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I LOVE Ashlee Dawn Photography!!! She is having a Fantastic contest so check it out! http://www.ashleedawnphotography.com/blog/My little sweet peas are on there too! She took Kate's very first photos at 6 days old. They are beautiful! She is a jewel to work with too!

Here are some of the pictures she took of us.

I'm the worst blogger ever!

It is no surprise to me and probably to no one else that I am the worst blogger ever. Actually that is why I hadn't had a blog in the past b/c I knew I wouldn't do a good job of keeping it updated!

So here is a little recap of the end of 2009 for us! The day before Halloween we found out are little spring chick is a girl! We are thrilled to get to buy some pink!! So far we have decided on a first name- Kathryn and call her "Kate". However, right now she doesn't have a middle name or should I say she has two! Mike and I each have our picks and neither has given in so maybe she will have 2 middle names, who knows!

We had a fun Halloween and as we went Trick or Treating I got to announce our big gender news! Grant was a Spider and Sean was a Dragon. They LOVED eating the candy and Sean got super tired. He asked to stop b/c he was so sleepy. Grant was still going strong so the two of us went down a couple more streets.

The boys also went to Trunk or Treat at church and they wore their costumes at school for their Parade and Parties!

Sean and Grant were excited to see us at his KDO Halloween Parade

We celebrated Thanksgiving here, well at Mike's parent's house. It was nice b/c his sister and her boyfriend were here too.

Christmas was spent in Amarillo with Mike's family. It was freezing cold!! It snowed while we were there and the boys wanted to play in the snow for longer than any adults wanted to! Grant was outside turning blue but continued to try to convince us that he wasn't cold at all.

I need to upload some Christmas pics so I can post them too.

Whew! So there was a quick update and I'll add more later. I'm going to try to do better....it's a new year!

Announcing the News...

With my first two pregnancies we shouted from the rooftop that we were expecting once the two lines were on the HPT. Miscarriage didn't even cross my mind and we told EVERYONE we were pregnant STAT!

Since Sean's birth I have had several friends have to go through the difficulty of dealing with a miscarriage. It is just so heartbreaking. This started to make us paranoid. We decided we wouldn't share our news until we saw the heartbeat. At that point the doctor was giving us a miscarriage rate of around 3-10%.

So, we decided to break the news to Mike's family at his mom's b'day dinner. I couldn't keep it in so I ended up telling my mom over the phone before the dinner. I know, I'm terrible! The timing was perfect. We actually had gone to get the u/s that day! We were so happy to see that tiny flicker.

At dinner, everyone gave their gifts. When it got to ours we had two things in a gift bag. After she saw them both she started to move the bag away and I told her there was one more thing in there. It was a magnet that said "baby's coming" or something like that and had an opening for an u/s pic. The pic was so hard to see. It was just a little ball and dot.

She held it up and she started to cry. I started crying & so did my mom. She turned it over and showed everyone and Diane (Mike's Sister) joined in on the crying fun! It was crazy.

Ta Da!

I've officially started my blog! I know I'm late getting on the bandwagon but now that I've ventured over into the land of Facebook I've decided that a blog is next. This has been and will continue to be an eventful year with the boys get funnier everyday so I think this blog will be a great way to share with everyone ho things are going & share some of our funny stories!

So, I'll start with a quick update. Our biggest news right now is the excitement of our (my!!!) third pregnancy. I have said that this is the grand finale yet sometimes I think an even four would be nice. Mike doesn't agree! We will see. I knew when I had each of the boys that there were more to come so I guess I will have to see if I "feel" our family is complete after this one.
I am due April 7th but with my other two pregnancies I delieved the day I turned 37 wks. So, if that happens again it will be around March 17th .... an Irish baby!

The boys are doing great! They are thrilled that "mommy has a baby in her tummy". Grant is convinced it is a girl and calls it his sister. Sean is undecided and when we ask if it is a girl or a boy he just says "it's a baby!" I stopped guessing since I'm never right. We could find out in as little as 4 wks depending on what my doctor sees at my next appt. otherwise I will have to wait until my 20 wk appt. I can't wait!!!

Mike & I stay so busy! He is busy with work and has a couple of out of town work trips coming up (I dread these even if they are super short!!) and I have been subbing at KDO. The kids love to see me sub at school! Grant and Sean both are in KDO (Kid's Day Out---yes, our church is politically correct ...not Mom's Day out!) This is Grant's third year and Sean's first. My first year to have a day to myself..two days actually! I haven't had too many days yet since I've been subbing.

So, I'll be working on putting some pics up and other stuff up on the blog. That is part of why I decided to do this, I NEVER upload pictures and I get tons of "why haven't I seen those pictures or "why don't you ever email pictures?" so perhaps this will help me stay motivated to upload them and share them.