The Blogger World

Well, I have finally joined! I did my own family blog! So if anyone wants to see what the Pedersen's have been up to just check us out at http://www.pedersenplace.blogspot.com/. Hope all is well!

law school update

For those who don't read the personal blogs, I thought I'd let you know that we'll be around for another year. Unfortunately both law schools at the end were full on orientation day, so it looks like we'll get to do the whole thing all over again...sigh. Thanks for the encouragement and support! You'll get to see me a bit longer now :)
Nicole

Parker's Wedding

Just thought I would share a pic with you all from Parker's wedding. He got married on Saturday to Jill Hart. They have been dating for almost two years. The marriage was beautiful. It was such a great day!

Colorado Reunion

Today, I got together with Whitney and Lori at Whitney's home. It was really fun to be together and catch up, especially being away from home. Whitney's house is beautiful and she lives in a great area.
I am pretty sure Lori is on her tip-toes in the picture above! She wore her really tall shoes because, as she put it, "I knew I would be around a lot of tall people!" Lori, you crack me up. She says that she is starting to show, but unless you know her really well, you wouldn't notice a thing.

Little Luke is precious. He was so good. He was wearing this adorable little outfit with cute little sandals. He has these amazing blue eyes. I forget how small babies are! What a handsome little man.
We took Claire to the community pool and she had a blast. She loves water.
On the way home, Claire kept saying, "bye bye baby Luke." What a fun day.

Another run in

Hey girls!! Today I was at Target and saw Katie Anderson! I hadn't seen her in forever! She told me that she just got married this month, on July 3rd to a guy named Venny (I think that's his name...?). Anyway, she said he's from Tonga and they met at school. Again, I'm just giving everyone an update for those of you who didn't know and are interested :)

And a quick update about me and Justin...we are down to 3 schools that he's still wait listed on:
William and Mary, UNC, and Univ. of Arizona. Law schools start in about a month or a little bit less and we are crossing our fingers that Justin will get the call to come to one of these schools for the fall. So say your prayers for us!!

Hi All!

Hey everyone! This is amazing, I'm actually posting on this thing! I don't even have my own blog and so I had to ask Karen how to even post on here! Haha, ok so I'm a little behind. Well, I needed to post so I could let you all know that I am expecting my first baby!!!! Yay! Tim and are are really excited...and scared at the same time! We're mostly excited to see what this little booger is gonna look like (I'm voting dark and tan like it's mama). I'm 3 months along now and the baby's due date is Feb. 6th. So far its been a fun ride of trying to figure out what foods won't make me puke and crying over every Oprah show I watch...Tim just loves the pregnant me :) I hope you all are doing well, I love it when i get to see you guys every now and then! Take care!

-Lori

NEW house, baby....

Hello,

It has been a while since I posted last or really checked the blog out. We have had a few changes in the last little while. We just bought out first house!! We love it!! We live out at the Ranches that's close to Saratoga Springs if any one is confused. Its in a fun little neighborhood with lots of kids, couples our age a park a pool across the street and the best part for Scott the golf course in our back yard. We also just found out that we are having another baby!!! I'm due around the first part of February. Emily and this new little one will be 15 months apart. We will be busy. Emily is now 8 months old, has her first 2 teeth and should be crawling by the end of the week. She mostly does push ups right now and scoots backwards but she will get it. I just wanted to give a brief update.

Claire

I am not sure who checks my personal blog, so I thought I would post some recent pics of Claire. She is now 20 months old and is a ball full of energy! She is very verbal and we have a ball. However, I am nowhere near wanting to have another one. I don't know how some of you do it!

Late!

Happy late birthday to Ashlee and Megan!! I hope it was a fun day for the both of you!

Check Out My Non-Blog

I just posted a lot of details about my Mary Kay inventory cleanout on MyEpistles. I am giving a mega discount on all products I have in stock. If you don't check my non-blog often, now is the time to do it! If you need an invitation to the site or want the info via email, let me know.

4 months old!

Hello! Here are some fun pics. I decided kids grow like WEEDS! It is so fun to see how much Haylee has grown over the last few months. She is becoming quite vocal and makes squawking noises all the time. We love it! She is very fun and always wants me to play with her. She is becoming quite the momma's girl!

