Pictures from the past couple of months

Joy and Lucy riding the horse Uncle Sammy and Dale made. Lucy's wearing some nifty
boots from her cousins, Justin and Mason.

These are the cute girls in Joy's preschool group from this year. Yes, Lucy thinks she's one of them.

Joy loved posing for the camera for her 5th Birthday pictures.

Remember "Buns of Steel?" It's funny that Joy and Lucy were doing it because my brother Brandon and I used to watch it and try to keep up with all the leg lifts they do. It's amazing the tape still works!

Lucy loves reading stories to her "beebees." Yesterday, she wouldn't let Dale get up from the couch and kept bringing him story after story. She'd throw a fit every time he'd say that that was the last book and try to get up. He's a good daddy and read to her for almost 30 minutes!

Lucyisms

Lucy and Joy say the funniest things. Lucy is very vocal about passing gas. She usually laughs and says, "I farted!" whenever she toots. She also gets "farted" mixed up with "barked." Occasionally, whether it's herself or someone she is by and hears pass gas, she laughs and says, "Mommy, I barked!"
In case you were all wondering, yes, it really is a quarter after 2 in the morning. This big belly often makes it hard to sleep and I've been waking up for a couple of hours every night for the past week. I guess I'm just preparing for when this kiddo comes. Only 3 more weeks (21 days) from today! Something everyone is wondering about is what we are going to name our baby. When our family and close friends found out we were having a boy, the first thing that came out of their mouths was, "Are you really going to name him Buck?" The answer is, possibly. We are tossing around a few names, but for now we call him "Baby Buck."

24 more days!

Only 24 more days until baby brother! When I look down, I don't see my feet, I see my bellybutton! I've also grown out of half of my short sleeved maternity shirts and it's too hot to wear long sleeves. Thank you Sarah for spicing up my wardrobe for this last month; it was getting a little boring wearing the same 5 shirts over and over. The girls often talk to my tummy and say, "Hello! Baby Buck!" During sacrament meeting, the bishop was also amused by Lucy trying to stuff a baby doll down her dress after I wouldn't let her stuff it down my own shirt.
The funniest moment of the week that I didn't get a picture of quick enough was when Joy was fixing Lucy's hair. Lucy usually won't let Joy mess with her hair and is always grabbing at the hair ties Joy is trying to put into her hair. So Joy had an ingenious idea to have Lucy sit in a little camp chair and tie her hands down with ribbons to the arm rests. Lucy was fine with the whole tying her hands down thing and really didn't know what was coming. She decided it wasn't so much fun when Joy began combing her hair and putting hair ties in. She managed to free one of her hands and hollered when she couldn't get the other one out. Joy won and actually did an okay job at doing Lucy's hair. She managed to put in a couple of pig tails and hair clips. I'll have to post a picture of a "Joy" hairdo.

Interview with my Dad

An interview with Joy
March 18 , 2009 at 10:55am
These answers were provided by my oldest daughter Joy.

1. What is something dad always says to you? Yes or No

2. What makes dad happy? If yo do what he asks you to

3. What makes dad sad?If you don’t do what he asks you

4. How does your dad make you laugh?By tickling me

5. What was your dad like as a child? Um I don’t know, a person, a kid

6. How old is your dad? 30 (while laughing)

7. How tall is your dad? Big

8. What is his favorite thing to do? Play with me

9. What does your dad do when you're not around? He works at work

10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for? Doing the dishes

11. What is your dad really good at? Teasing mommy

12. What is your dad not very good at? My daddy is good at everything

13. What does your dad do for his job? Makes Money

14. What is your dad's favorite food? Hamburgers

15. What makes you proud of your dad? Doing the dishes all by Himself.

16. If your dad were a cartoon character, who would he be? A talking one, football

17. What do you and your dad do together? Clean the room

18. How are you and your dad the same? We both have short hair

19. How are you and your dad different? Because we are different people

20. How do you know your dad loves you? Cause he helps me everyday.

21. What does your dad like most about your mom? He likes it when she goes grocery shopping.

22. Where is your dad's favorite place to go?The bathroom I guess

Lot's going on

Today, we had 3 big things going on. First, it was my dad's 51st, I mean 21st Birthday. Happy Birthday Dad! Second, I got my bottom left wisdom tooth taken out. It was impacted and had partially come out, so I decided to get it taken out before it caused any cavities. Third, at the same time I was going through torture, my parents were dropping off my baby brother, Stuart, at the M.T.C. That boy was so excited to get out of his parents' house. Especially after having a taste of freedom when he went to EAC to go to school. You can write him at:
Elder Stuart Sam Bjarnson
MTC mailbox # 202
S.C.-Colu. 0316
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, UT 84604-1793
He will be leaving for Columbia, South Carolina on March 16th.
Some upcoming events in our family include: our niece's baby blessing this Sunday; my brother, David's wedding on April 11th; and unless this little boy decides to come earlier, our cesarean is scheduled for April 17th. Another piece of exciting news is my sister-in-law, Cammie, is 10 weeks prego! She's had a couple of miscarriages, so hopefully this one will be a good one. The doc said the baby looks good and it's heart is strong, so we are way thrilled.
Last weekend, we were in Phoenix and Mesa to see Stuart give his non-farewell talk and to hang out with family. On Monday, we went to a park where there is a skateboarding bowl and Dale, Sam, and Flint all rode their new longboards as if they were back in high school again. They had fun together. Joy and her cousin Cooper also rode around in the bowl with their scooters. If you want to see pictures, my sister-in-law, Jan, posted some on her blog, "Here we are."
We got to meet our baby cousin Arlee (I hope I spelled her name right) for the first time. She is so cute! She was wide awake a lot of the time we were there and really happy. She was cooing a little bit, which is always fun to hear. Cooper is very protective of his little sister and will be a good big brother to her.

Happy 30th Birthday Dale!!!

It seems like a lot of our friends are celebrating the big 30 this year. It's Dale's turn today!


Dale bought himself a longboard skateboard for Christmas. I tease Dale that he's going through a midlife crisis. However, all of his brothers ended up buying themselves one as well. Good fun! We don't have any pictures of the longboard yet, but we'll have to post some soon. The color of the Birthday Cake will show you what color it is.

I can't believe I did a skateboard birthday for a 30 year old. It's something you would do for a 10 year old. He loved it! Especially his present. I got the shirt idea from a website by Old Man Army (a skateboard website). I also went to a vinyl letter party last week and they announced that they could put the lettering on clothing now. The ladies had fun with this project and were able to get the shirt to me in one day.

For fun, we went out to dinner -without the kids- and celebrated his Birthday. I can't believe we've been married for 7 1/2 years now and have kid #3 on the way (only 2 more months). It's been fun. Dale's a great guy and I'm glad I got him! Love you Dale!

Curly Haired Doll

Here are some pics of Lucy when I put the sponge curlers in her hair. I must admit, I thought she was the most adorable little girl at church that day! Dale called her his little curly haired doll.