#2 and still seeing BLUE!!

I totally surprised everyone and got an early ultrasound.

I am not a patient person and had to know who was going to join us. I was really excited to hear it was another boy. I love my boy and he would love a companion.

The Ultrasound tech asked if I had any kids and what they were. I told her I had one little boy. As she got started he was moving around a lot and she hadn't said what he was yet, but I saw it and knew he was a boy. The tech said well he is moving a lot and I think I know what it is but I want a better image. I said "it's a boy!" she then said yeah well that's what I think but lets get a good image. And she did! All boy :)

We are excited to announce the coming of another Boy into the Foscarini Family! He is Due June 22 and we couldn't be more excited :) River is going to have a partner in crime, just what every boy needs :) We are so excited to expand our little family. It is hard to believe that we will soon be 4! This pregnancy has been a totally different experience for me then with River. I was SO SICK with Riv and the whole nine months too! It was awful! I feel incredibly blessed that I have not been sick at all with this pregnancy!! (Thanks to B6 and unisom) It has seriously been such a blessing to not be sick and I feel so lucky. I don't know how Mom's are so sick and have kids to take care of! Well Mom's any advice for a mommy getting ready to have her second??

Christmas 2010! (A little late)

I'm so behind! Well this Christmas was wonderful! Tate was able to be home and of course we ate wonderful food and enjoyed many of our wonderful traditions. River loves music and loved playing on the piano with Tate.

River of course was the star of the show for Christmas. He got so many fun gifts, he is totally spoiled, but not rotten :) He really enjoyed opening gifts this year.

One of my families traditions is to open English crackers that are filled with a surprise and a crown you have to wear during dinner. So here we all are sporting our crowns at Christmas Eve dinner. Queen Chelan!

King Colonel

King Tater tot

Mom always makes WONDERFUL food for dinners, breakfast, etc. for the holidays. Dinner was delish as always :)

Another family tradition is we open all of our tree presents on Christmas Eve including a new pair of jammies. These were Riv's Christmas Eve Jammies. Then on Christmas Day we open Santa gifts.

River is Obsessed with being thrown up in the air. Uncle Trevor and Tate were totally exhausted! He will just keep coming back for more, he will just stand under them with his arms up smiling. How can you say no to that cute face :) So they always get a good work out.

Uncle Trev got Riv a really cute train track that River loved and still loves. The perfect gift for a little boy. Even the big boys were playing with it :)

This is how excited Riv gets when he gets tossed in the air! haha! Look at his face, this pic just makes me laugh :)

Santa visited! Man was River spoiled, but he was such a good boy all year ;)

So I do have to say this was probably a Toy Story Christmas. He got Toy Story 3 and a little Toy Story bike that has Buzz Lightyear on it. It was by far his favorite Toy!!! He is totally obsessed with it. Thanks for that one Santa aka Grandpa :)

Him on his Buzz Ride. He also got a ton of toy cars that he also loves!

I just had to throw this pic in because he finally has enough hair to play with :) Yay!

River also received Buzz jammies and they look so cute on him.

Another Family tradition is playing games and this is a fun new one we got Qwirkle.

Tony and Riv playing with his many toys Legos, cars, trains, hammer in pegs, etc.

Christmas is always such a great time of year! We love spending time with Family and just getting to enjoy each others company. There is nothing quite like the love of Family. I know that we are so blessed to be surrounded by family. We have the best Families anyone could ask for, we truly love all of you and hope you all had as wonderful of a Christmas as we did. Of course this time of year we remember what the season is all about...the birth of our Savior. How blessed we are to know all that he did for us. It is always a special time to get to sit around the fireplace and a beautiful Christmas tree and read of Christ's birth. Love you all!
Merry Christmas 2010!!

Happenings

Just had some cute pics on my camera I figured I would share! Enjoy :)
Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Update

A lot has happened this year! It has been a wonderful year full of blessings and friends and family.

Tony: Has gone from working 3 jobs to working full time just at the Store. This has been a huge blessing not only for him, but our family. River was beginning to forget he had a Daddy! He would work during the day at one of two jobs then work all night at a resteraunt. The hours were brutal, but Tony was willing to do what needed to be done to provide for the family as his main job as a draftsmen was going out of business. He now is just down to one job and although things are tight we feel incredibly blessed for the work and a steady paycheck. He is looking forward to hopefully being able to get a day off in the new year. I know he will love that and River and I are looking forward to a little more time with him as well.

