18 Weeks

Blogging

So I love to visit blogs. Anyone's blog. I often surf around from Amy and Derek's blog to a ton of others, which is why I just added their links to my page today. Less button clicking for me now. Some of these people are friends of course, but some are aquaintances, and some are complete strangers. I think it is so fun to "peek" into other people's lives. It is also a ton of fun when you stumble across a blog of someone you have not heard from or seen in so long. I love that through Erik and Ky's blog I found Fargo and Eleven! Through Cara Mac I found Rhino and Flicka...how fun to read about friends from back in the day at FR. There are a ton of others of course, but how boring for you to read every name. Also- why do none of my Biola buds or Monte Vista pals have blogs? Its time to jump on the bandwagon ladies! What did we do before the Internet? Maybe this is why I am so bad at picking up the phone.

Anyways...Jaron and I had our big ultrasound on Friday and everything looks great with baby burrito (Avery's nickname). We had a moment of weakness when the sonographer asked if we wanted to know the sex. We looked at eachother and shrugged, but then Jaron, my strong in mind, hubby said "NO" we do not want to know. I have to say that if it was just me in there I probably would have given in and found out. Now of course I am glad we are living in the unknown as it will make the arrival day all the more exciting. My due date is Septemeber 22.

I will post some ultrasound pics and a long overdue pic of my growing belly soon...i promise. :)

On a sadder note, we had to say goodbye to our furry neice Liberty Belle. We have been watching her for D&A for a couple months. We'll miss you Ms. Libs!

Avery and Liberty exchanging a goodbye hug and kiss

Liberty and Roger

Easter Part 2

We started our day off by heading to church and then made our way back down to my parent's house. My grandparents and my uncle Scott were there too to enjoy an Easter egg hunt just for Avery and then a delicious prime rib lunch. It is always so special to spend time with family! Here are a couple of pics of Avery in her Easter dress. I keep forgetting to get a good one of the whole family to post. Hopefully there will be some soon.

Easter Part 1

Yesterday we headed down to Gilroy where my parents' church hosted a big Easter Egg Hunt at a local park. The 2 year olds got to go out first and the field was cluttered with toys, pencils, necklaces, eggs, and tons of other stuff. Avery was only interested in the eggs. She loaded up her bunny basket and was very excited to open all the eggs up and get out the candy inside.

Half Moon Bay and Pacifica

Yesterday Jaron and I both had the day off so we decided to drive up the coast to Half Moon Bay. Jaron's spring break was this last week and mine is this coming week so this was our only week day off together. It was a beautiful day...about 61 degrees and bit foggy but I love that kind of weather. We arrived around lunch time so we scoped out a place to eat. I wanted to grab some seafood, but we just could not decide where to go. We ended up continuing to drive north to Pacifica and found a Taco Bell. Now this is not just any ordinary Taco Bell...it has the best ocean view in Pacifica! It fit the bill and we enjoyed the awesome view.
Avery was so excited to go to the beach. She kept repeating to us that she needed her bathing suit, but of course it was way too cold for that. After lunch she was ready to head down to the water. She walked down to the water with Daddy to put her little toes in but ended up falling down and getting all wet! She was not happy and now when we mention the beach she says. "NO Beach!"
On the way home we passed by a farm with pony rides and a petting zoo and some other fun things so we decided to stop. Avery was loving the animals, particularly the baby ducks.
All in all it was a great day!

The past few weeks

I finally figured out how to upload photos from my mac to my blog so here are some from the last few weeks. Jaron also got our desktop to come back to life so he was able to burn all of our pictures to cds. Not many hours after the burn, it finally died for good. Thank goodness we were able to get our pics!!



This last pic is of a tree blooming right in our front yard. The flowers are so beautiful I had to take a picture.