Forever Again!!!

Well it has been forever since I we have blogged and really had anything to blog about. I guess I need to play catch up for the past year +.

We have been doing well, still living in Roy and loving our house and back yard. The puppies are still the same but we did get an addition to our little family last June when we got a kitten. He is half Siamese and half bobcat (we aren't too sure about the bobcat part but it fits his personality).

Life was going pretty much the same except that in April of 2010 I started on the HCG diet and started loosing weight. That was one of the hardest things to do because of the limited number calorie and foods that I could eat. Long story short, in the end I lost 35 pounds. It felt wonderful!!! I started the second round of drops in late August working towards loosing the last 20 pounds when the drops stopped working. We were a little confused but decided to go off the drops and consult my doctor. I decided I didn't want any surprises when I went to the doctor so I took a pregnancy test the day before my appointment and it came back positive. I was so happy and scared at the same time because I didn't want to loose another pregnancy.

We were able to make it through the first and second trimesters without too many problems. I was sick the whole first trimester but the second was a breeze. The trouble started when I reached my third trimester. But that story is for another time. I feel that we are pretty caught up again and I hope to stay caught up this time.

Our kitty Marshmallow

Our backyard

Nick & I have been working on our back yard and it is finally stating to look good and have some character. This weekend we have big plans of cutting down part of the trees encroaching our neighbor John's backyard. In two weeks we are going to try to get our new deck built and the week after that get the rest of the rock path and flower beds in. The garden is doing great except the poor spinach, I don't think any are going to come up and the ants ran off with a bunch of pea plants before I took care of them. We planted 6 pumpkin plants that are supposed to produce 90+ pound pumpkins each so I think we are going to have enough pumpkins for carving this year. Nick is super excited!

All the kids together again

All of the Guthrie kids were at our house on Monday having a barbecue to celebrate Randy & Cassi's visit. Shawn & Linda thought it would be great to have a picture of all the kids because they haven't been together in a while and it will be longer till they are all together again.

Randy & Cassi's visit

Randy is done with his first year at law school in New Hampshire so Randy & Cassi decided to visit family in Utah for a week. We are so happy they came, we had a barbecue at our house on Monday and played volleyball and I think everyone had a great time. (Jesse & Jake had to work so they weren't able to be there) Nick also had me take a few pictures of his barbecue, he is so proud of it.

New Barbecue & Garden

Nick and I love our new house and yard. I didn't realize how large our yard was till I had to mow it, but the dogs love it and it really has been great because we have been able to have family over to barbecue and play volleyball. We also put in a garden this spring and I'm happy to announce that my carrots and peas are coming up, the spinach has been a little slow but the peppers, eggplant, spaghetti squash and pumpkins are doing great. These pictures are the day that we planted the garden and the day Nick put together his new smoker/grill.

Winter at the new house

This is the first real winter the puppies have endured and they had an absolute great time playing in the snow. Sammy probably had the most fun, every time Nick would go out and shovel the drive and walks he would take the dogs with them and Sammy would try and catch the snow Nick was shoveling. Charleigh doesn't really like to get wet so she would follow Nick in the paths he made so she would stay as dry as possible. Kody just love the snow and playing outside.

Making up for lost time

Today I have time to catch our blog up to date. Tons has happened since the last time I was on here. There have been 3 births since the first of the year - Jessica had Savanna, Sharee had Brooklyn and Alicia had Addison and all three little girls are growing so fast. Nick is finishing up his commercial rating for flight school, that should be done at the end of next week at the latest and then he's trying to go to a school in Phoenix for a week to get his multi-engine rating. He is working so hard and he is also planning on starting at Weber State this fall. I've been working in my garden and flower beds and reading lately and it has been wonderful. Randy and Cassi were able to come visit this last week and it was great seeing them. This weekend we are planning on building a deck of the back of the house; so we have our work cut out for us.