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If anyone notices a sudden drop in the baby sister count down it is because my Dr. decided he doesn’t want me to go past the 5th of December and my original due date was on the 11th.  So if I have not had the baby by the 5th, he will induce me on that day (or 4th, whichever day works better).  Since I had such a "wonderful" delivery and recovery last time , he wants to make sure this baby isn’t any bigger than Mason was, which he was only 7lb 6oz, so he wasn’t that big!  He is pretty sure that it was the position that Mason was in and the fact that the cord was wrapped around his neck a few times, not really his size, that made things so hard but he just wants to make sure.  Hopefully, I will go into labor on my own before then, but since I will not go past the 5th, we decided to change the countdown to end on the 4th instead of the 11th!

So, for forever I think Jeremy has wanted me to do digital scrapbooking pages with Photoshop and I just kept complaining to him that it was too hard!  Well, I started, it’s easy and I’m sooo addicted!!  I am having so much fun with it and desperately trying to catch up on Mason’s scrapbook before the baby is born (good luck with that, Britt)!  Anyway, I showed one of my pages (or layouts) to one of the designers that I got a kit from and she encouraged me to apply to be on her creative team (CT).  That means I would be one of a few people who got her kits before she released them, then make a layout, then she posts it on her blog to show people how many ways the kit can be used.  Well, I applied on a whim, not really thinking I’d ever make it (I’ve only been doing this for about a month) but surprise, I made it!!  So, I made a different blog to post all my layouts on since a lot of people I don’t know at all may go to it.
Here is my first LO for Nicole’s team.  If anyone’s interested in digital scrapbooking, check out her site digi-designs.blogspot.com.  She has some incredible cute stuff and gives so much of it away, it just amazes me!  She makes new kits every week and gives out pieces of them throughout the week.  This kit is called Celebrate!

If you want to see more of my layout’s, go to stowelldigitalscrapbooking.blogspot.com to see them!  I know I won’t get them posted on 2 different places!  I’m just glad I get them posted at all!! 

Our niece Shana (Tiffany’s daughter) turned 2 today.  We had a family party for her yesterday at Jumpin Jacks and came back to our place for presents, cake and ice cream.

Wow, Mason is growing up!  Just looking at these pictures he looks so much older to me!  We went to the park for family night last night and let him run around, play on the playground and run through the trails by the flowers.  He had a great time as usual.  It was not easy to get him back in the car.  He is so much fun to be around (as long as he isn’t tired).   Here are a couple shots from the night.

This past weekend while Britt was on a little vacation with her friends, me and Mason went on a 4-wheeler trip up Fillmore canyon.  Me, Mason, Kay, Roger, and Ethan went on a nice fall trip.  The trees were starting to turn it was very pretty. 

The round trip was over 42 miles!  Mason did a great job, he loved every mile!  He really enjoyed going through the creek back and forth as part of the trail crossed through the water.

As we were driving up the canyon, we came across this guy and his son.  The son had rolled his 4-wheeler down the mountain side.  He was really lucky and jumped off at the top of the hill and didn’t go down as well.  The 4-wheeler was stopped by that little tiny tree you can see behind it.  If that tree would not have been there it would have gone down to the bottom.  Getting the 4-wheeler out of this mess was a challenge, we had another group of people come and help and they had a winch that we used to pull them out.