I just spent the last hour shoveling the sidewalk and driveway while Matthew took my parents to the airport. It is always an easier task when the cars are out of the way. Yesterday Dad and Matthew cleared a path to the cars and a little bit off the van. We had another 2 or 3 inches fall last night on top of the 8 + inches we got yesterday and the night before. It was an odd feeling to walk out the door this morning and think, wow it's warm out here! The van registered at 32 degrees so the snow was fairly soft and starting to melt. I was mostly a bum yesterday and didn't venture out once. I feel like I made up for it this morning though.

Mom and I have been working on the baby's quilt. We decided on a pattern and bought fabric for it Tues. We were going to start cutting the material yesterday when I found another pattern that we both really liked that would have looked great with the material as well and we had enough to choose. I ended up spending pretty much the ENTIRE day playing with different combinations trying to figure out what would look best and what I liked best. We boiled it down to these two:

Sherbet Parfait with 9 patch (colors are dark green, blue with gold dots, floral blue from the large triangles, beige, paisley from the large block, mustard, light green, grey, and a teal, black and gold swirl)

Sherbet Parfait with basket weave (colors are purple, green, mustard, and light blue)

We like them both. Jared voted for the basket weave and Aaron & Dad for the 9 patch. I feel like the basket weave is more serene, but I miss the purple in it. I put it on FB and the 9 patch is getting the most votes.

Last night Aaron was really cute. Somehow we started talking about whether the baby was awake or asleep. I told him that the baby must be sleeping b/c I couldn't feel him, but it was possible I just wasn't feeling him move since the other day we were watching him move but I couldn't feel any of it. So Aaron start pushing on my belly and telling the baby to wake up. Sure enough, he started getting really wiggily. That made Aaron happy and he put his hand on my belly. Baby started pushing right there though I don't think he could feel it. Then when the boys were in bed and I went to hug and kiss Aaron, he hugged my belly and said good night to the baby too :D So sweet!!

As Aaron and I were talking about feeling the baby earlier, Jared perked up and was excited to know I could feel him. I only get tidbits of his feelings about the baby. Mostly he seems ambivalent about it but every once in while I get a glimpse of interest and excitement. It was nice to see him seem to perk up at the thought that he could feel the baby move.

I've been trying to think of boy names now and not coming up with much. I liked Hyrum and Peter. I ran them by Matthew yesterday and he immediately shot down Hyrum. I kind of liked that one though. He didn't say anything about Peter until I suggested that meant it was ok. So I guess neither are a 'go.'