20 weeks

Not much new going on.

Feeling good and the baby is doing great. Getting through this hot summer by being in the pool a lot. Ethan is doing a summer school program for a few hours in the morning for a couple of weeks at a time. Kind of boring around here. It's so Hot outside we are inside most of the time. Ugh!

More baby pics

We had another ultrasound and regular Dr. appointment the day we came home from Munds Park. The baby is growing right on track and everything looks perfect! We are so thankful to be having a healthy baby boy. When we had our first ultrasound with Ethan, they found that one of his ureters was narrow. Long story but 3 surgery's later, Ethan is fine and has no issues due to that anymore. We had told Ethan's story to this OBGYN (since she is different than the one I had with Ethan) and the checked a few times that his organs looked normal. What a relief!

4th of July in Flag

During the 4th of July weekend we went up to the cabin in Munds Park. We were getting out of the Phx heat for 4 or 5 days. It was nice to be with Nick's family and relax.

My belly has really popped out now. I think it happened a few weeks ago. As I was outside on the hammock, the baby really started to move around. This was the first time he has been this active for me to feel a lot going on. I was sitting out there all by myself just giggling. I am excited to feel more.

How we told the Grandparents

I decided that since this was the last baby we would be having, I wanted to tell the Grandparents in a special way what we were having. So Ethan and I decided to surprise my mom at work one afternoon. We hopped in the car and went to a flower store. I had picked out flowers and had the florist make a bouquet for us to bring my mom. I put in the bouquet a pick that said "BOY" on it and stuck it in the flower arrangement. We went down to her office and I was hoping I would see her car in the parking lot. It was, so we carefully went into the front office. As we were approaching the door, I could hear her walking in the courtyard. So we rushed in the door so she wouldn't see us. The ladies up front asked if they could help me and I just told them I was here to surprise Anna, not to call her, I knew

where she was. So we headed down the hall and I let Ethan go ahead so she would see him first. She was pretty surprised to see us there and was loving up on Ethan. I gave her the bouquet and told her we were having another boy. She said she was the one supposed to be giving me flowers, not me giving her flowers! That's OK, it was a nice surprise and I wanted to do something special. She was Happy!

Now to tell Nick's parents. Well you can't go wrong with Chocolate in this family so I decided to bake a cake. A decedent, 2 layer, chocolate cake. In the middle I was going to put a blue layer of filling. That way when they cut into the cake they would know what we were having. When we got there I did a toll for who thought it was a girl and who thought it was a boy. It was I think 3 girl, 1 boy. Ha, ha, makes me laugh. Nick's mom got to cut into the cake and to everyone's surprise, it was blue! They are excited and we ate some pretty yummy cake!

We know what we are having!

Yeay!!! We are so excited to be having another Boy!

We went to the Dr.'s appointment not knowing if she would do an ultrasound this early to determine the gender. It was just my regular visit but I had Nick and Ethan with me just in case she could do it. The Dr. saw us walking down the hall to the room and just said, "You want to see if we can see what it is?" Well, ya! So sure enough he was giving us a good shot, nice and early! We are not decided on any names yet but we have decided that when we do pick one, we will announce it when he is born. We are glad that Ethan will have a little brother to grow up with. He is glad it's a boy as well :o)

11 weeks

Still feeling yucky. I have no drive to do anything. I'm tired all day. When I wake up, I will have a bowl of cereal and then feel like falling right back to sleep. I'm super lazy and don't want to do anything. No dishes, no laundry, no make up, nothing. If it weren't for me taking Ethan to school two days a week, I probably would not leave the house. It's horrible. I hate feeling this way and I hope it does not last long.

This is the first good picture of our little peanut. It's growing strong and almost a week ahead! She said the fetus is measuring at 12 weeks!

We celebrated Mother's Day this past weekend. Nick, Ethan and I took my mom to brunch at The Hyatt Gainey. It was one of the best spreads that I have seen and had. We typically go to the Desert Ridge Marriott but the past few years it's gotten more expensive and has gone down hill as far as food goes. The Gainey had a cute kids section and the tastiest lobster ravioli's I have ever had. After brunch we went to Nick's parents house for dinner with the family. They had a tasty pork loin with all the fixin's.

What a Happy Mother's Day it was!

10 weeks

10 weeks and feeling yucky. I have been starting to have "morning" sickness all day long. Not that I'm puking but have that feeling pretty much all day. Nothing sounds good to eat, have no appetite but when something pops into my head, then I have to have that. I have driven 25 minutes one way to pick up pizza and then back during rush hour at 5 pm. Close to an hour round trip when all was said and done. But it sounded good and I had to have it! It was worth it too!

Second pregnancy and I feel like I'm getting bigger, quicker this time. Not that this lovely picture shows anything more than a tiny bump but I feel like my clothes are a bit tighter. It's that awful "in-between" period where you just look like all those doughnuts are showing in the mid.

On another note, yesterday May 1, 2010, Nick and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary! We went to Ruth's Chris for dinner. It's one of our favorite places to go for a special occasion. I always get the stuffed chicken and this time I added a lobster tail. Oh my was it delicious with the melted butter to dip it in! I probably gained 5 pounds just from dinner :o) I love celebrating our anniversary. In a world where the divorce rate is something crazy like 60%, I truly enjoy announcing another year that we are together.

Love and be Loved!