Baby Update

Hey Friends and Family,

Just wanted to fill you in on how the baby is doing. I am finally about 18 weeks along (or starting my 5th month of pregnancy). I am feeling better than the first part, but not completely back to normal. I still need daily naps. We had an ultrasound yesterday and enjoyed watching the little baby for about 45 minutes. The heart beat was great. All the measurements were within normal limits. The baby is weighing about 7 ounces right now. I am feeling the baby move so much more this week than before. It's always reasuring feeling the movements. I have enclosed a picture we got from the ultrasound. It's a profile picture of the face and the body. Hope you like it!

Oh, and it's a girl!

Maternity Bins

Due to having a lot of sisters. . . most being older than me, I have 3 HUGE bins full of maternity clothes that we pass around. I am the only one in the family procreating at this time, but my Lil' sister may decide to start a family in the next year or two. We decided to go through the maternity clothes together and see what is still in style, not stained etc. We had a lot of fun.

Happy Birthday Uncle T

Aunt Nancy made 24 hr cake (a birthday tradition) and we celebrated Uncle Terryl's birthday while they visited us.

The hunt for the Christmas Tree

My parents came up along with Aunt Nancy and Uncle Terryl to cut down a Christmas tree. We did it on my families traditional day, the first Sat of December. The weather was AMAZING, especially for western Oregon. I have gotten used to kneeling in the mud and rain to cut down the tree. We all found something we liked.

Grant and I sawing down the tree. Scottie is watching on the side letting us know how we're doing. Luckily the trunk was pretty small.

Uncle T, Scottie and Grant. Cool dudes after being MANLY chopping down their Christmas Trees.

Grant helping Grandma try to straighten the tree.

Grant had a Great time decorating the tree. We got the stuff out right away to decorate it.

The world through Grant's Eyes

Grant wanted to borrow the camera and take pictures. Since I could erase them I let him go for it. It was really interesting what things he felt were important to take pictures of. I have about 20 random shots of the table he set, scotttie, the fridge, some pictures he colored etc. I thought he did a good job on this picture of Scottie and I.

Of course his car is one of the pictures he feels is VERY important. Along with is toes.

Cashing in Life Insurance

Every year Jeff jumps on the roof with a smile on his face to hang up Christmas lights. Or atleast I wish every year he would. I usually have to negotiate and bribe that I'll make cookies just to get him up there. It NEVER fails that out of his mouth comes "You just want me to climb on the roof so you can cash in on my life insurance if I fall off."

I had painted most of the trim on our house in August. I had one last piece in the front to do, but found out I was pregnant and my balance seemed to have left me. Jeff painted the last part after he hung up the lights.

Thanksgiving time

We drove up to Jeff's families house the night before Thanksgiving. The traffic was SO bad I considered stopping at my girlfiends house in Albany until the traffic got better. We had a great Thanksgiving day with WONDERFUL food as usual, and the kids enjoyed playing with cousins. We drove back home on Thanksgiving day.

It's never a gathering at Jeff's families house unless there is a game of peanuckle going on.

In the garage at Jeff's parents house there is a "harry potter" door. The kids had a BALL daring eachother to go in there.

I wanted to document that my Father-in-law does do dishes. Even if it is only 1 x a year. haha.

The boys cousins are in Karate. Jeff convinced them to show him some of their moves and he would show them his. Jeff has never taken Karate in his life, and I believe pulled a muscle. He is about to try and get his leg up in the air in this shot. It was really funny. Scottie was on his way to help him.