baby question

I am looking for all the advice you mothers have :)

What is the deal with baby bath tubs?

What makes them better or worse?

For example: I'm looking at the bath tub pictured below and it's $35

And then I see this tub for $20

Is the tub above really worth $15 more? Why? What makes a tub a good one?

What are your thoughts moms??

me and the husband

My desktop background on my work computer rotates every day to a new picture from my "my pics" folder.

I just minimized my windows and saw this picture from our wedding day:

I love this picture!
I love that everyone around us is running around figuring things out and we're still just smiling at each other. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband. I am still as infatuated with him after being together for over 6 years as I was when we first met.

I just can't wait to make our little family even bigger. She's going to adore her daddy!

Christmas

Christmas this year was so fun. For the last couple of years my parents have come to Utah to spend Christmas instead of each of their kids heading to California. It has been so nice to not have to travel during the holidays. But, it's not quite the same Christmas feeling when each of us are in a different house through the break and we all just get together randomly. This year Elliot found a great cabin in Sundance to rent. So, we all got to stay in the cabin. It really was so fun. John and Cindy and the kiddos even flew out for the break.

Outside the cabin

Our little tree with many presents

Because we were all in the same house we did a lot of just lounging around and hanging out. Along with a lot of Ms. Pacman (the cabin had an old school arcade game) and wii and Minute to Win It games and lets just be honest....eating.

We decorated sugar cookies the first night. I think me, Katie, and Heather decorated the most (it felt like we were decorating for hours). No one in our family particularly likes sugar cookies so Katie was so kind to eat pretty much all of them. Well, I guess JJ helped a little by licking the frosting off of them and then leaving the cookies behind.

Our best creations

Dad's best creation

The next day we decided we couldn't be up at Sundance without taking advantage of the snow by sledding. JJ and Calli didn't love sledding and I wasn't allowed to sled....but Bryan and John and Katie and even Mom had a pretty good time. The rest of us were freezing and wanted to head in but we couldn't pull the four of them away.

Cindy and Calli

Bryan - after one of his many tricks

For Christmas Eve, Heather lead the family in telling the Nativity story by having the kids unwrap the different characters in the story and then setting up the manager. After the kiddo's activity we did the traditional Bagley event of acting out the Nativity. Bryan and I were Mary and Joseph of course!



Bryan and I decided that we would host a Minute to Win It competition for Christmas day. After all of the opening of presents we started the competition. Each couple was a group. We had "The Dollar Billz" - El and Katie; "Buellios" - Heath and Jeff; "Merris Magic" - Cindy & John; "Carlizzles" - Sum and Steve; "Attragedies" - Us; "Bag It To Win It" - Mom and Dad. I even started a blog with the list of the games we were going to play. It was seriously so fun and everyone really got into the games. In the end we crowned Merris Magic as the winners. But everyone really received a few extra lives to get to the last round (we asked questions about our family to get extra lives). Everyone continued practicing the games after the competition was over to see if they could beat all games.

The games were for the adults, but Aubrey and JJ couldn't resist trying them out too

The next day, Summer and Cindy decided to instigate a Ms. Pac Man competition. John and Cindy were of course the all stars - none of the rest of us even came close. I think John even got the high score on the arcade game.


Well Christmas 2010 - thanks for a great time. Next time we just need the Bagleys in Alabama with us!

Our life mapped out

So...I saw this cute map (below) on a blog and loved it. I didn't know what all the hearts meant but I knew I wanted to have a map like it.

link for the artist

I decided to update the map a bit to include:

• our hometowns (blue houses)
  
• all the places we've lived since we've been together - but since we've only lived one place I decided to throw in a place we might move to next to get the gist (pink hearts)
• the places our babies were born - or will be born (pink baby)
  
• and all the places we've visited together (orange labeled hearts)

I don't quite know what the purpose of this map is yet, but I do know that I want to keep editing it forever and have a visual history of our life and regularly reprint the map and frame it and put it somewhere.

I just love the idea of being able to see everywhere we've been. And i would love to go to someone else's house and see where they've been and where they've lived.

as you can tell.....I'm just a little excited about it and wanted to share!

the verdict.....

I have to admit that I was a little shocked when the ultrasound said girl (Bryan not so much)! I really couldn't believe it. Hence the last picture showing my hands saying what and bryan's saying yessss :)

We had my Mom and Dad, Elliot & Katie, Cindy & John, JJ, Calli, and Summer & Steve at the cabin with us.
Heather & Jeff, Aubrey, Brooke on Summer's phone and Dane & Karen on Dad's phone.
While Larry, Rae & Adam were on Skype.

Thanks for sharing this moment with us!

(and thanks for not opening the envelope while we were sleeping like most of you threatened!)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving began a little early for me and Katie. We decided to do the table scape. I found this really cute ornament tree on a blog. So, Katie and I decided to try it out. We were pretty impressed with the way the table looked when we were all done!

Katie and Elliot hosted Thanksgiving this year. We all headed over to their house early Thanksgiving morning to hang out and eat snacks.
Thanksgiving morning was especially good for me because I got a whole suitcase full of maternity clothes. Cindy gave my mom a bunch of her maternity clothes while my mom and dad were visiting them last month. (Thanks again Cindy Lou)

The crowd for Thanksgiving Dinner (Summer & Steve were with his family). It seems like we keep becoming a smaller and smaller group (everyone better stop moving away!). I think we were all anticipating a bigger group because we had tons of leftovers. I think we had 4 full pies left (yikes).

All of us doing the dishes after dinner. It's funny how fast dishes get done when you have 7 people working on them (Katie was taking the picture).

The day after Thanksgiving we all went to a movie. The boys and Katie and I went to The Next Three Days. The movie was pretty good - but we were in the second row and I paid for that the next two days with a headache and stomach ache! Mom, Heather and the girls went to Tangled.

I always love an excuse for my parents to come out. I think I am most grateful this year for my family and Bryan's family and our little baby bump. We are so excited to grow our family!

Boy or Girl Poll

We've had the ultrasound...the envelope is on our tree....so now it's just time to vote!

a pic to help you decide if the baby looks more feminine or masculine :)

will baby be a boy or girl?


You have until Christmas Eve to vote!