Brewer's House of Music: What a great weekend!

So if you haven't read Ben's post below, I highly recommend it. It is quite humorous and really shows Ben's fun personality. My life would be so dull without him! :)

Anyways, I know I promised a 1 year birthday post for Merrilee, but the pics we have of it are on Ben's phone (not a smart phone) and it is a process getting the pictures off of his phone. Merrilee was sick on her actual birthday...poor girl. She was running a fever and very tired for a few days. A few days after her birthday we just had a few family members over to sing happy birthday and eat cake. Merrilee really liked her little portion of cake! She scarfed it down like there was no tomorrow! I wish we could have gotten a video of it. Oh well.

This past weekend was really fun and it was nice to be able to spend some time together as a family. Saturday we went out shopping together as a fam getting errands done, buying groceries, etc. Ben and I really enjoy doing these things together...in fact it is one of our most favorite things to do together.

Sunday we went to church, cooked together, played games, and watched church movies together. So nice.

Yesterday (Monday) Ben had work and school off so he got some homework done in the morning while Merrilee took her nap and in the afternoon we went to Provo Canyon for a nice walk to Bridal Veil Falls. We don't have a jogging stroller or anything but we still trekked in the snow with our stroller and Merrilee and it was so fun! It was really refreshing to be out in nature together and just get away for an hour or two. After our little walk we drove to one of our favorite spots in the canyon (where we have gone snowshoeing, hiking, and picnicking before) and sat in the car and ate some snacks we packed. Our surroundings were so majestically pretty and it was fun to watch kids sledding and people enjoying the outdoors.

As we were eating and enjoying, we saw a family with 7 kids pile out of a huge van and start gearing up to go snowshoeing together! The oldest kid was probably 15 or 16 and the youngest looked about 2 or 3 and we couldn't quite tell, but the mom kind of looked pregnant under her coat! We were amazed! We decided we want a family that awesome! Taking all our kiddos (however many that will be) out on family adventures like snowshoeing! Those are the most memorable times together!

Not much else going on...Like Ben mentioned below, we had the ultrasound and we are having another girl! YAY! The due date is still a little questionable...there are 3 due dates...May 19, May 22, and May 27. So somewhere around then is when we will have the baby.

Here are some pictures of our outdoor fun-ness! (Beware...there are a lot of pictures...Merrilee was being so cute and fun we couldn't resist taking so many pictures of her!)