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One (Reid)

Two (Link)

Three! (Baby boy #3!)

As most of you know we found out waaaay back in December that we are having our third boy! Yay for me. Boys are my thing, and I am so excited to have another one in our home. Also, this ultrasound is (obviously) NOT my baby, but my scanner is broken and I don't have any real pictures of him, so stock photo it is (is this a weird thing to do?).

This pregnancy has been really great. I have been exercising a ton and feeling much better than I did with Link. I am scheduled to have a c-section on May 1st, so I am starting to count down the days!

Reid seems to be pretty excited, and has even pitched in a few name ideas. The third boy is HARD to name! Any suggestions?

Also, if anyone is interested I got all caught up on my posts from November until now, (below) and I cross my heart that I will be a better blogger because catching up on three months is kind of a huge pain...

Braggy The Braggart

So this handsome fella has done some pretty amazing things as of late, and I am going to share them with you because I am Braggy the braggart!

1.) He passed the FE exam which is kind of like the CPA exam only for engineers instead of accountants

2.) He got accepted to graduate school in Mechanical engineering at BYU and will be researching something called "super-hydrophobic surfaces," yikes. ALSO, they are going to pay his tuition and books. Yay for more school!

3.) He got a full-time real, live engineering position at the same place he has been working as a student engineer for the last couple of years, so we can breathe just a wee bit easier financially.

4.) He is FINALLY graduating in April. More on that later.

Really, what all of this means is that Nate is a super smarty-farty, and we will see him even LESS over the next couple of years. It will be tough for all of us, but so worth it!

Way to go, Nate! The boys and I are so, so proud of all you have accomplished!

Family Pictures 2010 (yep, 2010)

Waaaaay back in November I had the boys pictures taken again by Wendy G. I just love her, and she is pretty reasonably priced too. Anyway, I thought I would share a few of my favorites with you. The above picture depicts the kind of photo shoot I WANTED....

...and this picture more accurately depicts what really happened. Seriously, these two were such stinkers that day I am surprised she got as many good pictures as she did! It was sort of the longest hour of my life, but after seeing these pictures I decided it was worth it!


Also, I was kind of afraid to cut links hair back then, but I wish I would have. It looks pretty unruly in these pictures! At least I have good documentation on the cute baby hair before I cut it all off and he magically turned into my big boy.

This is my favorite of Reid even though the smile is fake...

This is my all-time favorite. Those are real smiles on two handsome boys!

Link bum

I love this action shot of my Reidster. Throwing the leaves was definitely a hit.

What Have We Been Up to Lately?

So, I decided that since I have been such a slacker about blogging lately I should do a little update on the little goings ons here at the Tulett house.

For starters, Reid has been SUPER self-conscious the last six months or so. I'm not exactly sure what happened to trigger this, but he has kind of become self-aware, I guess.

What this means is that he is very easily embarrassed by certain things that I wouldn't think should bother a 4-year-old. Here are some examples: 1.) For Halloween he REFUSED to dress up. At all. Wouldn't even wear a cowboy hat. 2.) Once I came around the corner to find him trying on Nate's boots, and he kicked them off as fast as he could and ran away. 3.) He throws epic fits when I get him new clothes and try to get him to wear them. Weird, right? These are just a few examples.

The reason I am saying all this is because the other day he actually put on his friend, Eric's costume and let me take a picture! This is huge progress for him! I have really been trying to talk him up lately, and encourage him to use his imagination. Maybe it's working?

Link is a super silly kid. I caught him trying on my swimming stuff the other day and had to take a picture of that cute face. He is not too much of a talker, but he makes me laugh just about every day. I am so glad he is mine!

Another fun new thing for us is that for the last few months my friend Jen (introduced to me by Sarah. You sure know how to find great friends!) and I have been switching off Mondays and Thursdays watching each other's kiddos so we can get some exercise time in! So, communal baths are a common sight around here. I sure love hanging out with her kids, and I think Reid and Link like it too!

