My birthday

It's about time I do a little update on this here blog. I turned the big 29 this month!!! On October 3rd to be exact. To celebrate I begged Jarom to take me to see Topol in Fiddler on the Roof. It was playing in Spokane at the beginning of September and I figured it was a once in a lifetime chance. Jarom agreed to celebrate a month early for me. For those of you who don't know Topol played the main character in the movie Fiddler on the roof. I couldn't believe he was actually going to perform live!! He's got to be close to 80 years old now, but he's still going strong!!! When he first stepped onto the stage the whole audience clapped and cheered so much that he had to wait to say his first lines. It was amazing to see him perform live!! Jarom had never seen the movie before so he had no idea what to expect. He said he really liked it and the next day he wanted to watch the movie.

Then later for my actual birthday we went out to dinner at Red robin, (we can't get enough of those garlic steak frys...mmmm..yummy!!) (There's a good shot of my 32 week pregnant belly) After the dinner we went to play ping pong. Jarom ended up winning me, twice! I was in the lead for the first game though and he barely won me. By the second game I started getting a little to tired of bending over to pick up the ball. Oh well, maybe better luck next time.
Thanks again Hunn for a fabulous birthday!

It's a boy!!!

We had an ultra sound a month ago, and found out we're having a boy!! Sorry for the late update, I haven't been on the computer much lately. We are very excited! We picked out the name Ethan. We're still trying to figure out what middle name to give him. I've been thinking of Daniel though. Here I am at 25 weeks pregnant. So last week I got started painting the room the boys will share. I was waiting to make sure we were having another boy before keeping the nautical theme I originally thought of for Kaleb's room. Here's a peek of how it turned out... It's hard to tell in the pictures, but I used two different shades of blue for the opposite walls. I couldn't find any nautical kids borders that I liked, so I decided to paint my own. Definitely not a professional painters work, but I was impressed with how it turned out. I made my own stencils and everything. It was a lot of work, but once I got started I was determined to finish. Painting the border was actually pretty fun. I felt like an artist with my paint pallet and brushes.

Utah Road Trip 2009

We took a road trip in August down to Utah for my cousins wedding and the Watts family reunion.We stopped at my friend Rachael's house on the way and got to visit with her family for a bit. Her son Kaden is the cutest little guy!! After visiting with Rachael, we headed off to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple for my cousin Mike's wedding. It was a beautiful wedding, and so much fun to visit with my Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins again.After the reception we made the extra 4 hour drive to the Dickinson family ranch in Cedar city, after driving 6 hours earlier that day from Montana!! We got there at 2 in the morning and were very tired!!!! As you can see the Watts family reunion's are not very small. Jarom's Grandma & Grandpa Dickinson just finished building a beautiful new house at the ranch. We really enjoyed visiting with the family.One day they planned a carnival for all the kids. Here's Kaleb with his carnival tickets. Jarom also did a bubble show for the whole family. We loved it!!We also got to see the newest addition to the family. Jarom's older sister Rebekah just had her 2nd baby girl Kiah. Her she is with Jarom's mom.
We wish we could've stayed longer, but after a couple of days it was time to make the long road trip back home. On the way back we stopped at a hotel in Boise, ID. Kaleb enjoyed riding on the luggage cart. Don't you wish you could be small enough to do fun stuff like that again.

We passed through a beautiful moutain drive and decided to stop and take a picture. After driving 40 hours in 4-5 days we were all exhausted and promised each other there would be no more road trips!!! Well, that is until next year.

California Visit

We are off to visit Cali next Wed.-Frid. Yep, it will be a very short trip. Jarom needs to go for some business meetings and Kaleb and I will be coming along for the trip. It will be great to visit with family and friends, and hopefully the beach... I only wish we could visit longer.

News!

Well we have some news. Jarom and I found out that I am... Pregnant!! Yup that's right I am for sure...PREGNANT!!! Hurray, we're so excited!! The news came as a bit of a surprise, since we weren't officially "trying", but we've been wanting to have another baby anyway so it worked out great. I've been having morning sickness, throwing up, and being tired and hot lately, you know, all the fabulous early pregnancy stuff. Unfortunately, we've already had a little scare of possibly losing the baby. So we've been hoping and praying that things will work out okay for this pregnancy. The good news is that we've had wonderful health care and Jarom has been a great support through it all. I've had a blessing and feel that the baby will be fine. My due date is November 26th, so the baby and Kaleb will have close birthdays. We will know more how the baby is doing after the ultrasound on Monday, and will definitely keep you posted.

