Tomorrow is Christmas Eve

Well tomorrow is Christmas Eve and we have to take Maggie to the Vet to get her checked out and possibly get some shots. Then tomorrow evening we will be headed to my Mom & Dad's house for our annual Christmas Eve pizza and open our Christmas PJ's. I am going to take the gifts from the girls to have them give to thier cousins and then we will head home. We have been letting Bekka open up a Christmas/Winter book every night for the last 10 days and she only has 2 left, one for tonight and one for tomorrow night. Tomorrow nights is 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Then it will be off to bed for the kiddo's so that Santa can come and visit our home.

This is our 2nd Christmas without Abbigale and for some reason this year seems so much harder for me and I am not sure why. I miss my little girl and I hope she knows how much we love and miss her! I miss those mornings when she would sit in my lap and snuggle. Depending on how busy traffic is and such tomorrow, I want to stop and get some red & green balloons to release in our front yard to wish her a Merry Christmas.

Well, from our home to yours, Merry Christmas. I will try to post some pictures of the events of the next few days soon.

Our New Puppy!!!

We picked her up on Wednesday at the airport (she flew in from Wisconsin). Up until Friday evening she didn't have a name and now she is known as Maggie or Mags for short. She looks alot like Sammy and we are really enjoying her. She is alot more work than Catie is because we are having to train her to let us know when she needs to go potty and we have to take her outside alot. She is about 14 wks old now (not much older than Catie). I will post some pictures of her this afternoon after I take some outside!

Catie's 2 Month Appt

Catie had her 2 month appt on Friday and had to get shots. She now weighs in at 11 lbs 4 oz and is growing right on track! After her shots, she did have a low grade fever that wasn't to bad and we controlled it with Infant Tylenol.

I also received back her 1 month pictures and will post them once I can find my scanner downstairs in the basement. I had her 2 month pictures taken some of them with Bekka last week also and I will get those back on January 4th. Hopefully by then I will have my scanner up and running to be able to post them!

The Picture I Made...

I made this picture for my Mom to include Abbigale in it...

Breakfast with Santa

For the last few years at my Mom's office, they have breakfast with Santa and I get to go and take the pictures of all of the children sitting on Santa's lap. It is alot of fun. Here are some pics of the girls with Santa! :)

Bekka's First Christmas Concert @ School

Bekka sang at her first Christmas Concert on Friday the 14th of December and did a great job! We are so proud of her. She is really growing up so fast. Her favorite Christmas song that they sang was Little Drummer Boy.

Building A Snowman/Tree

We got home from 80 degree Texas weather to snow!!! Bekka wanted to go outside and build a snowman/tree, not sure which she built, but she had a great time doing it!

Trip to San Antonio, Texas

We went to San Antonio the first week of December and had a great time. Travis went hunting and fishing while I, Debra and the kids went to do other things. We did all go to Sea World before we left and had a great time there!

The Shamu Show

The Dolphin Show

Feeding the Dolphins

After hunting for Speckled Belly Geese

Painting Christmas ornaments

Catie hanging out while the kids painted

Daddy & His Girls

Bekka was showing Travis what she wanted for Christmas out of the ad in the Sunday newspapaer.

Happy Halloween!!! :)

Here are some pictures of our little girls on Halloween!!!! We all went trick-or-treating with Bekka's friend Avery and her Mom that live across the street! You should see all of the candy that Bekka got! I should have sent her to the doors with an extra bucket for treats for the baby (ME)!!!!

Prayers Needed For My Family!!!!!

My cousin and his beautiful family live in Southern California and I have just found out that they have been evacuated. I have not talked to anyone to find out what has been going on, but I will try to call my Aunt this evening and see what I can find out. I know that they are okay, and they were staying in a hotel which that area was also evacuated. My prayers are with them and all of the families that have lost thier homes and everything they own.

Catie Ellguvene is HERE

Well, Catie arrived this afternoon at 2:26 pm and is just beautiful!!!! I will have to post the story about her birth later because I am just so tired! But I wanted to share some pictures of her with everyone! We all think that she looks just like Bekka when she was born! I will try to remember post some pics of Bekka, Abbi and Catie when they were all about the same age sometime! It would be kinda fun to see how much they all look alike!

Catie Ellguvene Wentz

7 lbs 3 oz - 2:26 pm - 19" long

I think she wants back in!!!! :)

Being weighed

Catie gets her first bath

Bekka watches to make sure Catie is okay

Just after her bath!!

Induction Day - 10/16/07

Well, this little one is finally going to make an appearance tomorrow!!! We are scheduled for induction at 7:00 am and you better believe that I will be there with bells on!!!! Check back for an update! If I take my computer, I will try to update this tomorrow sometime after the baby is born or on Wednesday!

Bridal Pictures @ Gardner Village 10/7/07

Here are some of the bridal pictures that I took on Sunday afternoon at Gardner Village. Just thought I would share some!!! :)

Duck Hunting Opening Weekend...

Travis and his friend Travis worked on the duck boat last Saturday and finished up with it last night so that they could go duck hunting. The hunt actually opened up yesterday, but with the bad weather there weren't to many people out...but today was a good day as you will see below!

Pictures of our "PUMPKIN"

I haven't had professional pics done of Bekka for a long, long time and so I decided that I would go out and take some myself! I still want to take her somewhere once the leaves in the valley change color, but I had to take some bridal portraits for a family friend and decided that I would take Bekka along and take some snapshots of her! Hope you enjoy seeing them since I enjoyed taking them! :)

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!!!!

I can't believe that it is snowing already! This is the first snow we have seen up in the Ogden, UT area. I know that we have had snow previous to this in other areas of Utah, like down in Salt Lake or up in the mountains, but man this is really early! I have been looking forward to this though after a long hot summer. Here is a picture I took from my deck...hopefully you will be able to see the snow, if it snows more, I will take some and post them when there is more light! There hasn't been any acumulation on the ground as of yet though...it is just really wet from raining all morning long!

Our little Picaso!!!

I bought Bekka some watercolor paints at the store the other night and she has been painting up a storm ever since! She has got such a great imagination and is really good at coloring, painting and anything artistic! Just thought I would share some of what she has done....

Black Island Farms...

Today we went with our friends Jen and Hannah to Black Island Farms to go on a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch so the kids could pick thier own pumpkin out. Everyone who worked there was so nice and came out to cut the pumpkins off of the vine for us and then they must have felt so bad for me being pregnant that one of the farmers even carried both of my pumpkins to the trailer and then to the car for me. Here are some pictures of our time there! Jen and I decided that we are going to make it a tradition every year to go there for the ride out to the patch!!!!