IT'S A...................

GIRL!!!!!!

AND WE COULDN'T BE MORE EXCITED!

Just a quick update. Our ultrasound went great, and baby girl was very cooperative with showing us the goods :) She looks healthy and right on track for her size.

Aspen loved being apart of the ultrasound. Especially since it was just him and not Journey too. Now we get to decorate a new room for Journey (she's moving out of her room into a new one) and pick out a name for the baby.

9 More Days Until Our Ultrasound!

We are all very excited to find out if we are going to be adding a baby brother or sister to the family. So far, both Aspen and Journey want a sister. Aspen will be coming with us to the ultrasound and is very excited about that. I'm sure he will get bored with it half way through, but there's always Mark's i-phone to save the day!

Here are Aspen's name ideas for the new baby:
Boy: Caden
Girl: Hailey
Not bad, huh? Apparently, Aspen has a friend at church named Caden. I'm not sure where Hailey came from.

Journey likes to lift my shirt up to "see" the baby and poke at my outie belly button. She's also been praying for the baby before bed at night. Too cute! She is a little mommy to her dolls so I'm sure that after the shock of a new baby taking her place wears off, she will love it.

Mark is loving my enlarging belly, but is bummed that the baby is coming in the middle of tuna season, ha, ha! He has signed up for 3 tuna tournaments. The second is at the beginning of August, the third is August 29th, and I'm due August 18th. He was wondering the other day if I could talk the midwives into inducing me so that he will be able to participate in the 3rd one (I tend to be late).
First of all, not going to happen. Secondly, trying for this baby was his idea! Not too much sympathy there.

I've been doing pretty good except for the normal back and leg aches I experience in pregnancy. I realized that the reason this pregnancy may be easier this time is that I've been taking extra Vitamin B6 and unisom since the beginning. I ran out of B6 a couple weeks ago and started feeling really tired, nauseas and rundown. As soon as I started taking it again, I was fine.
And, I'm totally curious as to what the sex of the baby will be!

And The Fishing Begins.....

Here's the first keeper fish of the season - a Columbia River 47 inch sturgeon! Mark started the day fishing for springer salmon, but gave that up and ended up sturgeon fishing for the last half of the day. They had a blast, and between him and his friend Scott, they caught about 12 fish and one keeper. A busy day! They came back sore, tired and sun/wind burnt, but very proud.

They were taught how to skin, fillet and cook sturgeon the right way (the last time we tried to cook it, it was disgusting!). The fish was really great this time. We had a big fish feed, and we all liked it, even Ava!

Pregnancy Update and Other Random Pictures

Here is my newest picture from today. I'll be 14 weeks tomorrow, and can hardly believe it's gone that fast already. Last week I started feeling like my energy came back and the nausea has subsided. I'm so happy for that!

What a little mama. I love the expression on Journey's face as she rocks her bunny.

Aspen and Mark playing "horsey". Both Aspen and Journey love the game. If you can't see the pictures very well (for some reason they are really small) just click on them to enlarge.

Today Journey took her baby on a walk while Aspen searched for bugs in the barkdust. We are ready for Spring!

Every Thursday night we go to my parent's house for dinner and to hang out. Lately, we have been taking the kids in the hot tub after dinner. You can see how excited these crazy kids are!

Journey 2 years old

Aspen 4 1/2 years old

Peyton 18 months

Friends

Tea party time with Aspen, Sofia and Journey.

Aspen and Sofia having a picnic in the living room.....

...and pretending that they are "married", ha ha!

Happy Birthday Journey (Late!)

Here's the birthday girl in her birthday princess party hat.

Blowing out the candles. She has the facial expression down, now she just needs to add some air! Luckly, Aspen helped her out.

Journey with Grammi. See her black eye? She fell against the corner of the coffee table a couple days prior to the party.

Journey's birthday present from Nana and Papa Wilde, a double seater wagon. Journey wasn't ready to try it out, but Aspen, Peyton and Ava didn't waste any time :)

This is the next morning. The wagon has become sort of a play house.

Journey's party was a lot of fun. She loved seeing her cousins Ava and Peyton. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it! Journey got tons of cute, cute clothes. That girl has more clothes than I do! We also did Journey's dedication since we had most of the family together. It was special, and we are so thankful for our little girl.

Love

My sweet 2 year old. I can hardly believe she's already that old!

Just a few life updates. Journey's 2nd birthday was on Saturday. We were at the beach for the weekend, and of course I forgot my camera. Poor girly was sick so there wasn't much to take pictures of though. We are having a birthday party / dedication for her on Thursday night. So at least she won't be sick for her party!

I am so thankful I decided to keep Aspen home from Preschool this year. Aspen and Journey are really starting to play together and forming a bond that I don't think they would have if he wasn't around so much. It is so much fun to watch. Lately, they have been playing in Aspen's room a lot, listening to Bible stories on CD. Both Aspen and Journey love to listen to them. You will often find Aspen walking around quoting the funniest lines from the CD's. The characters speak in the New King James version of the Bible, so there is a lot of "slaying" the bad guys. In one of the CD's a guy says something about, "get out of my way old man..." My dad was quite confused and maybe a little offended until he found out that it was from the Bible tapes and not something Aspen just came up with!

Today, Aspen and I were having an argument (yes, already!) over me wanting to keep some underware he thought were too small and him wanting to throw them away. I told him that the new baby may be a boy, and we would be saving the underware for when the baby got bigger. Aspen was like, "Mom! We are NOT having a boy! I already know we are having a girl. It's a girl, not a boy!" Hmmm, we'll see in about a month and a half. I've been feeling boy...