We Never Knew

Sam is our serious goof ball! He is always so silly! He loves all sports, and loves to wrestle with anyone and anything. When it comes to the music side of things however, we didn't really think he had much interest. I've been teaching him piano lessons and he does fine, but it is more of a chore than a love, like it is for Maddie.



This week at school he has a spring recital, and so on Monday he started singing a song, which doesn't happen a lot. I actually had the songs on one of our Cd's and so he has been practicing it all week. He loves to sing it! I love to watch him. He has such a cute little rhythm. He actually let me tape him too! So here is our 2nd American Idol. Stay tuned....when Maddie sees this post, I'm sure I'll be recording her singing too! We know she loves to sing!

The Next American Idol

From what I hear, Utah is pretty much obsessed with American Idol because of the kid from Murray High! Go Spartans!

I think we are the only ones in Utah not watching because we have our own American Idol. Brinley loves to sing, in fact, last night, she was singing in her sleep. I have been trying for the longest time to get her singing on video, but she would not let me. In fact, she is very stingy on who she even sings for. But last night she was ready to perform! So here is our little star performing. She cracks us up!

Jessica I'm Sorry

I'm sorry Jess for not posting anything for so long! But we really have had a pretty uneventful life for the last couple of months.

My life has involved--
1--Driving the kids back and forth to school
2--Driving the kids back and forth to soccer practice/games
3--Driving the kids back and forth from dance
4--The kids driving me crazy (just kidding).
5--Driving the kids back and forth to dentists/orthodontist appointments
6--Driving back and forth to Sam's Club and the grocery store
7--Dealing with sick kids/husband/self.
8--Wishing that spring/warm weather would arrive.
9--Getting big and fat!
10--Getting the yard started
11--Watching the Jazz! GO JAZZ!

I feel like I live in my car more than my house. We are on the count down until school gets out so we can switch schools and have a little less car time!

This winter was a rough one for us. It has been so cold, and every sickness that has gone around, we have all caught. Sam had a mild case of pneumonia. Maddie, Brin, and I all had the flu. Richard got hit hard with the flu (had to go to Instacare because he couldn't breathe. I thought he was having a stroke).

Brinley started it by, as she likes to say it "puking all over my mom at the Jazz game." This is a lovely story that let's you know you are a mom! Richard and I had our regular Jazz tickets to one of the last regular season Jazz games. Sam got tickets to the same game from Jr. Jazz. So the girls and I sat in our regular seats, and Sam and Richard sat way up in the nose bleeds. It was just past half time, and we had a traditional bowl of ice cream just about polished off. Brin was standing up, but laying her head on my lap, and just started throwing up all over me. My pants were covered! Really cute, a big fat pregnant lady with junk all over her lap! I'm sure everyone thought I either wet my pants, or my water broke. It looked REALLY bad. The cute lady sitting next to me was trying to grab jackets to save them. I grabbed them out of her hand to try to catch some of the puke. I didn't want anyone to have to clean up too much of the mess. I called Richard and told him to come down. I stripped Brinley down to her diaper, and we left. I rode home in my unders, because I couldn't stand the smell anymore! It was a lovely night, and anytime you mention anything about the Jazz, bring will tell you that "she puked all over my mom at the Jazz game!" She's so proud!

Sam and Maddie are doing awesome in soccer this year. Maddie scored the first goal of the season for her team! Sam is still the scoring king on his team. He averages 4 or 5 goals a game. Richard won't let him score too many more than that. The games are getting fun to watch. It's fun to see the kids starting to understand the game and want to play!

We found out that Sam is going to need pretty serious orthodontic work starting here in about 6 months. As soon as he loses his 2 top teeth, he'll get spacers to spread out his top jaw. Let the fun begin.

We still don't have any names for this baby, and I'm starting to panic. I'm 30 weeks, and I am the least prepared for this baby. Poor thing, she is already the last child syndrome. We are still accepting ideas for names, so please share. Right now Lauren and Ellie are my choices. Sorry Jess, but I don't have any pictures of me and my big belly. I had been measuring smaller than my normal, but at my last visit, I caught up, I am now measuring 3 weeks ahead!

We have done some landscaping in our backyard and it looks really cool. Here are a few pictures!

