And Baby Is A....

GIRL!!!!

We were pretty excited by this news - though I will admit that I was really thinking I was carrying a boy and I was okay with that because I know boys - I have the whole truck, monster, dirt, craziness thing down.  Yes, I know girls can be this way too - but my experience has been girls are typically calmer than boys.  I'm starting to think that wouldn't be a bad thing!! :)

We found out last Wednesday in our 20 week ultrasound... and it was great.  We love seeing baby!!!  She was super hyper and wouldn't sit still for the tech (uh oh - maybe I should rethink that "calmer" comment??).  About half way through the appointment, she finally started to cooperate (if you can call it that), yawned and went to sleep.  That was great in terms of the tech being able to measure her, but she fell asleep with her hand hiding the goods.  We finally got her to move it enough to tell - but she wasn't happy with us (hi Mom's bladder - I'll punch you for the next hour). 

This weekend was also Jarrett's 3rd birthday (AHH - where does the time go???), so Andy's parents, sister and our neice came to town.  It was so much fun seeing everyone and Jarrett LOVED having Maggie here - I love how great the two of them get along!! 

Friday night, we wanted to announce what we were having - so we invited my mom over and let the moms' cut a cake that showed the sex... I loved it (and got to eat my ice cream cake, so win-win!!) - here was our wonderful cake courtesy of Baskin-Robbins.

The next day was crazy - we had to get ready for Jarrett's birthday party.  We have several of his good friends show up at a great place called JJ Jump in Clackamas.  If you need a good place to wear out a group of kids - this would be it.  Bounce houses galore... and the kids (and some dads) ran around like maniacs!!  It was great!  When done, we got to head up stairs to a party room where pizza, cake and ice cream were served.  The absolute best part???  Being able to leave and go home to a quite, clean house!! :)

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY JARRETT!!!

Family was gone by Monday and Jarrett and I stayed home to hang out and catch up on errands I normally do on the weekends.  We had a great time and loved seeing family - it doesn't happen enough!!  Now we're back in to the swing of things... trying to deal with the super wet Pacific Northwest weather and prep for a 5K walk next week... more about that later.

Hope you all have a great week!!

Let the Madness Begin!!

MARCH MADNESS!!!!!

 It's that time of year again... only I'm not talking sports.  March is typically an insanely busy month for my family.

For example, it's birthday madness in the first couple of weeks - starting with me nephew on the 4th, one brother-in-law on the 9th, my son on the 10th and another brother-in-law on the 17th.  That doesn't even begin to cover cousins and friends.  But I love it - it means lots of time to celebrate with family and friends.

This is a special birthday for Jarrett... not because he's turning 3 (though he is excited about that)... but because his Aunt Jessie and Cousin Maggie are coming up from LA to help celebrate.  He is so excited to see them - in fact, he hasn't stopped talking about Cousin Maggie and how much fun they are going to have.  Gramma M and Gramps are coming up too - so he's pretty excited to see them.  We all wish we were going to have more time to see everyone, but it's a quick trip this time.  

We have his birthday party set for next weekend... at a wonderful place called JJ Jump.  It's literally a warehouse full of bounce houses.  Being that I will be 20 weeks pregnant and have a house full of family - I really didn't want to host a party at my house (I turn into a monster when it's crunch time with parties at home) - and we figured that this would be an awesome way to burn energy.  The downfall - we can only have 30 people max.  That's hard to do when you have 13 people just in family coming.  We're excited though - we know we are going to have a great time.  And as a bonus - Jarrett should sleep like a rock that night!! :) 

After that, we have the Shamrock Run... which seemed like a great idea before I got pregnant.  I started off saying I was going to do the 5K run and have now scaled back to the 5K walk - and I'm curious how that is going to go... baby is doing a great job at squishing all vital organs - including lungs.  Fortunately, it's only 3.2 miles... so I should be just fine.  We have several more birthday parties and fun nights planned with friends to round out the month - and while I'm exhausted thinking of it all... I can't wait for all the fun we're going to have. 

Another HUGE thing for us this month???  We get to find out the sex of the baby on March 7th!!!!  I am getting so anxious to find out - I almost can't wait (but do I really have a choice?? ;) )  I have absolutely no inkling as to what we're having... so I know it will be a surprise either way.  We would love a girl because it would be totally different and then I wouldn't be so outnumbered... but I love my little man and would love to have another one running around the house.  So - in T-minus 6 days, we get to find out.  

Happy March everyone!!!