MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Merry Christmas everyone! I am sending this out now because we have such a fun and busy schedule on Christmas Eve and Christmas! I want to tell everyone the funny story about what we put at the top of our tree. When Brooks was little, we took him to Walmart and said he could pick any ornament that he wanted. Well, to our suprise...he picked an ornament that was bigger than his head!!! When we got home and "tried" to put it on the tree, it was just too BIG. So we put it on top of the tree. And that is our star and has been for a couple of years now!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas this year!

Winter Wonderland!

It finally started to snow in Utah. The weather has been so weird this year. But Brooks and Dylan didn't waist any time enjoying the snow.

My Little Snow Angels!

Who says titer toters are just for the summer time?

The boys LOVED eating the snow. But they made sure it wasn't yellow!

Last, they took a warm bath! What a fun day!

Twilight

Jake and I went on a date last night and saw the movie Twilight. Now, I am not what you call, a person who enjoys reading books, so I did not read the book before I saw the movie. But, OH MY GOSH! It was so freaking good. I loved it. I loved it so much that I am writing about it in my blog. Ha Ha! It was the kind of movie that you are in love, intrigued, and never want the movie to end. The actors and actresses played the roles of the characters so well. For the first time in a long time, I want to go and see it in the movie theatres AGAIN! So, if there is anyone out there that doesn't know if they should watch the movie, I am telling you that you SHOULD!

10 Weeks

Well, I had my doctors appointment on Monday. It was so awesome because for the first time, the ultrasound looked like a baby. The little arms and legs were moving all around. I had the best feeling. The good news is the cyst has already started to shrink when I went in on Monday. The bad news is that my hormone levels are not where they are suppose to be, so I am back on my progestrone medicine. I also had to go back into the doctor today and there is a little complication. The baby is fine, but again, I have to stay off my feet as much as possible so that I don't make things worse. I am so grateful for this little baby and I am going to do everything in my power to get this baby here! So if you have not seen me in awhile, it is because I haven't left my house! ha! Here are a couple of pictures starting fromwhen I was 6 weeks, the 8 week picture, and then there is the 10 week picture.

6 weeks

8 weeks

10 weeks

I have another great announcement that I can't believe I forgot to put on my blog. It was not even a week after we found out I was pregnant when Jake got offered the position as a manager in the West Valley branch! This is really exciting and I am so proud of Jake. He is such a people person and has come so far in his career in such a short period of time. WAY TO GO JAKE!

Exciting news!

Jake and I have some exciting news to announce. We are pregnant! It took many tears, doctor visits, medication, surgery, and more medication. But it finally happened! I am considered a high risk pregnancy right now. There is a cyst that every pregnant women has in the first trimester, that provides the baby with the progesterone that it needs to survive until the placenta is formed and takes over the job, and mine is 7cm right now. Normally, it is quite small. It is a side effect of the fertility drugs that I was on. Unfortunately, mine will continue to grow and get bigger until 10 weeks when the placenta is formed and takes over the job of the cyst. This is quite painful. When I went into the doctor's office on Monday and we found out that the cyst had grown from 3cm to 7cm in two weeks. The bad news is that these next two weeks, the cyst is going to grow the biggest and even faster. So when I go into the doctor in one more week, he will see how big the cyst is and tell me if I have to be on bed rest. The baby is doing fine and we heard the heart beat on Monday. There is just a risk of the cyst twisting and it will be quite painful and possibly harmful to the baby. So as of right now, I cannot pick up my boys, bend, twist...DO ANYTHING. We are just waiting until the first trimester is over and then the cyst will start to shrink and once that happens, I can go back to exercising, picking up the kids, and all the things that we take for granted. I will feel so much better...or that is what we hope. I am already starting to show, the cyst has made that possible rather quickly. The doctor keeps telling me that as of right now, it's like I am carrying triplets, with how big the cyst is. Jake and I are really happy and thank our Heavenly Father every day for letting us be parents to our third child.

My Little Football Player

Dylan is so funny! We cleaned out our storage the other day and we found Jake's old football pads. Well, Dylan could not wait to get his hands of that!!! Once he had the pads on, he said,"Where's my Packers scarf?" He wanted that on his head! Jake has trained him well! Dylans our little football player!
AM I CUTE OR WHAT?

Halloween With The Wrights!

The day before Halloween my mom had a Halloween parade at her school. So Brooks, Dylan, and their cousins Noah and Hayk came. They were not allowed to wear masks so I had to paint their face to look like spiderman. But the paint that I used was pretty cheap, so it never dried! It got ALL over their costumes. Noah was a Star Wars trooper and Hayke was a cute little tigger. They came with their mom Hripsime. My mom was a taco! They also had a haunted house that Brooks was REALLY excited about. He always say, "I am not afraid of anything!." He was right, he never got scared. It was a cool haunted house!

