Walks

One thing we love about where we live is that there are plenty of places to take walks and explore.  Here is a place we went one evening.  The kids and Ryan had fun climbing up and down this hill.  I am sure we will find plenty more places like this. 

My birthday

For my birthday (back in May... I am a little late in posting!), I decided to not make a cake for myself so we went to Albertsons and found a big slice of chocolate cake to eat after dinner.  Dinner was great because Ryan was sneaky and had some of our good friends surprise me and come over for dinner.  Then Ryan told me he was going out to get a movie for us to watch and came back with a babysitter, blindfolded me and took me to a friends' house and had a delicious cake (thank you Charise!!) and played games with a bunch of our friends.  It was a night to remember.  Especially since the next morning brought food poisoning for Ryan and I and our friends who ate dinner with us!  Thinking it was the meat we got for hamburgers, but who knows.  I will definitely remember my 27th birthday!  Thanks again for a memorable birthday everyone!

Preschool ending/ Zoo fieldtrip

Preston was in a kind of coop preschool this past year.  A bunch of Mom's got together and took turns taking the kids every week for a couple hours Tues. and Thurs.  We had an end of the year field trip to the zoo.  It ended up pouring rain on us by the end and we were all soaked, but we were able to see most of the exhibits without too much rain in the beginning!  The kids thought the monkeys stunk and all plugged their noses.  I agreed!  This tiger kept standing on it's back paws and pawing at the glass where all the kids were standing.  Apparently it does it quite often (or so we were told) and is it's way of saying hi.  The kids were all scared at first but loved it and thought it was hilarious after the initial shock of a big lion scratching at them was over.

Catch up... Ma's cute outfit

Grandma G. and I found a pattern for this cute outfit and she decided to make it for our cute Ma.  Lately if you ask her to say cheese, she actually gives you a cheesy smile.  Our silly girl.  Love the outfit!  Thanks again for making it!

Nope, just 1!

I finally went in for a checkup the other day and to all of my friends who were teasing me I was having twins... sorry to upset you, but there is only 1 baby in there!  Things checked out just fine, gained 5 pounds in 16 weeks (thanks to my love-hate relationship with our stairs!), baby's heartbeat was 162 and we have our ultrasound July 20th.  No word yet from my better half if he is going to give in to me and let me find out what the baby is.  He is sticking to our plan of not finding out.  Kind of wish I hadn't agreed to that :)  Will let you know the verdict!

More train depot...

Like my shaved head little boy?  This was right after the kids decided to cut each other's hair.  So, easiest solution to a boy with a bad haircut... buzz it!

Announcing....

So I am really late in posting this and posted a pregnancy ticker last night, but didn't post the actual announcement..... We are expecting our third beginning of December!  I am 15 1/2 weeks along and thanks to stairs in our new house (oh yeah, we bought a house too!) and getting food poisoning, I have only gained about 6 pounds!  No, I have no motherly intuition to tell me what this baby is.  I don't normally have that feeling, but with this one, I really have no idea.  It has been a COMPLETELY different pregnancy than the other two, so no clues here.  Ryan and I had an agreement that we wouldn't find out on our third since we already have one of each.  I am trying to argue otherwise and get him to change his mind. :)