We Are Having ......

...Another Baby!

On June 7th we were super excited to discover that God was growing our family.  This is the first of our pregnancies that I have had symptoms before taking a test, so I very strongly suspected that I might be pregnant.  We are due Feb 9th, the day after Kellen's second birthday.

And the nausea set in.  My first two pregnancies were a dream - felt great and had no nausea (I think I had a few minutes of nausea a few afternoons with Kellen's pregnancy, but that was it.)  This time was much different - nausea all day for weeks.  And I had major food aversions and cravings.  My kiddos enjoyed all sorts of foods they have never had before - chips, lemonade, frozen pizza (yuck, can't believe it sounded good at the time).  A quick detour to Kroger when we were out and about one afternoon ended with the below items.  I have never craved something so strongly in my life as I did these foods.  Can we say salty and sour!  You couldn't pay me to eat those chips now - I swear they must have been created by a pregnant woman :-)  And I don't even like pickles!

Around week 13 I started to feel like myself again.  So it was time to get up off the couch, clean my house which had gone into utter disarray, and start fixing healthy dinners for my family again.  I do need to add here what a wonderful husband I have - he ate a lot of PB and J for dinner those first few weeks, and didn't complain once!  

16 weeks

 I think Jeff's finger got in this picture, but I love how J is mimicking my pose and the smile on his face!  Jonathan is completely convinced that he has a little baby in his tummy too.  He talks about it a lot :-)  One afternoon he lifted up my shirt to look underneath and announced, "Nope, no baby!"  

This is a completely unflattering pose/outfit on me, but I love that both J and K were holding their tummies too!

And we found out this week that this little one is a......

GIRL!

We are having a really hard time agreeing on a girl name, so hopefully she will have a name before she arrives!  I have a name I really love, so we will see if Jeff comes around and decides to like it too ;-)

One evening last week both kiddos were running fairly high temperatures.  So we snuggled on the couch and watched movies.  I don't like seeing my kids feeling poorly, but I sure do enjoy the snuggles!

Moo!

 Chick-Fil-A had a day recently where you received a free meal if you came in dressed as a cow.  So we dressed up and really enjoyed a free dinner out as a family.  

Our little cows :-)

Mooo!

Cute little cow tail

Sweet little calf!

Moo moo!  EAT MOR CHIKIN!

Thank you Chick-Fil-A!

Gramma and Grampa

In May Gramma Karen and Grampa John came to visit us from Colorado!

Daddy grilled some yummy dinner one evening!

Outside with Daddy and Grampa watching the grill.

K-bug

Jonathan must have had something interesting.

Granma and Daddy!

We enjoyed a trip to the zoo.

And saw lots of animals!

Kellen had fun too!

Penguin Jonathan :-)

A big alligator!

Jonathan and Gramma.

Such a pretty animal!

Kellen and Gramma!

Snack time

  

Post snack time!

A bear - Grrrrrr!

These are my favorites!  Capybaras - they are the world's largest rodent.  Aren't they cute though?!?!

This guy about scared me to death!  He was walking on the path under the railing, and right when he was underneath me he turned toward the railing, beating his chest and yelling.  I jumped wayyyyyy back!

Thank you for coming to visit us Gramma and Grampa Wedding!  We love you!

Lots of Pictures!

Wow, I can't believe it's been five months since I have blogged!  So here you have a long photo catch up from the past few months of our lives.  There are so many pictures I am not even going to try to put them in chronological order ...

I just love watching his sweet little face as he is peacefully sleeping!

And here are some not so peaceful faces - are my kids the only ones that fall  apart and hang on my legs screaming while I am trying to get dinner on the table?  So I decided they could scream in the living room one day, and scream they did!

I walked into the kitchen one day and found Jonathan laying on the counter, peacefully coloring.

I couldn't resist snapping this photo one Sunday afternoon when I caught him in my shoes :-)

Kellen was excited to receive a birthday box from grandparents!  She loves her Eyore!

A friend made this growth chart for us and I love it!  We mark the kids heights on it every few months, and then if we ever move we can easily take it with us!

Vroom!

Fun with Daddy!

We received a box of hand me downs from friends, and this was Jonathan's favorite outfit - Thomas the  Train undies and a red hat.

J got to sit in a helicopter at a local Easter egg hunt!

Jeff built us a farmhouse kitchen table.  I love it!  It still needs some sanding and finishing, but we are using it in the meantime with a plastic tablecloth over it.  He has also made a bench for one long side, and has plans to make another bench in the future.

I love this picture!  Jonathan's hair cracks me up!

Kellen finally cut two teeth at 14 months old!  

The extra tall, child proof gate was no challenge for our little guy :-(

Cool AC on a HOT day!

Jonathan and his friend Lynden checking out the turtle that wandered into our yard.

I love this breakfast!  Coffee and homemade whole wheat pancakes with homemade blueberry syrup - mmmmmm mmmmmm!

My husband knows me well.  I would much rather have a candy bouquet for Mother's Day than flowers :-)

In May we traveled to TN for a family reunion.  From there my sister-in-law and I continued on to KY with the kiddos to spend two weeks with my parents.  As you can see, the DVD player came in very handy while traveling!

It has been so hot here this summer - we don't play outside much unless it's in the water.

Jonathan was very tired and had taken a very long nap one afternoon.  I decided that it was time to wake him up, so I opened the door, turned on the light, turned off the noise machine, and he was still sleeping soundly.  Kellen decided to help me and put this toy on his face - he didn't move a muscle, LOL!  

Smiley girl!

Fun in the water and sun!

I think he was a little too big for the baby swing.  But boy does this little guy love him some water!  He is fearless and has even gone down some big people water slides!

Carousel ride with Daddy!

Jeff built this beautiful end table for the living room.  I love how it turned out!

Our little thumb sucker!

We have been looking for a mantle the last two years, but have been unable to find one we like.  Everything was fancier than what we were wanting.  So my awesome husband made us one!  And I really like how it turned out!

Kellen's hair can't seem to decide if it's going to be curly or straight.  But this day it was definitely curly!

One evening I decided put the kids outside in the wading pool after dinner, thinking they would play in the clean water and wouldn't need a bath before bed.  Jonathan didn't last long in the pool, but loved the dirt!  We definitely had baths before bed!

We loved having our cousins come for a visit!

This little girl has become.....

quite a ham!

I think her big brother has been giving her lessons on how to be silly :-)

We are so thankful God placed these two little ones in our family!

Bed heads, lol!  I think this is when we decided Jonathan needed a buzz cut for the summer.

This is what we call a redneck kiddie pool!  After playing in the tub for a few days early in the summer, we decided a real kiddie pool would be a good investment.

That's all for now!  I have a few more posts I'm hoping to put on here soon.