A New Addition

Well I had planned to blog about our trip today as well as sharing this news but since I left my camera at a friend's house I will wait on that post. But anyway....I can at least share our wonderful news with you all. The Lord has blessed us again with the priviledge of a new baby. We are all excited to meet this new little on come August. We recently had our ultrasound to see how all is progressing. This was the first time that we have had the children come in with us, well, for some of it. We knew that it would be a long appointment so we let them walk the track that the hospital has while the technician did most of her work and then we called them in for the last 5 minutes or so for when she told us whether the baby is a boy or a girl. We are all very excited, especially the girls, to be adding a baby girl as baby number 9 to our family. The sewing of dresses has already begun around here. It is amazing to me to think that we are already half way through this pregnancy. It has gone so fast and with DH being off of work for 2 months it will go by even faster. I am adding one of the 3D photos of the baby from the ultrasound but sometimes it can be really hard to tell what is what so good luck figuring it out.

Although I am not real fond of 3D ultrasound photos I thought this one wasn't too bad. You can see her chin, cheek, nose and mouth pretty easily. She has her hand up beside her face. The name discussion started the very night we found out that the baby is a girl but we are definitely open for suggestions for her. We have already had the suggestions of Melissa and Marie from her Aunt Missy:)

Sabbatical

DH gets a 2 month vacation from work every seven years and this is our year (Woo Hoo) so we are going to be out alot exploring new places. We hope to be able to post a bit while traveling but we shall see. If not, see ya when we get home.

Baby Turns 1

I just can't believe it has been a whole year already. Our sweet littlest has turned one! It is funny how snugglie he has become since turning one. DH and I went shopping for his birthday and looked at all kinds of toys, noisy toys, climbing toys, expensive toys...and in the end decided for simplicity, after all, what does a one year old really need or even play with aside from the box that the toy came in? So we decided on a big yellow ball, some bubbles for his sisters to blow for him, a ring stacking toy and a boat for the bathtub. All the gifts were a hit, if not with him, then at least with B#7 who is determined that the ball is his.

Mom's isn't the best cake decorator but I thought his #1 cake didn't turn out too bad.

A Spring Picnic

The weather was so wonderfully warm yesterday that we all ate our lunch outside in the sunshine.

Sister Torture

B#4 is responsible for getting B#7 dressed and his teeth brushed after someone gives him and baby a bath. Well this time she decided to torture him a bit and style his hair in different ways. I do believe this has been done to him before back when he was a baby.

Nice middle part....we gotta work on getting rid of that binky, at least the pink one:)

A nice forward version of the comb-over.

A cool spiky hairdo.

Ah, that is better!

Then he decided it was his turn to have some fun.