Summer Anyone?

I don't know about you, but we're ready for summer here at our house!!
Also a funny thing that Cora did the other night...Kayley and Cora went visiting teaching with me during the day and one of the sisters I visit taught gave them a brownie and a cookie. Kayley's not a big dessert person, but Cora is. So Cora ate her immediately and all day was asking Kayley to eat hers, but Kayley was just waiting to eat hers later. Finally at night Cora asked again and Kayley finally told her (with some coaxing from me) that Cora could have one bite. So, while Kayley wasn't looking Cora's one bite consisted of her trying to shove the whole thing in her mouth. She got in trouble and Kayley of course then wanted all of her brownie. But that little Cora is really sneaky...thanks to Nick that is!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had a fun Valentine's Day/Weekend. On Saturday we took the girls to the Events Center to go Ice Skating. This ironically was mine and Nick's first time ice skating together ever. Apparently that was one date he never really liked to go on with girls and we just never went when we were dating or since we've been married. I think it's cause he just doesn't want to admit that I'm WAY better than him!! So, it took Kayley a while to be ok with ice skating. She mostly just wanted to stay in the box and rest. But towards the end she did really like to skate, we just had to be holding her hands tightly the whole time!
Cora on the other hand seemed to love it! Nick actually got her to try and skate a bit by herself without us holding her hands or coat or anything. She actually did pretty good skating by herself too...we were impressed. She wouldn't let me let go of her hands at all though...must be a Dad thing. But boy was my back tired after skating with her...not only did I have to bend over the whole time with her being so short, but if he skates got mixed up or crooked or anything, she would just pick up both of her feet letting me carry her the rest of the way!

Then later that night....ok don't laugh, but let me just start with the fact that you all know that Nick and I are cheap. So for dinner we had found some Captain D's coupons and I just LOVE their jalepeno cheddar bites, so we decided to do dinner there. We get there and waited at the counter for at least 15-20 minutes waiting for someone to come and take our order. Nick even got on their microphone that they use to call out the order to the back and said that we were up there...still no one. We could hear them in the back talking, but no one was coming up. We wanted to wait and let them know they lost our business because of their bad customer service. So as we were waiting we went ahead and called Texas Roadhouse to do call ahead seating. They finally came out and asked us what we wanted as if we had just walked in. We told them how long we had been waiting and they apologized....there were 3 workers!! Apparently one was training two of them and she told the trainees that this was why you never left the registered unoccupied. They again asked us what we wanted and we told them we weren't giving them our business b/c of their bad customer service. We even told them we got on the microphone to let them hear us and no one came! Needless to say, it felt good to walk out, but I was really sad I didn't get my jalepeno cheddar bites. Nick said I should just order through the window and then I could eat them on my way to Texas Roadhouse, but I didn't want them to have the satisfaction of getting our business. Anyway, so we went to McD's next door to pick up our movie from Redbox and headed to Texas Roadhouse. We received GREAT service there!! And yes, I know you're wondering...we also had a coupon for there too and they didn't even take our coupon, so we get to go and use it again...with the great service we got, we may just go there next week! :) Then we headed home and watched Love Happens...such a great movie! It was pretty predictable, but I was just so relieved to finally watch a movie where you're not having to screen the scenes...there were absolutely NO inappropriate scenes! A little bit of language, but nothing like most other PG-13....for instance, no F word! I hate how it seems like they feel like they have to put in the F word only b/c it's a PG-13. Anyway, I highly recommend this movie to anyone it was a really good movie. Nick even dreaded watching it, but actually enjoyed it!

Then Sunday on Valentine's Day we exchanged our Valentine's Day gifts. We got Nick some candy and made him Cashew Chicken for dinner (without him helping me at all!)...it's a big meal to make and clean up for those that don't know it! He got me some perfume that I've been wanting for a long time, but wasn't wanting to spend the money on it. Then he got the girls each a small gift. He got Kayley a little bowling set...she loves to play it on the floor, table, chair, everywhere! He got Cora a small basketball goal...that is all she talks about since our new McDonald's has a little basketball court. I am very excited to say that I think she may be our sports child! Overall it was a great Valentine's Day and we hope everyone else had a great day/weekend as well!

Ta Da...

Well...I've hit 18 1/2 weeks already! It seems like forever long, but yet so fast that we're already at this point! Anyway, I'm for the most part feeling pretty good, however I've continued to have headaches everyday still. Thank goodness for Excedrin Tension Headache!

