The experiment...

Hypothesis:

Indie will see Maddie crawl, feel the motion of crawling by being tied to Chloe and in effect crawl on her own.

Result:

Indie was just really scared...and still not crawling.

Back to the drawing board.

BTW...this all took place in August.  I am just barely getting around to posting it.

Tis the season to be merry...

So to say I am behind on blogging is an understatement, but better late than never...right?  Here is what we were up to during the month of December.

The first Monday of December for the past 27 years we have gone to a live nativity scene for family home evening. I know it has been that many years because I played the part of baby Jesus when I was a baby.  It is one of the longest standing Rigby family traditions and I love it. 

We went to The Festival of Trees to see our little star. The SOFT foundation donated a tree with a collage of all the little soft angels in Utah which featured our little Indie.

(Ind is on the bottom row in the center)

This blown glass tree was our second favorite tree.

For young womens we took Front Runner to Temple Square to see the lights and Indie and Tony came along for the night. Tony got some pretty sweet shots of the Temple.

Some of my girls.  I think there were 20 there that night.

We spent the better part of a day putting up our freaking Christmas lights.

By the end, we all felt like this and I wonder why we go through all that trouble when half the lights don't end up working.

On the Eve of Christmas Eve we always have "The Sister's Party."  My mom, her sisters and all the spouses, kids and grandkids get together.  It is a house full but one of my favorite parties.

Christmas this year was great.  We really toned it down when it came to gift giving which took a lot of stress off me.  Sometimes I get too wrapped up in all the crap to actually enjoy the season and I wanted it to be different this year.  I got my shopping and wrapping done relatively early and then we just played.

We spent Christmas Eve with Tony's family and Christmas day with my family.  I didn't get any great family shots but I had to post this one of Mad.  Have you ever seen so many Barbies at once...

We were really spoiled this year, as usual, by parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and each other.  I am always shocked at the amount of loot we end up with.  The best part of my Christmas was this book that Tony made for me.  It consists of pictures from the first five years of our marriage.  He has been working on it for months and at one point he was ready to order it and some how lost the whole thing on his computer and had to start over.  He worked so hard on it and it turned out beautifully.  I dare you to read this puppy without shedding a tear.  It is perfect.

Well there you have it.  Our month in a nut shell.

Happy Birthday Hermana...

Yesterday we celebrated Lydia's 23rd birthday.  In true Texas Road House fashion they made her saddle up...

Despite having to work on your b-day we hope you had a great day Lydi.

We love you so much!

We're all smiles around here...

(This is Indie's new "cheese" face)

Big T did it again...

He was accepted into the Physician Assistant program at the 

University of Utah

He interviewed last week and they let the top 10% know they were accepted within 10 days.  He got an email last night and there was a lot of hootin', hollerin' and cryin' going on at our house.  

I am so proud of him.

The low down on the little nugget...

Where to begin…

 

Well I guess first off I should say, yes, my blog has definitely been dead lately but I do have a pretty good excuse.

 

On November 19^th I realized I was “late” and grabbed my calendar and started doing some calculations...about a week late to be correct so I basically knew right then.  I took a pregnancy test and sure enough it was positive.  Only Indie and I were home at the time so I cried out to her, “You’re going to be a big sister!”  I wanted to do something cute to tell Tony but I was too excited and just wrapped up the pregnancy test.  He was so cute when he opened it.

 

We had been debating when to have another baby since early spring.  We couldn’t decide whether to wait until we knew if Tony got in to PA school or not.  Plus we were still kind of waiting for the genetic test results.  So we weren’t really trying but we weren’t being too careful either.  But in early November I said, “Okay let’s go to Seattle but let’s not have another baby for about a year.”  And the next week we found out we were pregnant.  The Lord took it into his own hands and we are definitely okay with that.  We are really excited about the baby but now I am really scared about possibly moving to Seattle.

 

I am due July 23^rd so I am 14 weeks along and already this pregnancy has been completely different.  I guess it is karma because last time I wasn’t sick and the whole thing was a breeze.  I kept saying “I love being pregnant” and “Pregnancy is so easy for me”.  This time...not so much.  Since about 4 days after finding out I have been extremely nauseous.  And I don’t know who the joker is that coined it “morning sickness” because I actually feel the best in the morning and I spend the rest of the day sick.  Thank goodness for a little pill called promethazine.

 

Besides the “all day sickness” I have been ex.haus.ted.  To say I have been ridiculously tired would be a huge understatement.  I told Tony if it weren’t for Indie waking me up in the morning I would probably sleep all day.  I don’t remember being this tired last time.  I mean seriously I am always tired.  Right now I don’t get a single thing done because normally when I would put Indie down for a nap or for bed I would be productive but these days I just end up taking a nap with her and going to bed early…hence the death of the blog. 

 

I have been sick twice already, once with the flu and once with a cold and literally I could not get out of bed.  Normally I can somewhat function while being sick, but not this time.  Luckily Tony has really stepped in and taken care of all of us.  He said it was the sickest he had ever seen me.  So while I laid in bed for probably 3 days straight, he ran the house.   

Well that's about it.  I will keep the updates rollin' and I will try to get back to blogging too.

Guess what?...

 GO UTES!!!