Welcome Home, Elder Maxfield!

I've been a slacker with blogging lately, but Jack and I have been working some crazy hours! December 17th was our first day off in a while. Jack's brother Thomas returned from a two-year mission in Brazil on the 17th! We are all so excited to have him home safely and so proud of all the work he did in Brazil! I snapped a few pictures at the airport, then we all went to Garcia's for lunch and back to Jack's parents to watch movies and catch up a little. It was such a fun day and we're so grateful to have family so close by for the holidays! I hope everyone is enjoying their family this season and remembering the true meaning of Christmas! This is my favorite time of the year! We all have so much to be grateful for and it's easy to forget when life gets busy, but celebrating the birth of the Savior always brings us back to the things that are really important! We love y'all all and we're so thankful Thomas is back safe!

Grandpa and Baby Mason are twins!

Jack and our nephew, Mason

Thomas and his Mom

Thomas and Jennive and their Dad

Jack and Thomas

Jennive, Mason, and Thomas

This huge chunk of ice got stuck under our front bumper!

Merry Christmas! Love, The Maxfield's

Cruising the Carribean

Last week, Jack and I were fortunate enough to go on a cruise with the Vision Carolina's office because he worked so hard this summer. It was really fun (minus the motion sickness) and we were able to visit San Juan, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas, and St. Maarten. It was such a fun experience, we saw some beautiful places and ate a ton of good food. We were both a little sick, but it was worth it! It was fun to hang out with all our friends from the summer again. We feel we've been so blessed to have so many fun adventures in our first year(and a few months) of marriage. It's such an awesome opportunity to be able to do all of the traveling we've done!

And now we're ready to settle down a bit and get ready for Baby Maxfield! For our first day back today, I had my 14-week appointment and we heard Baby's heartbeat! I was a lot more emotional than I thought I'd be, it's crazy to already love someone so much that we've never met. We can't wait for December 29th, to find out the sex!

BIG JUDD'S

Big Judd's is a restaurant that I guess you could say is part of the Southeast Idaho experience. If you can eat the whole burger you get your picture on the wall (Jack and I can barely split half), but there are people who have eaten triple's and quadruple's. It's a really cool place and we're dying to get Joey out here to see if he can eat the whole burger! We leave for our cruise tomorrow, so enjoy this picture of Jack with the massive burger :] Have a good week everyone!

Another wonderful birthday!

Thanks for all the birthday calls and messages! I had a really fun birthday! Bob and JoAnne game me a really cute maternity outfit. Jack got me some really sweet presents (for those of you who don't know, we are pretty obsessed with out Nintendo Wii) so he got me a few games for it. One is the Wii Fit, which I've been wanting for a while, and the other is a game called Boogie where you sing and dance that we saw Jenny and Brandon play a while ago and it looked way fun. He also got me some movies and a gift card so I can get some long shirts for when my belly gets huge, haha! He got an i-pod touch as a gift from his company for passing 100 sales, but I fell in love with it, so he's getting me one too. I guess it's our last birthdays before the baby comes and he knows next year all I will want is baby stuff, so he made this birthday really special for me. It really has been wonderful. He also got me a cake with baby stuff on it! It was so cute, so here are some pictures! Everyone have a safe weekend!

A healthy baby makes a happy birthday!

Jack and I went to the doctor for our first ultrasound on Tuesday! It was really fun even though I hadn't known what to expect! Right now, I'm 10 1/2 weeks along and the baby is 3.12 cm. We could see the baby's heartbeat and I already can tell how cute it is! Every time the doctor would look around the baby would just wiggle all over! The doctor said "That's good, dance for your mommy!" Anyway, we're about to go eat at Johnny Corrino's for my birthday, but I wanted to post some pictures of our little baby! We love him/her SOOO much already!!

Going to the fair tomorrow!

We are just so excited, I have been telling Jack about the fair for years! And Ginger and the boys are coming with us, what a treat! WE CAN'T WAIT!

Charleston, South Carolina

This past Sunday Jack and I had the opportunity to go to Charleston to visit my Grandaddy David and Granny Pam. It was really fun, we don't get to see them very often so it was nice to be able to visit. I forgot I had my camera until later, so we didn't get any pictures with them :[ They took us to lunch and of course I got shrimp!! (You have to get seafood in Charleston, even though I'm trying to eat less of it lately). Then they showed us around and we got to see the beach. Jack and I love the ocean, hopefully we'll be able to live closer to the coast when we're older, I never realized how much I miss the ocean when I'm in Idaho. It was such a treat for us to spend time with them!! Later Jack and I went downtown and rode around and saw The Russell House, the old city market, and The Battery. Then we took pictures at Rainbow Row, one of my favorite places in Charleston! It was such a fun weekend, we only have a few left out here and I want Jack to see all my favorite Eastern sites before we head home!