Frozen and Hockey

Jason, Connor and I had a date night to see the movie Frozen.

I tried to snap a picture of the 3 of us, but Jason leaned out of the picture before the camera went off... which he didn't mind since he doesn't like his picture taken most of the time anyway.

The following night we went to a hockey game with Aunt Staci and Uncle Tony.  We had the entire company suite to ourselves... so, we ordered some chicken strips and popcorn for dinner while we watched the game.

Thanksgiving

19 weeks pregnant.. my belly button has poked out already.

Jason is still working on the floors every night.  My job is to lay the boards out and he follows behind me and pounds them in place.  Until he reaches the end of the row and has to go outside in the freezing cold to cut the board.

Connor loves to help with anything he can.

Birthday card with Connor's art for Aunt Staci, picture of Staci

Uncle John, picture of a spider

and Grandpa K.  Grandpa also got a picture of a cat (the first picture of a cat that Connor's ever drawn!).

Grandpa also got a family picture, from left to right: Jason, Krista (with baby in tummy), Connor (with green eyes), Grandma, and Grandpa (with his long beard).

Thanksgiving this year was just the 3 of us and my parents.

our little family

The evening of Thanksgiving (after my parents had gone home) we were all relaxing on the couch and Jason, Connor and I all felt the baby kick for the first time.  I've been feeling flutters for a while now, but this was the first solid kick and we all got to feel it!

After Thanksgiving Jason got back to work on the floors.  Prior to Thanksgiving we completed the floors in the family room, formal dinning room and nook area.  But we still had the kitchen and den to do.  The kitchen was probably the hardest room because Jason had to cut a section off the bottom of the cupboards above the fridge.  He continues to impress me with his creative and innovative construction skills.  He created a guide and used his skill saw to make the cut, which turned out perfect.  He really is a talented and amazing man!  I'm very lucky to have such a hard working and multi-talented handy man around the house. 

I scrubbed the bottom, sides, back... all around our fridge while it was pulled out.

Jason hard at work.  The stove was a little bit tricky to pull out to lay the wood underneath that as well, but we figured it out.

Triple Play

This summer Jason bought tickets for a hotel stay and 2 days at the indoor Triple Play water park in Idaho.  This was the perfect time to take a break from working on the wood floors and enjoy some fun at the water park.  After we started to lay down the wood floors we discovered the concrete wasn't perfectly level, which meant that Jason removed the wood floors and spent the next 2 weeks pouring and sanding a self leveling cement to get our family room floor exactly perfectly level.  I love my perfectionist husband who works extremely hard to get every project done perfectly. 

Connor is hilarious.  Every picture he draws is of me with a baby in my belly... even the pumpkin he decorated at school is a picture of me with a baby in my tummy.  Everywhere we go he tells people (strangers) that his mommy has a baby in her tummy.  He's so excited to be a big brother.

When Jason was pouring and leveling the cement in the family room he said the leveling mix felt kinda like oobleck, which is a fun mixture of water and corn starch.  It's the strangest thing ever... stuck between a solid and liquid state.  Anyway Connor was curious about oobleck and it's been a while since we've played with it.. so I mixed up some for him to play with.  Which Jason and I then joined in on the fun.

Our room for the night

Triple Play indoor water park.  The first night we got there the boys played in the water, while I watched from the side.  I wasn't sure if it would be safe for me to go down the slides being pregnant.  The first evening the water was really warm and the room was really steamy, which means my pictures didn't turn out real great.  The boys had a blast though.

The boys enjoying the indoor/outdoor hot tub

the wave pool had a water fall and dinosaur display in the back.

there were 4 slides that all looped outside the hotel.  Jason went down all the slides.  The following day I decided to join the boys and play in the water.  I went down 2 of the slides.  1 slide required you to lay on your stomach, which I couldn't do.  The other was really twisty and Jason didn't think I would enjoy it.  Connor went down the same 2 slides I did (with Jason or I on the 2 person tubes).  1 of the slides went into a toilet bowel that you spun around in before going down the tunnel to the slide.

The kiddy area with slides and things to play on.  Connor played around in the kiddy area a little bit, but he spent most of his time either on the big slides with us, the wave pool or in the hot tub (which wasn't really Hot the second day... it felt more like a warm comfortable bath temperature.. which meant that I could actually enjoy some time in the hot tub too!).

Triple Play also has a video game section, which we played some games at after swimming.  There is a bowling alley, laser tag, mini golf, bumper cars, climbing wall, restaurant, and more.  Lots of fun stuff to do!

The next morning after breakfast we suited up to have more fun at the water park.  I don't have a maternity swim suite and since I'm due in April I won't have any use for one after this... so, I had to get creative with the swim suites I do have.  I matched up a sports swim top with my skirt type swim bottoms, which I was still able to squeeze my pregnant body into.  I decided to wear a tank top over the top though so my belly wouldn't be hanging out.

We had a blast!  This was exactly what we needed... a fun, relaxing break from working on our floors!

Disney on Ice

We loved the Disney on Ice Rockin' Ever After show!  Our favorite was the Little Mermaid show, which was beyond our expectations!  The performance was entertaining and beautiful, but the ice skating skills went way beyond our expectations. 

Arial doing some amazing acrobatics above the ice

The Little Mermaid show included some incredible performances on the ice that we were not expecting at all.  They did jumps, flips, twists and not only gave a fun show for the kids, but also a very entertaining talent show for the adults.  We were very impressed!

Next up was Tangled.

We watched the show from Jason's work suite, which made the performance even more sweet!  Connor had a blast playing with a buddy during the intermission.

The second half of the show wasn't quiet as entertaining as the first half for Connor.  He was glued to the Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse and Tangled shows, but he wasn't familiar with the acts in the second half of the show...  This was from the movie Brave, which we have not seen.

Beauty and the Beast