It's a girl!

Well, we finally had the professional ultrasound done today and it confirmed our unprofessional opinion. YEP, it's a girl- so WOO HOO! Of course I am not technology smart so I cannot get the movie to save to the computer...Paul will have to do that. For now I will share an ultrasound picture in which she is being an acrobat. The video has her just tumbling and tumbling around, hope hopefully I'll be able to share that with you soon too. Thanks for all the pink thoughts today....you guys rock!

Soccer Season Again

It's that time of the year- SPRING SOCCER! Yeah! And we have Coach Paul teaching us all about it this year. We had our first game on Sunday and had our butts handed to us, not that anyone besides us parents are keeping score of course. They had like 20 goals and we had like 0, seriously. Our kids were just running around like "whatever- do whatever you want, we don't care" It was rather amusing seeing them just running around without a care in the world, it was only cold and windy outside. At least we missed the snow though-that was during the 3o'clock games and ours wasn't until 5 thank goodness. Found out our kids have ALOT of work to do if they plan to ever make a goal at a game this season though. Lots to practice on Thursday nights!

Busy Easter Weekend

We had such a fun and busy Easter weekend! On Saturday we picked up Tana and Kendra and went to Home Depot to make their butterfly house (they both did really well), then we went to the circus- where Paul and Winston both had their first ride on an elephant, then off to Grandma's house for an egg hunt followed by some playing of course, then we took the kids home and came home ourselves to get cleaning for a small Easter dinner at our house. Paul and Joe also moved the swingset over to our yard on Saturday while the kids were playing inside at grandma's house. Then Sunday was Easter brunch, yardwork, playing, and Easter dinner of course. We had a smoked ham that was REALLY yummy thanks to Paul. Mom, Joe, Emma, Brooks, and us 3 made for a wonderful little dinner. Now it's Monday and the week has started again and I honestly am glad-i was so worn out from going going going this weekend!

Last Ultrasound Pics

Here's the last ultrasound picture I had taken March 2nd. The baby was SO active...kicking and punching the whole time! Holy buckets, I can't imagine it being like that when I can actually feel it. Paul's been calling it Sugar Ray for now, but we need to come up with a girl boxer name instead...jeez what's he thinking? Hopefully at the end of the month, beginning of April we'll know what the baby is. HOPEFULLY! We actually call it "finding out what kind of puppy it is", since we're going to play around at my work (at the vet clinic) with the ultrasound machine and see what we can see. Then I'll go to a professional and make sure we know for sure! Until then, this is what I've got for looking at. I've still been really sick for the last few days, after a few weeks of feeling better. Now I have a head cold and a toothache on top of it. I'm telling you, this pregnancy has not been any form of fun yet! So let's hope for feeling better and PINK thoughts everyone, PINK thoughts!

We've been doing lots of tours!

First we toured the local bakery "Great Harvest Bread" where the kids learned all about wheat and what it's used for. Did you know it was used to make licorice? I didn't. Anyhow, they made their own loaf of cinnamon bread, rolling it out and putting it on the pan and all, then we came back 2 hours later to pick it up. It was such a yummy snack when Winston got home from school.

Next was our local Papa John's Pizza, where we made our own pizzas- they were huge (8 slices each)! Winston and I made our half and half and it sure turned out yummy. It was a great lunch to have before heading to school and daddy sure appreciated us bringing it to him for lunch too.

Catching Up- this ones from January

Here are some photos of Winston at his gymnastics competition he was in back in January called "The Rootbeer Cup" (note how high he was when he was hanging upside down on the rings-it'll scare the heck out of you!) He had a blast though and loves loves loves his medal he recieved for it.

New Addition Coming

Well, here's the announcement quite a few people have asked about over the years. We're expecting. I haven't made it through the first trimester yet, but I can't just keep it to myself this time. I get so busy in life and slip up in conversations and typing. I went to the doctor today and they predicted me to be 8 weeks and 4 days along as of today. This is putting me due Sept 9-12. I will be having a c-section again and it will be a week before those dates, of course we won't plan for that until it gets a little closer first. The baby's heartbeat was 171 today, in the ultrasound the baby is the little white spot on the small black area. Anyhow, THINK PINK people because I want this to be the last time I have to go through pregnancy!