The verdict is in

It is official . We are having a girl. We are very excited about this. Rusty and I were both hoping for a girl. The only thing now is Rusty is dreading having to make toddler size bunk beds. We have to make room for the baby to fit in Alexis and Jordyn's room somehow. It will be fun. I like building things I just need Rusty's muscle and tools. :)

Always check your stove before cooking

In the past I have not been one to check inside my oven before setting it to preheat. After this week I am sure I will check every time before turning on the oven.
Recently Alexis and Jordyn have been cooking in my kitchen instead of playing with their own kitchen. They will bring me random things that we have placed in their cooking drawer and it is some sort of food they have "made." Anyway the other day Alexis had been making me things to eat and we had cleaned up all the cooking things to start getting ready for dinner. I turned on the oven to preheat and then I went and took the girls upstairs to watch a show while I made dinner. Well when I came downstairs I was greeted with a small fire in the oven. That was thrilling. Apparently Alexis had put a hard plastic item in the oven to "cook" and didn't take it out of the oven and I didn't remember her putting anything in there. So it caught fire and melted all down into a hard plastic puddle at the bottom of my oven.

Tonsils

So I haven't been really good at keeping up on my blog. So sorry for those of you that have been wondering what is going on with my family.
The big thing we have been dealing with the past month was and is still Alexis and her tonsil removal. It had been a long and draining recovery for me mainly.
The surgery itself went really well except for the fact they gave her a drug to kind of put her out for the surgery in the for of a nose drop that burns when it goes down. So due to that fabulous drug Alexis now refuses to take any medicine (because she thinks it will all hurt her now). So she made the recovery pretty painful for herself because she would not take her pain medication and stressful for me because she would not take her antibiotic. Luckily she did not get an infection due to her lack of taking her medicine. Before the surgery she would wake up on occasion and greets us in our bedroom in the middle of the night wanting to sleep with us. But now it is almost an every night occurrence. At least we can now sleep while she is in our bed because she no longer snores, but it is becoming a little ridiculous. I have tried a few nights to put her back in her bad and let her cry it out but she then wakes up Jordyn who shares a room with her.
I often wonder if we should have just left her tonsils in, but that would have not been good since she could hardly breath with those things in there, but man this has been a pretty miserable road to recovery. I just hope she will start sleeping in her own bed the entire night soon.

Surprise

For those of you who haven't heard yet. We are going to have a baby. I am expected to deliver the end of July. We are very excited and can't wait to find out what we are having. Hopefully we will know the beginning of March. Hooray for us.

Christmas Eve

We always have the privilege of having Santa come pay a visit at the Trayner family Christmas eve party and here are a few pictures from the party. There is one picture that I did not get taken and that was of Jordyn doing a little dance performance for the entire family while Santa and Skylar led us all in singing "Jingle Bells." It was so funny, but I did get it on video.Here is Alexis with Santa. Last year she was terrified of him. This year she was his best friend.

I wondered how Jordyn would do, but I should have known she would love him just like every other person she sees.

Alexis is just chillin with her cousins, This was such a cute picture I wanted to put it on.

This is from my family party the night before Christmas Eve. We make matching jams for all the cousins on my side of the family. They all turned out so cute. I even had extra material so I made Rusty a pair of matching pajama pants, but I didn't make him wear them with the kids. :)

Lovly Leaves

I think the leaves in fall are so much fun. I wanted to post these fun pictures a long time ago back when I took then around Halloween, but my computer was having issues. I just want to give a shout out to Ryan. Thank you for helping our poor computer. It is working better.
I always liked playing in the leaves as a child. My brothers and I use to make trails and mazes and play tag in the trails. It was a lot of fun. My kids aren't quite big enough for that yet, but they definitely know how to jump in a pile of leaves like champs.

Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun this year we had a last minute party with some of our friends and then Kara and Jake invited some of their friends. It was fun to have a night without the kids. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures from that party Kara was the photographer that night.

The sunday before Halloween we had a big Halloween party with Rusty's side of the family. All the kids had a great time. There were all sort of fun activites for the kids that Rusty's cousin had put together for the kids. It was fun to see everyone in their costumes. Above is a picture of Grandma Hughes with all her grandkids and Kara all dressed up in their costumes.

Jordyn had a lot of fun playing with Great Nanna and Great Grandpa Forest. She is such a love bug and will play with anyone that will show any attention.

Here is aour family in our costumes. For those who can't tell what we are, we have Indiana Jones, Bo Peep, a sheep, the Headless Horseman and I was a Ridell High cheerleader. This year a was feeling domestic and thought I would save a few bucks and make the girls costumes. I was very excited with how they turned out and I think I might give it a try again next year depending on what they choose to be for Halloween.

This is the cake that I made for the Halloween party. I was very happy with how it turned out so I wanted to show it off.

The kids had a really good time trick-or-treating. Some lasted longer than others. The girls had a great time going around in my mom's neighborhood. Alexis kept saying "I want another" so we would go on to the next house. But she didn't last too long once we met up with Carter and Daddy at home. We went around our neighborhood with the neighbor and that was a lot of fun.