Home for Christmas

These are some pics from our trip home at Christmas time. My sister Adrienne was able to hold our new son and we had a great time visiting with her and her family over the Holiday! It was fun to have our families get together. We Blessed Seth and his cousin Kelsey on the 27th of Dec. and then had a luncheon afterwards with everyone from Sam's, Mine, and Jill's families. It was really awesome. Bart and Jamie Hyde gave Seth his first Christmas outfit and I couldn't resist getting a few pics of him in it! (He is SOOOOO cute!) Seth's hands look just like little carbon copies of his daddy's hands. Sam loves Seth so much. It is great to see them together. The other pics are of Seth looking at the book we got for him for Christmas. It lights up and sings, he seems to really like it. Then there is Ethel in Seth's car seat.(She does all she can to make sure she isn't forgotten)

Seth Hyrum Ballard

Here are some pictures of our new little boy! Seth Hyrum Ballard. We love him so much and are happy to share these pictures with you all. As you can see he loves to have his hands up by his face when he sleeps. He was born on November 20th and he weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces and was 21 inches long. We are proud parents and think that he is just PERFECT! He is healthy and strong. We are so blessed.

Memories

Here's a tag! 1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! 2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. (leave a memory about any of us)!

Sam and I went to Lake Tahoe for our 3 yr. anniversary this year. We had a wonderful time together. It was nice to be able to get away. If you ever go there you have to go to the Heavenly resort and take the Gondola Ride up Heavenly Mountain and have lunch at the top. There is a really good little outdoor Bar and Grill there. Then you need to take another lift up the rest of the mountain and go down the longest Zip line in the lower 48 states. We did it and it was AWESOME....They say that you hit speeds of up to 50 mph. on it. It is over 3000 ft. long and you drop more than 500 ft. in elevation down the mountain. I was soooo scared when we were waiting for our turn. It ended up being way cool though and I would do it again in a second. We also went Kayaking around part of the lake and through some cool little streams that come off of it. We saw a ton of bullfrogs and Sam found some neat looking little rocks. The water was COLD but the view was beautiful. We took a waterproof camera with us when we went out on the kayak and I haven't developed them yet... when I do I will post some of those pics. There is a ton of fun stuff to do there so if you haven't been there yet you should make time and go.

These are my 21 week ultra sound pics. We aren't going to find out what we are having so you will all find out when we do sometime in November. Hopefully you can tell what you are looking at. Sam is just so amazed when we do the ultrasounds because he can't believe how much the baby moves around. We went to Utah for 4 days to visit some family and also to go to a place called Fetal Foto with Farnes and Jill. It was really cool....They give you and ultrasound and put the pics on a disc for you and also make you a video you can watch of the whole ultrasound. We had lots of fun seeing the family. We don't go to S.L.C. much anymore because it takes over 7 hrs. to get there from Fallon.

"Coy"

These are some pics of our new flowers. The yard
is coming along and we have been having a good
time being outside in the nice weather...although
sometimes it is a little too hot. We finally named
the puppy "Coy". He is a smart puppy. He can
fetch pretty good already and is lots of fun to play
with. Our animals sit in our lawn chairs more than
we do, as you can see! Coy also likes to mow the lawn
with Sam. Now we just need a name for our cat. We
have had him for more than a year and he doesn't have
a name yet. Any ideas?