Chapman

We had a 4D ultrasound today and saw the baby’s gender!!!!!!!!    We had a whole 4D session and they recorded the whole thing so we have the DVD and all the pictures from it so I will upload that if I can figure out how to get it off the DVD.  It was so awesome!  We are going to do that every time.  We are 17 weeks today and *the baby* is perfect!!!!!!  I can’t wait to finally hold it!!!    Here is just a 2D shot… can you tell what it is????

Today Jace was working with my mom in the shed.  She was putting up brackets for shelves.   Jace was on a cooler, and he jumped off and hit his eye right into one of the brackets.  It was so incredibly sad.  It was all swollen and cut and he wouldn’t take his hand off of it because it hurt so bad.  Underneath the bandage is a bad cut.  It was awful.  I am so thankful he didn’t jump a fraction of an inch to the side, because then he might have damaged his eyeball.  He is so brave.

I took all the pics off the camera for the first time in a month– sorry our blog has been so utterly pictureless.  So here is the past month in pictures!

Jace’s new favorite thing to do is to take a bath with all his Mega Blocks.  He fills eack up with water, sets it on the edge of the tub, and once the entire rim of the tub is filled to capacity, he takes each, one by one, and dumps them on himself.  

We go to every single once of Chari’s basketball games.  She is a starter and the third best on the team (some games she is MVP!)  Jace is one of her loyal fans and watches the game intently raising his little arms up in the air in triumph, yelling, “Go Chari!!  Woo-woo!  Go Chari!  Yeah!”  At the approrpiate times.  He is just darling.  He is also in bliss being with “Unca Boe” 24/7.  Boe is Jace’s hero, and Jace is Boe’s shadow.  Boe is the most tolerant 9 year old I know.

Chari in action.  Which one is she?  The skinny blond one.  What?  They all look the same?  I know– it presents a huge problem when I am trying to figure out where she is.  All those little white girls look the same!  But, I am so excited because Junior Prom is this weekend and Chari was voted as royalty!  The assembly is this Wednesday and we will find out if she was voted queen!!!!  Everyone keep your finger’s crossed!

I thought this would be a really cute picture, but Jace was terrified of the Bulldog and would NOT offer a smile.

Trevor came home from Ukraine on December 23rd!  We went to Vegas and picked him up and played in vegas for two days before we headed back to St. George.  We went shopping and Trevor bought me the most beautiful coat I have ever seen in my life.  I LOVE it!

Christmas morning, Jace discovered his favorite present santa brought him– a Diego bike!  He was sooooooo excited!  Santa didn’t know how to assemble it, so just left it in the box for Trevor to assemble Christmas morning.

The East side of the room Christmas morning.

The South side…

…and the West side!  The whole crew was there!  Except for Lia’s family who live in Connecticut.

Finally Trevor finished assembling the bike (I’m happy Santa didn’t even try.  That would have been a nightmare).  Jace pretty much stayed on the bike for the rest of the day– he wasn’t even interested in his mountains of other presents.  Good to know for next year…

Davy was this year’s Santa and handed gifts out.

Everyone had a GREAT Christmas!

I don’t even know why my dad looks forward to Christmas each year.  He always gets the EXACT same things.  Old Spice, white tube socks, the exact same pair of jeans, etc.  But he always seems soooooo excited!

This was Jace’s first cognizant Christmas and he was in heaven.  He had a blast opening and playing with all his toys.  And this last picture illustrates why I LOVE St. George.  Christmas morning, we ran around outside in shorts and no shoes.  Bliss.

We then video chatted with Lia and her family (the only sibling who wasn’t there).  Her girls are soooo cute!

Then we were all overwhelmed with the festivities and took it easy for the rest of the day watching movies…

… and playing games.  Although, it is never good when the Suttner and Chapman boys play games together.  They are all much too bloodthirsty and no one has any fun.  Except the winner.  Who shoves it in everyone’s face.

While the boys were duking it out in Monopoly, the girls got to work on dinner.  Every Christmas we choose a new country and make a traditional feast from that country.  This year we did Thailand since Trevor and I had gone on vacation there a few months earlier.  We made soooooooo much food and it was SOOOOO good!

This picture doesn’t even show a fraction of the food– the dishes went as far back as the end of the table and we had soooooo many delicious things like coconut chicken curry, pad thai, coconut sticky rice, asian salad, I don’t even remember, but it was all sooooo good!  Except for the Pad Thai… that didn’t go over too well.  We didn’t quite prepare it right and it turned out… well… inedible.  That’s the third one from the front.

But everything else was divine!  Making all the traditional foods is one of my favorite things about Christmas.

Now onto less festive things.  Gabe was at the school playing lacrosse when he hit the ball on the roof.  he climbed up there to retrieve it and sliced his leg open on the barbed wire.  He had to get 36 stitches.  It was sooooooooo awful.

Then we made pigs in a blanket on a stick.  They were so yummy!  And fun!  You just make breadstick dough, stick a hotdog on the stick, wrap it in the breadstick dough, and BAM!  They are so fun!

For Boe’s birthday we had a bonfire with all his friends.  We roasted marshmallows and drank hot chocolate it was so fun!

I roasted a marshmallow for Jace and he set it on a gardening ring for safe keeping.  He watched it and made sure it was safe the whole night but he would never eat it.

But he guzzled the amaretto hot chocolate like it was his job.

It was fun!

Then I made Boe’s requested birthday dinner– fruit salad, fettucini chicken alfredo, and breadsticks on a stick.

And chocolate confetti cake.

Jace sang the whole birthday song and was sooooo excited for Boe.

I was folding towels one day and Jace wanted to help me.  I have him a hand towel and showed him how to fold it, and then went back to folding the rest of them.  All of a sudden Jace started jumping around shouting, “I did it!  I did it!  I folded the towel!”   And he did, indeed, fold the towel!  All by himself!!!!!  I am so proud of him.

My mom bought four HUGE boxes of apples so for FHE we made 21 quarts of applesauce and 5 gallons of fresh apple juice in the juicer.

And there you have it!  The month in pictures!  We move to Ukraine in 6 days!!!!!!