Vander has an announcement!!!

That's right!!! It's a GIRL!!!!!!

We are soooo excited!!!

We found out on Tuesday Feb. 9th!

Isn't that picture of Vander just adorable?!!!!

He really does look excited for his new baby sis!

Today Vander is 9 months old!!! he is getting cuter and bigger by the month!

I'm doing this post a couple days later then I wanted, that is because Vander has krupe, just got it. I have been completely and 100% focused on him! I feel he is doing a little better, but it really has only been hardley two days. The doc said it can take some time to go away. We are doing everything possible for him. I'm sleep deprived right now, I can't sleep very good at night cause I'm always waking up to check on him. However he has been sleeping pretty good considering how he has felt which is all that matters to me. We watch and monitor him very closely. I wish I could just take it away from him! But regardless how miserable and sick he feels, he tries so hard to still be a happy little baby! I didn't want to wait to much longer to get this post up and Vander has been napping and Keith just got home to help me.

I have been feeling boy lately

but I had that deep feeling in my gut that it would be a girl! Either way I would have been happy though! When people would ask, I would say If it's a boy Vander will have a little buddy, and if it's a girl he would have a little sister to protect! Either way he would still be the protective big brother! I would also say I don't care I just want a healthy baby! Really that's all it narrowed down to for me.

Keith told me a month ago he had a dream that he was in the ultrasound and saw what the baby was and I told him not to tell me! The Sunday just before my ultrasound I had a dream that felt as real as real could be! It woke me up! In my dream I had delivered the baby but I didn't know what it was until they brought it over to me with a little bow on it's head and said you had a girl! When I told Keith that Sunday that I had a dream and our baby was a girl, he then told me in his dream it was a girl also! Crazy!!! We are so excited for this new little addition to our family! At the same time nervous, it's going to be hard with two very little ones! Everyone tells me what best buds Vander and his little sis will be cause they will be so close! I told Keith I love Vander SOOOOO MUCH that it's hard to even picture loving another baby as much! Keith felt the same! My mom told me though that your love multiplies for each child you bring into the world! That helped me feel a little better:) We feel so blessed to bring babies to this earth! We are so very excited for our little baby girl to come join our little family!

Nothing could EVER top being a mother!

Right before the ultrasound!
Excited and nervous a the same time!
They are checking the brain the heart, just everything. It all looked great! She than said see these two little circles?! Those are ovaries! It's a girl!!!! I started to cry! Just so happy to see a HEALTHY baby girl! Keith was so happy to! Showing Vander the ultrasound pictures of his baby sister! He had such big eyes looking at it!
We were going to take him with us to the ultrasound but decided to leave him with my mom at the last second because he was sounding a little sick:( This was before we took him to the doc. and found out he had krupe.
Our little family of 3 soon to be a little family of 4!
So the day we found out what Vander was, that night we went out and bought an adorable little baby boy outfit! Well we made it a tradition this time and after we found out it was a girl we did the same thing! So here we are at Babies 'R' Us picking out a cute girl outfit! Yes there is SO MUCH more girl clothes out there! But I LOVE dressing a little boy! It has been so fun! We found something very cute and buddy even got something new to! This was Vanders first time in a shopping cart and he did pretty good! And YES I sanitized the crap out of that thing before I put him in!!!!

So much fun in the cart!!!

Comfy buddy???

This is Vander saying I am so excited for my new little sister once again!

We really are so grateful for everything!

Now keep looking on! I just posted Christmas to!!!

They are some of the CUTEST pictures of our V-MAN!!!

Christmas 2009!!! The best Christmas EVER!!!

This Christmas was probably the best Christmas! It was Vander's first! I will NEVER forget it! He loved everything about it! The lights, the decorations, the snow, the music, ALL the presents he got and especially the wrapping paper!!! Oh my gosh that baby LOVES wrapping paper!!! This Christmas was very different for me. I was grateful so so much more! That being my little family and having Vander! I just love him so much! He makes everything mean so much more! And my wonderful husband who I just fall in love with everyday! Christmas truly is so much more different and special when you have kids! I look forward to the rest to come! These pics are in order of events which there were many this Christmas Season! Enjoy our Christmas 2009! These pictures are some of the BEST pictures of our little guy!

This picture above might be one of my favorites!!! I just can't get over our little dude! And he is the cutest Santa EVER!!!!
I just love this picture! I got this off my sister in laws blog that she had from her camera and I just fell in love with it!
Our ward asked if Vander and I would play Mary and Jesus for the Christmas program! A woman in our ward sang a beautiful song while Vander and I sat up on a raised platform with a light shining on us. I cried through the song. Vander was such a good baby for it! he just sat in my arms kicking his little feet! Everyone commented on how much they loved seeing his little feet. It was such a special moment I will NEVER forget.
My little baby Jesus

This was one of the pictures we used on our Christmas cards!
The Polar Express!
We went to Heber and rode the Polar Express with Keith's parents and his family! Such a great memory! It was so fun to see Vander's face through it all!
He loves his daddy!

So Truly and Shane went to use the restroom real fast so Keith and I carried their twins and Vander on the train! A couple people thought we had triplets!

Riding with mommy!

Vander loved rubbing his hands on the slushy window! It was so cute!

I just love his little hat!

Ok, another favorite!

He loved this little light coming off papa's hat!

Of course it went in the mouth!

Yummy hot chocolate they served along with a chocolate chip cookie!MY two boys!!!

Vander loved looking up at the lights on the train!!!

Cousin Ashton LOVES giving Vander kisses!

I love how she is holding onto his shirt!

