News, News, News!

This is long time in coming, but I've had some news I've wanted to post for awhile. Then I thought news should come in sets of three and we were so close to getting that third piece of news. Well, months later and we're still close to getting that third piece of news! Right now as I write I'm waiting for a phone call from the realtor telling me the sellers accepted our offer on the country house with 21 acres we've been trying to buy for 7 months. All summer I've waited for them to come down on their price so I could post our news and finally 3 weeks ago our realtor said they're ready. So we offered, waited 2 weeks for a response. They countered. We accepted their counter plus them paying closing costs, and here I sit waiting to see if they're accepting it or not. I have been told nearly every day since last Thursday that today they're going to have an answer. This morning I was told that positively today they would have an answer. Because I can't wait any longer to post my other news, I'm posting that is our third piece of news although it's not official yet. I'll just have to erase this if they say no. If they agree we still have to sell our house, so I'm not expecting anything to happen anytime soon.

Our second piece of news is that Nathan was called as second counselor in the bishopric on July 10 and ordained a high priest. We were only asked right before church and were very surprised but feel great about his calling. He loves the men he's serving with and I know they'll do a great job--they already are.

Family council the day Nathan got called.

Our first piece of news is that we found out at the beginning of June that we're going to have another cutesy-wootsey member of our family join us around the middle of February 2012. I am due February 10 and was sick all summer but am finally feeling much better. I should have done this a long time ago, but Monday night Thomas was treats and I had the idea to do the baby gender cake test. I don't think he understood, but he was more than happy to make cupcakes and wanted to make what was on the side of the white cake mix box which looked something like this:

The cake is half pink and half blue and the theory is that whatever the pregnant lady cuts into is what sex the baby will be. We're having the ultrasound on Thursday, so we would be finding out soon enough anyway, but the kids were still thrilled to do it.

Thomas with the cake mix box to compare if they came out looking similar. He is so fun to bake with.

Kylie serving everyone after I cut into it. (I tried posting the video first, but it wanted to be last.)

Video of me cutting into the cake with my eyes closed to "predict" if our baby is a girl or a boy. If you'd like to make your guess, feel free to post. So far from family members (not us) I have collected 9 votes for a girl and 12 votes for a boy. Hopefully we find out tomorrow!!