. It was awesome!!! We had a great experience and want to do this all the time. We have decided to make this a tradition for the Thanksgiving’s we spend together.

We went back to Kim’s house, separated all our items, and hid all the presents. I was completely done Christmas shopping after this day. We were still so pumped from the morning, we decided to out again to the mall. We went to Sears first and got some more good deals there and went to Children’s Place where I got way too many clothes but they were so dirt cheap I had to.

After the mall, we decided to get breakfast before calling it quits. We went to Cracker Barrel (Jenny’s favorite), and enjoyed a really nice breakfast. It was so much fun spending all this time with just my sisters. I loved it all and can’t wait to do it again. BTW, the husbands were proud when they saw how much money we saved and all the great things we got, it helped ease the pain of how much we spent.

Yay for Black Friday!!!

When we got back; dad, Brad, Shawn, and Jeremy went golfing and Tyson and Brett went shopping because they were feeling like they needed some guy time also and didn’t want to golf in the freezing weather. While they were gone, Kim slept on the couch and Gavin and I went in their backyard to play. Gavin had been dying to jump on their trampoline. He was so cute on it. He loved it. He would sing “ring around the rosie” and fall down when he got to that part. I enjoyed watching him. He also played in their sand box for a little bit before coming in. Right when we went in their house, a wild bunny came hopping by. I guess this family of rabbits live in my sister’s yard, she said. They were cute.

This is my all time favorite picture

So tired

Singing his song

They all fall down

I don't remember why he made this face

I like this one too

Playing in the sandbox

After everyone got home and the kids napped, we met up with Ann and Jenny’s family at a tumbling gymnasium for open gym time. I was excited for this because none of us have been to one of these gyms. Oh my goodness, it was so much fun. All the kids had the funnest time and we had so much fun walking around with Gavin watching him love it. He was great at jumping into the foam pits, he was never scared. He also did the bungee’s, he didn’t really weigh enough for it, but he still liked it. His favorite was the rope swing into the foam pits. I tried teaching Gavin how to spin while jumping, he didn’t quite get it but he loved trying. He also liked running into the pits. Pretty much, there was nothing he didn’t like.

Jumping into the foam pit

Trevor getting ready to fly

Gavin getting ready to swing

In the pit

The kid yelling daddy is not Gavin

Cody jumping

Gavin’s twin cousin, Cody, running to jump in the pit

Cooper on the bungee

Gavin getting the bungee harness on

Gavin on the bungee

Caden on the bungee

Gavin trying to flip

Trevor jumping

Zach jumping

Cooper jumping

After the gym, we all went to Chick-Fl-A for ice cream. It was a really fun family activity. I hope we do it next holiday we have together.

That night we went to Ann’s house for dinner and games. The kids all get along so great, it is so much fun being all together.