At the beginning of the month Addie started ballet classes. They're once a week for an hour and she really enjoys it. Doesn't she look cute in her dance outfit?

Addie also started preschool with a few other families from our church. We take turns having it at each other's houses and I actually had it at our house this week. We had a lot of fun. We learned about the letter C and about colors. We did an art project with all the colors of the rainbow and they got to use glue (which is what they were excited about and they did really well with it). And we played some color games with our Twister game. All in all, a success. Now I don't have to teach until Halloween.

Andres enjoyed having all those boys at our house and having more people who felt the same way about his toy tractors and cars. Addie and he will play together with different things, but she just doesn't seem to get how cool 'things that go' are. He's still a very happy guy, but has been expressing himself a lot more when things don't go the right way. He has quite a fun personality and Addie and I sometimes have a good laugh about the things that he does and says. Here's just a random picture post popsicle:

I just had to get a picture of this. It's pretty typical. Andres had been carrying around the flower and Pooh and wearing the hat for quite some time all while very enthusiastically pushing what we call the vacuum and making a car noise. I asked him to say cheese for a picture, and instead of continuing the enthusiasm, he stood absolutely still and would not smile. And Addie had to join in with all of her little ponies.
I really am sorry if it seems like my children are always missing some vital clothing. They usually are. They're not usually quite as bad as Andres always seems to be in pictures . . . maybe I just need to stop taking pictures when they're half clothed.

I just loved this picture! We don't get to see Jason very much these days. The studying has died down a bit, but he has to spend a lot of time in the clinic and in the lab. This picture simply is Sunday mornings at our house:

And since there seems to be plenty of room left on Jason's lap, we thought we'd add another to the crazy bunch. Here's an ultrasound picture of the latest edition, due February 3. We've decided to wait until then to find out whether it's a boy or girl. And we're hoping that the baby doesn't arrive any earlier than the 3rd because that just happens to be the last day of Jason's busy, crazy semester (technically a semester because there are two of them in the year, but who ever heard of a semester that lasts from August-February?). Anyway, I have names already picked out even though Jason isn't too excited about them (too bad he's not going to have any time to come up with something different) but from past experience I'm not going to share my thoughts publicly until we decide (which will probably be when the baby is born).
So, this picture is one of the only good ones we got. The tech tried poking around for about 10 minutes to get us a profile, but there was absolutely no cooperation. Which is sad because we have good profiles of both Addie and Andres. But, oh well. This kid obviously fits in with our very individual and strong personality family. Anyway, the big circle is the head, and the arrow is pointing to a finger and the tech had written "I'm Number One!".

ANOTHER visit to THAT state

We found an amazing deal to fly into Provo. Yes, Provo has an airport although they don't really have everything all figured out yet (like everyone stands outside to wait for the carts to bring their luggage which is dumped onto the ground and everyone just picks through until they find it - I'm pretty sure this is temporary but they figure it out soon cause I don't think that'll work in the winter). Anyway, my mom and Paige were down there dropping Taylor off at school. Yes, my little sister is starting college! Crazy. Anyway, we stayed down there one night and Kevin was even able to meet us in the morning and came swimming with us. The kids were a little afraid of him at first, but then realized it was just their crazy Uncle Kevin.

We then spent a couple days in Providence with Uncle Allen. Here they all are on the love sac. I said it was time for bed, so they were pretending to be asleep:

Then we headed to Bear Lake which both of the kids loved.  As a matter of fact, we had the chance to join Great Grandma Dexter for her birthday lunch in Brigham City and when we stopped at the house in Providence to drop something off, Addie was very upset and said "Not here!  Bear Lake!".  My parents have a beautiful house up there and the 'grandkids room' was the funnest place Addie had ever seen.

Plus, we set this up on their deck so that we could get some projects done.  We didn't really get any done, but we enjoyed the nice weather and the view.  It was a nice little break.

Grandma also has some pretty fun dress-ups which occupied a lot of our time.