It's a...BOY

The silence has been broken, I can no longer hide my protruding belly and the fact that I have a parasite/sweet baby boy inside me depleting all energy and motivation. Conor is very very excited and has managed to tell everyone he knows that he is getting a little brother, which is why we kept it secret for so long. Josie is in her happy oblivion, but she has seen the pictures and calls him Baby Rocco with Kevin's excellent coaching. The first 15 weeks were torture, which is typical for me, but I am finally starting to feel a little better. I just have to remind myself that I will survive. Expected arrival is sometime during the last week in September-depending on c-section scheduling. 1/2 way there! I think the thing I am most nervous about is being outnumbered by kids...yikes. Wish me luck.

Weekend time zappers

Weekends are just too short. We have soccer and yard work, church meetings, birthday parties, cars to fix, shelves to hang, there is always something to organize or clean, and of course fun to have. Here are a few pictures to take a peek into what we have been doing.

Go Stingrays!

Conor and Daddy "fixing" the car

Finally enjoying our fire pit and backyard-
We haven't had a decent backyard
since we left Utah, so we have really been looking forward to this year.
Still a work in progress, but at least it isn't dirt

1st of many

Hard at work

Ta da...finished project

We have been spending a lot of our spare time lately learning about stingrays and creating a diorama of stingray habitat. Conor has worked really really hard and all his hard work paid off. I think it turned out really nice. This was one of those projects that is assigned to a 1st grader, but you know immediately that it will take a lot of parental supervision/time and you wonder where the fine line is that keeps it "his" project. All in all it was fun to spend time working with Conor and break out the hot glue gun(best tool ever!)

SSSSSsnake?

Meet Liz the snake

Josie running away

Proud owners-
Kincaid, Conor and Keagan

This weekend was filled with fun at our house, Conor had a soccer game and then we brought home the Mcmurray twins to play the day away. Having 3 wild 7 year old boys together can be a little noisy but very fun. They mostly stayed outside which is very nice and they chased and harassed this poor snake and bounced on the trampoline for hours. All 3 boys are in the same class at school and Conor is especially fond of Kincaid. They are connected at the hip from what I hear from his teacher. Josie was not happy with the new pet. She was screaming and crying and running for cover. I find it very interesting that no one taught her this reaction...hmm..I guess a boy vs girl trait?

One More Easter Picture

Josie in her Easter dress.

I finally broke down and bought Josie a dress, I scored on my delay though, because it was after Easter and it was 1/2 off. YEA! I think she looks adorable. Not a bad buy.

A Few Easter pictures

The Easter bunny found us! Josie and Conor were excellent egg finders. They had found all the eggs in hardly any time at all. The each got a cute little book and the standard chocolate bunny, and way too much candy. Josie at one point had at least 12 jelly beans in her mouth...no joke, she would open an egg and literally dump the contents into her open mouth. What a mess. We had a great day watching conference and spending time together. We even managed to make some sugar cookies for Conor to take to his school class for his B-day. Everyone pitched in on the frosting and rolling of the dough, Josie maybe pitched in a a little too much help, but if more mess equals more fun then she had a blast. We had a few friends over after conference to eat cake and ice cream and help celebrate birthdays.

Showing off the loot.

Love her happy face, just wish I was a better photographer.

Who can be mad at a face like that?

Birthdays

We had a crazy weekend at our house. It was Conor's birthday on the 3rd and my birthday on the 4th and Easter and Conference all rolled into 2 days. Can you have too much fun??? NO WAY. Conor celebrated his Birthday by going to see the movie How to tame a Dragon and then colored easter eggs, opened a few presents and then was thrilled to be allowed to play his new video game - Big game hunter, to his hearts content. He chose to have taco's for his special dinner and we agreed to share a birthday cake together on my birthday. He even let me choose the kind, as long as I made it. Dad managed to be gone most of the day with a YM hike and then Priesthood, but we celebrated with out him.

Birthday Buddies- Chocolate Heath Angel food cake!!!!
Even if I had to make it myself, it was delish!

Conor the 7 year old!

Happy to finally open presents!