He's Here!!

Davis Paul DeMordaunt arrived Friday, May 14th at 2 a.m. He weighed 8 lbs, 9 oz and was 21.5 inches long. We've LOVED every second with him. More details to follow once we get some more sleep! :)

Aubrey's First Ski Day

So, Dallin has been chomping at the bit to get Aubrey up on skis since last year. In fact, we bought her her first pair of skis last winter, but haven't had a chance to get her up until just this past weekend. I was a bit curious to see how she would do -- considering she whined all morning as we tried on her boots, helmet and other ski stuff. But Dallin said that when they got to Mt. Rose, she was WAY excited to be there. Dallin put Jacob in a group ski lesson while he went with Aubrey and "taught her the ropes." Our neighbors let us borrow their "harness" and off they went down the slopes together. Her favorite part of the day? Riding the ski lift, of course.

I was fully expecting them to come home right after lunch, assuming Aubrey would be tired and fed up with her first ski lesson. But they actually ended up staying there the whole day b/c they loved it so much!

I am a terrible skier, but am determined to take lots of lessons next year so that I don't get left in the dust once my kids get older. Anyway, I'm elated my kids are learning to ski and let's just say that Dallin is on cloud 9.

First Day of PreSchool

Yes!! Evan has officially started preschool and I could not be happier. We have a preschool literally 30 seconds from our house so I transferred Aubrey from her old preschool and enrolled Evan. So 3 times a week, I have the house all to myself in the morning.... but obviously not for long. I am fully taking advantage of this and trying to get a lot of rest in before our next baby comes. But I have to admit.... I am enjoying every minute of my freedom 3x a week! :)

Belated photos and more

OK, I'm finally posting pictures of the last few weeks/ months. The first couple of pictures are from our trip to San Antonio. Even though I was exhausted during a lot of the trip, Dallin and I were able to get some good R&R in.

Grandmacita watched the kids for us while we were gone

Feeding the Dolphins at SeaWorld

Our River Cruise

Here's also a picture of Dallin and his brothers and Dad in SLC last month.

I'm finally throwing in some bday pics of Evan at Red Robin.

Eating his most favorite food: Mac and Cheese

Family Shot

Getting sung to by the Red Robin staff

Next up is Easter. We did a cute easter egg hunt at home and then the kids had a big neighborhood easter egg hunt later that day. All in all, my kids walked away with WAY too much candy but had a blast playing with each other and the neighborhood kids.

Ryan leading them in their Easter "Cheer" before the big hunt

Decked out in their Easter Clothes

Just Scraping By

I have to be honest -- I have NO desire to blog lately. I'm 2 months shy of baby #4 and it takes every ounce of energy I have just to get through the day. But I will take a stab at hitting some of life's recent events. Most recently, yesterday was Evan's birthday (his 3rd). He was so excited about it the night before. He just kept saying loudly, "I'm going to be 3. I'm going to be a big brother."

Yesterday was a packed, chaotic day, but we were able to sneak away with the family to Red Robin for our traditional "you're turning 3" birthday meal. The kids LOVE this place, and I have to admit, I like it too. They get free ice cream on their bdays, free balloons, the Red Robin mascot guy (sometimes) walks around and greets them and my kids love the food there. So, for us, it's an easy, instant birthday party.

Also, later that day, our neighbor's daughter got baptized, which has been a really cool experience to see. We held an open house at our house immediately afterwards, which was so fun! But it took up most of the day, and then we had a wedding reception to go to that evening, so it really was a jam packed day.

Also, Dallin and I went to San Antonio last month. My mom flew out to watch our kids for a few days, while we took one last hurrah trip before baby #4. We had a great time visiting the alamo, visiting some of the missions there, doing a river cruise, and eating some seriously yummy food. It was great to get away and sleep in and just relax for a few days.

Hopefully some pictures will come later!

Arizona Lorenzanas

The day after Christmas, we hopped in our car towards Phoenix, where both of my brothers live. We stopped off in Vegas for 2 days just to break up the trip a little. We took the kids around to all of the free gimmicks at the museum (ie, the volcano at the Mirage, lions at MGM, etc...) And I have to say that although our meals were delicious there, I have no real desire to go back to Vegas. I was really turned off by the strip and all of the terrible advertisements there. And we saw like 5 people get arrested all on separate occassions, in the short time that we were there.