Almost! Down just a little more!

Santa came on the train! He gave all the kids a little gold bell that Vander loved!

Vander sleeping with Grammy!

Cuddling with papa!

This was so cute! We laid him down in the other room for a nap and when I went to check on him he had woke up and snitched a present out from under the tree and was just laying with it! it was so cute!

Don't eat your shoe buddy!

He loves bells!

Ashton wanting to kiss him again! Of course we tell her to at times:)

This was so funny and cute! We loaded Vander and Ashton on the girls little push toy and Lindsey pushes it! It kind of worked!

Wanting to kiss Vander again!

All three got new Christmas jammies from grammy and papa!

He loves his grammy and papa Crocker!

This was at another Christmas party! He just loved all the little stuffed toys for Christmas! Even the ones at our house! I love the little expression on his face here! He is so sweet!

Wanting Ashton's bell!

In the mouth!

More kisses

With Grandma and GrandpaJust the threee of us!

He loved this Grinch!

So he was playing on the floor with all these Christmas toys and he was having the time of his life! I will never forget just how happy he was here!

Love his little face!

Aunt Cherri has these two dogs that are just HUGE! So we thought is would be fun to put Vander on! He is fearless of these dogs!

At a Christmas dinner that Grammy made! It was delicious! Thanks Nancy!

Feeding the babes!

Yep more kisses!

Nancy wearing the jewelry I made her for her gift!

I am so happy you like them Nancy pants!

Oh boy!!! This was Vander's FIRST big Christmas present! We had Christmas a few days early with Craig and Nancy being they had to go back to Arizona for Christmas! Vander got so many fun things! Look how excited he is!!! Almost as excited as his grammy Nana!!! LOL!!!

What is it buddy?!

Oh boy!

Look daddy! He loves this gift btw! Thanks Grammy and papa!

He really did take opening presents very serious!

He did such a good job to!!! He LOVED the wrapping paper!

This was Keith's big present from his parents! I thought I got a picture of it after but I guess not! It was Aragorn's sword from "The Lord of the Rings" He couldn't believe it! He has wanted that sword for so long! It is so awesome! Eventually he would like to collect them all:) And I didn't get a picture of it darn it! Nancy and Craig gave me this beautiful picture that Craig gave Nancy when Keith was born! It was of Mother holding a her baby boy! They gave it to me for Christmas and I cried when I opened it! I love it! I will get a picture of it and post it later! Thank you so much!

At Happy Sumo! Yummy! I love that place! Grammy feeding V-man his bottle!

We had a great time!

Papa holding Vander outside to keep him warm!

With My aunt Barbra and Uncle Dale

OK, another Favorite!!! I just can't get over his little face and all the cute smiles he has!

This one kills me! I laugh everytime I see it!

This was from when we were decorating the tree! We had Christmas music going Vander loved every minute of it! He was definately in the Christmas spirit! Love the drool btw!

Yep I could just kiss his face off! Wait! I do!

Don't eat the plastic baby!

He got this book from Grammy and papa! He took this very serious!

He loves his books!

He was so happy!

I just love his little legs here! Another present from grammy and papa! He is so cute when he bounces in his swing! It's so cute to watch his little legs jump!

When he is in the car he will sometimes just hold onto his little toy! There have been a few times he has fallen asleep holding onto it like this!

Playing with our Christmas toys! Did I mention I LOVE his little face!

So it is a tradition in my family every Christmas morning we go to Sundance for their buffet Christmas breakfast! Yummy! So on Christmas we dressed little buddy boy up as Santa! And he was the cutest little Santa EVER!!!

Little sleeping Santa!

With my parents and my big sis! Not all my fam could make it! We still had a good time!

Vander clearly wants my necklace here!

Loves his papa! Vander had people up at the restaurant ask if they could take his picture!

He just looked so cut!

With daddy! This would be my husbands Christmas shave!

Pulls it off well doesn't he?:)

Loves his grandma Joanie!

With aunt Charelle! Look at his little cheezer!

And with mommy!

He was so happy this whole Christmas morning!

Little blury! Me and my beautiful big sis outside the restaurant!

This was on the drive up to Sundance! It was sooooo beautiful!

We did presents when we got home from Sundance! This was Vander's BIG present from mommy and daddy! His very own excersaucer!!!!

He just loved it! He has gotten so good at bouncing in it!

Get it buddy!

I just loved seeing his little Santa legs hanging out the bottom!

Opening another gift from mommy and daddy! He really does love opening presents! It's very interesting to him!

OK here it is!!!!

You now can see his LOVE for wrapping paper!

It was like the happiest day of his life! He lays in it and throws it all over and all over him! It was to funny! Yes we got it on camera!

Where is buddy!!!!

To precious!

LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture! our little clothesless Santa!

Can't get enough of him!

Cousin Braylee got V-man a present!

My family Christmas party!

Each year my sister Charonne gives us a scarf! this year it was red!

Thanks Ronnie!

What a wonderful Christmas so far!!!

I loved seeing his little Santa head poking up form his carseat!

We went to aunt Cherri's again!

And once again he loved her big dog Charlie!

This baby shows no fear towards this huge dog!

Look at him! My baby wants his face!

Oh boy look at the two Santas! Except one has a very loving heart!

Well I guess the Grinch does in the end:)

This was the yummy strawberry and blueberry spinach salad I made for the party!

It really is soooo good I want some now!

Buddy peaking out the door in his swing! To cute!

All pooped out! Just resting with daddy!

Hope you enjoyed your Christmas 2009 as much as we did! It will definately be one we will always remember!

Vander's first Christmas!