We had our ultrasound appointment today. Everything looked good and healthy, which we are grateful for. I had originally wanted to make this one a surprise, but this last week I've been worried that if I kept it a surprise and we had the baby and it happened to be a girl, that at the hospital I would be upset that it was a girl and feel guilty as a mother to be upset about my baby girl. So I asked the ultrasound tech to put the answer in an envelope so I could have the opportunity to find out if I felt I needed to. Well, Nick thought it would last until the end of the night and I have to say he was wrong as it only lasted for about 4 hours until I gave in. When in the ultrasound room, Kayley said it was a boy because the baby didn't have any hair. Well.....

She was right...but not because of the no hair thing, but luckily that is what she still thinks for now!! :) We are excited and to be honest a bit relieved, however let the record show that we both would have been ok with a girl, it may just have taken me a bit longer to be ok with the idea of it. Now I have to get over the fact that we are actually having a boy, which means a total change of scenery for us! Oh well, we are excited either way!

Pictures of our boy

Well, with all the excitement of finding out it was a boy the other day, I forgot to post pictures of his actual ultrasound. There are not any "boy" pictures as obviously the ultrasound tech just put the answer in an envelope so the pictures she gave us wouldn't give us any clue about the gender...which, I think makes them a bit more lop-sided than normal baby ultrasound pics, but anyway, here they are.

Typical front profile here on the left and then the right is a side profile with an emphasis on his baby belly!

This group is my favorite group, the one on the left looks kind of funny cause he was just caught at a bad angle and then the one on the right looks like he's scratching his head trying to figure out what we are doing to him.

Then here are some more side profile pics on the left and a pic of his backside on the right, which I don't ever remember having of the girls...I guess of the spine. Also, I didn't get a pic of it, but the tech was able to show us a picture of one of his ears, it was funny cause it already for sure had Nick's shape of ear. Funny that at such a small age and being so small...he was only 10 ounces...he's already just like his Daddy! :) We are so excited to have a boy, but I'm still in a bit of shock that we're having a boy! Now I have to get boy toys like trucks and things for him otherwise this kid will have a complex playing with all our princess stuff in this house! :)

Lately...

Well, it's once again been a while since I've posted something...I just need to realize that once a month is a great accomplishment, especially while I'm pregnant. Anyway, as most January's have been for us, this month has been pretty uneventful, but it's been nice that way and relaxing! So here are just some pictures of the girls, since that it what this blog is mainly focused on anyway.

These two pictures are of the girls playing so well together. They have their moments as most siblings do, but for the most part they play very well together. The one on the left is of them playing "Prince and Bride" as they call it. They alternate who plays the Bride...it's pretty cute! Then the one on the left is of Kayley reading to Cora, which happens often and Cora has this new small addiction....sucking on a pair of eyes from Mr. Potato Head as a binkie. She has never used a binkie and at first it was cute, but then she started needing it to sleep, etc and so I had to hide it! But also take note of her sweater. It has a big pink heart on it. She calls this her Grandma Edna shirt. Back when my Grandmother passed away, the girls asked how she died and I told them she died of a heart attack...well they didn't know what that meant so I told them it was when your heart stops working correctly. So now when she wears this sweater she talks about Grandma Edna dying because her heart stopped working. Although it's a bit disturbing, it's really cute.

About a week ago we watched Katrina and Olivia for the day on a Saturday. Bass Pro was having a Boat Show day and they were doing a free boat making for kids and refreshments. So we took the girls to go make a boat. They loved it because they got to paint their own boats. Here's a picture of them hard at work on each of their boats!

We also watched Katrina earlier today and while I was doing the dishes, they were all three playing quietly in the other room, so I didn't disturb them as most of the time if one of them (namely Katrina and Cora) ran into the other one for whatever reason, the other one would come to me and say, "she hit me!" This occurred probably about 50 times that day! So needless to say, when they were playing quietly I did not disturb them! So, they then came in showing me their artwork! Apparently the girls had a lip gloss necklace that I had forgotten they had (I usually don't do real/fake makeup so it doesn't end up all over my house!) Luckily Kayley told me she didn't like wearing lip gloss, so it was the two misfits below...but it was funny! And actually after I washed it all off, I couldn't get quite all of it off and I have to say that the purple color actually looked pretty good on Cora...I think that might be her color when she is old enough to wear makeup!