secret

awesome postsecret.

It reminds me of the times people have said something really derogatory about mormons before they knew I was one.

and for the record I have frequently offered water to jehovah witnesses at my door.

cause its hot here in texas.

My first baby turns 10, oh my.

Happy Birthday baby,

sorry

I'll stop saying that...

Happy Birthday Benjamin...

I mean

Happy Birthday Ben.

I love you.

drum roll please.....

It's

a

BOY

the rainbow outside captures our emotions perfectly.

we are thrilled

and its

beautiful.

a boy.

a new brother.

a new son.

now we can't wait for his arrival.

Baby O's Gender Bender. AT THE HOUSE NOW

looks like a chance of thunderstorms... so now we'll have this shindig at our home. I'm not cancelling. I can't wait another day :)

We had our ultrasound last week.

The baby looked healthy and adorable but we didn't find out if its the girl adorable type or the boy adorable type.

The ultrasound technician wrote that answer on a 4X.5 inch of paper, If you are wondering that is the size of a fortune in a fortune cookie.

Its folded up in an envelope on my mantle and this afternoon it will be dropped into a fortune cookie.

That envelope is torturing me I tell ya.

But anyway... this post is to invite you to come find out with us if our baby is a boy or a girl.

Chances are good if you come to my blog you are a friend and we want all of our friends to be there.

And just in case you are that last lone holdout that is not on facebook you may have not heard about this.

So if you are near us and don't have anything better to do, come to the park in our neighborhood at 6:30 tonight, crack open a cookie and tell us if we are having a boy or a girl.

because we are dying to know!!!

ps. if you can't make it - or happen to live somewhere other than the Great State of Texas, we'll announce as soon as we are home. Here on da blog and on facebook.

Picture pages...

ok so I didn't resize these or anything - and our computer froze a while ago and I can't get adobe to work for me - none of my adobe products rrrrrrrrr.... but anyway these just shouldn't sit in the camera...

spur of the moment trip to Erwin to roast hot dogs and make smores, and to ride our bikes and explore the woods

Ella is getting too big for my taste - she's always been too grown up for her age, its a little cute at three, its scary at eight.

Like Cora's bug lotion application - one blob on the forehead?

off to go exploring

Notice how in this one evening Benjamin goes from a shirt and jacket to no shirt?

What a cutie - I may hide somewhere with her come August and not send her to kindergarten after all.

see because she has running to do.

and if I send her she'll grow up so fast like these other two have done.

she's not as close to the fire as this picture makes it look

one bite of hot dog good - three bits of hot dog better!

still working on it

getting it to that cute tummy

seriously how cute is that?

an afternoon in the sprinkler

colder than they thought

so they bask in the sun.