On the Go!

We were really busy this week! On Tuesday we went to the pool with our friends Stephanie and Emily. They belong to Indian Hills swim club. Jalen loves being in the pool. He was a little bummed because he couldn't pass the swim test to go off the diving board, but he got over it pretty quick. Here they are together. Nora would not let you let her go unless she could touch. So needless to say we spent most of our time in the 1.5 foot section of the club. The water was a little chilly, but not too bad once you got used to it. Summer is back!

On Wednesday we went to the World Bird Sanctuary. We went with a friend that I work with, Kathy and her two kids. Her son is the same age as Jalen so it was nice for him to hang out with another boy his age. It was a pretty cool place. We saw all kinds of birds! Nora liked looking at them all as well. They had owls, eagles, vultures, chickens, snakes, and a random bunny. We spent a little while walking around and looking at  all the birds. Then we went to McDonalds for lunch and they had a playland and I think we were there for almost an hour! We had a great time with the Wagoner's!

The Bull

So last night after we went to a wedding we met up with my sister for her birthday. She was celebrating at the Twisted Bull, a somewhat country bar with a mechanical bull. So needless to say quite a few of them took advantage of riding the bull. I laughed my head off because Peter and Zach rode the bull. Here are some pics of the bull riding!

Kristina

having fun!

Zach's turn

WHOA!

There he goes!

Ashtons next

He loves it!

Oh goodness!

Not too bad!

Is he a cowboy?!

Summer Fun

On Tuesdays and Wednesdays I have Jalen with me. We have been trying to do fun things on those days. We went to Grant's Farm and Suson Park so far and have had fun playing with friends. This week we are going to the pool with another friend and the Wild Bird Sanctuary with another. Here are some pics of what we have done thus far!!!

And its a....

GIRL!!!  For those of you who do not know we are having another little girl. We had a reveal party last Sunday and had close friends and family over to help celebrate.  Everyone was told to wear either pink or blue for their guess. We had quite a split house! A few of our friends were in yellow too as to not 'reveal' what their guess was. It was fun and we had Nora reveal what the baby was. She opened a gift bag with a box and in the box was a onesie and on that was a picture of Princess Fiona from Shrek. My brother in law, Zach, has been saying from the beginning that it was a little girl and said we should name her Fiona. Since that point Nora has been calling the baby Fiona and we have been calling the baby Maverick, until we found out! Nora continues to call the baby Fiona despite the fact that this is NOT what we will be naming her!

Here I am at almost 22 weeks! I found this dress yesterday and just love it. I wouldn't have worn anything like this with Nora, but feel like working out this time around is soooo helping me!!! I am still feeling pretty good. My hormones are just a lot more out of control than they were with Nora and we are learning to deal with it. It will all be done before we know it! We have started tossing names around and it is going to be way more of a challenge than I thought. We are also not sharing the name we pick until she comes. I know, I know a lot of people don't get that, but I like surprises and want something to be a surprise!

I could not resist putting this picture up! She just loves Staley so much!!!!  Her dog loves her too, but sometimes or most of the times wants nothing to do with her. He does put up with a lot. I had my camera out and asked if I could take her picture and she said take one of my dog! She looks so much like Peter in this picture. It really makes me wonder what this next one is going to look like!!!!

What's Up

So much has been happening lately and it is hard to keep up!

Since the wedding we have been busy bees. The basement is shaping up! Over the weekend Peter primed and painted the entire, yes ENTIRE basement! Very different colors from what it was before and I am looking forward to the finished product. We are hoping our contractor can start working on putting in the floors this week, which would be awesome! We are doing pergo throughout.

I was busy as well this weekend. I had five photo shoots and in between the photo shoots I managed to weed whack the hill, clean the upstairs do all the laundry and start to tarp the hill. My goal for this summer is to have the weeds on the hill gone and it all tarped so that next summer we can lay rock or mulch.

