progress on the pregnancy

So here I am getting ready for the baby, I have decided to crochet the blessing blanket and then I will make the dress when the time gets a little bit closer, so this is what I have achieved so far, I started two days ago, so with all the daily things to do and doing this I would say I'm doing good on the progress. I chose the color yellow because she will be born in the spring and the blanket will also have a purple ribbon that goes around it in the trim part, so it will be a fun project to do, when I do the blessing dress, it will be white but with some yellow and purple flowers sewn on randomly or I might put a see through over lay on with petals in the bottom of it, so I am excited to do this. So the pic below is of the blanket so far and when I am finished I will post it on the blog, for all of your opinions on how it looks.




This is me almost six months, I have a week until I am 6 months, so I would say time is at least getting by, it still feels like forever and forever until Melanie gets to come, but my hopes are getting up because the new year is soon here and I will have three and half to 4 months left, so yeah, plus I still have events coming up that will help the time to go by a little bit faster. So until now cha cha, also the pic was for my friend jenny who wanted to see how my belly was growing, so there ya go, that's me being pregnant and a lot more growing to go!!!!!!!

Where we are now !!!!!!!

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Well here we are, we have moved back to billings Montana, and we are very comfortable now and enjoying our time here!!! Jesse never quite his job and had a change of heart on keeping and staying with it, so me and the kids moved to pocatello for just a month and moved back with Jesse, so that we could all be together. We had a wonderful Christmas, here in our new home, we are renting a town home still in the heights area and we are loving it. It is very cozy, and it has all that we need so yeah. When we moved back, and I was able to use all of our belongings again, I got right to work on the girls Christmas dresses, so the dresses they are wearing is what I sewed for them, it was a lot of fun and work. But I enjoyed every bit of it. Also to come to find out when we moved back is that we are having a little girl, How lucky are we, I guess girls are just in our favor from the lord. So here is a picture of her already




She looks just like my other girls to me and I can't wait to be able to kiss her and give here hugs. We are going to name her Melanie Kaylee Burk, still keeping with the M, K names that I choose for my girls. But the middle name is a little bit more special because it is the name of our niece Kalie who passed away a year ago, so it has some meaning behind it. But we are very glad to be having a little girl, even though we were hoping to make it even and have another boy, but hey at least we have one little boy, who is quite the character and keeps us laughing that is for sure. Any how I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and soon to have a happy new year, keep in touch.

8 years latter

Well today is me and my husband 8th year anniversary, And wow has it gone by so fast. Me and my husband met in 1999 at a institute dance at ISU, I saw him dancing with some friends and I was dancing with my sister and I wanted him to notice me so I told my sister that we should go and dance a little bit closer to him, so that he could see me, and so we did, and to my surprise, my plan worked and He did notice me and he came over and asked me to dance, and Then asked for my number, and and I gave it to him and he said he would call and then two weeks went by and no call, so then I saw him again and he didn't even remember my name, so then I reminded him and he then he did call me the next day, and then the rest is history. What attracted me the most to him was his smile and personality, and his good looks, Though as I got to know him, I found him quite annoying!!!! but I thought maybe heavenly father knows something else. One of the things me and my husband like to do together is go for walks together and to watch movies together, When we were dating we would always go for walks and get hot chocolate to warm us up on the walk. We just enjoy talking and enjoying one another s company and taking in the beauty of the surrounding area. Jesse and I have three beautiful children and one on the way, we have two girls and one boy, and they have brought us great joy. So to my wonderful husband of 8 years and many many more to come, I love you with all of my heart, and I am so thankful that we met those many years ago. Love Beth

Ward family home evening

Well this is our ward family home evening, they went skating, How fun for a ward to do this, unfortunately I wasn't feeling well with the whole pregnancy thing of course so I stayed home and threw up, isn't that nice.



But jesse took the girls and they had a blast. He was really excited to go and was like will you take logan so he could enjoy skating, though he didn't take any pics of him skating with the girls, shame on him!!!



