Baby Shower

Sorry we haven't posted for so long, life just gets a little crazy at the Besaw house. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our little girl at the end of July. We can't believe that she is almost here! This last Saturday was my baby shower given by my dear friend Andrea. Everything was beautiful and it was a wonderful day spent with family and friends. I am so grateful for all who helped to make it so special. Here are some pictures for you to enjoy:

Big News!

We apologize for being such terrible bloggers but life gets so crazy!! Anyway we have some big news in our family this week. IT'S A GIRL! Yes, the count will be 2 girls, 1 boy. We are very excited, although we had to console one sad little boy who was really hoping for a brother. He's doing great now and is very excited too. He now kisses my tummy every night. Hopefully we'll be better about getting some more info on our blog soon.

One More Thing...

Well, a huge thanks goes out to my wonderful husband for taking time to update our blog after all this time. But one thing he failed to mention, and I only do it with the utmost modesty and with great humility (because he definitely wouldn't do it), is the fact that he was called the Thursday before Christmas to be the Bishop of our ward. I only bring it up to illustrate the craziness of our month of December. The Stake president gave him about 5 days to choose counselors and he was sustained on December 30th, 2007. Talk about a whirlwind holiday! And he still updated the blog for me because I have been so lazy about doing it. I am so lucky to have such an incredible man as my husband! (Okay, enough of the cheesy stuff!)

Catching Up Our Blog

No, we didn't fall of the face of the earth! The past few months have just been very busy. Let me try to catch you up and then hopefully we can keep our blog more current than we did the last months of 2007.

For Thanksgiving, we made our annual trek to Utah to spend the week with my family. While we there, the kids had a great time playing with their cousins and we did our family Christmas gift exchange. We also had a fun time bowling with some of my family, but I think the high point for Adam was getting to drive/ride his Papa Rod's "tractor". It was a great trip until the last night when my youngest sister Miranda was in a pretty bad car accident and gave us a scare, but thankfully she was OK.

After returning home, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Amy was pregnant. It's a little scary thinking about having another baby after so many years, but we are very excited. We told the kids one night by having them open their first Christmas present, a stocking for "Baby Besaw". The only trouble is Annaka wants a girl and Adam wants a boy, so someone will be disappointed.

Leading up to Christmas, Adam had his end of the season soccer party. Annaka performed as part of her school's orchestra where she plays the cello and also had a piano recital. After all of that, we were ready to take it easy over Christmas.

My parents drove out to be with us for the New Year and were able to spend a couple days with the kids before they left with Amy's parents to spend New Year's Eve in Idaho with Amy's sister and her family. Adam and Annaka had a lot of fun playing in the snow with their cousin Kimberlee and I think we missed them more than they missed us. They came home the beginning of last week and now it is back to our everyday lives: work, school, babysitting, church, and preparing for our new addition this summer.

Halloween Fun

We are officially Halloweened out! We started on Saturday at our ward trunk-or-treat, continued Monday night at California Adventure for Mickey's Halloween Treat, and finished up today with the Halloween Spooktacular at the school where the kids go trick-or-treating to the classrooms. It makes me sick just looking at all the candy! They really did look cute in their costumes and they received many compliments. Annaka made a beautiful Snow White and Kimberlee was a darling little dark-haired Cinderella. However, Adam really stole the show because his costume was so unique.

Several of the Disney workers said they had never seen a Prince Charming before and one of them even gave him an extra handful of candy because his costume was so "cool." He did look very handsome! Enjoy the pictures and Happy Halloween!

Rogain Worked for Me!

We were just messing around with some blonde wigs and decided that if Carl had the right pair of glasses there is an uncanny resemblance to Garth from the movie Wayne's World. Don't you think?

Just a Walkin' Down the Street...

Today we had an interesting experience. As Adam and I left to pick up Annaka from the Pep Clinic she has been attending at the high school, we saw a Tortoise trying to cross the street! We couldn't let him get hurt so we stopped the car and tried knocking on the door of the house he was closest to. Nobody was home. So we moved the tortoise (Adam picked him up and moved him, not me) to the grass in front of a big tree away from the street. Then on our way home as we rounded the corner telling Annaka about the little guy, there he was again! Only this time he was really in the middle of the street. We stopped the car and I told the kids to pick him up and take him down to our yard. They thought it was great! They nicknamed him Speedy because for a tortoise he was pretty fast! We spent about an hour watching him and feeding him some lettuce leaves. When we saw the neighbors come home we asked if they had lost a tortoise and they said no but that their neighbor had a tortoise so they went to check to see if it was missing. Sure enough it was theirs, and turns out it was a girl and her name was DT, short for Desert Tortoise. I was sure glad we found out where it belonged because I wasn't too sure about having a new pet. And it just goes to show you never know what you might find just a walkin' down the street!