Nora was so sweet this weekend and played so well while mom and dad worked. We are so blessed and I really hope that this next one is as good as her. Peter and I did manage to sneak in dinner and a movie on Sunday evening, which was really nice. I don't even remember the last time just the two of us did something alone. I really do miss that. I am hoping we can do that a little more this summer before the baby comes. There are some really good movies that we want to see ;)

I had a doctor's appointment this past Thursday and things are looking really good. We had our big ultrasound and I bet you are dying to know! Well, sorry, not in this post...you will have to wait until June 12th to find out if Maverick is a boy or a girl. We have been calling the baby Maverick because for some strange reason Peter likes this name and wants to name a child with that name. So it has become a joke and the name has kind of stuck for in-utero. Maverick is measuring great and weighs aprox. 8 oz! This baby was very active during the ultrasound and so it was hard to get some really good shots, but we did manage to get the 'money' shot. We also got to see this baby's mouth move, which was pretty neat.

I am officially 19 weeks and this picture was taken this morning after my workout. I have been lucky enough to have kept up with my running and step class. I am working out 4 times a week right now and hope to continue that as long as I can. It is getting harder to run, well harder because my heart rate is getting harder to stay down. If I didn't have to pay so close attention to that I would be fine. I have a 5k this weekend and I am thinking this will be my last race. I hate running slow and it will be hard to find someone to run with me that slow. I am thankful to my friend Cyndi who is running with me this weekend. I just really want to keep exercising in hopes it will help me keep some of the weight off and help me post-pardem.

This is my last week of school!!!  YIPEE! I am so excited and ready for summer break. Nora and I are headed to Chicago on Saturday to visit Naomi! I cannot wait to hold that little girl.  We plan on being there for 4-5 days. Naomi was born on May 21st, yes my sister got married and my niece was born. She weighed in at 6 lbs even and was 19 inches long. She has a head of dark hair. I will be posting some pics of her next week.

Well I guess that is all for now! A really long post, which is not typically my style, but there is a lot going on!

The Royal Wedding

Well, I cannot believe the wedding has come and gone! It ended up being a beautiful day and we had soooo much fun! Nora did a great job and looked so stinking cute. The ceremony was good, the pics were great and the reception was AWESOME! We are all recovering and resting.  Here are some pics from the day!!

rehearsal dinner

grooms cake

grandma and nora

handsome jalen

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17 Weeks!

Well here we are 17 weeks into pregnancy number two! You know that I wasn't going to go too long without posting pictures. I did this for Nora and of course am doing it again for this little peanut. I cannot believe it has been 17 weeks already. This pregnancy has for sure been different that my first one. I was very nauseated for the first 13 weeks and nothing seemed to help that. I have really bad acne too, which totally stinks, but a part of being pregnant. I have had cravings this time around...did not have cravings with Nora. What have I been craving, for a few weeks at the beginning I could not get enough orange sherbet, I don't eat sherbet so that was weird for me. I have been craving salty and sweet together which is odd for me and most recently I cannot get enough rootbeer! Normally I would rather not drink root beer at all and now I want it all the time!

We have had a few dr. appt's and they have all gone well. Our first ultrasound was fun and Nora got to be a part of it. We are very excited that on May 26th we will be finding out, as long as this little peanut is cooperating, what the gender is. Please don't ask, we are not "revealing" the gender until June 12th! I will say that I think it is a boy this time around and my gut has been right with the last 8 out of 10 pregnancies of people I know. We will just have to wait and see. 

Everyone has been asking if Nora is excited or not. We talk about the baby, but she hasn't said too much about it until last night. It was my turn to put her to bed (yes we take turns and I could do a whole post about this little issue) and we were sitting in the glider and she got up on my lap and I started to read. A few minutes later she said "mom i am sitting on the baby". I looked at her and she smiled and put her hand behind her back and left them on my stomach for the rest of the time we read together. It just made my heart melt! I know we will have some jealousy issues in the beginning, but this is the making of a great big sister!