Leslie gets married.

My sister, Leslie, got engaged to her wonderful man, Lyndsay, just a few days before Jeremy's birthday, and with amazing speed they were married on February 28th! Of course, I forgot my camera, so these are just pictures of pictures until we get back her wedding cd.

This is their announcement photo.

Leslie's bridal portrait. Isn't she pretty?

Baby girl and all is well!

On January 19th we went in for our mid-pregnancy ultrasound where we found out, much to my delight because I had already gone out and bought a little dress, that we were having a girl! Most everything turned out fine, but there appeared to be a slight partition in baby girl's palate. I had to go back in for another ultrasound on February 13th to see if baby girl would be born with a cleft palate. Fortunately, whatever partition there was previously seems to have closed up and all is well!

Here is baby in profile lying on her back. Her head is in the center and her chest/ribs are to the right.
Here are her cute little feet! We are so glad she is healthy and doing well. Only three months and two more days to go!

Happy birthday Daddy (January 29th)!

So, we had a couple celebrations for Jeremy's birthday (the big 29!), but the only one I got pictures of was dinner with my family. In the latest McLachlan birthday fashion, we all went out to Texas Roadhouse. Jeremy won't like it, but I am posting his picture in the saddle!

Yee-haw!

Catching up!

Ok, so I've left the blog seriously lacking for a while, but I'll catch you up on what's been happening over the last two months.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! At midnight we went outside to bang on our pots. I know the video is dark, but you can hear the boys banging! They stayed up quite late. I was surprised that they made it!

The boys got to stay up and have a pizza and movie party. They were being really cheerful even though it was really late!

Christmas Morning

In all our 7 Christmases together, this is the first one that we haven't been at someone else's house. It was so much fun to watch our boys wake up Christmas morning at our own house! I love my children and my husband, and this season especially I am so grateful for them!

Here is the scene Christmas morning before the boys woke up.

I only put one picture of Jackson opening his presents here, but believe me, he insisted that I take a picture of him with every single present! I love his excitement, and it is so fun for him to finally be old enough to actually get excited!

This is Thorin's Piston Cup racetrack. It stole the show Christmas morning, and the boys had an absolute blast playing with it and putting it together with Daddy while I made breakfast.

Jackson and Thorin bot got big wheels from Grandpa and Sandy. They can't wait til the weather clears up so they can go for a ride!

I was surprised at how much Thorin loved playing with his slinky when there were so many other toys to choose from. The simple toys always seem to be big hits.

Here is the infamous racetrack!

A fine Christmas morning breakfast of eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, toast, and of course, chocolate milk.

Thorin and his Diego rescue pack.

The boys watching Horton Hears a Who at Grandma's house.

Christmas Eve

We had an extended family Christmas Eve party at my Aunt Julie's house. There was a program, dinner, presents, singing, and a lot of fun!

Thorin the reindeer.

Jared the reindeer.

Here my mom and her sisters sing a song during the program.

Emma got to be an angel.

Ian got to be a wiseman.

Here Alex is helping Emma play dolls. Isn't that so cute?

Jackson wearing his new Christmas jammies in his super hero pose.

Jared and Thorin in their Christmas jammies.

It was fun to see Thorin and Alex playing since we don't get to see him that often.

Part of our tradition is singing carols and dancing to the Merry Christmas Polka. The dancing continued as other songs were sung. Here Thorin shows us his version of dancing.

This clip shows both Jared and Jackson having a ball dancing with the older girls.

Zoo Lights

On Tuesday, we went to see the zoo lights at the Hogle Zoo. We first saw zoo lights at the zoo in Arizona with Jeremy's family, and we loved it, so when we heard they did the lights here, we just had to go. It was cold, but we took hot chocolate and blankets and we even got to see some of the animals!

Jeremy and me in front of a train. If you can see it, Jeremy's arm is in a sling. He hurt his shoulder at work when he slipped on some ice, so he got to take a couple days off work. It was fun having him all to ourselves for a couple days!


Linette and Jackson in the reptile house. It was a good place to warm up!

Thorin found his favorite animal...a cat!

Here are my boys by the toy soldiers that stood guard at the entrance.

Christmas Craft Fun

Jackson and Emma got to make santa hats. Thorin and Jared weren't so interested, but the two older kids sure had a great time!

The finished products!

Fun in the snow

We have had quite a bit of snow fall over the last two days with more to come! After continually telling the boys, "No, it's too cold to play outside," I finally broke down and dressed them up in their winter gear. They had a great time!

Apparently, eating snow is the cool thing to do!

Aunt Linette decided to get all dressed up to join the boys. Actually, Linette and Jackson are still outside playing right now! They've been out there for two hours!