Some new pics...

We haven't been doing much of anything lately. Tonight we are headed into Calgary to buy a Christmas Tree (finally! this is our 5th Christmas being married and we have never bought a tree) I am excited to pick out some Christmas decorations. We put up our stockings on the mantel and hung some lights around the 2 big windows in the living room, but having an actual tree will be fun. Enjoy some new pictures of Deaky-B and from American Thanksgiving last night- SO GOOD... and the thing that made it INTENSELY good was that the entire bowl of jello was eaten. :) Thanks for everyone who came to be with us!

Deakon sleeping. I finally remembered to take a picture of his socks. If you put him to bed with socks on, he ALWAYS takes them off before he falls asleep and neatly lays them next to the bed. He has the sweatiest feet so I guess it makes sense:

Just a close up. He never sleeps with his thumb in his mouth, but often has it resting on his lip ready for action:
Thanksgiving, Jenn and Justin:

Deakon and Kyle:

Bret, Eva, Ron, and Doreen:

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We got some great news last night from Danny and Becky... congrats you guys! Baby number 2 due June 17th!

American Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow we are having a Thanksgiving FEAST to celebrate "American" Thanksgiving. We are a few days late, but if we would have had it on Thursday then Deakon and I would have been eating all alone. We are going all out- Utah-DuPaix style! What's on the menu?

TURKEY (of course)

Tons and tons of mashed potatoes (with skin on)

Homemade gravy

Stuffing

Rolls

Celery filled with peanut butter and the infamous Cheez Whiz (I personally hate it, but I must apease the hubby)

JELLO complete with 2 kinds of fruit and cool whip on top (not a dessert you crazy canadians)

Garden salad

Corn

and... Cherry Delight for dessert (I know... no pie? but if you have ever had Doreen's DELICIOUS no bake cherry cheesecake, you would understand my choice... and sorry family- I did make it for you a few years ago and completely ruined it. I have perfected it so I will have to make it again.)

Christmas Vacay!

We are officially heading down to Utah.....

DECEMBER 23rd! And sadly leaving.....

JANUARY 3rd! I am so excited!!!

I know you have all been dying...

Hi! I feel like it has been WAY too long since I last posted. We all survived the swine flu. Yay! Kyle got it Sunday morning, and Deakon quickly followed Monday morning. Sunday Kyle and I had a long night at urgent care in Calgary and Monday night I spend a few hours at the walk-in clinic with Deakon and waiting FOREVER for his prescription(it will only be 20 minutes ma'am... oh, it has been that long, sorry, just a few more minutes ma'am... oh, you are angry because I told you I wouldn't be long and so you kept your sick child and yourself walking around and you could have gone home to wait, but I kept telling you "just a few more FREAKING minutes ma'am) I am not bitter at all. Promise.

Kyle had a major cough, fever, sore throat, body aches, and headache. Deakon was lucky enough to mostly just have the cough and high fever. He might have had a sore throat because he hardly ate anything for a day or two. For being so sick, Deakon was in extremely high spirits after 3 days, but unfortunately had some tummy issues Saturday and Sunday.

SO... somehow, I didn't get sick! Well, not normal flu symptoms. I had some nausea and tummy issues for just about 7 days. But, I will not complain because I could have been moaning and groaning along side the boys. I had my 20 week appointment last week (finally made it back to my beginning prego weight- sweet!) and the doctor was amazed that I wasn't sick after being cooped up with 2 sick people. Kyle went back to work on Monday and Deakon and I have been trying to spend lots of time getting out of the house and running random errands. Today he was so excited because we went to the park. It was sunny, yet windy and only 40 degrees, but those 35 minutes were pure heaven for the poor kid.

I have my immigration appointment in the morning and I am sooooo excited to be so close to getting finished! I think I have wished November away because I have been looking forward to this appt. I can't believe it is the 18th! Kyle and I are hosting a little "American" Thanksgiving dinner a week from Sunday and I am excited for that. Nothing like 2 thanksgivings in 6 weeks. We are hoping to finalize plans soon to come to Utah from Dec. 23rd-Jan 3rd. Kyle hasn't asked for time off yet because he was gone all last week and they are making some changes in Parts so it has been really busy this week.

ENOUGH babbling, Kyle tells me that when people see a bunch of words they don't want to read my blog. :( I hope he is wrong. I have lots of pictures, some from Halloween... sad... I know.

just a random, Deak wanted to show off his dried apples:

Bret and Eva bought Deakon a bowling set, which he was really happy about, but he was even more excited to wear this box and walk and talk like a robot. The first day, I couldn't get him to take it off for anything- even potty time.

Halloween!

Scary mask, Spiderman, and Gamma

(Deakon's words, not mine):

We drove down to Bret and Eva's house to do some trick-or-treating and Deakon found a pack of moustaches that Bret had gotten. Deakon really wanted it off because it was so itchy and we all laughed and laughed and made him keep it on while we took pictures of him:
Once he saw Bret wearing one, he stopped itching and gave me a cute smile:
Dad and Deak lighting the candle:

Halloween Eve we decided that we better get in gear if we were going to carve a pumpkin. Isn't Kyle so lucky to be the one to get covered in pumpkin guts?

