IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!

Our ultrasound confirmed it at 11:00 this morning! We going to have a daughter, due May 17th, 2009! We couldn't be happier!!

Just a little update!

Well, I didn't really get any pictures of our Christmas this year, hence the wordy post.. but it really was a wonderful and adventurous Christmas! It's freezing here (well below freezing usually, ha!) and we woke up pretty early, so Jack went to turn on the space heaters to make the living room nice and toasty before we opened gifts. Much to our surprise, our power was out from the blizzard! We decided to get up, bundle up, and open up the gifts.. then call Jack's parents to make sure they had power. Luckily they did and after our "good attempt" to get the Honda up the road, our neighbors helped us push it back to the driveway and Jack's dad came to the rescue! He picked us up in the Durango and we spent the rest of the day at their house. It was so much fun and Jack's mom prepared so much good food, we had to take a little nap after we ate! We got all kinds of goodies, including some new Paula Deen pots and pans and 800-count Egyptian cotton sheets! We love them! We are so grateful for all we received this Christmas and even more, for the blessing of having family so close by! At the end of the night, Bob drove us home to find our power back on and our house nice and warm! It was a great end to a great day! It has been such a wonderful year for us! Time has flown this year, but we hope y'all all know how much we love appreciate you! We hope everyone has a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2 MORE DAYS TILL OUR 20-WEEK ULTRASOUND!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I know it's a little late, but I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Christmas! Ours was so much fun, but we certainly miss everyone far away! Enjoy the rest of 2008, we love you all!

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

SANTA CAME EARLY THIS YEAR! When Jack and I arrived home tonight there was a big box on the door step! I was so excited to see a brand new set of red pots and pans from my Mom! I absolutely LOVE cooking and this was my biggest gift on my wish list this year and I just started crying when I saw the box, I told Mom I couldn't wait till Christmas to open it! We are going to have such a delicious Christmas dinner!! And they match my kitchen perfectly!

We love our Charlie Brown tree!

It has been such a busy week, getting ready for Christmas! I guess you can probably tell from the pictures, but it hasn't stopped snowing yet... we are treading through it literally! Shoveling and driving are awful, but I love the snow!! We are so excited to have another White Christmas!

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!