Easter fun!

The cousins are ready to go HUNT...

LET'S GET GOING...

Grandma's house has lots of fun areas out front to hide eggs.

Ooooo, look what we have!

There is NO way to get these 3 to look at the camera and smile

at the same time....frustrating! Oh well, they are all so dang cute still!

Kael, Ava & Kiera

We spent the last two weekends up in WA, one for Liam's blessing and the next for Easter & my sister coming home from UT for her Spring Break.

Lots of fun with the family, but unfortunatly Ava was really sick the 1st weekend and

I got her sickness and was yucky the 2nd one. But my Mommy took great care of me and let me rest alot!

Tomorrow I'll try to post pics of my preggo belly, cause it's growing! In just 2 1/2 weeks I'll know what we are having.....so excited!

(See post below for cute pics of my new nephew & Ava)

Baby love!

My sister Melissa, newest nephew Liam & Ava
Ava was all over Liam, loving him to death!

Look, he has ears too!

Cute cousins!

Ava's upcoming sibling has no idea what he/or she is in for.....

(On that note: April 26th is the day!!!!)

FAIRY PRINCESS PARTY

My Sis-in-law Shanda put on a Fairy Princess Birthday Party

for my niece (her daughter) Kiera-who turned 3!!!

It was soooo stinking cute...she did their nails, put makeup and glitter all over them,

then they each got their wings and flower headpiece.

All the cute little fairies...

Then they decorated cupcakes and ate them, or parts of them.

The birthday Fairy Kiera!

Too cute, but not sure about the wings!

Thanks Shanda & Pam!

And Happy Birthday again to Kiera.

Diaper Training Camp!

Just a cute shot of Ava after church yesterday.

But here she is...getting ready to be Mommy's new helper when baby arrives!

1st~wipe the baby, "baby went poopy mommy"
2nd~Position diaper under butt just right (she is very good at this)

3rd~Fold it up and attach the tabs securely

4th~Re-dress the baby (which is surprisingly the hardest part for Ava).

And we're done! I think she's practiced this like 20 times on all

4 of her babies, she's a pro now!!!!

She's going to be a GREAT little helper! :)

(And thanks Grandma Frey for the diapers, she just recently realized I had put diapers on 2 of her babies after you bought them for her back in October!)

Current events....and more on swimming adventures!

Portland got lucky last week and got some SUNSHINE,

we were all in vital need of some good Vit D, so off to the Zoo we went!!!

(The elephants are my favorite there, esp little baby)

This would be "chicken little" Ava, afraid to touch the small goats...wuss.

Now here is Ava's new found favorite animal at the Zoo,

the crocodile (or as she calls it, the Alligator).

A couple days later she woke from a nap and started blabbing away

about how much she liked the sleeping Alligator and wanted

to go see it again and on and on....

wonder if she actually was dreaming about him!

We picked up a couple strange kids at the Zoo also...not really... we've babysat

these 2 munchkins a couple times on Saturdays, they're great kids.

We were going to watch them again this Saturday, but their Grandparents

offered instead, guess the boy was quite disappointed. Somehow we are fun to

hang out with! They just love all the toys I think. We all have fun though!
(Ava & Tyler were not up for smiling here, Ansley was all over it though)

Oooohhhh, ahhhhh......fish are fascinating.

Had to take some pics of our new favorite Saturday hangout... the community center pool, it rocks!!! Ava could go down this slide all day long with her Daddy.

And here they come now, woooshhh.....

This one is better than the other center we'd go to, this has a kiddo slide also, which

Ava spent much time going on over and over again.

Just a cute pic of my big Girl all ready for Church in her new Valentine's dress!

(I went out and bought some white leggings for it today, it looks a little scandalous with just tights, just a tad short!)

As for me and Baby #2, I hit the 12 week mark today, so close to being out

of the 1st Trimester. Tiredness has been my biggest issue this time around (some nausea & queasiness-lost my record and puked once so far). But then I had my Thyroid checked, because I have Hypothyroidism and take meds for it, and it's too low. So my Doc said that'll make me alot more fatigued too. I just can't wait to be done with this part and on to the "yeah I'm so happy to be pregnant" part. Though the Sciatic Nerve pain has already started.....oh the joys of it all. Somedays I know I sound like I'm not grateful for this miracle, but believe you me, I am!!! Just hoping September gets here fast!!!! :)

Happy V_Day to my two Loves!

Actually I have 3 Loves right now (ones that live w/ me at least, I love all the rest of you too).

3rd is my little Peanut above, if you are bad at seeing ultrasounds, it's head is to the left and you can slightly make out it's left arm off it's small body! So cool!

(I tried to get this pic to the bottom, but it was being stubborn)

But 1st would be my Man Jeremy, who has withstood 10 years of

abuse from me and still loves me (or so I think!)!!

Love you Honey and thanks for the past 10 years of marriage,

you are definetly my ROCK!

I've been too tired or just lazy to blog about our little trip to Leavenworth,

but here is a pic of us on a Carriage ride through the little town.

I had a terrible cold the whole week before and that weekend,

so it wasn't as "romantic" as it could have been!

Oh well, I got to relax and be away from Ava-not that I don't love her...

And to my 2nd Love, this smiley girl who brings us such JOY & LAUGHTER!

What did we do before you came???? We were bored for sure!

Ava just got a cute A-line haircut today, makes her even cuter!

The side view! I think the cut is a little crooked, but dang girl wouldn't hold still, not

that they should expect that from a 2 year old.

And my silly girl (before haircut), just playing with her glasses.

*Notice the beautiful flowers in the back??? My sweet hubby sent those to me at work last week for our Anniversary!! :) He was hoping they'd last till V-Day so he wouldn't have to buy more, but some flower in there was putting off some slight smell that was making my tummy churn-so they had to go a few days before V-day. But I'm crossing my fingers-I still haven't puked yet!!!! With Ava I started at 9 weeks and maybe only did it like 10 times, but now I'm 10 weeks and just qeasy and TIRED!!! Here's to hoping.

Happy Valentines Day to all of you~LOVE YOU!!!

Life is SOOO unpredictable!!!!!

This is why I don't make New Year's Resolutions,

I break them!!!

If you remember my post about them, my goals were:

1) Get approved to Adopt

2) Lose all my weight from my 20's & get healthy

Here is why they are broken~

1) They don't let people Adopt when they already

have something growing inside them....

2) I'll be GAINING weight this year!!!!!!!!!!!!

I believe in MIRACLES, do you????

Around Sept. 10th, Ava will be a BIG SISTER!

This is truly a miracle, as we've been trying the "old fashioned" way

for 10 years (not to mention all the other ways)....

We feel blessed and beyond words of excitement.

For those that need to know time lines, I'm 9 weeks along.

We had an ultrasound last week to verify that in fact

the 2 home test I took weren't lying to us, though Jeremy

thought I should take about 8 more!!!

Welcome back Nausea & Fatigue, didn't think we'd meet again.....

And thanks to God for this Miracle!!!