Precious Moment

This morning when Shea woke up the first thing she wanted to do was listen to my heart beat. (She has been doing this since she first heard the baby's heart beat.) She listened for about 5 seconds, then got up and said "Mom, your heart sounds like music. It's singing a lullaby to the baby." It was so cute and precious. She will be a great sister.

Friday the 13th

So I hope everyone survived Friday the 13th without any scary accidents! Our 13th was actually a great one. We had our first doctors appointment. Yes, I am finally pregnant! It has been a long time coming and we were both ready to give up. We have been trying to have another baby for almost 2 years. Now that I think back, I was definitely not ready to have 2 kids running around. So it worked out for the best. My due date is September 26th, and I must say it couldn't be more perfect. Just before winter! Don't have to worry about driving the pass in snow when I go into labor. Always a plus! I am feeling absolutely great. No morning sickness at all. I would knock on some wood if there were any around! Shea is really excited to be a big sister. We heard the heart beat for the first time today. Shea made the doctor replay it 3 times. She thought it was amazing. She says that it sounds like a race track with horses. She made a lot of people laugh while we were there, telling everyone about the horses in moms tummy and showing the pictures of the baby. She wouldn't let go of the pictures until we got into the car, and looks at them every 10 minutes on our fridge. I pretty sure she is ready to be a big sister! ha ha. Well, I hope so for my sake!

Happy Birthday Shea!

We celebrated Shea's 3rd Birthday on Tuesday. It started out with just the 3 of us, because none of our family members could make it up from Cali and Utah. So we were going to make the best of it anyway. She wanted to have a Blue's Clue cake, luckily I found this easy one on the Internet.

She also wanted to go swimming. So the Saturday before we went to a Hot Spring swimming pool. Being winter and all, they were only open on Saturday. Oh well, it worked out perfectly. She had a blast. Sorry no pictures of that.

Here is Shea with her birthday cake. She loved it.

The past couple weeks she has been watching a lot of cartoon that had magnifying glasses in them. So that is what she wanted.

Here she is testing it out!

Goof Ball!

And surprise! Aunt Brooke and Uncle Ryan came up that night to surprise us! They also gave Shea a wad of cash! She was so excited to buy candy with it. KIDS!

Happy Birthday Shea Shea. We love you!

Snowmobiling

My dad and sister came up this Thursday because they had to drop off a computer for my work. Well, that is the excuse because my dad ended up bringing his sleds. Any chance he gets he will be snowmobiling! It's too bad the weather didn't cooperate with us. It was a windy day, which equals snow drifts which equals not fun! Here is Shea with Aunt Brooke before we left snowmobiling.

Shea playing on the trailer. She was using it as a slide.

I was pretty nervous taking Shea up to the mountains because this was the first Real Snowmobiling trip she has been on. I didn't think it was going to be much fun. But she surprised me. She had a blast, and was ready to go!

The drifts were so bad, that they blocked all the roads. Shea was riding with Grandpa, and he didn't want to take any chances with her. Here are the boys making a path through the snow drift! Good work!

It was really windy!

We had to hide behind trees every once in a while! ha ha. This is my Dad with his baby!

This is Wayne with his baby!

Shea felt so comfortable that she fell asleep. This is something my dad is use to because my brother Chad use to fall asleep all the time when he was little.

And she was DEAD ASLEEP!

My dad's friend Steve came up for the ride, and Shea and him got along great.

Shea had a great time snowmobiling. And to top it off. Later that night, while she was suppose to be sleeping, I went into her room because I heard a noise. To my surprise Shea was wearing her snow pants in bed! It was hard not to laugh, she fits right in with the Zollinger Family! ha ha. (Side note: The next 2 days were beautiful and sunny! That's how it goes, I guess!)

Snow Snow Snow

It poured on us Christmas night. We got about 1 1/2 feet of snow, and we are expected to get another foot on Sunday night. Here is Shea trying to find an owl. That what she told me at least.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. It was pretty small this year, but one of the best. Wayne and I were talking about what traditions we wanted to start. The only new one was on Christmas Day, we have Duck. I had never had duck before, and it was delicious. I am pretty lucky that my husband likes to cook, and is actually pretty good at it.

I also think he would make a perfect Santa Claus.

The first thing Shea saw Christmas morning was CANDY! And she didn't stop eating it all day. She was so excited about chocolate that she wouldn't look in the rest of her stocking until she finished eating it.

Present time.

Her favorite toy was a guitar. She really wants to be a rock star. I'm not kidding!

Wayne taking a try at it.

Shea with her many toys. There wasn't a lot, but to her it was. I am so glad she had a great Christmas. She played with everyone of her toys throughout the day. She would ask Wayne to open a toy, she would play with it for 20 minutes, then bring another one to open.

Thanks MOM!

Christmas Eve

This post is going to be short and sweet, with pictures. Here is a rare picture of Shea still. I was pretty bored one night and decided to take Christmas pictures. I didn't even notice she was posing, it just happened.

Christmas Eve dinner. She calls the goblets "special cups" and loves to give cheers.

It's tradition to open one present up on Christmas Eve and it being Pajama's. Here is Shea opening her first present.

Shea modeling in her new PJ's.

Family picuter in our PJ's.