This is one of the girls in our ward, here name is lyric and she is a year older then mercedi, but they are in the same Sunday class together and they are the best of friends. I guess lyric helped mercedi out a lot in learning how to skate





And then of course you have to have treats and they did, They also won treats at the games that they played on the floor, mercedi and mikayla came home all excited about all the games that they played while skating, they really had fun. I just wished that I could of felt better to go, but there is always a next time. Way to go dad for taking them and having fun at the ward family home evening night. Your the best.



this is a video of Mikayla and the girls, putting there skates on and mikayla taking her first fall, this is the first time she has ever went skating she did a pretty good job at trying. I give her a high five!!!

5 weeks and 35 more to go!!!

Well is this the big day, Who knows!!!





So we bought the test and I did my buisness and what was the results?




Well you know it, we are pregnant!!!! yeah!!!



So here I am after, trying for two years of loosing the weight that I put on with logan and finally getting it off, I'm off to start gaing weight again



So in nine months this is what I will look like, well lets hope this round huh!!

We are all very excited, so are the kids, Mercedi is hoping for a boy and Mikayla is hoping for a girl, and logan just wants babies, so we shall see what we get, if we got both that would be nice. So we are off to a new adventure, that will be due May 4th so we are so very anxious for the time to pass. Wish us good luck, hopefully not very much morning sickness that would be great!!!!

mercedi's 2nd tooth to be pulled out!!!

Look at my tooth and my big alligator tears!!!




Well maybe it wasn't that bad!!!




Look I have a tooth necklace, it's not a alligator tooth but close don't you think?




This is jesse pulling out mercedi's tooth, it was so funny!!!

The Zoo family fun

Mercedi's first day at school and 1st perm!!!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Logan's 2nd Birthday @ Island Park

Happy Birthday Logan

Jesse and I made this cake for Logan
we decorated it with spider man
and dare devil, they are in a fighting rink,
the girls call the red frosting the fire rink,
kinda funny!!!

He was quite excited to blow out his candle
there was more spit then there was air
we were all laughing

The cake tasted wonderful, Logan
had two helpings of cake and ice cream
he was wired for the night!!!!

On Logan's birthday we went and floated the big springs
river, it was a lot of fun, we took our friend Angie
and justin and there kids with us, they too had a blast
we were going to have more friends and family but they
could not make it up, so we missed them much!!!

This is the Neighbars family
I'm sure that I spelled there last name wrong, Sorry Angie!!!
but they came and enjoyed getting wet and having some crazzy fun,
Especial justin in that crazy hillbilly hat, It was classic!!!

This is jesse he is fishing on the big springs river and having some fun, He was starting to get quite bummed out that he did not catch anything yet because we were getting close to the end of the river and then finally he caught a fish and boy was he so excited he was kicking his feet and jumping up in down the best that he could being seated, I thought he was a little boy all over again, doesn't he look so peaceful in this pic, considering how busy body he is all the time.!

This is the fish that he caught he claims it to be at least
13 inches, he was quite proud of this small fish, and it was his
first time to gut the fish as well, and he enjoyed every smelly part of it.












Here we are on the river and this is when we are getting ready to take off and Logan did not like the bumble bees so he was not very happy to see them, he wanted to get going, but by the end of the trip he was having so much fun in the water and trying to jump out of the boat he forgot all about the bugs out side, we also got to see a lot of birds and a moose in the spider grass it was pretty neat.








Here is Angie and I, saying cheese for the camera, she was a hoot on this trip, ever now and then we would run in to the river bed and she and I would have to get out and push the boat to get it back into the currant and she did not like to get wet, because it was cold, so she would hurry and get in the boat when the water started to get deep, we also did a few cookies on the water, because I would be paddling too fast and then she would have to catch up and vise versa, so it was quite some fun.

these three girls, were also having some fun, except for my two girls at the first, of the trip, they were so worried that they were going to tip over into the water they were so scared and just started crying for at least 10 minutes in to the trip, but by the middle they were playing in the water and getting wet and row the boat for us, they all got to take turns,.



