Polar Express train ride and Bella's preschool room!

My parents came to visit for 2 weeks for Christmas and we took Bella on the Polar Express train ride in Heber...she was so cute! WE read the story of the Polar express, had waiters bring us hot chocolate and cookies, the elves told jokes and sang songs, and then we arrived at the North Pole and Santa and Mrs. Claus got on the train to give the kids some bells like in the story.....such a cute experience for her!I also finally finished Bellas preschool room in my upstairs....she loves it!! I do a different letter each week with her and we have all sorts of fun activities we do like painting, playdough, arts and crafts, magnets, music time, finger puppets and more....I write out an entire curriculum for a month long period and she is learning sooooo much! We start off with the weather and calender and days of the week each day and write our letters and she has a blast! Just wanted to share how cute the room is and it keeps us busy being stuck in the house all winter!!!

Monday Night Mystery Meal!!

So my new thing for monday nights are making a new recipe for dinner and a new dessert we've never had before. We always do family night every monday night and I thought this would be a new fun tradition to start! Here is my cashew chicken and berry cobbler with vanilla bean icecream.....now keep in mind..nothing came from a box or bag except the ice cream( im not that good)...these are all fresh ingredients made from scratch! I need to learn how to cook better so this is a start....Enjoy! ( it was really really good by the way) :)

Our baby is here...well... she's been here!

Haha......so it's been a long time since I've posted anything on here and I apologize...life has been crazy lately and it's really hard to find time to blog between feeding every few hours, changing diapers, teaching to potty train and sleeping!! I have a ton of updates though since the last time I posted...which I was still pregnant so a lot has changed since then! Enjoy!!!

First we took Bella to the zoo back in September before little sister came so Bella felt very important with Rob and I!We spent alot of quality time with Bella before Ava came.... we also celebrated my birthday on September 11th and had friends over for dinner and had cake and icecream! The last month of my pregnancy was really hard and uncomfortable so I didn't really do much until I had Ava...so nothing exciting to post....but then on Monday, October 5th.....Ava made her way into the world! I was induced and my delivery went very very fast! I had her in just a few hours and only pushed for 10 minutes!!! Dont hate me girls! haha She was absolutely beautiful!!! Here is Ava Gabrielle Freeman.... Bringing Ava home was quite the change from having one child! I was very overwhelmed at first bc trying to juggle a toddler and a newborn while recovering from labor was not fun! Bella was very good though and Rob's mom was a very big help to us..... It's sad to see Ava get bigger but at the same time I missed my sleep and was going crazy only getting a few hours each night when we were first home.... so even though she kept growing and I missed my tiny newborn...I knew life would be getting easier the bigger she got. Here are some random pics of Bella and her new sister! She loves Ava...alittle too much sometimes...haha

Next came Halloween.....we had so much fun this year, especially having Ava here to share it with!! I took Bella to Boo Barnyard at Thanksgiving Point and we had a blast playing the games and doing the little corn maze and making cookies...

We also carved pumpkins, made homemade pumpkin seeds and obviously went trick-or-treating! Bella was so adorable in her witch costume and Ava was our little pumpkin!

And last.....this is quite the catch up post....we had Ava's first newborn pictures done and she looks like a little angel! Bella loved playing dress up with her in the pictures! Look how cute....

We are so excited to have Ava in our lives...she is such an angel and life is getting fun now that we have our routine back on track!! My mom and dad are coming out for christmas and I am so glad bc its been 6 years since Ive spent a xmas with them! Also they haven't even seen Ava yet! So this will be an awesome month!!! I promise to post more on a regular basis now!!