Let the games begin...well almost

So Brandon has been waiting a whole year for baseball season to roll around, so when he saw the banner out on the street stating that registration was a few weeks back he could hardly contain his excitement. So we signed him up and they informed us that there would be tryouts to be held coming up in a couple weeks. Well, we had snow on both of the days that they had originally been scheduled for so the make up was tonight. He was so excited! The moment he has been waiting for is finally here! We pull up and it literally looked like the scene from any baseball movie where there are people all over the field throwing the ball back and forth with people with clipboards watching their every move! Did I mention these kids are only 8! I was nervous for him! I knew it wasn't a real tryout so I wasn't too nervous but holy cow! You could tell he has switched from excited to nervous as well. That changed when a kid came up to him and asked if he wanted to play catch. Then he was just a kid who wanted to play baseball. His number was 28 (David Justice's number when he was a Yankee...not that I am proud to say he was a Yankee) they lined all the kids up in numerical order and one at a time they were given the chance to pitch, field a ground ball, and hit. He did okay...not the best but not the worst either. He just loves the game and wants to play, and that is all that matters to me. Now he just has to wait to see what team he ends up on and then he will be ready to go. The games start in a month so pretty soon we should find out.

Brandon's Big Day

Today we celebrated a big day in Brandon's life. He was baptized! He was so excited to have everyone come out and share his day with him. We started the day off at 9:00 going to the church. Baptisim started at 10:00 lots of family and friends came to help him celebrate. Afterwhich we went to the Tooele Army Depot to go bowling in celebration of his birthday. It was way fun! We are all so proud of him and his decision to get baptized. There are many other photos but I couldn't find a slideshow website and I didn't want to put a million pictures on here...so here a few of my favorites.

Baby Update

So I went to the dr yesterday and met my actual doctor not just the assistant. He was alright, I am having a hard time not comparing everything (including my OB) to Logan. He was really awesome! It also doesn't help that I haven't had very good experiences there so far. First they made me come back 2 days later for my first ultrasound visit to figure out my due date. Kind of a waste of time when I have to schedule it around my work schedule. Then I go in a couple weeks later and they asked me all the same questions they did the first appointment, like about previous pregnancies and stuff that should have been in my chart. Also, they didn't even know I came in for my ultrasound so it was a little frustrating them not knowing all the stuff they asked me twice. Then they had a mix up with my labs and I had to get re-tested leaving me way stressed out for about 3 days. I understand that the dr's office didn't really have much to do with the mess up in the lab, but they weren't that understanding when I asked for a re-test. I just keep hoping that things start to look up soon. The fact that I am pregnant is definetly a plus. I also was able to schedule my ultrasound to find out what we are having....March 19th is the big day. I hope we can all wait that long. Of course everyone has their opinion which are all the same...it HAS to be a girl. It probably is and I will be the one that will have to prepart the most for that. However, if it isn't then everyone else will have to just deal with the fact that we have darn cute boys and that is why we get them. :) Just wait everyone, soon enough we will know. One good thing about leap year is they moved my due date up a day so we are now due August 13th.

Valentine's Day

Today was Valentine's Day. Andy and I don't really do anything for this holiday, so I don't have much to say about that. He did buy me a Diet Mt. Dew this morning and him and the boys made some chocolate dipped raspberries last night, Yum! However, the neighbor across the street invited us over for a litte party that she likes to put on for her kiddos. Pretty much my kids are her kids, they are there a lot of the time since she watches them for me while I work 2 days a week. We started the night off playing a little game of BINGO. Next, heart shaped pizza. Followed by cookie decorating. It was pretty fun. I think I need to start doing more fun things for my kids. I forget sometimes that holidays are for the kids and not for me. I did manage to pick up these cute litte bug pouch things that I threw in a couple little toys in. They loved them.

