Dance Concert

Leah is a part of the Woods Cross Dance Company Team and Leah had her Dance Concert on Monday and Tuesday. This isn't just a "Dance Concert", through out the year the company members have attended professional dance classes and learned different dances that they performed. Also the company members themselves choreograph a dance for the other company members to perform in the concert. Leah choreographed a dance for the intermediate class and she did an awesome job. It was a Pirate theme dance.

The theme this year was "Places". Each dance performed was from another country. IE: Egypt was a mummies dance. Transylvania was a vampire dance. Caribbean was the pirate dance.

Leah asked Cannon to be in the vampire dance (which was a partner dance) this year. They were so cute together. The funniest part was that on Tuesday's night performance Cannon had a brief solo and he slide on his knee's and RIPPED open his shirt to the audience. Buttons went flying and it was HILARIOUS!

Leah did such a great job in her dances and I am so proud of all she has done and accomplished.

Leah and Cannon (with his vampire teeth)
Leah and Sarah

Leah's supporters

Got Lashes?

I do!
About a month ago I decided to get extensions on my eyelashes. I wish I would have taken a before and after shot, but I just have the Got Lashes? website instead.
I must say that I LOVE them. It is so nice to wake up, brush out my lashes and call it good for the day.
I was even told that I look like Megan Fox. Stu told me he could see that IF I had a tan. Thanks Honey!

My little peanuts

Just to give an update on the pregnancy. On Sunday the 24th I start to bleed and got a little nervous about the situation. My mother in law who is an OBGYN nurse got a Doppler to see if could find the babies heart beat. Were we not able to on Sunday.
Monday when the bleeding started again I got an ultrasound to find the heartbeat and found out there was not one to be found. I did find out that I was expecting twins (Holy Cow!!) and that they passed away about 3 weeks ago. They were only measuring 8 & 9 weeks when I was almost 13. It was a sad day for us to find this out and it was sad for our families too.
On Wednesday I had my DNC to remove the babies and was lucky enough to have pictures of my little peanuts (see below)
Althought this is really hard for Stu and I we have had so much support from family, friends and co-workers that a simple THANKS doesn't seem to touch it. The love and support we have been given has meant so much to us. This is a sad thing and we were sad by it. Sad to think we had twins and both were lost to us, but we would like to think that they needed to be together no matter what.
Miscarriage is quite common as I have been told, and I don't wish it upon anyone that has not experienced it first hand. If I had to have my time to go through it I am glad it was now when the mother/child bond was not strong. I can't imagine loosing a child once you made that connection through a heartbeat, or movement. My thoughts go out to those who have experienced that and then lost their child.
Thank you again to everyone for everything. Don't worry if you don't know what to say. Its just one of those things and I know you feel for us and we thank you for that.

So meet my little peanuts (that is what I am calling them). They were too young to see the sex but Stu and I believe we had one of each.

Peanut #1

Peanut #2

3 Years Already?

Stu and I celebrated our 3rd Wedding Anniversary on January 3rd. Since this day is a Sunday we decided to celebrate Saturday into Sunday. This year it was my year to plan our anniversary-so I got us a reservation to stay at the Hotel Monocco in downtown Salt Lake. We had both always wanted to stay there but never had. We also had dinner reservations that night at Bambara- the restaurant in the bottom of the Monocco.
The hotel was really nice. We arrived in time for the wine hour (5-6PM) but thankfully they had some hot apple cider for us non drinkers. They had roasted almonds and appetizers from Bambara for you to enjoy, it was quite a nice little mingle the hotel does every day for its guests.

The Hotel Monocco where we stayed for our AnniversaryOur suite in the hotel. It was quite nice to just go and relax. We did just what we do at home, sit together on the couch and watch the news

Stu and Sarah at Bambara. Dinner was great. When I made the reservation I told them we were celebrating our 3rd Wedding Anniversary, so we they sat us they gave us our own menu and at the top is read "Happy 3rd Anniversary Stuart and Sarah". The nice thing is that we got to keep it (scrapbook moment). Before we knew it, we had spend 2 1/2 hours at dinner just enjoying each others company at the wonderful atmosphere.

I am very big on keep with tradition and giving anniversary gifts based on the "Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts" for each wedding anniversary. Our 3rd year was Leather. Stu got me a passport holder and I got Stu a luggage tag.