Kaleb is already 18 months old. He is getting so big and developing in many new ways. He's learned how the say ball, baby (although he always says babies), bath, book, (a lot of "B" words), this, that, and still says momma, dadda, daddy. His voice is so cute and we just love him so much and kiss his squishy cheeks as much as possible. He's obsessed with balls, and he'll point out balls everywhere we go. He thinks anything round is a ball, so he'll call oranges, apples, and other round objects balls also. It's pretty funny. He's still such a happy little guy. He'll laugh at the silliest things. He loves playing with his daddy. Jarom can make him laugh so hard. He also loves cuddling with his mommy. Thanks to our new job, and all the different toys at the day care, he's learned to ride a 4-wheeled bike, scribble with crayons, and has learned to interact with other kids easier. He also enjoys building towers with blocks and crawling up on as many things as possible. He's so much fun to have around and we feel so blessed to be his parents. Work is going good. It was a hard adjustment for Kaleb and I at first. Kaleb would get overstimulated easily, especially during our busiest and loudest times. He also had a hard time sharing Mommy with other kids, and used to cry each time I would leave for a minute to use the restroom. He's doing much better now, and barely misses me during bathroom breaks. It's been a bit hard on us both physically too. We've both been getting all kinds of sicknesses from the kids there. We've had cold after cold, and Kaleb just recently had pink eye. Now that we've been working there for awhile though we've adapted better, and Kaleb and I love playing there with all the other kids. There's also two other pregnant women that work there, so we like to chat about being pregnant and what not.


We want to wish you fabulous mothers out there a very Happy Belated Mother's day. I feel so blessed to be a mother, and am grateful for my mother, grandma, and other mothers in my life who have been good examples to me!

My little Co-Worker

Kaleb and I will be working together starting Monday. I got a job at a local Gym working in the kids center. I wanted the chance to get out of the house and make a little extra money. The greatest thing about it is that I get to take Kaleb with me to work. I told him his job is to play with other kids and have fun. Another added benefit is that I get to use the facilities and work out!! Woohoo!! Let's just say I'm in need of some exercise. :o) I'm hoping working there will get me motivated to get in shape. Wish me luck!

What have those Watts been up to?

We've been a pretty busy family these last couple of weeks, and I haven't been in the blogging mood, so I figured it's about time I update our blog. So brace yourself for a little review on our family happenings lately.

On Valentines day the three of us ended up being sick and we weren't able to get a babysitter for Kaleb, but we didn't let that stop us from doing a little celebrating. Jarom took us out to a yummy dinner, and after we wandered around the mall and played some games in the arcade. It was a fun night!

The next week was our 3rd year anniversary which we celebrated with another amazing dinner at Tomato Street (an Italian restaurant), which has now become one of my favorite restaurants. Also in the same week my incredibly amazing husband ended up being on the news, 4 times!!! How did he do that you ask?... By breaking 2 Guinness book of world records of course!!! For those of you that don't know, Jarom enjoys doing soap bubble performances on the side. He's become very skilled at making soap bubble shapes, and performs some bubble magic, which led to the title of his business BUBBILLUSIONS. You can see some of the things he does on http://www.bubblemagicshow.com/. The two records he broke was for 1. The worlds largest soap bubble, and 2. the worlds longest soap bubble chain. It was very exciting to see Jarom up on stage performing. The local newspapers also posted some articles about him.

Then on Friday Feb. 27th we got the keys to our anniversary gift to each other... That's right, we bought the house, and moved in on the 28th!! We are so happy that everything worked out so that we were able to get this home. We feel so grateful for this amazing blessing, and are also grateful for those family members and friends who helped us during the home buying process and for helping us move in. The move went very well, and now it's time for unpacking.

So hopefully that explains our blog neglect lately. It felt like everything was happening at once, and we are glad that most of it is over! Phew!!