Christin: I went from working at the store with River to being a stay at home Mom. It has been challenging financially to lose the income, but it was getting a little out of control working with River on my hip on the Sales floor! River still loves being down at the store after spending a year of his life there. I think he feels like he owns the place or something! :) He always cries when we have to leave the store. It has been an adjustment going from working to being Mommy, but I love spending this precious time with my cutie. I am learning to value long term goals, unlike the short term and quickly obtained goals from working. Being a Mommy is a wonderful, amazing, yet tiring, and sometimes mundane job. I love my sweet boy though and happy to be on this journey with him. (We are figuring this Mommy/Son thing together)

River: He loved his time spent at the store working with Mommy, and was said when we had to go home full time. He still misses all of his coworkers :) He celebrated his one year Birthday in May, and was lucky enough to have Gma & Gpa Foscarini here for the celebration. We were also lucky enough to be able to go to Disneyland as a little family to celebrate his Birthday. It was an awesome trip!! He absolutely loved it, and so did Tony and I. We went on Pirates of the Carribean many times and Loved it! River just started Nursery and still isn't warmed up to the idea...so after two Sunday's of total melt downs for all of Nursery, Mommy now attends with him. I am hoping this will soon change. River is still not talking, but loves to make funny noises, point and dance to communicate. River is learning how to throw amazing tantrums! :) He is really so sweet and the light of our lives!

We went on some fun trips this year:

South Carolina (thanks to the Foscarini's) So FUN!

Riv & I attended some business trips with Gpa Feller to:

Texas (Dallas)

Washington DC

We love to get away whenever we can. Riv and I will be attending a few more shows in 2011 and are so excited!

We hope this time of year we can all reflect on our Saviour Jesus Christ and the amazing gifts he has given. Hope all is well and that you are also feeling the blessings of the Lord.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2011!

Love,

The Foscarini Family

It's Christmas time!

River still playing in the packing. Look how beautiful the Santa is! (He is on the tv stand all in white, right above Riv)

This is a beautiful Santa with Noah's ark and animals! So pretty!

Look how lovely they are! They are really special pieces!

River's first look at his new Santa friend

Almost to the treasure inside

Riv loved unwrapping and the peanuts of course!

Pointing at HIS package (thanks for making our day Doug)

River was so good during the festival

Beautiful donated quilt!

Grandma and Riv in front of our favorite quilt

My Mom and I attended the Festival of Trees this year with River. Beautiful Trees, garlands, wreaths, quilts, homemade goodies, etc. are donated and sold and all the money goes to the Primary Children's Hospital. Chelan has been a patient there and it is a wonderful hospital for children suffering at such a tender age. A lot of the trees were donated and decorated in Memory of children that have lost their sweet lives too early to illness. It was very touching and made me even more grateful for a beautiful, healthy child. I will always have a soft spot for these sweet angels among us who struggle, but smile through it all. My beautiful sister being my sweetest Angel :) My Mom and I fell in love with this beautiful quilt while we were there. It was so detailed, you probably can't tell from the pic. But it was beautiful!

River and I had a special delivery today! A special box labeled for River came from his sweet Uncle Doug. River was so excited to rip into the box and see what was inside! It was full of Beautiful Santa's!! I don't have any "nice" Christmas decorations and these Santa's are lovely and will be something our family will treasure always!! Thank you so much Doug :) You are so kind to be so generous and sweet to our family. River had a hay day with the unwrapping process and loved looking at the beautiful pieces. Thank you again!! We absolutely love them!!! You made our day with such a fun delivery :)

River's first visit to Santa!

River getting to Ring Santa's Bells

Such a fun way to visit Santa

River Loved his Candy Cane!

River got to go visit Santa already this year. It went better then I had envisioned too! I think it helped that River was the only one there so there weren't a bunch a screaming children or anything to freak him out. He was a little hesitant and wouldn't sit with Santa but he was really good and even rang Santa's bells and even got a candy cane. He was a really cute and sweet Santa and in such an adorable setting. If you want to take your kids to see Santa but don't want to do the Mall thing, go visit him at Gate House in Orem. Santa is there every Sat. From 2-4. I would highly recommend it. Not to mention after your kids see Santa you can look at all the adorable things that you wish you were getting for Christmas :)

This and that...

A little Black Friday shopping

Watching Mickey mouse clubhouse

Playing at Grandma's

Posing in front of Grandma's tree

I have some pics I want to post but they are on my Mom's camera...so stay tuned for them. Thanksgiving was great, filled with good food and Family. Tony only got Thanksgiving day off and had to work the rest of the week, so I think that was a little rough on him. I'm grateful he is willing to work so hard to provide for his family though! We are also so grateful for a job! We have so much to be Thankful for and know how blessed we are everyday. That is why I love Thanksgiving so much, it helps remind us how blessed we truly are. I love my family, friends, neighbors, ward members, and of course my sweetest little River! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving as well.