A Snuggle Session

After a day in the sun at Mykol and Candice's for Nixen's birthday, we wanted to come home and just relax for the rest of the afternoon.  Marley and Me was on TV and Anthony had never seen it, so we laid down to watch it.  If you have dogs, it it one of those movies that you have to see, but is hard to watch.

 For a while now "the girls" have only been allowed on the tile, but after an ending like that I looked at Anthony with tears in my eyes and asked if I could snuggle the girls on the carpet for a minute- how could he say no to that!  As soon as I called them over, I think it took them about 2 seconds to snuggle right up.  Oh how their lives are going to change very soon!

Summa Summa Summa Time!

Last weekend was the first weekend in a long time that we had no plans.  It was great to sleep in and move at our own pace...pretty soon we won't have that option!  We decided some pool time at my mom's would be perfect, so we loaded up the girls (Sadie and Lima) and made the drive out to Ahwatukee.  We've become quite the traveling family- we had our pool bag all packed up with towels, swim suits, and sunblock, a traveling cooler with food and drinks, and that day we had picked up some pool toys and rafts.  I never knew this about my mom, but for some reason she has something against pool rafts and that it was so funny that we had traveling ones.  She would laugh at us floating in the pool with them.  We at least got her to lay in one for a picture, but we had fun showing her all the reasons pool rafts are great!

The Gender Test

Mykol and Candis told us about a gender test that you can buy and take at home.  They tried it when they were pregnant with Nixen and it was right, so we thought it would be something fun to try.  We took it last week and the results said..........BOY!

We have our appointment next week with the Dr to confirm the sex of the baby so we are excited to see if our gender test is accurate.  There are several bets that are taking place within the family, so it has created some fun competition. 

The Prune

This week we had our 10 week check up with Dr. Brar.  Everything looked perfectly healthy and on track.  While we were there, we mentioned to the nurse practitioner that we had thought about signing up for a 10K in the fall once the weather cools off.  I got the axe on that one and that nurse laughed and said most of their patients are complaining that they can't do anything and here I am wanting to run a 10K......HA!  I know where I get it from, Mom.

For most people turning 50, they want to celebrate by having a big party with all their friends and family or maybe a big vacation- not my mom.  She decided she would bring in 50 by competing in an Ironman in November- that is a total of 140.6 miles of swimming, biking, and running.........so you can see where I get the itch to stay active.  For now I'll just have to stick to 5K's and normal exercise.

During our visit with the Dr, we also scheduled our 12 week ultrasound and they told us that we can find out the sex of the baby at that time.  We were under the impression that they would be able to give us a hint since most people do not find out until 16-20 weeks, but the nurse was pretty adamant that the guy they have coming in is very good and has not been wrong yet.  Can't wait!!!

It's a HABOOB!

Tuesday night we attempted to let the dogs sleep outside, but of course Lima started barking at nothing, so Anthony went to go let them in.  When he came back he told me that the sky was brown and it looked like a dust storm was coming.  We didn't think anything of it when we heard some thunder shortly after that.  Yesterday morning as we drove to work, we noticed all the cars on the freeway that looked like someone had dumped a bucket of dirt on their car and we wondered what in the heck happened the night before.

It didn't take long for us to find out that a 50 mile wide and 1 mile high Haboob took over the valley the night before.  My co-workers were telling me that it looked like something out of a movie...one minute it was light out and the next it was pitch black with zero visibility. 

I was bummed we missed the excitement, but after hearing about the cleanup, I'm not too sad that we are missing out on that!

4th of July

For the last couple of years, I have spent the 4th of July in Flagstaff.  It was always a great time of the year to get out of the heat and with school being out, it was a good time for me to see my sister.  Last year when Anthony I and went up, we watched part of the parade that goes through downtown and loved it...it really has a small town feel with all the families lining the streets decked out in the red, white, and blue.  So, we decided to head up to Flagstaff again this year. 

Because the dogs have been couped up in the house due to the heat, we thought we'd make a little family trip out of it.  The girls were very well behaved for the whole weekend and we felt good about letting them out and about.  We are going to try to make it a family tradition to go every year, but I think with a little one next year we are going to have our hands full and might not be able to take the dogs.

In addition to getting some much needed outdoor time, we got to visit with Laci a little even with her busy schedule of 3 jobs!  We had dinner with her and Ian and Oreganos on Sunday night and we had lunch with her at Diablo Burger (my fav!) before heading back to town.  It was the perfect little get away!

Our Nest is Growing

Anthony and I are excited to announce that we are expecting our first baby!  We were definitely planning for one, but we were surprised that it happened so quickly!  I am currently 9 weeks 4 days and due on February 3rd, 2012.  So far being pregnant feels.........SLEEPY.  If I had the time I could probably take a couple hour nap everyday, so I look forward to the weekends when I can and Anthony lets me sneak one in every now and then during the week. 

Neither one of us have a preference of the sex of the baby, but we both had dreams on the same night that led us to believe we are going to have a girl, but I guess we'll have to see.

We have also been very surprised at how quickly my belly is growing.  We thought I wouldn't start showing until after the first trimester, but as you can see it is already popping out a little.  Anthony is looking forward to my "big ol' belly".

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