Half Way!

Pregnancy Highlights:

Due Date: December 18th, 2011

How far along: 20 Weeks

Size of baby: the size of a banana

Gender: BOY!

Cravings: Currently, it's chips and salsa, guacamole, queso... any mexican!

Sleep: I can't sleep on my tummy anymore :( and have moved to my side with a pillow wedged under my belly. It is harder to roll over and that wakes me up often, as well as the bathroom. BUT overall, still sleeping pretty well!

Symptoms: I have almost all of my energy back and feel great for the time being! Also, growing very rapidly. (see picture below)

Movement: I feel little flutters and kicks off and on... I think I am so busy with Lane I don't notice everything like I did last time.

Best moments: finding out we are having another little man, telling our family at our reveal party, starting to nest/plan for the baby, and talking about names!

Here I am at 20 weeks.

One year older

I had a wonderful birthday, celebrated with my family. A pan of my dads peanut butter rice crispy treats was my dream birthday cake. Birthdays always mean good food around here! I even got a date with the hubs that included flowers, dinner, a movie, and ice cream. Feeling so grateful for the past year!

Random Weekend Catch up

We had a another great weekend with family. I love summer weekends that consist of swimming and eating! On the other hand I am counting down the days until fall. It is just not right to get in your car and the temp say 114 degrees. Seriously, it is keeping me from going anywhere. Cabin fever in the summer- it is terrible!

My big boy eating his banana the big boy way :(

You mean I can't cut it up into tiny pieces until he is 18?

Lane and Papa Ro after a long swim.

Worn Out

Homemade Deep Dish Pizza- heavenly!

Nana's toys are so much cooler than the ones at home.

My boys

Love my little family.

Early Chocolate Birthday Pie mom made for me... Let the birthday festivities begin!

It's a...

Let me start by saying this will be a long post! It starts yesterday around 1:00 at our ultrasound. The tech came in and measured all parts of the baby. This is such a tense time for me and I am just praying the whole time that everything looks okay. After about 15 minutes she asked if we wanted to know the gender and we said yes. She started looking down there and said fairly quickly, "I think it looks like a girl!" Followed a few seconds later by, "Wait, I am not sure about that, I think I see something there. Let me go get another tech to take a look." Jeffrey and I just looked at each other with total confusion and started laughing. The next tech came in and seemed very sure of her skills. She took a look and said, "No, I think boy. Well, just a minute, I can see how you may have thought girl." I am on a roller coaster at this point. She explained that the legs were basically crossed with the cord in between them. She looked a while longer and said, "Wow! This is a tough one. We rarely have to send people home without an answer, but... you may have to come back." I was so disappointed! I told her we had a party planned and she decided to go get a 3rd tech to help. I went to the bathroom and tried to move around a bit to maybe reposition the baby. The third tech went back and forth, boy, girl, boy, girl... It had been over 30 minutes of looking and I thought we were going to have to come back. FINALLY, the little sweetie decided to show us all.....

It is a BOY!!!!!

Here is our sweet boy at 17 weeks

I also measured a week big (surprise, surprise!)

We are SO thrilled to have another little guy at our house! Jeffrey was smiling ear to ear and so was I. He always wanted a brother so I think he is really thankful Lane will have that. We could NOT be happier and more thankful to God for this baby boy. I see lots of dirt, sports, and bugs in my future! (and I am slightly excited to dress them alike!!!)

Even though the ultrasound was CRAZY- it was fun and definitely entertaining.

Last night we had family over to tell them the news. Before everyone arrived Lane went in his room and got his favorite cowboy hat. He loves it and thinks he is so cool wearing it. He paraded around the house for a while so i got some pics.

His favorite thing to do is pretend like Jeffrey is a horse so they had some fun before the party. He also wants me to do this- I feel so bad saying no, but this pregnant mama's back can't take it.

I decorated with pink and blue and everyone wore the color they thought was right.

I made homemade oreos (YUM!)

and fudge cupcakes with buttercream frosting.

Our family of 3 1/2

My parents surprised us by coming from out of town!! It was the best surprise. They had told me we would have to Skype them in for the reveal- I was SO happy they came!

Team Pink

Team Blue (my family has good intuition!)

My sister in law, Julianne, is due in a few weeks with a little boy, Brooks! We are so excited they will be 4 months apart.

My sis Hannah, Me, and Mom

To reveal the news, we had Lane open a present. The first thing he pulled out was a Big Brother shirt...

Then he pulled out a Little Brother shirt that matches.

So happy to be getting a brother! (or just happy everyone was clapping for him)

It was a great day for our family and we are in awe of God's blessings.

Thank you Lord for TWO beautiful boys.

Pink or Blue?

In about 2 hours I will be in my ultrasound. I can't wait to see my precious baby, and possibly find out if I will be holding a boy or girl in my arms in December. I can't wait!!! This is one of my favorite days of pregnancy. I hope we are able to tell because we are having a little reveal party tonight for the family! Even if we don't, they still have to come and eat all of my homemade desserts. Truly, our prayer is to see a healthy baby today. Thank you Lord for this blessing!

Jeffrey took my first real belly pic yesterday. Here I am at 17 weeks.

I know... I am already big. This is bigger than I was at 21 weeks last time... and Lane was 9'6. Everyone tells me this is normal the second time around, let's hope so! Ha!

Can't wait to share the news...

Busy Boy

Sure mom, I'll let you take my picture.

No,

never mind,

I have places to go,

and I know you are far too tired to catch me.

The 4th

This weekend Jeffrey had 3 days off!! That is so rare and we have been so excited to get out to the lake this summer. His entire family was able to come. We cooked out, swam, watched movies and mostly relaxed. We didn't do fireworks this year because Friday night the neighbors set some off (in our yard) and caught 3 separate areas of the grass on fire. It was VERY scary because everything was dry and the fires got too close to the house for comfort. Maybe next year! I took some very random pics- enjoy!

View from the deck.

Clapping for his pool

Homemade ice cream

He enjoyed eating the ice and rock salt while it was turning!

Wearing Pops hat

my little man

and finally, this is the little wood chuck that lives in the yard that we throw carrots to. He lives under those rocks. Just in case you have never seen one...

I really need to take more pictures of people besides Lane!