17 weeks

I have not been very good about taking pictures of my belly this time. Here is the most recent of the three I have taken. We find out the gender next week, any guesses?

30

I turned 30 last week! So I thought I would make a list of 30 things you may or may not know about me.

1. I love Jesus.
2. I am a worrier.
3. Half the things in my life must be a certain way and the other half I am easy going about.
4. I used to be a Girl Scout, and Brownie.
5. I dont mind sitting by myself.
6. I dont like my food touching.
7. I have been married for 7.5 years.
8. If I could, I would eat cereal for every meal.
9. I cut my hair short one time in my life and gave it away to Locks of Love.
10. I am not the best at calling people back.
11. I bite my nails, always have and pretty sure always will.
12. I am the oldest child.
13. I would love to own my own bakery.
14. I always have to see the previews at the movies.
15. My cousin and I used to collect rollie pollies.
16. I used to be in gymnastics until they told me to quit because I was getting too tall.
17. I am frequently inspired to be crafty but then it usually stops there.
18. Spending time with family is my safe place.
19. I drink my water from my Nalgene through a straw, and have for the past few years.
20. My dream job is to be a singer, I dont have a good voice, in fact some may call me tone deaf.
21. I fear getting in trouble.
22. I get the same things at restaurants.
23. I do not like cooked fruit.
24. I wish I had turned 24 because it is hard to think of 30 things.
25. I love breakfast for dinner.
26. I love listening to the same songs over and over.
27. MacGyver is a real person to me.
28. I am excited about entering my 30's.
29. I dont like my water cold or with lemon.
30. I am pregnant. Baby #2 coming in August.

Happy Valentines Day

A friend of mine sent me a super cute picture this morning of her kids holding a valentines sign while sitting together. I thought it was so cute that I would try the same thing. Here is what I was able to capture...real life.

Not wanting anything to do with any part of this.

Picture speaks for itself.

Next, throwing himself back and kicking. I am still refusing to give up.

Currently ripping the sign I made.

And ending with Kevin holding up the broken heart, at least Mick is not scowling.

Happy Valentines Day everyone.

Goodnight My Love

This post is more for me than anything else. I just wanted to write a few thoughts down so I did not forget them. Mick has been so sweet when we put him in his crib to sleep for the night. We say prayers as a family, while this is happening he for some reason pinches both of our noses, and tried to tickle Kevin. He gets so excited when we hand him his monkey blanket, he then wraps it under his chin. We then put his blanket over him, kiss him goodnight and turn off the light. As we are walking out and he hears I love you, he blows us a kiss. This is new, when he hears I love you, he blows kisses, yes please! Then he tells us "bye", waves and we leave. Oh I love him.

"You Are Tall"

As obvious as my height is, I actually have people tell me a lot that I am tall. I have been getting it my whole life. So many memories to pick from, being told I had to think about quitting gymnastics because I was getting too tall, to my brother asking me how the air was up there and seeing a certain family member literally on the floor laughing, to me constantly being asked to get things off the top shelf at grocery stores by complete strangers. Yeah I am your regular Big Friendly Giant. By the work of the Lord only have I been able to finally be comfortable with my height.
I am not writing this post because I just discovered that I am tall, I write this because I was reminded of a story last night while looking at an extremely tall girl.

A couple of years ago I was in the grocery store by myself, looking at whatever it was, lets say bread. Another couple was in the aisle with me but further away. Still trying to figure out what bread I wanted I began to feel a presence behind me. I look over my sholder and the man of the couple was LITERALLY going back to back with me. What the heck? I obviously turned around fast causing the man to get a mouth full of my hair and starred at him with a concerned look, for him, on my face. The girlfriend then goes on to explain how he was quietly trying to back up to me to see if he was taller than me. I mean come on!

However, I was reminded of this story because last night at In N Out, I was that guy. A super tall girl walks in and here I go, the long way around the restaurant to get the ketchup we did not need. Walking by the girl twice so that Kevin, who was the look out man, could see who was taller. Unable to make a decision, I just happen to need to refill my drink when she was refilling hers. Noticing that her knees were at my hips I declared her the winner.

That night changed me my friends. From then on I decided that all tall girls are in a club and because we know what each other goes through in life we should be able to talk about our height freely with strangers, ask all the normal questions...
"Did you play basketball?"
"I bet your parents are tall"
"How tall ARE you?"
Without feeling guilty or annoying.

So to all the tall girls out there, go get 'em!

Confession

Hi, remember me? I am so sorry for the lack of posting. I dont really have an excuse, some of it is because we have just been really busy and the other part, I just dont know.Because of my absense I decided to reward you with a confession...Some of you are probably pretty nervous right now trying to figure out what it is. So with out futher a do......

I get in Micks crib with him in the morning. There I said it. Yeah, thats right, I get IN the crib. And I am not afraid to admit it. Kevin came back from working out one morning and stumbled upon this. Mick is not really into snuggling and this is the only place he will just hang out with me. So I did what I had to. I love it, he loves it, the question is, how long will this last. FOREVER! Yeay!

Family Hike

We love to hike but have found it hard to do since Mick was born. But thanks to Jen, we were able to use this backpack for him. We were not sure how either Kev or Mick would do with it so we set out for a shorter hike to test it out. No need to be at the top of a 45 minute mountain and realize it was not a good idea.

For the record, the ocean looks way further down in person than it does in these photos. I am pretty sure those are people directly across from my knee.

Mick drooling over the view, I could not agree more.