Catching up

These pictures are from my phone so the quality is not the best. 

Jeff worked all weekend getting this thing put up. The boys are loving it!

Tomorrow is our 7 year anniversary! We have been pretty consistent with date nights every week, so I thought we could do something together as a family. We are planning on going to Crystal Cave in Spring Valley. I will write up a separate post later.

The boys are doing fairly well with the transition to sharing a room. (And I am too!) Please don't think that I am a horrible, mean, demented mom for doing this. Charlie was getting out of his bed over and over and over and over!!! It just wasn't working. So, I tried locking the doors to our bedroom and to the bathroom. So far it's working! I do explain to them every night that our doors our locked because it's bedtime for us too. Charlie will get out of his bed and knock on our door a little and talk to us a little, and maybe scream and bother Joey a little. I tell him through the door that it's bedtime and he needs to get back to bed. After about 10 minutes or so..it works!!! Some mornings Charlie thinks that the door are still locked so he sits in the hallway and cries a little!

On Tuesday I am going in for my first appointment with a midwife. I will get to hear the baby's heartbeat! I can't wait!

Fond of my belly

According to my calculations I am now at 12 weeks of this pregnancy. Is this a magic number? Well, it symbolizes the end of the first trimester. Although I have heard that the end of first trimester is 13 weeks. I am going to stick with what I know! The end of the first trimester also brings relief from "morning sickness". I hope to feel much better soon!

For the first time during this pregnancy I have become fond of my belly. I was wearing a cute new comfortable flowy dress and I looked in the mirror and pulled the dress tight around my belly. Awwww...I said to myself.

Until tonight I have felt bloated, huge, uncomfortable, yucky, queasy, and tired. I felt a little better today! A little more energetic. God does know that I need that energy to play with Joey and Charlie and to keep up with this house.

I read this verse a little while ago and I think it is a good fit for today and for what is to come!

1 Corinthians 2: 9

However it is written "no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"

It's Summer!

Here are some family pictures we took about a month ago when the tulips were in bloom! Now the tulips are done, the poppy's are done, and I am waiting patiently for the crazy daisy's! The roses are in bloom now too! We have just a few apples and pears and tons of cherries.  This weekend Jeff is setting up our new swingset play area! I never thought we would want one because we live to close a playground, but it was just a dream I had recently. Call it nesting or baby love, but I just imagined the kids playing on it and all 3 swings full of singing little monkeys. Will post pictures of the swingset soon!