What we've been up to...

We have been so busy! We have moved our guest bedroom downstairs and set up Nathan's new bunk bed in the old guest room. He has Thomas the train bedding and he's doing great in his new room. He has already figured out that the crib is where the baby in Mommy's tummy will sleep. He is excited about the baby. I just hope it's not too difficult of a transition when he actually arrives!


Nathan and Ayden hiding under Nathan's bed...

John took Nathan on the ward Father and Son's campout last Friday and Saturday. They had fun! Nathan loved the tent and "hiding" in it. He wouldn't get in the sleeping bag but just slept on top with his blanket. I was worried he would wake up and not go back to sleep or something, but John said he slept great. John was a bit uncomfy on the ground though! :) Oh well! I think they had a fun bonding time.

The only good pictures of Nathan camping. He is in a nazi picture mode right now, so it's kinda tough to get a good picture of him!

We decided to go to Parma for Mother's Day and surprise the whole family! We left a couple of hours after John and Nathan got back from camping. It had been my job to get the gift for Mom, and I told them I would mail it...well it hadn't gotten there and they were kinda sad and my Dad was scrambling for a gift...but then we showed up! We had brought the gift with us, so it was all good! We had a fun weekend with them.

All the girls in our matching Easter dresses. We're so cool! :)

I am now 33 1/2 weeks pregnant. You can kinda see my belly in the above pic, and I will post another picture as soon as I can look halfway decent and get John to take the picture. :)

Spain!

So we decided on a whim to go to Spain! We found cheap tickets online and two weeks after we bought them, we left! My sister-in-law watched Nathan for a week (so nice of her!) and then my parents watched him for a week. He couldn't believe it was really us when we got him back. He kept touching our faces to make sure we were real. We had a great time in Spain! We started off in Madrid and stayed a night at the temple apartments. We did two sessions in the temple which was cool, I had to go through one time in Spanish! CRAZY!



We headed to Southern Spain next (Almeria) and spent a couple of days there with John's mission companion. They have an adorable little girl and we had fun playing with her and visiting with them.


After that, we headed up to the Northern part of Spain which is where John served. We started in Vitoria first. We walked around a TON there and got to visit with a lot of people that John knew when he was a missionary there.


Just a random pretty picture in Vitoria. We went to church in Vitoria on the Sunday that we were there. It was fast and testimony meeting which made things extra interesting since I couldn't even really pick out a topic. I was wiped out from all the walking around we were doing and I took a couple little naps through church..whoops! The people were all really nice though!


Just a random creepy picture of a door knocker...I saw several of these and thought they were really ODD!


This sign is in Basque. The main Basque population lives in the Northeast corner of Spain. This picture was taken in Bilbao. We also stopped to take some pictures of the Guggenheim and saw another member of the church there.


We stopped in Gijon last. We visited with a lot more people that John knew there and did a little bit of shopping too. Also a lot of walking around. While walking around we stopped and got a little treat: Chocolate con churros...so delicious! It's basically melted chocolate with a little bit of milk mixed in to thin it just a bit--and then you dip the churros in the chocolate. YUM!


After that we headed back to Madrid to catch our flight home! We mostly stayed with people that John knew while we were there and they were all so nice! If they didn't have an extra bed for us, they gave us their bed and wouldn't let us pay for anything. We're hoping they can come visit us so we can return the favor!

A few random things about what I thought of the place...
1. They have weird pillows! They are really skinny and long and the pillowcases are open ended on both ends...I went to put a pillowcase on and just about lost the pillow out the other end!
2. They like pig...not pork...pig. You'll see a picture in the slideshow that has me surrounded with cured pig legs. They don't wrap them in saran wrap or anything...odd. I wasn't a very big fan of that.
3. They really like potatoes-which I very much appreciated! We ate lots of fried potatoes and we had spanish tortilla a couple of times-YUM! Spanish tortilla is fried potatoes cooked with egg, kind of like an omelet.
4. They like 3 course meals. Their big meal is at lunch, and they always have some sort of dessert with lunch and dinner. One of their desserts is yogurt-we had lots of yogurt while we were there.
5. Public transportation was lovely. We took trains and buses to get from place to place. It was so much more relaxing than if we had rented a car--WAY cheaper too!

I hope you enjoy the slideshow! The pictures are in the order of how I explained things above too! Feel free to ask any questions if you want!

Create Video--It's really good!

Just wanted to share this inspiring video. Hope you enjoy it!

Update

Just a few pictures from what we've been up to lately. Nathan was being cute in the bath the other day and wanted to wear his bucket as a hat. I just love his smile in the picture!



John and I went to his IV sedation course in Portland a week or so ago, and these are just a few pictures of him working after he got his IV's started. He did great starting IV's and we'll go back in a couple of weeks for another busy weekend. I went along to kinda help with the assistants with the medications. I'm glad I went and was able to help.





We stopped at Multnomah Falls on our way back from Portland, it was really cold when we were there, but I definitely want to go back and hike up closer someday. It was beautiful!

Spring?

I am officially scared to say the word spring. I am afraid it will drive away the slightly warmer temperatures and bring back the snow. Yesterday it was a nice day...ya know low 40's! :) We played outside for a couple of hours, Nathan riding his tricycle that he got for Christmas, playing with the sidewalk chalk and playing in the melting snow. Nathan was also able to go down his slide again, nevermind the pile of snow at the bottom that he landed in every time! It was nice to see the sun! Fast forward to this morning and we woke up to snow on the ground and still snowing. Luckily it all melted today! We can see parts of our grass and it seems like more snow melts away every day. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this is a trend I will keep seeing :)

Nathan in Parma!

Grandma took him on a picture taking adventure...this is just one of many! I love his hands in his pockets...supposedly he did that on his own!


He liked to sit on Grandma's lap while she sewed.


This was taken right before they left to come to the airport to get me. He took his little backpack on wheels for the trip and he just looks so cute strolling it along behind him! He is dressed in Boise State garb (thanks to Gma and Gpa). Go Broncos! I was so excited to see him at the airport Saturday morning, I didn't realize how much I had really missed him until then. I had to swallow back my tears! :) He was really happy to see me too and that was nice because when we were gone I tried to talk to him on the phone and he refused. He told my dad, "No talk Mommy!"

Puerto Vallarta!

We were in Puerto Vallarta for a week with John's work. We had a great time. Nathan stayed in Parma for a week and I will post some pics from his time there!