Any Excitement At Home?

Hey Girls,

I am curious if there is any excitement going on at home this weekend. I'm going to be taking a trip out there for my sis-in-law's baby shower on Saturday. I'd love to hang with any of you at a swimming pool or the living planet aquarium or whatever -- kids or no kids welcome! I am probably going to leave Thursday morning but am flexible. Call me if you want to get together!

Kati's new arrival!

Kati had a baby boy early this morning at 12:04 am! He is 7 lbs. 3 0z. and 20 inches long. Mom and baby are both doing well! He has brown curly hair she said. They are naming him Kade (or maybe Cade...I didn't ask for the spelling) Stephen (her dad's name) Dixon. Her water broke at about 7 pm last night and she was only in labor for 5 hours, so she didn't have an epidural (which she planned on not having since she goes so quickly) but she said she had some drugs through an IV.

She went to the dr. yesterday morning and he said she wouldn't be having the baby too soon because she was only 50% effaced and dilated to a 1...but obviously he was wrong! She delivered at the University hospital and may go home as early as tonight.

Congratulations Kati!!

(P.S. She said it was ok for me to post since she doesn't have the internet at home. She did say she'd share some pics soon though!)

Halfway there...

Well I'm officially half way to my due date and realized that maybe some of you guys may not even know I'm pregnant yet!! I didn't post the announcement on this blog, but then realized that some people only look at this blog and not at any others! Sorry for the oversight! We had our ultrasound and we are having a baby girl! YAY! My due date is either October 29 or 30. I'm not exactly sure! We are so excited to have a little girl! I just hope she comes out with beautiful curly hair!!! That would just make me incredibly happy! I went to the Distribution Center (for unmentionables) and saw a cute little blessing dress and I almost started crying! I'm so excited to start shopping for her and to start decorating our nursery! YAY for pink and purple and all those fun girly clothes! We think that she will know all there is to know about football by the time she's 2! Hopefully she cooperates with us!! Anyways...I figured I would post on this blog too to share the news because we sure are excited!

my sweet baby

hey girls! I just wanted to show you my cute little guy!!

News!

I know it's shocking I actually have something to share! But if you don't check my blog I just wanted to announce that I FINALLY after a year of having a degree got a real life job! I am so excited. I really can't express how excited I am. I'll be working for the Alumni Association at the University of Utah. It really is such a great fit for me!
Anyway just thought I would share. Kind of excited about it! I hope you are all doing wonderfully! Love to all!

Luke Jacob Hawkins

Hey Everyone,
For those of you that haven't heard I had my baby on Sunday morning. We was born on his due date on Mother's Day... what a great present! We named him Luke and he weighed in at 8 lbs 7 oz. He's doing really well, the doctors were concerned because he lost a lot of weight at the hospital (almost 10%) so we're doing a lot of feedings and supplementing to get his weight back up. Jake disconnected our camera holder so i can't upload any pictures, but I will as soon as I can. I do have some posted on my blog.... along with the whole story, so check it out!!

In case you didn't know...

This past week I ran into Kass Wallin at the Maverick gas station. I hadn't seen him for a really long time, so it was fun to see him. He said he got married the week before and he had just gotten back from his honeymoon. He said he's waiting to get into law school (sounds just like us!) and he would really like to go to the U. He's on 3 waiting lists (including the U). He married a girl that he met when they were doing internships in Washington, D.C. and she is from Vegas (I think that's what he said).

Just thought I'd write about it in case any of you didn't know (cause I sure didn't!).

39.5 Weeks!

Hey girls! I just thought I'd post a pic of me before this baby comes... which will hopefully be any day now! :)

BABY!?!?

Practicing being a big brother!!
Giving kisses!!

Well it is official!! I am PREGNANT! It came as a suprise, but I went to the doctor today and everything was ok. We didn't hear a heart beat so hopefully the little bugger was just being modest and there aren't any complications. My due date is approximately December 1, but the baby will probably come in November because I was early with Drew. We also had to discuss labor because with Drew, from the time my water broke to his delivery was about 3 1/2 hours! Yikes!! The two little tikes will be about 26 months apart and I am very excited to add another rascal to the bunch!!