Sledding

With leaving for Calgary so soon and not knowing how long we will be staying in Calgary. I feel like we need to take every chance we can get to live in the moment. Spending time with Josh, Lincoln and Lacey and enjoying life is very important to me. So I had a few things I wanted to do was a family before life got busier. One of the family activities was to go sledding. I know with being 35.5 weeks pregnant, sledding isn't the best activity to be wanting to do. I knew I could still go along with the family, take pictures and just enjoy being with them and watching them have fun. I wanted to Lincoln and Lacey to experience the fun you can have even thought it's cold outside. Lincoln and Lacey both had a blast, once we found a hill that wasn't too steep for them at the Sugar Bowl. I wasn't sure if Lacey would like sledding since she's always cold. But it seemed like if we dressed her up enough so she didn't feel the cold, that she quit enjoyed the winter activity. Lincoln loved going on the sled by himself, he's getting to that age where he doesn't need his dad as much. We will defiantly be going sledding again this winter.

35 Weeks!

35 weeks! Two weeks till we move to Calgary so we are close to the hospital and 3.5 weeks till my c-section. I'm feel very overwhelm and inadequate with what lies ahead of us.  There are so many unknowns, but at the same time so ready and excited to meet our little one. Words from Spina Bifida moms gives us hope that it's going to be alright. It not going to be easy, but that there's a reason why this little boy is coming to our family.

Christmas 2016

We had a great Christmas! We stayed home this year and our Nana and Papa's came to our house. We kept our Christmas simple and quite. Which made it perfect. On Christmas Eve we went to the Live Nativity that was our on by our church. I love watching it each year and hope to keeping it a family Christmas tradition with our children for years to come. It's the perfect Christmas activity to do as a family focused on the real meaning of Christmas.

Nana & Papa Harker slept over at our house. It was their first Christmas somewhere other then their own house. Nana & Papa Yamamoto came over on Christmas Eve and Christmas day since they live so close. 

Christmas morning we opened gifts at our place, followed with breakfast and Christmas dinner at our place. Thanks to all the family for helping make Christmas dinner a success. It wouldn't have happened with out you. Christmas day we just took it easy and visited with each other.

Lacey and Lincoln on Christmas Eve, getting Santa's cookies and milk all ready.

Christmas Morning!

Lincoln and Lacey both slept till 7 am, which we thought was pretty good for Christmas morning.

Lincoln was pretty excited to get some dinosaur stuffy's. Lincoln is a stuffed animal lover. He loves choosing a stuffed animal each night to snuggle with while he sleeps. Lincoln also loves dinosaurs lately, so dinosaur stuffy's were perfect for him.

Lincoln's ginormous Long Neck stuffy, he got from Unlce Logan and Kara.

Uncle Logan and Kara were about the come for a quick visit Christmas day. Lacey and Lincoln both loved helping open everyones gifts for them.

Most of Lincoln's gifts this year were dinosaur related, which he loves. He received a dinosaur dig, where he got today for dinosaur fossils, once he discovered all his dinosaur bones. He got to put them together like a puzzle and see which dinosaur he found. He loved his dinosaur digs.

We also got to visit/skype with Aunt Sara (Josh's sister) who's serving a mission. Crazy to think she will be home in one month.

Harker Christmas

After our long day with appointments in Calgary, we then had to make a trip to Cardston the same day. We didn't know if we were going to do, depending on how I felt. But I toughed it out and we went. I was so done by the end of the day.

It was good seeing all the Harker Family at Aunt Bonnies house and getting a chance to visit with family that we don't get to see to often. Aunt Bonnie's house was full of family and tones of delicious food. The children got to take part in another nativity. It was fun watching then all act out the true meaning of Christmas.

34 Week Ultrasound and OB-GYN Appointment

Another trip to Calgary for our 34 week Ultrasound and OB GYN appointment. Appointment days are long and tiring, as I have mentioned before. We had an 9 am appointment which mean we need to leave by 6 am to be there on time and wake up at 5am. Two hours to Calgary and 45 minutes to the NorthWest side of Calgary where the Foothills Hospital is. Our appointments went well, we found out our little guy is 5 lbs. 13 oz., a good size for 34 weeks. He's ventricles have always been enlarged but stable, which is very common with baby's with Spina Bifida. But with this ultrasound his ventricles in his brain have enlarged. So they will be watching them. If they keep enlarging they will most likely have to do a shunt after birth. Praying they don't enlarge too much more. It's crazy how much I love our little boy even though we haven't meet him yet. Our trips to Calgary are slowly getting harder for me. With the pelvic pain I have been experiencing, sitting more then 10 mins is very uncomfortable.

Stewart Christmas

It's so fun having our kids participate in traditions that I did as a child. The Stewart Christmas's at the cabin is something I remember from my childhood and look forward to each year as Christmas rolls around. There's always lots of family, yummy food and we always have a good time. Lincoln and Lacey participated in the kids nativity. It was nice that I had saved our nativity costumes from previous years so I didn't have to make any.

Lacey- Shepard, Lincoln- Wiseman

Top Secert

Lincoln got to make a Christmas gift at kindergarten to bring home. Each day as they worked on the gift Lincoln would come home and say how much we'd love this gift but that we can't know anything about it as it's 'TOP SECERT'. He was pretty excited, which made us all that much more excited to see what it was. Christmas morning came and we could finally could open our gift from Lincoln. It was a glass ball with a picture of Lincoln and a drawing on the other side that read " Christmas is special because Jesus is born." I love the gift from Lincoln and the words he wrote and to see that Lincoln truly understand why Christmas is special to us.