Update....Finally

So I am not so good at this blogging stuff. It has been over 2 months since I have added anything. OOPS!
I am going to try to remember everything since my last post...wish me luck :) Well, we had Thanksgiving. Followed by late night/early morning shopping with my mom, I had to work that day so we didn't stay out as long as we normally would but we got a lot done anyway. Brandon even got involved, we went to Toys-R-Us at 9:00 on Thanksgiving night and stood outside waiting to get in.
Wait....the week before Thanksgiving Andy and I went with my mom and dad to Vegas. We met my sister from California there. My other sister and her husband came as well. It was nice to go somewhere for a couple days. Of course we missed our boys. While we were there we went to see the Blue Man Group. Andy was part of the show! One of the Men was in the corner eating a bowl of Captin Crunch and "got caught" he handed it to Andy to make it look like he was the one that was eating it. It was the funniest thing! For those of you who know Andy know that he isn't one to get involved in anything, yet alone a show in Vegas. He just sat there holding the bowl cause he didn't know whatelse to do with it.
On the 2nd of December my baby boy turned 3! We did a Toy Story cake (not as cool as Brandon's) poor kid gets jipped sometimes :) He didn't seem to mind though. It was filled with lots and lots of Monster Trucks since that is what he wanted.
Next we have the month of December...full of holiday parties and treats! Yum! I wasn't really in the Christmas mood this year so we didn't get a tree until around the 10th of the month. Then it took about a week for it to be decorated. We didn't even put up any of our decorations. We put lights in the windows but that was about it. I felt really bad for my kids, of course too late to fix it. Next year will rock!
As part of Andy's Christmas everyone pitched in and sent him to the Bears VS Broncos game with his brother Troy. He had tons of fun! Lucky for him he likes both teams so he wasn't really disappointed in the game at all. The Broncos came from behind to win, but overall the game was good.
On Christmas Eve we were able to take an adventure to the IMC emergency room. Ty decided that breaking his arm would be a good idea. He was dancing around and fell funny and that was all it took. Here I thought his broken bones would come from jumping off the couch, stairs, slides, or porch. But now he breaks it just walking around. :) Two weeks later we went in to get it casted and he wanted a Buzz cast. Disappointed to find out there is no such thing...he went with green instead (like Buzz). He only had the cast on for 2 weeks and it never slowed him down at all. Still jumping and running everywhere.
After Christmas comes Andy and I's anniversary....11 years! Hard to believe it has been that long. This year the weather was nice and sunny...complete contrast to the year we got married, foggy and cold.
Jan 9th leads us to Andy's birthday. Brandon picked out a Broncos cake for him. We were just glad they won the day before so the cake was still a good idea :) I invited his friend Dan and his wife Crystal over for dinner. It was a fun little party.
Another fun thing that happend in the first part of January...I was able to go get an ultrasound of our new addition! That is right folks...we have #3 coming in August. We found out the week before Christmas but waited until the 13th of January to tell the family. It was hard to keep in. I had my cousin Staci make some t-shirts to help us spread the word. They turned out awesome! We are all excited, especially the boys. They both keep rubbing my stomach and looking at the little ultrasound pics of the kidney bean with arms. :)
Well, I think that about sums up the last couple months. Hopefully I don't wait another 2 months to update again. I didn't put pictures on this post, but they are all on my FB profile so feel free to go there and check them out.

Monticello Trip

The weekend before Halloween we drove down to Monticello to see my cousins that live there. It is always nice to go see family and just chill. While we were there we went to Grandma Hansen's house and raked leaves. Of course you can't rake leaves without jumping in them.












Everyone got involved. It was way fun! The kids had a blast and were upset when we started bagging them up. Tyler even went as far to jump in the bag as we were putting the leaves in there. It was way funny!
Thanks Hoggards for letting us come and see you guys and stay at your nice new house! We love you all!

CEO Breakfast

We were able to attend a breakfast at Brandon's school this morning. His teacher nominated him to recieve the award called a CEO (Chief Example to Others) at Northlake. Brandon is doing so well in school he makes me so proud. His teachers have all always had such great things to say about him. He is currently carrying a straight A report card (minus a couple A+) :) I am so glad that he is a much better student than I was at that age....sorry mom! He is such a sweetheart to everyone. Just one example that I can think of that I wanna make sure gets written down somewhere is...One day he was ridding his bike to school with a group of kids from the neighborhood and one of the girls in the group had her tire go flat. Brandon stayed back with her and walked to and from school that day so she wouldn't be alone. What a GREAT kid I have been blessed with. LOVE YOU BUDDY! I can't get the video to upload :( I hope one day I can figure it out and post it someday.