Checking out the cool fish

Evan happy after a spaghetti dinner at Maggiano's

Once we got to Vegas, the kids had a blast reconnecting with their cousins and it was so great to see my brothers. They have a great little setup there -- they live 1 house away from each other. So, it was so fun bouncing back and forth between their homes.

Cutest kid ever -- baby Ryan

Alex, Aubrey, Maya and Emmy

While we were there, we decided to take advantage of the warmer weather, so we went to the zoo, the train park, a local park by the house, went to a children's museum, Dallin went shooting with the boys, and I got to do some shopping with my sister in laws. We also went out to a fantastic restaurant one night and then went to see the Blind Side, which was great!

Jacob & Alex at the kids museum

Emmy & Aubrey at the kids museum

All of us FREEZING on the train ride

Phoenix zoo

Jacob & Sadie

The rest of the time, we spent playing in their backyards, playing foozball, playing on the Wii, and just hanging out and eating great food. We spent New Year's there and ordered in some yummy food that night and played Dance, Dance Revolution (I've got some good blackmail video of that!) And it was so great ringing in the new year with family.

Uncle Marco and Aubrey

Aunt Michelle & Emmy

Aunt Kathy & Aunt Michelle ready for some dancing!

Who says white boys can't dance?!

We honestly had so much fun there, and Jacob cried for an entire day after we left because he missed his cousins so much. On the drive back home, we stopped off at the Hoover Dam. It was pretty impressive b/c they are building a bridge so that people won't have to drive over the Hoover Dam (we assume for security reasons now). So, that was actually pretty interesting to see and read about.

Christmas 2009

OK, I have a few minutes to post about Christmas this year, so forgive me for the basic recap. Christmas this year was wonderful! I've really enjoyed establishing our own traditions with our kids every year. This year we had our traditional christmas eve dinner: lobster tails and tamales with a few other side dishes. Then we re-enacted the Nativity with our neighbors. All of the kids did a great job and had so much fun watching the video of it afterwards.

Then we came home, set out our treats for Santa and his reindeer, wrote letters to Santa, and opened 1 present that evening. The kids could hardly contain themselves the whole evening. They kept asking us if Santa had arrived in Reno yet and were looking for Rudolph's red flashing nose in the sky. It was awesome!





We told the kids not to come upstairs before 7 a.m. and fortunately they listened. Once they came up, they gathered in our room while we took a few pictures, which seemed like torture to them. Then we went out and started opening presents. We had our traditional Kringle for breakfast which was so delicious and we spent the whole day just relaxing at home and playing with all of the new toys.



Lastly, the next few pictures are from our ward christmas party in mid-December which I forgot to post. The kids all had fun sitting on Santa's lap, except for Evan who seem terrified of him this year. Go figure!

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

I am so behind on blogging right now, so I can really only hit the highlights. First piece of good news, my morning sickness is pretty much gone... finally. No more hugging the toilet, going to bed at 7 p.m. or covering my nose everytime I open the refrigerator. From here on out, it should be relatively smooth sailing... hopefully.

Onto much more interesting information, Reno got a great, big snowstorm a week and a half ago and we got dumped on. The kids got a day off of school and they spent endless hours in the freezing cold sledding, building snowmen and having snowball fights. Dallin had just as much fun cleaning the driveway with our snow blower (it's the first year we've had one), and I spent most of the time snuggled up on the couch sipping hot chocolate. I have to admit, I really did miss being outside playing in the snow. But fortunately, I know Reno will get snow again and again, year after year.

Check out their awesome snowman!

Look how much snow we got!

Snow Angels

Evan getting a push from Dad (although he wasn't very happy about the snow blowing in his face!)

Evan keeping me entertained inside while the big kids played outside.

It's been a jam-packed December, like always, full of work christmas parties, school and church christmas programs, christmas carolling, trimming the tree and decorating the house, etc.... I've thoroughly enjoyed all of it -- especially hearing my kids sing christmas carols at all hours of the day. If you're ever privileged enough, my kids sing a rockin' version of "Feliz Navidad", complete with hispanic accent and all. It's hilarious!!

Aubrey at her pre-school's christmas program

Trimming the tree

Anyway, now that most of the shopping is done and the christmas cards are out, I'm looking forward to concentrating on the true meaning of christmas. I've noticed that the years when I am pregnant or just had a baby, I'm more mindful of the real reason why we celebrate this season. I know we have a lot to be grateful for, and I hope all of our friends and family have a merry Christmas and a new year filled with peace and joy.