Baby Girl

Baby #3 is a a baby girl and let's just say I am thrilled. I really thought it was another boy and was so happy to hear the words "It's a girl." 

 I love having ultrasounds and seeing their body move and see all their little features. It is a reassuring feeling to actually see them growing.

She was very active during the whole ultrasound and took longer to get all the pictures they needed because she was moving so much. In this profile picture, she had her leg extended over her face. She may be a future gymnast :)

This little girl did give us a little scare. On the ultrasound, they found two abnormal things that could indicate some developmental problems. We choose to get a genetic testing done so that we could prepare ourselves if we knew our child would have development problems but the test came back normal and we do have a healthy baby girl! 

Strawberry Picking

Back in January my sister and her family came to visit us. It was the first time I got to meet my cute nice Elsa. We were excited to meet her.

And I think she was excited to meet us.

 

 As I have said in past post, Landon and his two cousins are all born within 6 months of  each other so it is always fun to get them together. My sister bought these matching shirts for them to wear.

History does tend to repeat itself and we always seem to get sick when my sister comes to visit. Last time my sister came to visit, my family all got the flu and then this time Chase and I had strep throat. Unfortunately our plans for fun activities changed because we didn't want to get others sick. We at least able to go to Froberg Farms for Strawberry picking before the sickness began and had a great time.

 

Who would have thought we could get 4 gallon buckets of strawberries in January? They were big and delcious and almost gone before my sister and her family left. I am so glad they could come to visit and hopefully next time, we won't get sick!

Landon's Bike

Remember that time that Daddy broke Landon's bike? Well we finally bought Landon a new bike. Almost everyday Landon talked about how Daddy "stepped on his bike" and it broke and how the stinky garbage truck took it away. Poor kid! I saw this bike on sale at Walmart and decided this kid definitely deserved a new bike. Let's just say he is thrilled.

He is not quite tall enough to reach the pedals but he sure has fun going down our driveway and as he says "going fast"!

Christmas in Texas

This past Christmas was the first time we stayed in Texas. It was definitely different and although we prefer to be with our families, we still enjoyed ourselves. On Christmas Eve, my brother and his family came over for a nice dinner before they were heading out of town. I have never had the opportunity to host a holiday meal or any nice dinner so I decided since this was my first time, that it would be appropriate to use my China that has been sitting in my cabinets for the last 8 years unopened. Every year, we also do a cousin Christmas present exchange, so we let the kids open their cousin gift and they also got their Christmas pajamas.

 Landon got some puzzles

Chase got a remote control car. I know he doesn't look thrilled but this was 

one thing that really wanted.

Right before bed, we put some food out for the reindeer and "red batteries" aka red gummies for Rudolph's  nose and said goodbye to our elf Christopher. I am so glad we did the reindeer food because we kind of forgot to put out cookies and milk for Santa. Luckily Chase wasn't too upset. 

I also tried getting some pictures of the boys in front of the Christmas tree. For your amusement, here are some pictures of our many attempts.

Even though they are not looking, this is my favorite. Laughing and having fun together. 

Christmas morning we enjoyed opening presents, playing with toys, and talking to our family on Skype. In the evening we were able to join some friends for dinner and games. We try to Christmas simple to each boy got a game, a movie, slippers, and a book and then something from Santa.

 

 

 

The boys both got headlamp flashlights which was a big hit. 

Landon wore his sideways like this the whole day.

Chase was thrilled to give me Sour patch candies

My gift from Santa was a food dehydrator.

Craig got a belt sander from Santa.

Our most favorite part of the Christmas was being able to share our exciting news with our family that we were expecting baby #3. We had mailed out Christmas cards and told them they had to wait until Christmas to open them.

 

Some guessed why we were having them wait until Christmas but it was still exciting to share!