Pictue Catch up!

Levi and Ruby loved playing in our backyard. They are very brave about the cold (and mom is not). This is them riding their bikes on our deck. Ruby even loved for Levi to push her around fast. This is us going shopping for our Christmas tree. This year we went with Yampa and cousin Ashley. It was soooooooooooo cold (again, I am a cold whimp!). There was snow in the tree lot at the home depot, so after I removed myself inside with Ruby, Ashley, Yampa, and Noah had a snowball fight! RUBY LOVES CHRISTMAS TREES! It is one of her first words. Everytime that she would see a tree with lights, she woudl say. "Christmas Tree!"
Every year we try to make a gingerbread house. Here we are with our creation from this year. Levi loved putting all the candy on. He patiently waited until after Christmas to try and eat it, at which point he discovered it was disgusting. So grams put it out on the deck, and we watched the squirrels have a treat!This is our cute little snowflake on Christmas Eve. We had a great night with all of Noah's family.
This is the happy four of us on Christmas morning! Merry Christmas!

Ultrasounds pics!

Here are a few ultrasound pics for those of you who would like to see them! Isn't he cute!

I know someone who was there

I just wanted to say a few things about the inauguration.

What an amazing day! I am so grateful that I was able to be home yesterday and watch the inauguration. What an amazing day for our country.

Even if you are not an Obama fan I think that yesterday was a pivotal day for all of us that are fortunate enough to live in this country. With all the gloomy things that have gone on with the stock market and the economy the last year, our weakness has been world news. Yesterday, for the first time in a long time I had rock solid American pride. Obama's speech was inspiring and reminded us all that because we live here we have a responsibility to live up to the ideals that our country was built upon, not only so that we leave our freedoms here for our children, but because we must show the world that America is still a land of optimism and dreams.

I am not saying that Obama will bed able to change everything overnight, but I believe that his youth and his ability to lead can help us to get out of this slump that our contry has been in by our own hard work.

God bless America! I am proud to be an American!

The end of a fun week and biting

A few funny notes to wrap up the week.

Levi has decided that the name of our new baby will be.....George! George will probably not be his name, but it is a good name for now. Levi is well aware that I carry a baby in my belly and saw my growing belly (which has grown out most of my clothes) and said, "Is that your baby." Ruby will also point to my mid section and say baby, but mostly this is just a mimic of Levi.

When I was a baby I used to bite my older sister Janette a lot. She was barely a year older than me, and being small herself was told not to bite the baby. One day she had enough and bit me back, and my mom smiled.

Well my little Ruby this week decided to take after her mom. Ruby got a ride on toy for Christmas similar to one that Levi has. Levi's is now an outside toy, so he loves playing with Ruby's. He was sitting on it on Sat. When Ruby wanted to play with it. After I asked him to get off several times she was tierd of waiting and bent over and bit him on the leg. Levi of course started screaming and said the she bit him. I gave him a hug and smiled at the same time that she finally fought back all his loving torture. (He does love her, see the previous post). And Noah and I both smiled.

Trying to catch up!

Since I am so far behind, I thought that I would post a cute story about Christmas. Levi was so excited for Christmas. He asked Santa for 3 things: a Spiderman Bicycle, some Thomas trains, and race cars.

He went to bed Christmas night, and we woke him up about 8 on Christmas morning. We expected him to be so excited for his presents. Santa left his bike unwrapped with all his presents around it, and left Ruby's dollhouse with all her presents around it. Levi walked down the stairs and the first think that he said was, "Look, Santa came for Ruby!"

At that moments I was so proud of him. I knew how much he loved and thought about his little sister. It is my best Christmas memory from this year.

The kids had a great Christmas and played with their toys all day long.

We are having a baby boy.

My camera is not working, so I have not posted for a while. But for those of you who don't text or facebook we wanted to share our good news...we are having a beautiful little boy.

Moving.

We have sucessfully moved out of our house. We ended up being there almost exactly a year. What a blessing it was to find buyers so fast!!

Moving day was incredible. About a dozen guys from our ward showed up to help. I left to go drop my kids off at my friend Mandy's house so that moving would go a little faster. By the time I got back the truck was loaded and my cute little house was empty. The ward then went with Noah to the storage unit and unloaded the truck. We loved our ward in Roxborough and the many friendships that we made there. We are so sad to leave.

Noah's family came a little later and helped load up the furniture that was going to Noah's parents house. And did one last good will run. By 3:30 the house was empty, and clean, and we pulled out of the garage for the last time.

Leaving our house was a really hard decision for us. We loved the house, the yard, the beautiful area, the church. At the same time we are so excited for Noah to be able to go to school full time. We are also so blessed that Noah's job with the City and County of Denver is being so understanding and flexible with his schedule so that he can work full time also.

Noah's parents have also been so wonderful in welcoming us into their home, again. They have made countless sacrifices to make us comfortable and keep us close to our kids.

Ruby is to young to understand what is happening, but Levi has been a trooper for the whole thing. At first he thought that he was getting another room at Gram;s house and that Ruby was getting another room. Then he thought that he and Ruby were sharing a room, but that he was keeping his room at his house. Then on moving day he understood, and just kept saying that Levi's house was really sad. Ironically I am grateful that we bought our van a couple of months ago. It was hard for Levi to say goodbye to the cruiser, and it was hard for him to say goodbye to the house. It has been a good lesson for him about changes coming in our lives.

Heavenly Father's hand has been watching over us these past few months while we have made these big decisions. Our testimonies have been strengthened and our little family has grown closer together.

A lot has happened to the beals clan in the last month. We are a bit crazy as usual. So here is the update.

In preparation for Noah starting school we put our house on the market the last week of October. In this crazy market, our beautitul house sold in 2 weeks. So we have been making preparations for the move back into Noah's parents house this weekend. Closing is on Monday,, and we just feel so blessed that we were able to sell our house so quickly.

In case you have been living in a hole, there is a movie called Twilight that came out earlier this month. The sister-in-laws and Ashley and I went out at midnight to see it. Ashley and Meghan and I even made matching shirts. I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie. The only thing I was disappointed in was the sparkling. I am excited for the next movie, which should have a much larger budget.

In November we had a short visit from my mom and my oldest (and wisest) sister Janette and my nephew Max. Aside from a bloody nose and some throw up we had a delightful weekend. On Sunday we made an early Thanksgiving dinner, which was so nice for me. Ashley was also with us for the weekend before she went home to suprise her mom for Thanksgiving.

Levi and Ruby loved having baby max here. Ruby is into calling almost everything with a face baby. This was the first time that they had met him. He is so cut and happy!

Noah is pretty serious about caring his first turkey. Actually he is just posing for the picture. What would Thanksgiving be without olives on someones fingers. Levi loves olives. I always get nervous when we eats a lot of them because of an unpleasant experience that happend with Levi, olives, and a Mexican retaurant.Our Thanksgiving feast. Yummy Yummy!

On Sunday night we played a mad game of Monopoly, accomplishing something not many people who play Monopoly do....we played until the very end. Janette ended with all the porperty and money. This picture in to prove her victory for years to come!

Thanksgiving day for us was fun. Levi was so excited to Santa during the Macy's parade. He also got excited for a few of the balloons. We had dinner around 2 and then had a fun day playing games with the family.

Well that is the highlights. We are packing for the next few days an moving on Saturday. We love you all and hope that you are having a very Happy Christmas.