It's a....

Girl!

 Here is a picture of our little girl with her legs stretched out, standing up in my belly.  

We are so excited to be adding another girl to the family!  It just seems right that we are having another girl.  Since finding out, we went and bought a bunk bed for Allie's new big girl bed so she and her sister can share beds in a couple of years.  Our little girl is very healthy and is measuring exactly where she should be.  Yea for girls!

On a side note, here is my belly pic at 22 weeks.  I don't think I am as big right now as I was with Allie, but the last 2 weeks I have grown a lot, so I might just be starting.

Christmas Eve at the Zoo

The Meldrum clan flew in to Houston on the 23rd, but Mike had to work on Christmas Eve, so we went to the zoo to go play away the day.  It was nice and the zoo it wasn't crowded at all.  It was a perfect distraction to entertain us before the festivities of Christmas.

 I think Allie spent 20 min just at the elephants 

What do you do when Grandparents come?  Ride the Carousel of course!  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa

Naylor Family Progressive Dinner

One of the Naylor family traditions around Christmas (of which there are many) is to have a progressive dinner and this year we had appetizers at my parent's house and it was all themed on dishes from people's missions.  We had a lot of good new food and lots of fun.  

As per Naylor tradition of who knows how long.... we also played the pipe bells.  I think this was our best year yet, you could actually tell which song we were playing.   It was a lot of fun to see my cousins and aunts and uncles, and eat good food!

Oh the Things you can do at Grandma & Grandpa's House

The First 2 weeks in December Allie and I flew out to Utah while Mike had a conference in California.  We had so much fun visiting with family and friends as well as enjoying the Christmas festivities we were able to attend.  Of course, I didn't get as many picture as I had wanted of all the fun things we did, but I brought out the camera one day of all the things Allie enjoyed at Grandma's house.  

Allie found Gracie's hat and decided it was perfect.  She wore it frequently while we were there.  She also loved playing with the mini-kitchen and play food.  Hours of entertainment I tell you!

 Drawing at the desk is super cool

 Snow!  It has been over a year since Allie has seen snow so it was brand new to her.  she ran outside and played in it for about 1 min and then put her hands up saying "cold".  We then put on her new mittens and played in the snow even longer.  

 I think she liked it!

At Grandma's house, you can have crazy hair at dinner!  This was post-church/ refused to take a nap hair with dinner and dessert all over her face.  

 Allie found a love for tinker toys and built this all by herself!

 Everything is more fun in a tent!

Allie was quite perturbed that she could not fit inside the little chair in the little doll house.  That did not keep her from trying though.

Cheese!!!!

Just after Thanksgiving our wonder friend Mariah took our family pictures and we got this wonderful pictures of our family!  We decided we should officially get a family picture  before we add our new little addition to the family.  Thanks Mariah!

So to get Allie to say cheese, we would bribe her with M&Ms.  Now, whenever we give her an M&M she smiles really big.  I love it!

Thanksgiving 2010

I know it is late, but late is better than never!  For Thanksgiving this year we paired up with the Tingey's to co-host a Dinner at the Church for Thanksgiving.  It was my first time actually doing most of the food by myself instead of helping my Mom, so I learned a lot!  It was a lot of fun and was really yummy!

 My First Turkey!  We brined it using a combination of Pioneer Woman  and Alton Brown's recipes.  It was super moist.

 We took over the gym and it was perfect to fit everyone

 The Tingeys supplied games like bowling (or throw the bottles really far)

Allie especially enjoyed the ice cream cones.

Later that night we went to the Christmas street lighting ceremony down by the Galleria mall in the rain and wind to watch the lighting and the fireworks.  After the fireworks, we went back to our car and we were stuck in the parking garage so we just sat and talked with the Tingeys in our cars until everyone left.  At that point, we noticed a family that couldn't get their car to start, so we went to go help them and in the process the Tingey's car battery died as well.  It was all fun until we got home and found our Kitchen just they way we left it that morning, full of dishes!  Too bad the dish fairies didn't come to my house.