More gutting. I think they ended up using like 8 different utensils to get everything out. Deakon was impatient and just kept asking for a different one:

Finally done:

The finished product...

We had some fun the last few weeks buying Deakon some new winter clothes. Here is his awesome new coat. I love the inside of the jacket and hood- dark brown wool and orange accents. We haven't had too many days cold enough for it, but Deakon had started to refuse to wear his old one because it was too small... (not really... he just had it in his head that it was. Kyle probably kept telling him that because Kyle HATED it. I had to listen to how ugly it was all last winter. This is why I don't pick out stuff.) No worries, Kyle picked this out and I threw a fit in the store because I thought it was diarrhea olive green, but it is turns out that it was mostly the lights making it look that way.

Feeding Barclay some treats:

My little Eskimo:

Just a few more randoms. Deakon found this shirt of mine last night and came out wearing it. I asked him why he was wearing my shirt and he told me, "This not your shirt, this my new spiderman costume"

It's going to be a long week...

Kyle woke up yesterday with H1N1 symptoms. We got to so kindly go to a walk-in clinic for several hours last night, but got him some meds. Deakon woke up fever and a cough today... we are headed to the doctor after his nap. I think it is going to be a very long week... Hope I don't get sick... I really still do have Halloween pics to post, but I am trying to stay away from the upstairs which includes the computer so we don't spread more germs! Time to disinfect the keyboard...

Kyle said yes!

Do I sound like a kid on Christmas? I asked Kyle when I could post the name that we really like on here. He looked at me like I was kind of crazy and said, "I don't care... whenever" I was just trying to be nice babe...

So... here is the name that we really like:

Nixon Steven Owen Gerrie

I think it sounds fabulous... and I like the middle names being after our dad's... yay for family names!

2 middle names is a little bit of a tradition in the fam. Kyle, Deakon, and even I (how could I ever fully give up DuPaix? come on now) all have 2 middle names.

Here's our little guy...

So... today is the day that we have been looking forward to for a very long time. We are really excited that we are having a boy! Kyle was WAY more excited than me... at first... only because I secretly have been wishing to play dress up with headbands and tu-tu's for the last 2 months- thanks a lot Molly and Meri. Now my head is filled with thoughts of 2 little crazy boys running around and I can't imagine anything better! Plus, I am really excited that I can use all of Deakon's clothes and they will be for the right seasons and everything. (they will be ~3 years and 12 days apart) I am excited and scared to have a little baby in the house again. I seriously can't wait until the new baby is 6 months old- my ALL-time favorite stage. Deakon couldn't have been any more of the cutest, most perfect, sleeping-through-the-night, giggly, smiley 6-month old. I can't wait! I think we have pretty much narrowed down a name, but I haven't gotten the a-ok from Kyle to go posting it so you will have to wait (unless you ask me... then chances are I will tell you!) So... on to our adventure of the morning. We got up too early and ended up waiting around for the time to leave (9:15). We got to the appointment and they called me back. After getting dressed, the ultrasound tech came to get me (10:00) and I told her that my hubby was waiting (they told me that I could bring family) and she was like, "Sounds good, I just want to get a few measurements and then I will grab him and show you guys the sex and we can make a little video for you to take home"
Well... Mr. Baby Gerrie was soooooooo excited for his video debut that he could not stop moving!!! After getting most of the measurements, she spent over 10 minutes trying to get some head measurements and he was all over the place. That, plus the fact that he wouldn't put his arms down, made for some very long waiting room time for Kyle and Deakon. Finally, she was able to get what she needed and ran to get them. (10:35) I got to go potty (thank goodness, drinking 4 glasses of water at 8:45 and holding it was a killer!) and by the time we all met up, the baby had decided that it didn't want to move hardly at all and wanted to stay curdled up in a little ball. Luckily, she moved him enough to get a few good glances at his little manhood and then when she started doing the video (3D video, didn't even know... a little weird) he just laid there looking sleepy. So, I got some still images from the video. Enjoy our skinny, alien baby boy!

This is my favorite. He is just hanging out with his hands kind of under his chin, his face is profile style (not sure what that weird thing on the left is...):

His face looks kind of weird, but this is of his hands in front of his face, right before he put them under his chin(above):

The last 2 are the same pic, the bottom one is just the video in full screen. He is on his tummy, with his hand behind his neck like he is getting ready to do some crunches. The left side of his head is the base of his skull, and the right shows a little bit of his profile. The bottom middle of the pic is his skinny little spine with some ribs showing through:

No 3D pics of the manhood... sorry... just take our word for it. ;)

Drumroll PLEASE....

IT'S..... A.....

BOY!!!

try and post some baby pics soon!!!

Last one... I promise...

TOMORROW!!! is finally the day for the ultrasound... I will be done with countdowns for awhile. WELL... at least until December when I start getting excited to go home for Christmas!

I have halloween stuff to post, but Monday night I was so sick that I almost died... ok, I felt like I almost died... so I haven't gotten around to it yet. I am basically back to normal so maybe today while Deakon is sleeping I will post.

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend!

Kyle gets next Wednesday off... Yahoo!

Can't freakin wait...

3 more sleeps....

and then its ultrasound time!!!!!

wake up baby

and help your

poor, IMPATIENT,

and excited parents out!