Bring on the Christmas Spirit!

We love Christmas! Waking up to the smell of a fresh Christmas Tree, having an excuse to drink hot chocolate every day/night, and being able to watch the Polar Express, Elf, and the Family Stone over and over:) We've had a great time kicking off the holiday season. We've gone down to San Clemente to enjoy Santa reading us "Twas the night before Christmas" and a Tree lighting, seeing REAL reindeer!, and going to the train station to enjoy a Christmas peformance on top of an amtrack train covered in christmas lights, starring Santa and Mrs. Claus. The boys got to sit on Santa's lap twice; once at our Ward Christmas party and once at the Mall. We've also enjoyed making a ton of Christmas crafts this year (even dad and ethan helped this year:) to add to our collection. We've definately been doing the Christmas "countdown" with the boys. James asks me every night "Mom, is Santa gonna be on our roof tonight?" it's priceless! Their favorite songs to sing are "Santa Claus is coming to town" and "Frosty the Snowman" (of course their rendition is a little different from the original) It's been a blast to enjoy this holiday season through the eyes of a 2 and 31/2 year old! Now it's just time for Santa to come!!!!

Turkey Trot 2009

Yes, mom did the Turkey Trot for the 3rd year in a row. I just did the 5k and only ran the first mile because I was more comfortable power walking it this year since I'm 4mnths pregnant. My sister Hether and I started doing this the year ethan was born and loved it so much that we've decided to make it a yearly tradition. So my girlfriend Liz and I and my Hethers sister in law Kim all did it together. It was fun as always and was so refreshing to wake up to a beautiful sunny day at the harbor in Dana Point. I went straight home afterwards baked my 3 dishes and then we headed over to my mom's house where we enjoyed a yummy Thanksgiving Lunch/dinner. Cameron and I spent our evening going over the good deals in the newspaper, marking the boys christmas items. After an hour and a half of sleep, I arrived at Toys R Us at 11:30 pm and got home at 4:30am and got ALL of the boys christmas shopping DONE!!! What a great savings you get on black friday...yes, it's a little nutty to stay up late and stand in crazy lines, but it's soooo worth it! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we hope all of you did too:)))

Every day fun raising these crazy cute boys!

The Churchill boys get more creative and more fun every day. Of course there are days where we feel crazy but we're pretty good at enjoying the moments of how hard they make us laugh by the new things they do:)))

Pumpkin Patch...a must every year of course:)

The Pumpkin Patch never seems to get old, right? We love going there and the boys do too. It kicks the start of the Holiday season. So here's some fun pics

Halloween 2009

So now we get to play catch up since our camera is finally working again. Halloween was a lot of fun this year...we're finding that each year just gets better because your kids get sooooo into it! We loved getting em dressed up this year. James decided he wanted to be Incredible Hulk and Ethan didn't want to be anything but I managed to trick him into putting on a Lion costume and used his long grown out hair to make a Lions mane out of it:) We went to Cameron's aunt Marna's house for our annual Halloween get together and enjoyed yummy food and trick or treating in Talega. We had a Halloween:)

It's a Girl!

Yes, that's right, a false alarm! We had an ultrasound about 3wks ago and were told it was a boy...only to find out for sure tonight that it's a girl!!! We got some "sure" shots of her female parts and are 100% certain. I'm in complete shock. I knew I felt different this pregnancy and thought I was having a girl until I was told differently a few weeks ago. Well I'm now almost 17wks pregnant and carrying different than I did with the boys. It definately explains my crazy mood swings and my skin breaking out! At least I know the reason behind it now...some moms say they couldn't tell the difference while being pregnant with a son or daughter, well I can! As you all probably know by now this is our last child. We are so thrilled to have this wonderful experience to raise a daughter. We are especially blessed to be able to experience both, having sons and a daughter in our family, I've heard they're night and day:) Well I'm excited to have a special pal since I've been outnumbered for a few years now. It's going to be so much fun doing her hair!!! Cameron and I were very emotional when we found out this wonderful unexpected surprise tonight and are looking forward to many memories to come!

It's A Boy!!!

We just found out a few days ago that we're expecting a Baby Boy! Can you believe it! 3 Churchill Boys!!! We're totally excited. I thought for sure I was pregnant with a girl because I feel so different this time, but every pregnancy is different they say. James and Ethan keep talking about their brother. It's so cute that James understands this time what's going on in my belly and that there's a baby brother waiting to meet and play with him. Ethan has been our "baby" so it's really cool to picture him as a big brother. We're going to have so much fun having an "all boy" family...I'm definately gonna be outnumbered but in a very cool way:)