Sooo...I know it's been FOREVER since I posted and I know I don't have any new pictures. Did I mention that Tucker gave my nice camera a little accidental dunk-a-roo??? Hence the lack of pictures.

Well, I did want to update that Yates and I are expecting baby #3. I took the initial tests Monday morning and had my 1st Dr. appointment yesterday afternoon. I am about 9 weeks along, putting my due date around May 8, 2008. Let's not get our hopes up...that date could change (although probably not any later than May 20, 2008) and for everyone's sake I WON'T go into detail.

We're both super excited as we've been trying for a little while now. We didn't want as much space in between McKinlee and #3 as there is between Tucker and McKinlee (3 years 3 months). There'll be 2 1/2 years in between them and that's just perfect. Now we just need one or two more bedrooms. Maybe we'll have to move my scrapbooking stuff out to the shed and cut a window for some light. ha ha.

Alrighty, there's our BIG update. Here's the other stuff that's been going on:

Yates is working full-time for HPD still, but not for La Verkin. I'm working part-time still at South Central and I still LOVE it! I just started watching a friend's little boy in the mornings for a few hours and he's been so fun so far. Tucker is in his 2nd year of preschool and picking things up pretty well. I do have some pictures from his Pirate Birthday Party (BIG #5) that I'll have to get posted when I get some time. McKinlee is getting very independent and Tucker is having a hard time adjusting. She's always been his tag-a-long and now that she wants to do her own thing it's thrown him for a loop. I couldn't figure out why McKinlee was squealing the other day until I went out in the living room and he'd picked her up and was dragging her toward his room. When I asked him what he was doing he said, "I want her to come play with me in my room." I told him she obviously didn't want to go play in his room. He didn't skip a beat and said, "Well, I think maybe she will when she comes back there with me." He enjoys teasing her and making her upset, which in turn makes me upset...we're one big happy family! ;) Our dog, Nala, is still a little terror. She enjoys making us run after her when she gets out of our yard and REFUSES to come back until she's good and ready. We love her, but she's sure a brat sometimes.

Look at my beautiful "flowers". We got some really good pictures of the kids amongst the flowers! I need to thank the Murray's for taking all the pictures while we were out there...my camera is out of commission due to a little water episode.

I forgot to mention that Tucker went on a Pirate Adventure. They take them out on a boat into the harbor and sail around looking for treasure and pull a treasure chest up out of the water and fight a pirate with water cannons and everthing. Tucker LOVED it!

So we just got back from our family vacation for the summer. We went to Rhode Island/Cape Cod again this year. The Murray's oldest daughter, Rayna, got married and Tucker was the ring bearer at the wedding. The wedding was the absolute nicest wedding that either Yates or I have ever been to and everything went off without a hitch (for the most part)! I'm just going to throw a whole bunch of pictures on here and enjoy them. Tucker was a P.I.M.P. and fell in love with one of the flower girls. McKinlee was so much fun this year...last year she was too little to really enjoy things. We had a little razor incident...McKinlee got into our "get ready bag" after I'd laid her down for a nap one afternoon and pulled out my razor and "played". I went back in to a bloody mess. It ended up being a small chunk she'd taken out of her pointer finger, but that sucker sure did bleed a lot and scared me to death! Sorry, no pictures of that...tooo panicked! We spent the 1st three days in Rhode Island doing wedding things, the next 5 days in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and the last couple days back in Rhode Island where we went to see the Tall Ships in Newport (they are huge sailing vessels that still sail all around). My favorite was the Gloria from Columbia.

So this was my most recent fun excursion! I went up north to attend a gathering of Cricut owners called a SWARM. I met a few of the ladies that I chat with on the Cricut Messageboard. On Friday, April 13th we met at the Scrapbook USA Expo in Sandy, UT and I was there from 7:30 am until 10:15 pm!!! The lady that saved our place in line got there at 4 AM!!! They just had a whole bunch of booths that had crazy deals and fun things to do and learn. I took a couple classes and had a BLAST! I'm definitely planning on doing this again! Saturday morning we met at a scrapbook store called My Scrapbook Zone in American Fork, UT and scrapped our little hearts out. I had dragged Catherine, mom and Aunt Wendy with me so we could spend some time together since my family had come down from Idaho to take Dad to a Utah Jazz game for his birthday (April 13th -- he turned 50! EEK! It's only downhill from here.). We left around 3 pm and headed back to Aunt Wendy's for cake and ice cream before they all had to leave for the game.

Bryce tried to steal the keys to our Yukon. He had taken them to move the kids car seats from Dad's truck to the Yukon, and it's a good thing I needed to go get Kinlee some teething medicine on Saturday night while they were at the game or I would have had to stay at Aunt Wendy's another night while they overnighted my keys back to me. :) He had put the keys in his pocket and hauled them up to Salt Lake to the Jazz game with him. We drove up to meet them part way to get them back that night...thanks AUNT WENDY!!

Speaking of Bryce, I don't think I've mentioned that he and his wife, Catherine, are expecting! YIPPEE...my kids will have a cousin on my side! :) CONGRATS to them!!!!

Look at my boys! Tucker loves his cowboy stuff he got for Christmas and wanted to wear it over to Kanab to Poppa Nick's house to ride the horse. He posed for me for a minute before he headed off with Yates to go catch the horse. I love the picture of them both walking away and their stride is exactly the same. Cute Cute boys!

Tucker has FINALLY learned to swing himself on the swingset, so we don't have to stand out there for hours pushing him. He LOVES the swing and trampoline and can be outside for hours every day playing on them. The next ones are of his 1st trip to get cavities filled. He did SOOOOOO good. They actually didn't have to give him a shot, so it was much better for him. They just put on his "pilot's mask" and let him get all "happy" first before they started. He had to go in 3 different times to get them all filled because they didn't want him getting impatient. He just had the last one filled this morning! He got 2 free movie rentals out of it and McDonald's lunch the first time and some toys from the dentist. He LOVES the dentist...even after that!

The first pictures are from when McKinlee had bronchitis really bad. They told us if we'd waited to take her in much longer she'd have had full blown pneumonia...whew! I hate taking them in and then getting told that it's just a cold and to go hom and wait...in this case, I waited just a bit too long. She had to do breathing treatments 3 times a day for quite awhile. She didn't mind it too bad though, so we were lucky. The next one if McKinlee showing her love for purses. She just LOVES to hold them and drag them all around with her. The next pic is my Valentines Day gift from Yates. They were soooo beautiful and even though flowers are NOT a common occurence, they were greatly appreciated...and I know you're all jealous of my cute watering cans. Where are they? Up on my plant shelves looking beautiful! The next one is of McKinlee and Tucker in the car when we got back from our Easter trip that I showed pictures of below.

Oh, the many faces of McKinlee sleeping. I haven't gotten a picture of her doing the "stink bug" yet, but you betcha that I will. She also sleep on her tummy with her bum stuck straight up in the air, just like a little stink bug. The one picture where her face is all road rashed is from riding Tucker's little battery powered 4-wheeler and he went to turn and she went off the side onto the cement. Poor thing...I'd been waiting for a scratch on her nose to heal before getting her pictures taken when that happened...so I had to wait a little longer. :)