We Love Greenbluff...

I mentioned before that I took Tucker up to Greenbluff last week to pick a pumpkin, some apples and go on a hay ride. Tucker was mostly excited about the hay ride! :) We went with a little pre-school group and Tucker had a great time. We heart Greenbluff. We go multiple times each year. :) This was our first time at this particular farm and it was perfect for little kids. They each got to pick out a pumpkin, pick an apple, go on a hay ride (which I opted out of) and at the end they each got a doughnut and some apple juice.
Here are Tucker and his good buddy, Owen...

And reaching in a big bin after learning all about how bees pollinate apples, to pick an apple for himself...

Taking a bite of that big juicy apple (don't tell anyone, but I think mine made me sick, later)...

On the hay ride with Owen and Meg...

I opted out of the hay ride because I didn't want to get sick. I get car sick easily, and already wasn't feeling the greatest that day. For some reason nausea has hit me during the second trimester??? Who knew that could happen? :)
And finally, it was all worth it for just one delicious doughnut!!! :)

I wanted to get these pictures up before our next trip to Greenbluff (tomorrow). :) You just can't do a fall here in Spokane without a trip up!

Baby Showers...

A few weeks ago, I headed down to Quincy for my sister-in-law's baby shower. We were going to do something up here for her, but when that fell through, I decided to make the trek down. I brought Tucker with me because he always loves to see Keyton.
Here's what the boys did while we were at the shower...

They got to watch movies and eat popcorn with Uncle Allen. (Lucky!)
And here's Kelli opening her gift from me. (It is so much more fun to shop for girls than boys!) :)

Last week, my friend Cherie had a baby shower. It's like somethings in the water with the three of us. (My sister in law, Kelli and my friend Cherie) We all had our first babies within a few months of each other and now we are all pregnant again. Cherie is having a little boy.
Luckily for Carly, her grandma brought her a present, too.

Us girls at the party...

It was a diaper themed party, so my friend Katrina and I tried out hand at making a diaper cake-it was a first for the both of us. It was SO easy and we were happy with the way it turned out. It definitely takes more than one person, though. To hold of the diapers together while trying to fit the rubber bands around! :)

I think I am all showered out, though. My friends keep on wanting to throw one for me, but I think I need a baby shower break for a while! :)

On being pregnant...

A productive day for a pregnant lady:

• Take son to Greenbluff for a little tour to pick pumpkins and apples and go on a hay ride. check
• Lunch with good friends to celebrate a birthday. check
• Dinner made and given to brother and sister in law who just had a baby. check
• House clean. check
• Birthday present purchased for son's upcoming birthday. check
• Vomit in the parking lot at the bank. Check!

Oh the joys of being pregnant! :) I just have to remind myself that I DID want this! :)

This pregnancy has been so different than with Tucker. With Tucker I had NO symptoms the entire time. I did get a little heart burn the last few months. But nothing major. I got the heart burn with this one months ago. And I am just wiped out ALL the time! I remember after I had Tucker I told Ben that I missed being pregnant, I felt so good! I think after this one I am definitely going to re think that statement! :) It hasn't been horrible, but I could sleep 24/7. Food really affects me, I really have to watch what I eat or I just feel gross (although this is the first time I've thrown up) and I've been getting head aches a lot with this one. Is that normal??? If this little girl is giving me this much grief even before she enters the world, I'm not sure that I'm ready for this... :)

Little things...

Tucker and I have been a little under the weather these past few days and have just been staying in. But I love spending time with this little man. Since we found out that we were having a girl, I just haven't been able to get enough of this kid. I'm worried, of course. I don't want Tucker to feel like he's going to be getting the shaft when this new little one comes. So I've really been trying to just enjoy little moments with him.
Happiness to him is just throwing all of our extra blankets and pillows on the ground and jumping off the bed on to them. So we've been doing a lot of that...

I came out of the shower the other day to find Tucker on the computer chair trying to get a game started?! What? I couldn't believe it. Maybe just because I don't even think I saw a computer until I was like in the 6th grade, it is so strange to me that Tucker already thinks he knows how to navigate one. He wanted to play a game. So, we've been going to pbs kids and playing some Dinosaur train and Super Why games. I'm still not sure how I feel about this computer game thing at such a young age, but he loves it, so...

And we've been doing a lot of this:

OK, not a lot. I wish it were more. But he did crash like this on the couch the other day and I thought it was so cute. He hasn't done this since he was just a little guy! It made me realize just how much of a BIG BOY he really is!

And speaking of little things...
My brother Nathan and his wife just had their little guy, Carter James Campbell...
We haven't been able to spend too much time with him yet because we've been sick. But I can't wait to snuggle on him soon! :)
We are so excited to have a new little member of our family!

Fall traditions...

I love Halloween! A few weeks ago I was cleaning out our storage room and just decided to leave out all of our fall/Halloween decorations. Ben made me at least wait for October 1st before we decorated, but boy was I ready! :) This weekend Tucker and I made Halloween cookies while Ben was gone on Saturday night at the Priesthood session of Conference. We had a great time and I think Tucker ate his weight in frosting! :)

We made some to take to the Enloe's the next day:

We went to their house today to watch Conference. We love hanging out with the Enloe's! Eric made delicious Pumpkin muffins and Ben made his grits for breakfast and we ended up being there until dinner! :) Thanks guys!
Eric has done an amazing garden this year and we went out and picked some pumpkins in between sessions! I think Tucker thinks that it is his home too, sometimes! :)

Ben and Tucker snuggling during Conference...

