She's Here!

Alice Lorraine Fraser was born on December 12th at 8:18 in the morning. She weighed 8lbs 1oz and was 20 inches long. She is doing great and has been a perfect baby so far. I was so worried that she would be my hardest because I was excited to only have one baby this time. One just seemed like it would be a piece of cake but then I started thinking that maybe she would have colic or all of that other stuff that makes a baby hard, but so far she has been wonderful. The boys love her and are always trying to give her kisses and help with dirty diapers.
We still didn't have a name when we went to the hospital but after she was born we decided that Alice was pretty much the only name we both liked and agreed on. The name is also a family name. My great great great grandma (something like) Alice Brooks was a pioneer that came to Utah with the Martin Handcock company. It was also the name that Max had chosen from the very beginning. He was always so matter of fact about it. Any time we asked him what we should name her he would say without question, "Her name is Alice." We don't know how he came up with it. He doesn't remember ever seeing Alice in Wonderland and we don't know any Alices so it's kind of funny. Her middle name is my mom's middle name as well. I think it will be so neat to tell her when she's older how she got her name and all about the amazing women she was named after.

More pictures...

Just an updated picture of my bigness. This was taken just a few days ago. I am almost 38 weeks. I don't normally take this pictures because I try and forget as soon as I can but my brothers on their missions keep requesting a picture.

So I forgot it snowed one day in November. We had just enough snow in the front for a little snowman. The boys were so excited. Too bad it melted before the end of the day.

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Went to visit Santa while in Richfield for Thanksgiving. Last time we took them to see Santa, Max hid and the twins cried. They were great this year. They remembered what they wanted and even had a nice little chat with Old Saint Nick.

Pictures...

Here is a picture with the boys and their cousins. Kaylee (standing with the boys), Kaitlyn, and Gage.

Had Halloween in St. George with my family. Max was a skeleton, Josh was Buzz and Tanner was his nemesis, Zurg.

Took the boys to the temple for a visit.



Neal had his 29th birthday in October. Wow he is getting quite old!



Max played soccer in September. Neal was the coach.

Catch Up

I can't believe it has been three months since I last wrote or posted anything. I guess I kept meaning to finish up all my Italy pictures and talk more about the trip but I never did and then with the holidays I just neglected the blog. Since we have a baby coming in just 9 days I was overly concerned about having Christmas completely ready before the big arrival day. We've decided, especially after the Thanksgiving holiday and having received quite a bit of grief from Neal's family about not updating in awhile , it was time to change our ways. I think I will just have to post a whole bunch of pictures and try and catch you all up in the last three months.

Closed Blogs

Okay, so I know I have been a slacker but all of you who have closed your blogs in my slacker time of not checking them(Megan, Cami, and Heather), will you please add me to your list of invited readers. I am a little sad I can't check them any more. rachael.fraser@gmail.com
Thanks

Positano

Rome

I decorated our formal front room for Rachael while she was in Italy.  My mom and my aunt Clarissa helped a lot actually.  I did the manual labor and actually chose the colors.  Credit mom for the window treatment, pillows and slate table (all of which we made).  Clarissa helped with the accessories and decorating, including how and where to do the wall hangings.  I think Rachael likes it.

It's a Girl!

I guess most of you know but I just thought I should officially post it. We are all so excited. I'm due on the 19th of December but with a planned c-section she will probably arrive on the 12th.
Isn't this a cute picture by the way? A friend of the family took this. She did a great job. I also had an old friend from high school take the family picture at the top. I should post some more pictures of both friends talented work.

Our Own "California Adventure"

Just a few random picture of our vacation. I always forget to post these pictures in the opposite order that we did them. We arrived at my brother Jeff's house Wednesday night and headed to my other brother Will's house to stay the night. He lives about 15 minutes away from Disneyland. We went to Disneyland all day Thursday (see next post) Friday (thanks to my sister-in-law ReAnn's planning) we had breakfast at an air field which was a delight for the boys. It kept them entertained while we waited for our food. We also went to a kids "space" place I guess you call it. It was very caotic but very entertaining for our boys. We were pretty tried after those two events so we decided to take it easy and just play at the pool at my brothers. (I forgot to take pictures of that as well as the kids place. OOps) Saturday we spent the day at Laguna Beach. Neal and my dad loved boogie boarding and as a result they were pretty sunburned by the end of the day. The twins weren't really into the ocean but Max couldn't get enough. He laughed every time the waves hit him and really didn't do any thing else but play in the water. Sunday ended with Church and a birthday celebration. (I can't believe I am no longer in my 20's.) We traveled to St. George that night and then home to Spanish Fork on Monday. It was a great vacation. I think it will take us a few years to recoop physically and financially but well worth the trip!

Disneyland!

We finally made it! It was quite the adventure. We ended up only doing one day but I think for first timers like ourselves it was enough. We were exhausted! We got there right when it opened at 8:00 and stayed until 7:00 that night. The highlight for the twins was helping Buzz shoot Zurg and Max loved driving his own car. He took the responsiblity quite seriously. He didn't believe he was allowed to drive because he wasn't old enough but after some convincing he decided to give it a try. I tried to take a picture of him and he wouldn't even look at me because he was driving and "had to watch the road." The boys loved meeting Mickey Mouse twice and Josh actually gave him the high five he had been talking about doing for weeks. It was nice having my parents there too. They helped out so much and my dad who normally doesn't get into the whole Disneyland experience actually enjoyed himself and wanted to endulge the boys any chance he could. He insisted on buying them Mickey Mouse hats and even did some of the rides twice! We took so many pictures I decided to try one of those slide things.

On the bike - Day 2

Only Day Two on the Bike.

Max turns 5!

The Birthday was a great success thanks to Rachael's hard work. All the kids had lots of fun with the jungle games and activities. They made ears and played Tarzan says, and jungle charades.

Max received a bunch of soccer stuff, and a new bicycle. He actually did pretty good on the first day. I let go of him and he did just fine, however, I was on his left at one point and he started to ditch to the right. He was just a little out of my reach when he pulled hard right and curbed it pretty good. He only cried a little and only complained twice about how I didn't "catch" him. I made him get right back on before he got scared about falling. He didn't even notice that he was bleeding until we were all done riding. Over all he did pretty good.

Independence!!!

The 4th of July! We got up early to go see the balloons. The boys love them, but they lift off when it is the coolest part of the day. That means about 6:30 am. Later we went swimming and hung out with the Fraser clan. Of course we saw fireworks and all slept late the next morning. (Well except for the twins who never sleep late.)

Camping in Provo Canyon

Neal asked me to post these awhile ago. We went camping about a month ago up Provo Canyon with Neal's sisters. The boys were in heaven. They asked to go to bed before it was even close to being dark just so they could sleep in the tent. (I guess once we have a backyard we will have let them sleep in a tent every night if it means they go to bed that early.) They also loved roasting marshmallows and starbursts. We need to go more often. It was a lot of fun.

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