20 Weeks and Counting

Today I am 20 weeks pregnant with boy #2.  Here's a comparison of my belly from both pregnancies.  Here I am at 20 weeks with Preston, our camera was dying which is why it has a pink tint to it. 

Here I'm 20 weeks with this pregnancy.  I definately feel bigger than last time.  We'll see how much I keep growing. :)

A House Full of Boys

I am now officially outnumbered in our household now, and the new baby isn't even here yet!  Meet our new family member.  We've had him for two days now.

His name is Bentley and he is our little 8-week old maltese puppy.  Right now he weighs no more than two pounds and will be about six full grown.  Isn't he tiny?

Preston loves him already!  He gives him hugs, calls him woof woof, doggie, puppy, and "betly"

He also is constantly bringing him toys, even when he's sleeping.  The only thing I'm worried about is when he tries to be like the dog and does things like chewing on his bone, and drinking water out of Bentley's bowl doggie style.  Can you get any grosser!?

He loves mommy and follows me everywhere, he even sleeps on my feet.

What a handsome fellow he is!  Thanks again for the sweater Matt and Holly, he's not getting quite as cold outside now, even though his feet slide out of it sometimes. :)

The New Look

A few months ago we noticed Preston's right eye was starting to wander in.  We finally got an appt. with an pediatric opthamologist at the beginning of December and found out he has a "lazy eye" which we suspected because my dad and two of my brothers have had lazy eyes.  He's also more far sighted than normal so he gets to wear glasses now!  He keeps them on and actually really likes them, we're glad!  I've never had glasses before but I started getting really bad headaches especially when I was reading and on the computer.  I think it was contributing to my morning sickness too.  Anyway, I went and got my eyes checked for the first time and even though I have almost 20/20 vision I have an astigmatism which makes things kind of blurry.  Now that I have my glasses I've been feeling much better.

 

Now we'll just have to see if Gabe will end up needing glasses too. :)  We went from a no glasses family to 2/3 of our family having glasses, it was pretty crazy!  So, how do you think we look?

(Pictures taken at Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Temple Square, right after my cousin's wedding)

Our New Baby is...

as cute as a button...

as flexible as a rubber band...

and chatty already.

With at least one foot...

and long toes just like Preston.

Overall the most photogenic little guy ever!

That's right, we're having another boy! Do you think he looks like his brother?

This is a picture from Preston's 18-week ultrasound, I thought it would be fun to compare!

Cast Your Votes

It sure has been a while since I've posted anything. The holidays have kept us busy and on top of that we didn't have internet access for the three weeks we were staying with my parents the past couple of months... so I'm not a complete slacker, right?

Anyway, I decided I should write about this because it is time sensitive material. We are going to find out if we're having a boy or a girl this Friday around 4:00 p.m. so cast your votes and see if your guess is right.

Gabe thinks it's a girl but the chinese gender calendar says otherwise, so I guess we'll just have to see who really knows what they're talking about. :)

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

I Have Something Growing Inside Me

Don't worry, it's a good thing. :)  Preston is going to be a big brother next year.  I'm due on June 10th which means I'm about 14 weeks along.  Sorry it's taken me such a long time to announce it, blogging has made me sick to my stomach, which is sad I know.  Anyway, here is a picture of our little gummy bear at 7 weeks.

Now to just find out if it's a boy or girl. :)

The Oven

Gabe was able to safely remove the burned out element from our oven.

It really burned through...

and left a lot of ash with it, but there is our shiny new element, with a not so shiny oven.

Gabe made sure to have the fire extinguisher handy just in case he accidentally wired it wrong, and Preston was willing to help too of course. Luckily all went well and after a couple of ovenless weeks, it's as good as new.

Thanks Gabe for all the hard work!

Guns and Roses

One day we went out skeet shooting with some friends in the ward... you know the usual... okay, not really it was a first for us and we had a lot of fun. Gabe did well by shooting 12 out of 25, of course I only got 2, but it was all in good fun. I was wearing the wrong jacket... and I was afraid of bruising my face so I didn't really aim.... oh well. We had a good time!

Here are all the boys lined up.

If you enlarge this one you can see the skeet Gabe shot flying in pieces.

Here I am, with my horrible form.

Holly and Matt doing a photo shoot.

Gabe and Mike have the same expression in this picture.

Gabe and Matt have the same expression in this picture... so weird.

Well there weren't any actual roses that night but while we were away Preston had a good ol' time with his friends Dalia and Tesila Rose. It kind of works, right? Anyway, I never knew he was such a bully, but he does love penguins.

He learned to dance that night too. Dalia taught him how to spin... I think the arm waving thing he came up with all on his own.

Thanks again for watching him Britni... and thanks for the cute video!