Picture update for now

Pictures....finally

      Instead of trying to go back as far as I can and post pictures and updates that I've missed, I'm just going to try my best to get back in to the swing of things. I have quite a few pictures that I'm posting from before Sarah's birthday, her birthday party, and her actual birthday. Yes, our little girl has turned 2. We had about a week of celebrations and still have some of the balloons up from her party. She also continues to go around the house singing happy birthday to you (her version of it). 

      The pregnancy is going well and thankfully I've been feeling a lot better. Lately, I've just been dealing with tiredness, though, and that seems to bring back waves of sickness. Baby moves around a lot more than I remember Sarah doing at this stage and it's hard to believe I'm already 20 weeks. We're looking forward to hopefully finding out tomorrow whether we'll be welcoming a little boy or girl in to our home at the end of March or beginning of April. It's exciting to already be at the stage where we can find out. We'll try and post when we know. 

       I'll leave the update there and hope you enjoy all the pictures. Wish we had more!

We're still here!

Now, excuses, excuses :o). Why have we fallen off the face of the earth for the last two months? I know I'm not usually very good at regular updates, but not usually THIS bad. 

First, as many of you know, we've moved. Even though it's been over a month since we moved, our internet provider has been "off the ball" to say the least. On two different occasions, they were supposed to come out and get it working, but the most we've had it was about two days. We've had to borrow our neighbor's internet so we've been limited as to what we can do. Hopefully in a couple of weeks we'll have our own and you'll have a shipload of pictures that I need to upload. 

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, Sarah is going to be a big sister! Yes, I'm pregnant! I'm 11 weeks today and the baby is due March 28. If you look back on posts from when I was pregnant with Sarah, the news will be just the same or worse. Once again I've had pretty bad morning sickness and it's not been fun. In the beginning I had some really bad headaches which I don't remember having with Sarah. Now it's just feeling sick most of the time. I try and stay in bed as long as possible in the morning and usually feel ok when I first get up, but it seems to gradually get worse as the day progresses. Late afternoons and evenings are rotten. Throwing up at least once a day is pretty common. Providentially, Chris doesn't start his new job at the university until October so he's been around a lot more. He's been amazing as usual and has pretty much taken up anything to do with the kitchen, along with lots of other housework. Sarah is so flexible and even if some days are spent getting up and down from the couch beside Mommy and playing by herself, she doesn't seem to mind. We try and go outside every day, rain or shine, at least for a little fresh air and for her to get her energy out. 

She's becoming such a little girl so quickly before our eyes. I'm sure I already mentioned she's in a big bed now. A couple of times, lately she gets up by herself and comes downstairs before we're even up. Usually Chris and I just find her sitting on the couch with her blankie and dummy(pacifier) with a blanket over her lap. She brings such a smile to our faces. She seems to know to point to my tummy now when we say, "where is baby?" It's pretty cute. Sometimes she gives it kisses too. 

Thanks for all the prayers as I know lots of you already know! Sorry it's taken this long to let everyone know. Believe it or not, the news still hasn't made it under the facebook radar. I'm sure it will soon enough! There's something nice about being able to tell family and close friends first before they hear about it through something like facebook. Love to everybody!

Friend's Wedding, Father's Day, and a Backlog of Photos

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy...

One thing I realized, after uploading these pictures, is that our camera lense desperately needed to be cleaned. I think we have Sarah to thank for that :o). Anyway, sorry about some of the blurry pictures.

As I'm sure you'll see in some of these pictures, Sarah is a little poser for the camera now. It's so cute, although we might not like it as much when she gets older :o).

Enjoying all the boxes hanging around from starting to pack.

I got some more, super cheap frames from the thrift store and painted them

for Sarah's room. I got the Charlie and Lola pictures from a book.

A few fun things we put together for Chris for Father's Day.

Ready to go to our friends' Suzy and Eifion's wedding.

At the reception...

They put together a little party bag for Sarah with stuff to color and some

candy and things. It was so sweet of them, and it kept her busy for awhile.

Another outfit later...

Sarah was running around everywhere (later on at the reception) with this huge balloon. You can imagine her bumping in to everyone as she squeezed through people's legs.

With Suzy.

Jesse is Sarah's favorite of our guinea pigs, and she insists on carrying

her around when she's holding her.

Such a big girl!

Until next time...

We love you all!