Thank you Stuart for the last 3 years. Thank you for all you do for our family. Thank you for loving me despite my faults and thank you for my beautiful life, now that you are in it.

I love you!

New Year's Eve

What a delightful New Year's Day. Stu's family decided to all get together for a family dinner at Macaroni Grill on New Year's Day. As Mom Reeder was taking individual pictures of the family, she then asked the waiter to take a picture of the whole family. As the waiter pushed the button to take the picture he yells out "Melissa is pregnant" (See the picture below)

Needless to say there was some excitement. Melissa (pictured 2nd on the left) is expecting just one week to the day behind me. So the cousins will be close.

Stu and Sarah at dinner

The soon to be parents. It will be the first on Allen's side but it is a race to see who will be the first on the Reeder side

Mom and Dad Reeder (or Grandma and Grandpa soon enough)

And finally New Year's Resolutions

2009 was:

Complete a marathon-DONE

Get Stu through nursing school-DONE

Get caught up on scrapbooks-Not done so it will be my only 2010 goal. I need to get caught up so I can be ready to take a ton of pictures of this new little one.

FIRE!

New Year's Eve I was looking forward to taking down Christmas decroations and returning items we got for Christmas that we didn't need. As we were getting ready to head out for some lunch and returns, in the distance we could hear fire sirens and they were close. Come to find out they were next door to our complex. There is a carpet business just to the south of our complex and it was on fire. In fact we could see the whole thing from our office window. We opened the blinds and Stu kicked back in the chair and watched the whole thing (he told me it was better than a movie). Anyways this building continued to burn to the point where it was not going to be saved. The carpet fibers were so flammable that it was no use to try and put them out. The fire dept just stood by to make sure the fire did not spread. Stu was curious about the fire so he headed out to see it up close (only a fence and a parking lot separated the fire from our complex's driveway). I went to join the fun but Stu told me I had to go in because the fumes were really bad and he didn't want it to effect our unborn child. (No fair).
The fire started at 11:30AM New Year's day. We had plans that night so around 6:30PM (the fire is still burning) Stu found out we could leave (before no one could leave or come in) but we probably would not be able to get back in. We took the chance, we had been indoors all day. So we went out to our New Year's Eve party.
When we got home around 12:45AM the fire was still going but we could drive into our complex (WHEW, I didn't want to walk through that nasty smoke).
As it turned out the fire burned for about 36+ hours. The building was a totally loss but there were no causalities (except the owner's 20 yr old cat). Thank goodness for the quick response of the Fire Department and thank goodness the fire did not spread.

From our backyard view point. The building was only a hop skip and a jump away from our complex.

The fire burning out of control

The entrance to our complex. The whole main road was blocked off for about 10 blocks because of the fire trucks and the hose lines. Can you see all the smoke. YUCK

Front view of the one of the buildings windows. You can see the fire raging inside.

6:30PM as we were leaving for our party, the fire was still burning

Christmas 2009

Christmas was BUSY this year. Stu had to work Christmas Eve into Christmas morning so as soon as he got home Christmas morning, we did Christmas at our house. It was rushed but we had to hurry so we could get to the Nicholls house by 9AM to do presents there. After opening gifts and eating breakfast at the Nicholls (by now it is 11AM) I took Stu up to his parents house to get some sleep. He was only able to sleep till 3PM because we still had to do Christmas at the Reeder's and that started at 4PM. After presents we had dinner and talked and played. Stu, Blue and I didn't get home till 1:30AM (talk about a LONG day). Isn't Christmas suppose to be a chill day?

As many (I hope) know-Stu and I are expecting in August 2010. We told our families on Christmas morning by giving our mom's each a jar of Prego spaghetti sauce. They both had the same reaction when they opened the gift "yeah a jar of spaghetti sauce". As you can see from the picture below I added words so I made sense, but it still took the mom's a few minutes to catch on. It says "Stu and Sarah are... and then the Prego is already there"

Mom Reeder's reaction when she opened her jar of spaghetti sauce

Mom Nicholls reaction when she opened her jar of spaghetti sauce

All the other family members are super excited since it is the 1st on both sides. We are just trying to absorb the details of just what this all means

Merry Christmas to all!