Reid has been a rock star vegetable eater as of late. He will willingly eat broccoli, carrots, green beans, peas and corn. The other day he wanted to show me that he had eaten all of his "trees" (that broccoli around here, folks).

Link is not so good with the vegetables, but he is great at making messes! AND he recently graduated from the high chair to a booster seat so he can eat at the table with the family.

Reid loves books LOVES them, and finding him asleep with said books is not uncommon around here. He is starting to learn how to read, and is really picking it up like a pro! I signed him up for this AMAZING preschool in the area for next fall, and I am excited to see continue to advance and amaze us!

Boys will be boys, and as I went upstairs for approximately six seconds the other day Reid and Link single-handedly unrolled an entire package of Costco paper towels. Can I handle another one of these little monkeys?!

I wanted to be mad, but all I could do was laugh and take a picture. I guess this is what motherhood is all about!

Go My Favorite Sports Team!

SO, Nate has been at BYU for quite a while now, and I am sad to say that we have NEVER attended a BYU sporting event. Until now. I know, I know the school spirit in this town is boarder-line out of control, but we have just never felt like we wanted to spend a precious date night on BYU athletics. We are lame, I know. ANYWAY, I don't know if any of you have heard, but BYU has an amazing basketball team this year, and were ranked third in the nation, so when Nate's buddy asked us if we wanted some extra tickets to a game we said YES! Because we are super cool fair-weather fans and I likes me a winning team! Well, fate must have known that we were not true blue cougar people (or whatever BYU fans call themselves...) because the ONE game we got to go to was the one against New Mexico where they got CRUSHED. It was sad, and I actually felt guilty for being there. I kept thinking that it MUST be our fault-we jinxed them. Jimmer's gonna slash our tires in the parking lot! Ha! But I did discover a few very important things:

1.) I sort of love this kind of setting, and I want to go to more BYU games. The fans at this school are INCREDIBLE and so dedicated. I really loved it. We will have to check out some soccer and football in the fall.

2.) 50 year old men are capable of acting like teenage-testosterone-driven idiots as exemplified by the fist fight that broke out between two middle aged guys sitting right next to us who were rooting for THE SAME TEAM!

3.) Old ladies dancing at half-time are awesome (seriously, there was a group of senior citizens that did a little cheer leader routine! Adorable!).

4.) Nate and I need to invest in BYU shirts because his free capstone shirt and my non-existent school spirit outfit have got to go. Just because I graduated from another school doesn't mean I can't support one that actually CARES about sports, right?

Anyway, we are so excited for the basketball team this season, and hope they do well in their playoff games. And BYU athletics, we promise we won't neglect you anymore, but we refuse to weigh in on the BYU U of U epic battle to the death, k?

Valentine's Day

Nate and I have a new tradition; hiking the Y on Valentine's day! We did this last year and it was awesome. This year was no different. As I have said before I really could care less about V-day, and we weren't planning on doing anything really, but Jen insisted that she watch our kiddos so we could spend some time together. What a great friend!

The evening was gorgeous, and exercising WHILE getting to spend some one-on-one time with the love of my life is just about my favorite thing in the world!

Snowshoeing

I have discovered that I really love snowshoeing. I think I like it even better than hiking. I am thinking that snowshoes will be the next big purchase I would like to save up for. The other day my great friend, Jen invited the boys and I to go snowshoeing in Hobble Creek canyon, and boy did we have a great time!

Reid even wore these cute little snow shoes they had to rent. Come to think of it, I am going to need to get snowshoes for my whole family...

Jen pulled Linkers and Rubie in the Chariot while I tried to keep up with Eric and Reid.

They found a snow-covered picnic table and decided to treat it like an ice cream cone. I distinctly remember doing this as a kid, but it kind of grosses me out now. Hopefully nothing peed right there...

Can I just say that I love living in a place where I can drive 15 minutes and be in the mountains?!