Having Fun : )

Here are some of the fun things that have happened around our house the past few weeks.

Here Valerie is having fun dressing Daddy up and dancing with him. I thought it was pretty cute. To bad Caleb's head was too big. His necklace didn't fit him. So he had to ware it as a crown.

Valerie thought that changing one of her dolls diapers would be a great Idea. Of course she chose the doll that is fabric and not plastic. Remind you I was getting her cloths when she so sneakily did this. Here is what I found, one very proud little girl and doll covered in diaper cream.

At the beginning of June Valerie and I went blackberry picking. We had lots of fun, but I think Daddy had more fun juicing the berries. It went from me doing it to him helping me to him reenacting a scene from the Indiana Jones movie "Temple of Doom". P.S If you want to juice any kind of berry and not have seeds in your jelly, use CLEAN old pantyhose.

Last but not least finger painting. Each day I have been trying to do a fun craft or project with Valerie. Yesterday we tried finger painting. Valerie thought finger painting was lots of fun, but she thought that body painting was even better!

Oh I forgot this picture. It's to cute to leave out. This was taken on my phone while we where waiting for Daddy to get in the car. I think this picture speaks volumes about Valerie's personality!

Catching Up Part 1, Lots of Pictures

I have to admit for about the past 8 weeks I have been slacker at blogging amongst many other things. There is just something about week 14 for me. It’s like the morning sickness and fatigue magically disappear and I feel like my normal self. Well I pretty much do. I will admit I am much more uncomfortable and emotional this time around, but now I have my energy back and I feel great! Enough of my droning on and let’s get to what we as a family have been up to the past few months.

The end of April we as a family flew out to Seattle to visit Caleb's family and see our Uncle Conner off on his mission to Jamaica. While we were there we had lots of fun with our Family and had lots of fun adventures. First off we went to the park by Grandma and Grandpas house.

We then went to the Tulip Festival and got to see the acres and acres of pretty tulips.

Another adventure we had while we were there is we went to the Aquarium. Valerie had tons of fun seeing all the fish. The one thing she didn’t like was the awesome touch pool tank they have. No matter how hard Auntie Kali, Mom, Dad, tried Valerie wouldn’t touch a thing.

Once we got back from Seattle we celebrated Valerie’s 2nd birthday! We just had a family celebration, mainly because I had morning sickness and didn’t have the energy to host a party. We still had lots of fun. We let her choose her own decorations and she choose a Curious George theme. We ate pizza for dinner (which is her favorite), had birthday cake, ice cream and opened presents.

Blissful 4 Years

I can’t believe we have been married for 4 years! It feels like those 4 years have passed by in a blink of an eye, but yet it feels like I have always been with and known Caleb. I remember when I first got married thinking I could never love him more than I did at that point of time. I am here to tell you I was wrong. The best part about marriage I have found is it gets better with time and age. I love him more now and will love him even more as time goes on.

Hip Hip Hurray, A Baby Is On Its Way!

Baby 2 has finllay decided to come and make an appearance December 9th! Since I am considered higher risk due to my JRA (juvenile rheumatoid arthritis) and history of miscarriage we were able to get an early ultrasound. So yesterday we as a family were able to see the baby, hear and see the baby's heart beat on the ultrasound. Hurray!!! So far everything is going well except I constantly feel like I'm car sick, tired, have no energy and that smells are about 100x stronger then they should be. Other then that I feel great :) We as a family are doing well, loving life, and are very excited to welcome this new little one into our family this December!