One Week Old

We are loving having Oliver around. He loves to cuddle and likes to keep his hands crossed. We are so happy he is apart of our family. Happy One Week Birthday!

Welcome

 Here was our preview.

 But, nothing is better than the real thing

 Welcome to earth Oliver Wesley Womble

 He already loves blowing bubbles.

 He weighed in at 6 lbs 4 oz and 20 inches long.
Sophie loves being his big sister and we are all glad to finally meet our little Oliver.

Change is coming......

we all feel it. As I was going through old pictures last night and looking at videos of Sophie Wes said, " I'm ready for another one." I agree. We are ready to welcome Oliver into our home. I find myself lying awake at night just thinking about how much our world is going to change. I'm excited and nervous for what next week will bring. My mom is coming tomorrow and I am so glad she will be here to help and to play with Sophie. Wes has his last final today. Then school will be over for a few weeks and we can all spend time together. The 4 of us.

I'm loving spending time with Sophie. Just the two of us.

I love her fun and sweet personality. She's starting to do imaginative play and I love hearing what she says. Someday's shes a dinosaur or a lion crawling around the house. But most days she hides from the "pink mouse." But she reassures me that it's a nice mouse. Which is good. We wouldn't want a mean mouse at our house.

Last night I tucked her in bed and left. When I checked on her a few hours later I was surprised to see her sound asleep in the rocking chair. I wondered if I should move her but she looked so comfortable I just decided to leave her there. She did eventually go back to her bed and when I asked her this morning if she slept in her rocking chair she replied, "No, I sleep bed." But this picture proves that she still does like to be rocked to sleep. It makes me wonder if this is a nightly ritual of hers.

Light Parade

Saturday was the Light Parade on main street. The firemen set off fireworks at the beginning.

It was fun to see all the cars decked out in twinkle lights.

Home Depot had TONS of lights.

This was Snow College welding program. All those sparks are them using their tools. Cool huh?

It wouldn't be complete without Santa atop the Coke truck. Right?

Getting ready for Christmas

We are now ready for Christmas. Wes helped put the lights on the tree.

Sophie helped with decorations

and I finally made a tree skirt. I've had the fabric for over 3 years and decided now was a good time to sew it. Now our tree is complete! Doesn't it look beautiful?

Our stockings are all hung on the mantle ready for stuffing.

I also made this Advent Calender last month. I really love how it turned out. Sophie loves taking out a new ornament each day and putting it on the tree.

Are you ready for Christmas?

When our water broke.....

Sleep came easy for me last night. It usually doesn't. We have 15 more days until Oliver comes. I keep dreaming that in the middle of the night my water will break. At midnight Wes heard a popping sound and looked around frantically for any water in bed. But as I was still fast asleep he figured it was nothing and went back to sleep.

At 2am I awoke to the sound of water. Our heater had kicked on but something didn't sound right. I woke up Wes and asked him if he could go look around. He didn't. So, I got out of bed and started searching around the house. When your heater turns on your not supposed to hear running water. After finding nothing wrong I went back to bed and said a prayer that I would feel comfort and we would be okay. But I didn't feel comforted. Something didn't feel right and I knew something was wrong. Finally I told Wes that maybe he should go down to the cellar and check things out. I knew something was wrong and I couldn't ignore that feeling.

Wes grabbed his flashlight and headed outside to where our cellar is. After a few minutes I heard him say, " Yeah, there's probably about 3 feet of water down here. I'm not sure how to turn off the water." He was talking to our landlord who was on his way over to help out. Wes did get the water turned off and our landlord thankfully owns a dumpster company so he had the equipment to suck the water out of the basement. The entire time this is happening I'm just hoping and praying that MY water doesn't break!

After a few hours of sucking out the water, digging and bringing things out of the cellar they found the problem. Our tap in the front of the house had a leak in one of the pipes and had flooded the cellar.

We don't have any water at the moment but I'm so glad that we caught the problem early. If I would have ignored the feeling I felt and waited until morning we would most likely have water throughout the house. I'm so grateful for the prompting I felt and that I followed it because if I didn't things would be much worse. I'm also grateful for a good landlord who came so quickly and is still working hard to get the problem fixed.

Here is the 5 ft hole that they dug early this morning by the front of our house.

This is what had caused all of that water in the cellar. A small leak in the pipe.

Here is a look out of Oliver's bedroom window. Those are our steps down to the cellar. Water was up to the first step at the very bottom.

There were a bunch of random things down in the cellar. Old water heaters, wood and I think that's springs for a mattress.

Moral of the story: I'm glad that my water didn't break during all of this and I'm grateful for the promptings of the Holy Ghost. Only 15 more days to go until Oliver is here. I just hope things can calm down a bit over here until then. There never is a dull moment over at the Womble's house.

Sophie's First Haircut

Yes it's true. We finally gave Sophie her first haircut this week. As most of you know her hair grows like crazy in the back but no where else. It was truly starting to look like a mullet and was getting way too long and out of control. So, we decided to give her a haircut.

See that tangled mess?

Ta Da! Doesn't her hair look so much better? And yes we bribed her with a sucker so she would somewhat hold still.

No more long tail in the back. Now she has a cute little bob haircut.

Finding the perfect tree

We really wanted a real Christmas tree this year. So, we went to the forest ranger station in town and bought a permit. For $10. Then we set off to Willow Creek Canyon to find the perfect tree.

We saw lots of wild turkeys

and Deer

Finally we found a spot worth checking out and started the search for the perfect tree.

I wanted to get a picture of me hiking with the saw to let you all know I was in on the action too. This was the best one I could get and yes, I did hike around on the mountain 9 months pregnant. I couldn't let Wes and Sophie have all the fun.

I think Wes might have found "the one" and I'm pretty sure Sophie is totally confused as to what we are doing. Hiking around on the mountain in the snow carrying a saw.

Look up on the mountain! It's Bigfoot!!

After searching for quite sometime we came upon this tree. Wes is trying to decide how tall it really is. Because you can't cut anything higher than 8 feet tall. It might work don't you think?

Sophie and I decided to wait by this tree while Wes searched some more. It was starting to get dark and chilly. Can you tell?

We finally decided on this tree. Wes is hard at work trying to cut it down.

Once we all got down the mountain safely we strapped it really good to the top of our car. That's one thing I love about our Subaru. It can drive really well in the snow and you can tie things to the top. Perfect for Christmas Trees.

Here it is. The perfect Christmas Tree. Once we got it where we wanted it I had Wes measure it to see how tall it was. Our ceiling is 8ft 5in and the tree is 7ft 11in.

As for decorating and lights that will have to wait another night. I'm kind of exhausted. We had tons of fun searching the mountain for the perfect tree and are very happy with it. It's starting to feel and smell a lot like Christmas over here.