News :)

I feel guilty when I read everyone's blogs and I don't post a thing. But I promise, I've had a good excuse! We have been blessed to find out we are expecting #3 June 27, 2010! I've been feeling sick, so it's hard to get motivated to do much of anything. It seems I will have one good day, and then one bad day. This weekend I will be 11 weeks, so hopefully it will end soon. I've actually puked twice, which didn't happen with the girls. I will probably deliver in Michigan at the same hospital where I had Violet.

I really had completely not been thinking it was possible we would get pregnant on our own. I thought we would have to go through fertility treatments (although I did early this year with no success) and/or adopt our next baby. We had been praying for a baby for a long time, and I had recently told the girls that only Jesus could give us a baby, so pray really hard. My faith can never be like that of a child, so I decided to have the girls pray. Ava asked sadly one night, "Why is Jesus not giving us a baby?" SO sad. But we kept with it, and hopefully the girls will learn from this experience.

I had been feeling a little "off" so while Tyler was on a trip to CA before Halloween I took a pregnancy test. I hadn't taken one in almost a year, because I had essentially put it completely out of my mind not wanting to face disappointment. Lo and behold it was positive. I kept it a secret for a whole day, and then had to tell Tyler. Even though he wasn't here, and it doesn't get much worse than telling your husband the big news over the phone, I had to tell him.

I had some bleeding, so we waited a couple weeks, then took another test to make sure it was still positive. It was. So I waited another week or so and couldn't stand it. We went to a very nice clinic where everything was free and they gave us another test, and an ultrasound to find out how far along I was. Ava was literally jumping up and down and shaking her water bottle when she saw the baby. Here is our sweet little baby. So big at 8 weeks! The uterus is the black circle. The round part is the head, and the parallellogram looking part is the body. If you squint and look really hard at the belly/glare part you can see the umbilical cord.

For Thanksgiving my Step brother and his wife and daughter let us come to Vermont and stay at their house with my Mom and Mike. It was BEAUTIFUL and so relaxing. I got a cold, but it was still amazing.

Here is Tyler with this creepy electronic cat.




Daddy and Violet

Ava, Alisa (ava's cousin), and Tori (step cousin?) Tori's dad (my step brother) is going to Afghanistan in February.

I hardly knew Ava was around her and Alisa played the whole time.


Some beautiful scenery on the way home. Notice the plowed snow on the sides of the road.


Ava had some sort of issue on the way home so she decided to do this with her shirt.

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for miracles. Because each of our children are miracles in the most literal sense.