Happy 4th Birthday Mia Bella!

Today is Mia's birthday, we mostly celebrated yesterday with dinner and cake and lots of family fun! She is so excited to be 4. Tonight at dinner she kept dishing herself carrots and proclaiming that now that she is 4 she can do that herself!

She got some great princess toys which have occupied many hours of today and a lot of cute clothes....she also got a BUG JAR which will be so fun in the summer!

We sure do love our 4 going on 14 Mia with the emotions to match. She is a joy to have in our home...life would be too quiet without her.

Baby Belly at 36 Weeks!

Here are a few pictures for those of you who are far away and are not able to experience the belly first hand...Mel and Carol& Riley!

Things are moving right along and we should have a baby in about 4 weeks!!!!! We are getting all ready. Getting the car seat washed up, washed the clothes and blankets, packed a few things in my hospital bag...next will be the bed in our room....we will wait a couple of weeks on that.

I am really ready to be rid of the hearburn and acid reflux which have plagued me this time...it is now pretty much 24 hours a day. I fear for my next dental appointment.......there could be a small fortune worth of cavities in there. Good thing I work for my dentist occassionally, maybe we can work out a trade!

Hope that all is finding you well!

I will let you see if you can figure out which picture Maddie, my little budding photographer, took!

Happy New Year!

Another year has passed and I can't believe that we are only 7 weeks until a new baby comes!

We are mostly moved in to our new home....except for those few little nagging stragglers that are always hanging around for a few weeks. But, we have made great progress considering 2 families in one home, one moving out and the other moving in, Christmas, one night of super duper fun company and a very, very pregnant lady at the reins of the the whole project!

Thanks to all who have helped us the last 2 weeks! We have the BEST family and friends! You are all greatly appreciated and loved!

We will post some pictures when we are all ready and decorated!

Thanks again to everyone for their help! We hope that you all have a wonderful beginning to the new year!

Just a few pictures of the past few weeks:
Our (now) annual Christmas Eve Bowling festivities!
The girls with Santa
Maddie singing in her school program
Mia meeting and petting a REAL reindeer, her name is Prancer.
And, Carrie with a little naked doodling on the Magna Doodle...serious props to whoever invented those little gems!

Love you all!
The Cutlers

Holy Mess!!!

Well, here we are, 11 days until Christmas Day and what are we doing??? PACKING! We are getting ready to move on Friday. Sometimes I take a minute and ask myself what the heck we were thinking and then it is back to packing! But, so far so good and if my hormones will keep normal there won't be any more tears shed. (Let's just say I had a few "pregnant moments" last week as those of you who are really close to me know I almost NEVER,EVER,EVER cry! Not even when my babies have been born!)

So, in your spare moments of not Christmas shopping and inbetween all of your Holiday cheer....say a prayer for us that we survive the next 11 days.

And, Merry Christmas to all of you!!!!! I love this time of year, I think about it all year long and I am so glad that it is here and that we are so close to our families and able to spend it with them!

Happy Holidays from us!

I tried to post some pics but it is not currently working....they will come soon!

Oh, the Joys of Cold Weather....I Think!

So, last weekend, Ryan and I were watching a movie and could hear something rolling around. Naturally we thought it was a child out of bed...not the case. (For once I might add!) So Ryan went to ivestigate. It sounded like it was under the washer and dryer...where after a couple of minutes I remembered that a couple of Sour Ball candies had escaped to a few months ago. So, we decided that it must be a mouse. A few days went by and we hadn't heard any other unusual sounds so we sort of forgot about it.

Well, on Tuesday, I had been to Mia's pre-school to help out and when we got home I, the pregnant bellied lady, had a visit from the "Tinkle Fairy", so into the little bathroom I went. I looked into the toilet to find what looked to be a KID poop left for me (which happens often! So gross!). After looking once more I realized that this kid poop was clinging to the side of the toilet bowl (HOLY TALENTED POOPERS!). Then, I realized that this kid poop had a thin tail protruding from it......................uh, not a kid poop, a MOUSE! Luckily Ryan was home, as I quickly backed away saying,"Uhh, there's a mouse in the toilet!" (Ryan said he was so proud of me that I didn't run away screaming and sqealing!)

So, my super smart, calm hubby went into the bathroom to see for himself and decided to close the lid until we knew what we would do. I could see the idea of the "Jedi Burial" memories from his mission flashing through those eyes, which I quickly dismissed for him. (JEDI BURIAL DEFINITION: While in the Phillipines, these oh so mature 19-21 year old boys, uh I mean men, would pour alcohol on these poor little mice, then light them on fire and watch them run around their apartment.) He came up with the better option of giving that mouse the ultimate surf lesson. FLUSHAROO!!! So, down he went, 3 or 4 times.

Now, each time I go into that bathroom, I have to check to see if there is a mouse in there and especially in the toilet. Mia, since she was home, is especially sensitive to this situation and for the first couple of days after would ask me everytime she would go to the bathroom (which is a lot by the way, that girl has a bladder the size of a pea!) to check the toilet for a mouse. Poor kid, traumatized for life!

So, there is our first mouse story as a married couple, first mouse ever in my own house.....probably not the last, but here's to hoping!

OCTOBER

We have been busy this past month with school, being sick and all of these crazy kids! We had fun watching the leaves turn colors and fall to the grass and playing in them in the beautiful weather we had! They girls thought that this was so much fun!!!

We had a great time while daddy was in Utah catching a BYU game....lots of relaxing and eating things for dinner that dad wouldn't have really enjoyed! And, to top it all off, he brought home a very LARGE new member of our family! We'll let you figure out which picture belongs to this information....let's just say mommy is soooo excited!!!!!!!!!

We carved some pumpkins and mom was over-joyed that the big girls were so willing to help retrieve the guts of the pumpkins...thanks for getting all the goo out girls! Halloween was really fun this year, Mia was really into saying Trick-or-Treat and quickly getting from house to house, whether or not anyone else was ready or not! We had fun showing off our costumes to our Grandmas and Grampas and Aunts and Uncles and of course, cousin Jack!

The baby in the belly is growing fast...lots of uncomfortable days and nights with all this stretching and "room-making"...but things are going really well and I can't complain too much.......although, better out than in, as I always say!

We are excited that it is already November!!! We are going to put our Halloween candy to good use with a Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, thank you Family Fun Magazine! We can hardly wait to see some much anticipated visitors, Mellie, Trevor and baby Spencer!!!!! David, we wish you could be here! (You like dogs, right?) We may even get to have a sighting of an East Coast brother...Ryan's brother Allen may be coming sometime this month for a "last hurrah visit" before Cutler's leave to Frankfurt, Germany for their Public Relations mission...won't they have a great time there??? They will hopefully get the opportunity to travel to several countries in Europe! As you may have speculated, or already know, we will be staying in their house while they are gone....I know, moving while like 7 1/2 months pregnant, sounds fun, bet you're jealous!!!!!

So, enjoy the pictures, hope that you, whoever you are, are doing well!!! Get ready for Turkey day and don't forget....only like 8 weeks 'til Christmas, YIKES!!!!

Memorable Impression

I have started a new blog for my business, Memorable Impression. It is just in the beginning stages, but feel free to check it out and please do tell ALL you friends and family with little ones or who are pregnant!!!! :)

www.memorableimpression.blogspot.com