The Big Peek!

Sorry this is a few days late, but we were having some computer issues, mostly Internet/router issues. Richard finally reset the router and it is working much better now!

Here are our updates for the week:

--Our house closed! From the sounds of it, it was touch and go for a while but our nice realtor was the ultimate professional and didn't bother to stress us out with the details! So we are feeling much lighter now. In this crazy, unstable market, we are feeling really lucky because we took a huge gamble. Having to only make one extra house payment was really, REALLY lucky!

--AND it appears we are having a Girl! Totally crazy! I really thought it was going to be a boy. But we are totally thrilled with a girl. It is growing on the kids, even Sam is ok with it. Tonight at dinner he was complaining to the waitress about still being the only boy. She was cute and made him feel better by telling him her husband is the only boy with 15 sisters (he is Samoan).

So for those of you who can't make out the picture, the top is showing her girl parts, like she is sitting on the lens of a camera, her thighs are to the left. The bottom picture is her profile. Heidi said she already has the Murray mouth and bump on the back of her head. We're thrilled that everything looks healthy, and she is measuring as 21 weeks and 2 days, which bumps my due date from 7/20 to 7/15.

We will now be taking all suggestions for names. We were almost stumped with Brinley. I'm not sure we have another girl name in us. Sam thinks we should name her Samantha. Maddie thinks Abbie, but that would make what, 3, 4, or 5 Abbie's on the Hurst side. Brinley just insists that we are having a brother. As it is, the name in the running is Thecityof. Cute isn't it....Thecityof Murray.

One Last Post (for today)

Just a few last things for today, and then everyone will be caught up with our lives.

--Sam lost his first tooth, which is always quite the ordeal at our house.

--Maddie pulled out her 7th tooth (thankfully she would rather do it herself now).

--Brinley has discovered her love of lotion!

--We finally have an offer on our old house, so if all goes well we will be closing on or before Wednesday.

--And finally, we have our ultrasound on Thursday, so stay tuned, I'll update Thursday to let you know what we're having, and yes we will be peeking! We're voting for a boy, to even things out, but we'll be happy with either one of course. Let me know of your predictions!

To Be A True Jedi

Yes, this is totally disgusting. This is how Brin and I passed time while the kids were on the rollercoaster. All the things in Goofy's garden and house, and she wanted to drink out of this silly hose! Maybe that's why she has been sick since we've been home....hmmm....

I'm sorry to do so many Disneyland pictures, but Sam and Maddie both got chosen to do the Jedi Training. Richard informed me that if Sam didn't get picked, we'd have to go to every show until he did. Thankfully, he got picked during the first show. Richard put on the telephoto lens and got some pretty awesome pictures. I had to share for all of you Star War fans!

Here Comes Disneyland

So, towards the end of January, Richard brought home this certificate. He laid it on the counter and said do something with this before it expires. I started looking at it and it was a travel voucher. It expired, and had to be used by April. So my wheels started turning. The kids were off track, and the winter has been so cold, so I decided we were going to take the kids to the beach somewhere! So, we had about 3 weeks to plan a trip. My first thoughts were Mexico, but that was quickly nixed, because I'm the only one with a passport. So then to Hawaii, I called the travel agent, and that was quickly nixed, on 3 week notice, the cheapest she could do was $6500. The voucher wasn't for that much! Bummer. So then to Florida, but the average temperature was low 70's, so not really beach weather, so we settled for Disneyland. I'm so glad we did. We've avoided taking the kids back to Disneyland because they have been a little, to put it nicely, wimpy. But boy did they prove us wrong! We had so much fun! I'm so glad we got to go. We had beautiful (high 70's-80's) weather. We were all feeling good. And the kids were AWESOME!

We've saved up our Disney Reward points, so the trip was totally cheap (out of pocket). Those Disney points are the only way to go. You can buy all of the outrageously expensive food, and snacks, and trinkets, and souvenirs, and not come home feeling like you wasted your whole life savings! So to anyone planning a trip to the Disney family, I'd highly recommend getting a Disney Visa.

We went to Breakfast with Goofy the first morning. I won't get on my soap box about that. The kids had a blast and got a ton of autographs!