Our trip also concluded, staying in a cabin thanks to grandma and grandpa burk, because she cleans them we get one free every now and then and we also went four wheeling and had lots of food, Latter in the night my sister and her family came up and we had a good breakfast and grandpa and grandma came and ate with us and we just enjoyed one another's company, there in Island Park. What a weekend and lots of fun. For all those who didn't make it, we will have to plan another time to get together and have some fun.

Girls just wana have fun

Well my sister's and I got together with our mom
and had some all time fun. We ate
lots of pizza and bread sticks catered, by papa
murphey's you got to love there pizza, Then
It was filled with lots of games mostly

This is our favorite game to play when we are together
my mom was the reigning champ of this game of course
she is pretty good at rolling the dice and strategies
we also watched some classic movies
we watched Enceno man and just visiting
one of the things we like to do when together
is quote off different movies, it gets us laughing
until we are sick and our stomach hurts.

Latter we decided to do face masques and my sister
Gina with her masque on reminded us of the
movie betel juice and so we were doing
the little step in the line dance.

Then we cooled our eyes with some cucumbers
and they kept on falling off so we had to stay very still
we looked like we were all dead, in way

This was my face masque, it was just white and didn't
show through so they decide to mark me with there
face masque to go to war, This was lots of fun
We all enjoyed it and it was a blast. I am thankful
for a fun mom and cool sisters, that we can
get together and just enjoy some good times.
Amen to girls just want to have fun.!!!!

Family fun at the water park

Look at this fun water slide.
Jesse and Mercedi spent
most of there time going down
the slide, mikayla tried onces and that
was enough for her, and I hung out
with logan which was just as fun.

We all went over to the bigger pool for the
kids to use there arm floating things
and we were asked to take them off
because to many parents would leave
there kids in the pool with the floating
things and wouldn't watch them and they
would have problems, but that didn't stop
us from having some fun!!

Logan was still not so sure about the water,
it took a tittle bit for him to think that it was ok
at first but as you saw in the photo above he was
doing ok in the water. He really liked to kick
his feet in the big pool

This was a fun mushroom
you could go under it and hang out
and not even get wet or play around in it
this was just a wading pool for the little kids to play in
most of all the parents were over here
hanging out with the kids.

This would be when logan was actually
having fun in the water, and oh wow
girls look at this eye candy, he looks
delicious don't you agree!!!!

I decided to go and give the diving boards a try
and so I waited in line, and got up there, and
wow I was a little scared, I haven't jumped off
a diving board for quite some time, and what
fun it was, except for swolling all that water
and getting it up the nose as well.
All in all the water park was lots of fun and very
cheep to get in, we only had to pay four dollars
for jesse and I each and the kids were free because
they were seven and under. And the down fall
is that you can't bring your own food in.
But lots of fun for a family!!!!!!

Another free water park

Here we are again at
another water park
here in billings Montana
These are all free, and just so much fun
for the kids and me, because I get a break!!!

This pool was about one foot deep
so just enough dept to have some
fun and pretend to swim and splash
a whole bunch

It took a while to get Logan in, so
we didn't even bring his swim
gear because we thought that
he wouldn't want to go in
but we helped him get some what
use to the water!!!!

Way to go mercedi, she is doing a great
job at being the big sister and helping
Logan see that it is ok!!!

It is so neat that billings has all
of these fun things for family's
to do and it's all free and it just makes
living here so much more cool
I love living in billings Montana!!!!

A good after noon nap

Mom look at this Logan fell
a sleep on me! This was so
funny because mercedi really
wanted to get up and he wouldn't move
off of her, he just kept inching
up on her every time she moved.
I was surprised that he fell a sleep on
her. He never does that.