Lazy Thursday

We spent the morning inside a quilt tent playing with a flashlight. The more toys and books we brought in, the better.

I promise my son wears pants sometimes... like to church and restaurants.

Swim Baby Swim

Monday night we had a really fun cook out with our church small group. It has been so hot so the pool was SO nice! There are about 7 couples and a lot of babies, so Lane loves when we all get together. He was in the pool for at least 2 hours and it was mostly shaded which was nice. Such a fun night with great friends!

The Boys: Wyatt, Lane, and Knox (Wyatt was borrowing his pink floatie :)

He wanted me to let go and just let him swim!

Checking everything out

I have to steal my kisses these days

I made no-bake cookies for this cook out and they were awesome! I found the recipe on another blog and they were so moist and perfect. The crunchy peanut butter is amazing. You must try these if you love no bakes!

no-bake cookies

Ingredients: 2 Tbsp butter 2 Tbsp cocoa 1/2 c milk 2 c sugar 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp salt 3/4 c peanut butter (use crunchy. Just do it.) 2 c old-fashioned oatmeal Directions: Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Stir in cocoa, milk, and sugar. Stir to melt ingredients together. Bring to a boil that spans the whole surface of the mixture (rather than just the edges). Remove from heat. **allowing the mixure to boil for even a few minutes will completely dry out the cookies and leave you with nothing more than chocolatey granola. Believe me. It's happened to me before*** Stir in vanilla, salt, peanut butter, and oatmeal until well mixed. Stir until mixture has thickened a bit. Scoop heaping spoonfuls onto wax paper and allow to cool. Makes about 2 dozen

Movin on up

Jeffrey officially has one year of residency behind him! He is no longer an intern, but considered an upper level resident. This basically means you have more respect, responsibilities, and a few less nights on call (whoohoo!). We got all dressed up Saturday night for the annual "moving up" dinner. The new interns are introduced, current interns graduate to be upper levels, and the 3rd years graduate for good. It was fun to see everyone and talk with people who are in the same boat as we are. We feel so blessed that he is a part of such a close knit, christian program. Residency is not easy and definitely not as glamorous as TV makes it out to be! I am so thankful he works with friends that pray for and encourage each other along the way. He puts in some seriously long hours at the hospital and then comes home to his job as a husband and father. I am so proud of how hard he has worked and we can definitely see the end in sight! I have loved being married all the way through med school and residency and am glad we even decided to start a family. It is challenging- but isn't that life? I know God will use Jeffrey to bless so many of his patients lives- physically and spiritually- and that makes it all worth while.

The new upper level residents (the blonde doc in the background is delivering my baby!)

Congrats babe!

One Down

Goodbye first trimester! I will miss being able to see my feet, bending over to pick things up, wearing my normal clothes and sleeping on my tummy. I however will not miss feeling like I have taken 10 Benadryl each morning. (Said in high hopes the second trimester brings me some energy!) I love this sweet baby more each day and know what a blessing he/she will be to our lives. Can't wait to know pink or blue!

I want to remember all the details about my pregnancy so I stole this awesome idea from my friend Megan!

Pregnancy Highlights:

Due Date: December 18th, 2011

How far along: 15 Weeks

Size of baby: the size of an apple

Gender: ?

Cravings: Chocolate Almond Shake- extra thick from Braums

McDonald's fries (hot with extra salt)

*These cravings are the same as last time- healthy i know

Sleep: still on my tummy and sleeping great (treasuring every blissful second)

Symptoms: all day fatigue, mild heart burn

Movement: I THOUGHT I might have felt a few little flutters this week.

Best moments: seeing that positive test, telling our family and friends the news, first ultrasounds, and all the joy that comes with a new pregnancy!

Jeffrey has an ultrasound machine in his clinic so I can have one anytime I want! This is so awesome except that the machine is from the stone ages. It is not the best quality, but I'll take what I can get. The other day he and another doc tried to figure out the gender. They determined one view looked like a boy and another shot looked like a girl... too early to tell. The girl doc kept saying, "If it is a boy you will see the turtle, a girl you will see the hamburger." I thought it was hilarious.

7 weeks

little gummy bear

11 weeks

Hello!

Profile

13 weeks

Sucking the thumb

Face on

We eat our...

Popsicles

in Pajamas

on the Porch!

Family Weekend

This past weekend we headed to Tulsa to see my family. It had been too long and we had a GREAT time. We were celebrating Father's Day as well as my sisters 25th birthday. We spent lots of time in the pool and Lane thought he was in heaven. This boy loves the water. We had to have a night swim Friday night in the diaper...

And when the diaper got so big we thought it might explode, we went without...

Saturday we swam some more and I got to lay out for the first time in 2 years. Literally! It is so nice when everyone in the family can pass the baby around.

We ate and ate and ate some more... you have not had ribs until you have had my dads. This picture makes me want to get in my car and drive back right now.

Lane enjoyed eating poolside.

My 16 year old brother got his braces off and looks super handsome! Gotta love those retainers. After my fifth one was dumped in a school trash can I was outta luck. I see adult braces in my future.

We ate amazing Raspberry-Chocolate-Cream Cheese Cake, watched Hannah make a wish...

and Lane got to spend quality time with Papa Ro...

It doesn't get any better than that.

Father's Day

Wheeee!

Preggo

I am going backwards a few months- but this is news worth sharing! It is no secret, but we are expecting our second sweet baby in December!!! I love this pic because I took it right after I told Jeffrey I was pregnant.

We kept the pregnancy a secret for 9 weeks- which was like torture for me!!! (I told so many lies...) We really wanted to surprise everyone at Lane's 1st birthday party since the family would all be together. It was worth the wait! We made a slideshow of pictures from his birth to 1 year and at the end had the two pictures below. There were lots of screams and tears and hugs. It was the best.

We are beyond excited to welcome another precious baby into our family and are amazed that God is entrusting us with another child. After struggling to have Lane we take nothing for granted and are soaking up every bit of parenting, pregnancy, and just life. They will be about 19 months apart! This is going to be my best Christmas present ever. We are looking forward to the baby, but also treasuring these days with just Lane. We won't be a family of three for long!