Happenings...

Baby boy #3! You can see his little hand resting under his chin while he snuggles up to the placenta. Both of our boys and myself sleep with our hands under their chins like this when we sleep on our stomachs. It was fun to see that this little guys already fits right in! So cute!

Birthday pictures!

Landon 2 years old

Chase 4 years old!

Cute boys!

The family with our new Master's Graduate!

Future graduate Parker Daniel! His talented mom CREATED this graduation outfit! It was super impressive and he looked oh so adorable rocking it!

Panda! He made faces and woo'ed the people behind us for the majority of the graduation. The guy behind me kept saying how much more entertaining a grauduation is when he's sitting behind such a cute little boy:)

Keynote speaker

Chase being a good boy during a loooooong graudation.

Our graduate!

I really have to get better at this updating business...We've had so much going on and I feel like I've missed being able to post about a lot of it. In a mad effort to do some catching up here are some recent happenings in the White family!

Kyle finally graduated from his Master's program in August!!! This was big for us. It's seemed like it has been a looooong journey but he finally finished with flying colors. He's been able to get a lot more done with that off his plate and we're glad to be able to see him a little more often now:) He's also training like a mad mad for his fast approaching marathon. He'll be running in the St George Marathon this year on October 1st. His 2nd marathon! His training is going well and he hasn't had any injuries. I know he'll be amazing come October! We're so proud of our marathon running master's grad!

I am loving my calling in YW's more and more. My girls are beyond amazing! They are such genuinely good girls. They make making right choices and standing up for what you believe in look easy. I don't know if all the youth in the church are like this or if I just lucked out but we've got a great group of girls that is ever expanding. I now have 5 Mia Maids (I started with only 3 and only 2 of those were active)! One of which is getting baptized this Saturday. So exciting! When I first was called in we had maybe 10 girls total we now have about 25 most of which are active. I've also started teaching gymnastics out of our home recently. This week was our second week. I love it so far! I have great classes and the kids seem to be catching on really well. I'm really looking forward to the fun things I have planned for this session! I am only doing the preschool age group this session of 3-5 year olds and it's been perfect for me while I'm pregnant. Depending on how things go with baby and how crazy things are with three boys I might do a spring session and take on the 5-8 year olds also at that time. We'll have to see! I love teaching gymnastics though. It's nice to be able to bring in a little extra while doing something that I really enjoy and look forward to.

This pregnancy has been great! I have had such a lack of any pregnancy symptoms and the ones I have had have been the good ones, healthier skin and nails and such. The only complaint I've had is that I have the appetite of 3 UFC fighters. It's been HORRIBLE! As a result I have already gained 15 pounds and I'm only half way through! I don't like where this is heading...I seriously feel like my stomach is bottomless. I almost never feel full or satisfied after eating. I hate that! Still we are so excited to welcome yet another little boy into our family in January! I LOVE that! I've slowed down a bit on my workouts since I became pregnant and I only run 11 miles each week total. It feels great to stay active and hopefully that's counteracting my rampant eating escapades.

Chase started his second semester of preschool in August and he is just growing up so stinking fast! His teacher said that during one of the first classes this semester that they were cutting and pasting some pictures they'd colored and Chase had remembered doing a similar activity from his previous semester. When the teacher had finished explaining what they kids would be doing Chase chimed in and said, "let me know if anyone needs help. I can help you when I'm done with mine." Hahaha! He is SO SO SO much like Kyle. He says the funniest things and he reminds me so much of his daddy with the way he acts. He loves to help me out during the day and keep Landon in line. He's always asking if he can help me clean and he jumps to do little favors for me. Again, Kyle. I have a feeling this little guy will be a GREAT help to me after the baby comes. He's found an insane passion for the Wii and asks to play it the moment he wakes up! I don't know how I feel about this. Seeing as I didn't grow up with video games, I've never been a big fan and I don't like the addiction it can cause. We allow him an hour of Wii play each day and he's usually really good at respecting the rules. He loves to sword fight and do bowling on it and looks pretty darn cute when he's concentrating so hard.

Landon is my little momma's boy. He is attached at the hip to his mommy. He doesn't like me to leave the house without him, he likes to know where I am at all times, and my favorite...he still loves his snuggle time with me. Kyle likes to do his bedtime routine sometimes for some bonding time with him and when he brings him over to give me a kiss goodnight Landon will dive to me from Kyle and wrap his little arms around my neck like a tree monkey to ensure that I am the one that puts him in his bed. Chase was and still is such a daddy's boy, so it's been nice to feel more appreciated by one of our children and it allows Kyle to see how it feels on the other side too:) He would always say I was overreacting or being silly when I would talk about Chase's preference for him. Now he knows I wasn't! I just adore my momma's boy! He is mischievous though...he is much more laid back then Chase ever was. He likes bugs, mud, and germs. His favorite things to do lately though is watch movies. He could do it all day long if I let him. He goes to our movie cupboard and tries to open and says, "Watch Mooovie!!" in the cutest little voice ever! He keeps talking more and more and uses a lot of phrases and copies a lot of our words. He can say the prayer (just repeating) and he likes that he's understood more now. He had a really hard time during that frustrating stage when they want so bad to voice their little opinions but their parents just don't understand a word. So glad that's coming to an end...

We just love these little guys and we are really really excited for a third one! We can't wait to see the difference in personalities and see what a third boy will look like for us. He's looking very healthy and growing right on target and we're getting anxious to meet him!