A few weeks ago my mom, nephew Keyton, and sister in law Kelli came to town to visit. Ben had arranged my mom to come and watch Tucker while we go out for the night to celebrate our anniversary, but since I had surprised him during the week with that concert, we decided that one celebration was enough. We told my mom this and she still wanted to come to visit, so she did and she brought along a few extra! :)
The three preggers:

Angie is due in October with a boy and Kelli in November with a little girl.
We went to Greenbluff one day to pick Blackberries and Raspberries, but they had just been harvested and weren't going to be ready to pick for another week. Bummer, I was totally ready to make some jam. I'll have to go back another day. So we just let the boys run around in the pumpkin patch and they had a great time. I love Greenbluff this time of year. The weather was unusually warm that weekend and it was so nice not having to bundle up. Of course, my mom had to document every moment! :)

It's a...

I am still in shock!!! But it looks like we will be evening things up a bit here in the Pyper home. I would have posted some ultrasound pictures, but you can tell its your second child when you forget to even ask for the pictures, let alone get them on disc! :)
(Like we HAD to do with Tucker!) :)
Anyway, I thought for sure it was a boy! I don't know why. Yesterday I was in too much shock to even be excited!:) But the more I think about it, the more and more excited I'm getting. I just didn't think I was ready to give up the boy mode I'm in right now and was hoping to continue it a little bit longer. I mean we have a good thing going on with Tucker right now. I didn't want to disrupt! :) But I guess we'll now be immersing ourselves in ruffles and pink and everything else that comes with little girls! :)
It was really funny because Tucker was also set on the idea that it was a boy. He would always tell me that he wanted to teach him this or that. So when we told him yesterday it was a girl. He was almost in tears. He just kept on saying over and over, 'It's not a girl, it's not a girl! I don't want a girl!' Ben did his best to convince him otherwise and I was still just laying on the ultrasound table in shock. Eventually Ben convinced him that it was a good thing and he left the appointment excited about having a little sister. When we got home after the appointment I asked him what he wanted to do for the rest of the day. He told me he wanted to play with his girlfriend. I asked him who his girlfriend was and he said, 'My new baby girlfriend.' It was very cute and I can tell he's already warming up to the idea! :) He also told me today that he wanted to name the girl Jessica. But then he said, 'I don't like the name Jessica, we will call her Jess.' So apparently he's put a little thought into it! :) And Ben, who was the biggest advocate for another boy admitted to me yesterday that he had always hoped for a little girl. I think he was even more excited than I was! :)
Anyway, our lives are about to be flipped upside down, I can tell already! :)

Busy, busy, busy...

I always feel like I have nothing exciting to blog about but then I'll go through pictures and think to myself, 'oh, I want to blog about that...oh, I want to blog about that....' Anyway, we've been pretty busy lately, and here's what we've been up to:
First, the biggest news of all is that Tucker is potty trained!!! I can't believe that he is such a big boy already! So all of my friends told me that I'll know when it's ready to start potty training, that he'll do it when he's ready. I was still clueless, I've never done it before. I always thought to myself, how will I know when he's ready??? Anyway, a few weeks ago we were playing outside and he told me he had to go poop. So we ran inside and he went poop and pee on the big boy potty. I thought to myself, if he is telling me he has to go poop, then he is ready to be potty trained. The next day was a Wednesday and we didn't have any plans, so I stripped him and put big boy undies on him and we didn't leave the house all day. He had a few accidents that day. The next day, Thursday came and NOT ONE ACCIDENT! He was already a pro! The next day, Friday he was accident free until we to our friends house that night for dinner and to play games. He had one accident there, but also went twice in the toilet there, and since that Friday he has been accident free! The next day, Saturday we even went to Chuck E Cheese and he had no accidents. He even was good through trips to the park that week, visits to friends, church, and shopping trips! I keep on waiting for him to relapse or something, because it seems like it should have been more work, potty training him, but he was a breeze! But I've found that the things I just dread doing, aren't really as bad as I'm expecting, luckily. Anyway, he has been accident free for two weeks now and it was so easy! I do still put a diaper on him at night. I'm not even going to attempt night time potty training for another few weeks. I want him to get in the habit of this during the day and then we will attempt night times. Night time potty training kind of scares me, I have no clue what to do or how to do it! If anyone has any good advice, it would be greatly appreciated!

Is it weird that I was so excited so I took a picture of him on the toilet for all the world to see?

So this is a sight that we see quite a bit around our house lately since he never wants to put his pants back on. He just wants to run around in his big boy undies all the time...

The next exciting piece of news around here is that we (ok, Ben) changed the bathroom floors! yeah! Ok, maybe no one else is as excited about this as I am! :) It was long overdue and I am so happy to see the ugly pink linoleum GONE! Tucker, of course had to help every step of the way! Thanks to my wonderful father who also helped a ton! I somehow missed taking a picture of him when he was here helping...



This is right after they were done putting it in, but before they were finished with everything. Notice the toilet in the bathtub...

And the finished product. 100 times better! Thanks Ben for all of your hard work!!!

I went to the Kieth Urban concert a few weeks ago and it was so much fun! I went with my friends, Danna, Heidi and Sharlene. We had great seats and he is such a good live performer! He is seriously so hot when he sings. (we also think that he may have been a little tipsy while performing) But he seriously made it the best concert, he was so into it and going up into the stands and having a grand ol' time! The group 'Little Big Town' opened for him and they were really good too. Since then I have actually listened to their CD, I had never actually heard of them before, and they were just as good live! They harmonize great together, and they were good, too!
Here are all of them performing a song together:







It was so much fun! Thanks girls!!! :)
And a few more random pictures. Here is a picture of me. I am now officially 18 1/2 weeks along. Our ultrasound is on Monday to find out what we are having. I'm so excited!

And now I am off to join this little one in a little nap... This pregnancy just wipes me out sometimes! :)