Easter Fun!

We had a wonderful Easter. Here we are all dressed up in our Easter outfits!


Friday before Easter we had an egg hunt and lunch with MOMS Club. The boys found so many eggs and had so much fun!




Saturday evening we colored eggs. The boys enjoyed coloring on them with crayons and choosing the color we dunked them in.




The boys were so excited that the Easter bunny was going to visit while they were sleeping, hiding their eggs and filling their baskets.


Easter morning was so much fun...the boys raced to the living room to find eggs and to see what the Easter bunny had left them. Ryan was so excited about the baskets he almost forgot to look for eggs, meanwhile Dylan had found most of the eggs.


We got ready for my mom, step-dad, littlest brother, sister, and niece to come eat lunch with us. After some really great food we let Jason, Mike, Liana, and Kayla hide eggs outside for the boys to find. It was a fun day!!



(Here I am on Easter at 24 weeks pregnant!)

Our Silly Boys Plus Baby Update

I had to post this picture of the boys. They decided to take stickers and put them all over their faces. Dylan's hair is all over the place because he had just woke up. They were hoping to keep the stickers on their faces all day to show dad the great job they did while he was working. Needless to say I found the stickers all over the house for the rest of the day but we had the picture to show dad and that was good enough for them. They are silly brothers!!

I had my ob check up today...I am 24 weeks (wow how the time is flying by). They measured my stomach and I'm measuring right on. They felt for the baby's position but she is still to small too completely tell how she is positioned. They are still predicting she will be a smaller baby than the boys were at birth. I didn't even have to tell the midwife the sex of the baby because after listening to the heart beat and feeling for the baby's position she guessed it!! She said she can normally tell which sex it is. Anyways, all looks good. I am still having contractions but they are not of any concern at this point because they are not dialating me or putting me into labor. We are just taking it a week at a time. I take my glucose screening in two weeks to check to see if I am diabetic then I go for another check up in four weeks! I will post more then!!

IT'S A GIRL!!!!

We had our second ultrasound today and found out that we are expecting a little girl! Everything looked great and she looks very healthy! She is measuring a little smaller than what my original due date was but they are not going to change my due date. Instead they just said that they expect her to be a little smaller than the boys were when they were born.

Ryan was really hoping for a boy. He said that he loves his little brother Dylan so much that he wanted another brother just like him. So even after finding out that we will be having a girl he is still convinced that it will be a boy.

Dylan on the other hand wanted a girl. He seems to be excited but I'm not sure if he grasps the whole idea of a new baby yet. We will just have to wait and see.

Jason is ecstatic! Seriously, he was ready to go buy pink paint...not too sure what he was going to paint but he was ready. He keeps referring to the baby now as a girl and then busts up laughing because he never thought he would be saying that.

I am very happy to welcome a little girl to our family as us girls were beginning to feel out numbered. Liana and I had to go buy some girl outfits tonight. It was very strange to be in the girl section of baby clothing. We had to keep reminding ourselves that we could shop for a girl now because we kept wondering back over to the boy clothing. I'm not sure if it has completely sunk in with me yet. I am just happy that this pregnancy is going so well and I can't wait to welcome a healthy baby to our family.

We are still tossing ideas around for a name but right now we like Rebecca Lynn. This name is not set in stone at this point... although we like the first name because it is my middle name (Ryan has Jason's middle name) and I really wanted a "Y" somewhere in the name and Lynn fit perfect which happens to be the middle name of several family members.

(This is a picture of me today, at 20 weeks. We have taken a picture of me pregnant with each of the boys from 20 weeks on. Of course we kept that tradition and took a picture of me this morning before we left for the ultrasound.)


HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!

OUR CALIFORNIA TRIP!!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Well after almost two weeks and too many hours of driving to count we have made it home safe and sound from our vacation to southern California. It was a very fun vacation for all of us. Here is a slideshow and some special pictures from our trip! Please comment!! ~I do want to give a send a big thanks to the Drews for letting us stay with them for a few days while we were in San Diego and to Nella for giving us free passes for Disneyland!~

Our Family at Sea World - We watched so many shows at Sea World plus we got to ride several rides! The boys and I also got to say hi to Elmo and Big Bird!

Ryan on His First Mini Roller Coaster~ I couldn't resist posting this picture because Ryan is so darn adorable. This was his first mini roller coaster at any of the theme parks and he went on it alone!! He was like an old pro... as soon as he got on and got buckled in he put his hands up. He yelled, giggled, and had his hands in the air for the entire ride. He must have learned it from his dad and aunt Liana because I don't ride roller coasters but either way it was so cute!

Us at Universal Studios Hollywood! There is so much to do at Universal, we weren't able to do it all. We saw lots of fun shows, took a tour of the backlot where we actually saw an actor (we just aren't sure what his name is,lol), and took lots of pictures with the characters.

Jason and the boys standing on the Malibu Beach~ The water was cold (like Navajo Lake) but that didn't stop the boys from running in to get wet. The first sorta big wave took Dylan and Aaron down so Liana and I had to run in and help them out of the water. Dylan didn't want much to do with the beach after that but Ryan couldn't get enough of it, he is a beach bum!

Character Breakfast ~ One of the highlights of our trip was eating breakfast in our hotel with Lilo, Stitch, Daisy, Donald, and Minnie. Every 15 minutes they would have games and dancing for the kids and all the characters came to your table to meet you and take pictures. The boys loved every minute of it.

Our Family in the Hotel Lobby with Goofy!! As I mentioned a little before we got to stay two nights in the Paradise Pier Disney Hotel. We could see California Adventure from the elevator and the awesome pool from our room. It was well worth staying in a Disney hotel. You get a VIP entrance into Disneyland plus the ammenities they offer were awesome. I think we all really enjoyed the hotel and Disneyland was the favorite stop on our trip!

California Here We Come!!

Well we are headed to California tomorrow! We have been counting down the days for this trip for several months and it has finally arrived. I am not sure how I am going to get us all ready and out the door in a timely fashion tomorrow evening but I always manage to pull it off. We will be driving all night to San Diego where we will stay with my aunt Heidi and her family until Tuesday morning when we will drive up to Las Angeles. While in San Diego we will be going to Sea World and Knott's Berry Farm plus hanging out with my family!! Once we are in LA we will pick up my mom, step-dad, and littlest brother from the airport. We will spend a couple nights near my brothers NAVY base and while we are there we will be going to Universal Studios Hollywood. Then we will stay a couple nights in the Disneyland Paradise Pier Hotel. We will be going to Disney Land and having breakfast with Lilo and Stitch!! We will head home late Saturday night (Feb. 21st) and once again drive all night.

Ryan is so excited he can't contain himself. He keeps telling everyone "California here we come!" and "that he is staying the Mickey's house and riding Mickey's rides!" He really doesn't know what all we have in store for our trip and I know he will enjoy every single minute of it all! Dylan doesn't really understand but I am sure he will have a ton of fun as well! We just can't wait to get there, see all of our family, and have some much needed fun!!

I will post pictures once we have returned and settled in. =)