Here is a picture of Brooks and Dylan taking a bite out of their Me-ma taco!

Here are two of their cousins, Noah and Hayk.

Here are the guys! My brother Seth, with his freaky clown mask, my Dad with a monkey mask (notice the monkey is wearing a BYU hat, and Jake is borrowing Noahs Star Wars mask. Dylan was terrified of the monkey mask!

Then, we ate a yummy pumpkin pizza!

Hripsime is so good at making cute Halloween treats. I requested my favorite from last year which were the rice crispie pumpkin treats. The stem is a tootsie roll and the leaf is a watermelon air head.The chocolate covered strawberries were ghosts and she also made little witches and pumpkin cup cakes. She's awesome!!!

We had a fun Halloween. After every house we went to, Dylan said,"Lets get more candy." Brooks always has a blast with his cousin Noah. Happy Halloween everyone!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!!

It was our 6 year anniversary on October 26. And what a WONDERFUL 6 years it has been. We WANTED to go to Hawaii. But since that wasn't going to work with our budget, we did the next best thing. We went to Anniversary Inn, the Hawaiian Paradise room.

This room was so fun. It reminded us so much of our Honeymoom, in Hawaii. There was a surfboard on the wall. When you walked in, it had the,"Take your shoes off, but don't leave with a different pair" sign. It had a king size bed. Even the place you are suppose to put your hand soap was a little hammock.

The bathroom was probably the coolest part of the room. It had a HUGE jetted tub surrounded by lava rock. It also had a flat screen tv you can watch while you are taking a bath.

AND THE SHOWER!!! There were 4 little shower heads spraying your body and ...

one HUGE shower head spraying on top of you. It was the best shower I have ever taken.

The next night we went to Alaskan Inn, the Windsong Lodge room. This was an individual cabin.

It had a big jetted tub!

This room was Jakes choice...a guy and outdoors decorated theme. I had a hard time sleeping with all of the stuffed birds staring at me. It pretty much freaked me out! Can you blame me! Look at the freakin bird! Ha Ha!

The next day we went to the Beyond Spa for a couples massage. It was really fun! The lady that gave Jakes massage was awesome...mine, looked like the lady from the movie, "Misery." She was a little scary! ha ha!

Then, we had a couples pedicure. It was a in a really cute room with candles lit. There was bubbly for us to drink and a plate of chocolates, chocolate covered pretzels, cheese, crackers, and grapes. It was really relaxing.

Jake and I always try to do something really fun and out of the ordinary for our anniversaries. It makes them so much fun. I love my Jaker!

Painting Pumpkins

Jake and I have found out that carving pumpkins every year meant JAKE AND ME carving pumpkins. So we let them paint their pumpkins and they have a lot of fun! Dylan had some help with his clown pumpkin but he painted the hair all by himself. Brooks pumpkin DID look like a face, but I think he got carried away with the fun of painting.

Then, we thought it would be fun to paint OUR little pumpkins!!!

The Annual Bingham Halloween Party

I will first start with everyones costume...some are VERY creative. Brooks is the black spiderman and Dylan is the red spiderman. BEWARE, you WILL get webbed!!!



Anna is a sketeton. This shirt is cute because the heart lights up when you move.



This is one of our more creative costumes... Jake is a jazz player, with a mustache, this crazy flesh eating disease on his face, and some really sexy legs. (Sorry I forgot to flip this picture.)

Jenica is a witch and she made her hat. Ellie is a cute little pink poodle.

Julee is a mad scientist and her beautiful assistant...bra and all...Jeff.

Here are some cute treats I made for the party...witches hats.

There were two special guests that came to our party. First was a "REAL" princess that brought a special Halloween treat for Ellie.

Then Brooks and Dylans special guest was a "REAL" fireman that brought their Halloween treats. ( I am sorry some of these pictures are not flipped. Once I realized that I didn't flip them, it was too late. Is there any way you can flip them after you have downloaded them?)

Everyone wanted to try on Me-ma's Mad Scientist glasses.

And Jake was really eye balling Jeff's red locks. Zoolander WATCH OUT! We had so much fun. Thank you Julee and Jeff for a wonderful and memorable Halloween party.

Pack's Pumpkin Patch

We went to Packs Pumpkin Patch, which has been our family tradition for the last 2 years. It is free and there are fun things for Brooks and Dylan to do.
There is a kids hay maze. Dylan on the left, Jake in the middle, and Brooks on the right. Isn't that a "BOO"tiful picture!
This is a cute picture opportunity. They have straw hats for you to try on...Brooks was the only one that wanted to do that.
This is the pumpkin that Brooks picked out.
This is the pumpkin that Dylan picked out. Doesn't he look like he is having a blast? ha ha!