What's in a name?

Dave and I have been thinking heavily on what in the world we are going to name this bambino! We have gone back to the original list of unused girl names that we have had since Lauren, thinking and thinking of which will be the right one. Naming a child is such a heavy and huge responsibility and we don't take it lightly. I mean this is what you call your kid for the rest of her life! This is serious stuff! We really like family names. Lauren is the name of one of my Aunt's. David, well that is obvious, Kathren is the name of a great great grandmother, and Thomas West is the name of each of our grandfathers. The only family name that we can agree on is Lillian. That is the name of my great grandmother, and also my sister. We also have the whole EN thing going on with the girls. I don't know if we need to continue this, will the poor girl feel left out if she is the only female in the family without the EN sound at the end of her name? I don't know! And frankly, I can't handle the pressure! So I am calling on all my blogger friends! Help us name this baby! If we choose your name, we will be sending you a lovely prize as a thank you for aiding us in this heavy responsibility!
Some of our favorites....

Dave likes-
Lillian aka Lils

Karen likes-
Lilyan
Maren

Lauren likes-
Lily

David likes-
Annie

Kathren likes-
Violet
Flower

West likes-
Cars
Kachow

Please write what you like, help us name the baby!

sWiMin'

West loves to swim, he asks everyday if he can go swimmin! We love in door pools! Rain or shine, we can swim, swim, swim!

Kathren giving her big cheezy grin! I love her little swim suit, we got it at Target! It is red and white gingham, the top layer of the suit, looks like an adorable little sundress! Super cute!

David near the end of the two hour swim. Check out his red, RED, eyes! Chlorine is a marvelous thing!

Lauren was out swimming the entire time with her friend Shaylin. This is the first time I saw her, she was so tired from swimming. I love it when they get so tired from all their swimming fun!

SwEEt SlEdding

When we had our friends from San Diego come and stay with us, they all really wanted to go and play in the snow. Well this was after Easter, and we had had some really nice weather, so snow was really hard to come by. We drove up Provo Canyon and just started looking. We found some at Soldiers Hollow, but we did not want to pay for three adults, and eight kids to sled. So we all got back in the car and headed to Park City. On the way there we saw Jordanelle. We pulled over and found the best hill for sledding! The park ranger at the visitor center came out and we thought we were busted, but all he said was when we got tired and cold to come inside and have some hot chocolate! This was such a great place to play. They had a ton of snow, and we had access to a restroom! What could be better!







This last photo sequence was of David. He yelled for me to watch. So I watched as he slid down the hill and ran right into a tree! Oh the joy!

Where the HECK have I been?

The title of this blog post has been a reoccurring question that has been on almost everyone's mind. So I thought it only fair that I inform everyone where the Heck I have been!

Explanation #1
When I was a blog-o-holic, I had me a lap top that I could sit on my comfy couch and blog the night a way. Since that computer is no longer, our new desktop is on a small table, and I have to sit on a super uncomfortable chair and frankly being fat and pregnant it just is not very appealing!

Explanation #2
For a week, we ripped up our dining room carpet, and installed hard wood. Yes you read that right, we had carpet under our dining table--YUCK!!! I lived with this for two years, and frankly, could not handle it any longer! I felt like my house was NEVER clean! So our house was in complete chaos for that week, and now we have a lovely floor that makes me so happy!

Explanation #3
For the next two weeks we have had a house full of company! The first guests are our friends from San Diego. The Fagerwold family of five. Two parents, and three children. We had a lot of fun, and will post pictures of some of the highlights! Our next group of company was my nephew Ricky Hartpence, his lovely wife Troy, and their adorable baby boy Hayden. It was so fun for us to have them in our home, and to get to know them and their baby even better!

Explanation #4
I have been a dancing fool! Yes you read that right! It is now dance competition time! All the Moreau ladies are taking dance from Diva's dance studios! We are having so much fun! Last Saturday at UVSC we had a competition that the Mama Diva's were participants in. I had so much fun performing our dance, such a rush, and so fun to hear the crowd scream for you! I even did the splits 7 months pregnant! That was a huge crowd pleaser! Afterwards, people came up to me and said that they thought we were all young girls, and that I was a teen mom :) From far away, I guess we looked young, but when they got up close to us they realized that we were really and truly all mama's! So funny!

I am still alive, barely! I am just plugging away! Thanks to all who have told me that they miss me on this blogging world! I will try to come up with some cute posts to keep all you loyal readers happy and interested!

I wAnt cAndy!

The Moreau Children have started a small candy store! They want to earn money for missions, and what not. They will have regular hours during the summer, but if you are in the neighborhood, and want some candy, chips, or soda, feel free to knock on the door, and we will gladly accommodate the junk food junkie in you!

The Message

Our friends, Chad and Wendy told us about this great book. Dave bought it and we both read it within a few hours. It is so interesting. Thanks you guys for the great tip.

If any of you want a good book about life after death, this is a great read!

we fEEd them, and it is cOOl.

In the back of our house, we have three small ponds. One of these ponds is a natural hot spring and never freezes. The other two, serve as drainage to the spring, and they freeze every winter. The hot spring pond, provides a nice place for the ducks to live. We had about 20 mallards living back there all winter. They became our little pets. Even though they are totally wild ducks, they are super smart, and I must say easily trained. Everyday when I opened my curtains, they would fly over to my backyard, and we would feed them. It didn't start out this way. We have a local duck that is here year round. His name is Edward, and he can't fly. I think someone, long ago clipped his wings, and even if the wings weren't clipped, he is just too fat to fly. So Edward served as a ring leader to the rest of the group. We have been throwing bread out to him every so often, and he being completely tame would waddle over and eat. So I don't know if because he was the biggest, the ducks deemed him their leader, or what but, we would throw out the bread and Edward would waddle over like usual, and the rest of the ducks wised up and would follow suit. Then the ducks would see all of us standing on our landing throwing bread out and they realized they could fly over and beat Edward to the goods. We would see poor Edward running as fast as he could, it was sad and yet, really funny. Finally, all we had to do was open our curtains, and the ducks would fly over and land with a great big face plant in the snow, and eat until they were full, or the bread was gone. This ritual kept me and the kids amused most of the winter. It was a bright spot to the endless gray days.