California Fun

Well I will just say I am sorry now because this will be long. :) We just got back from a great vacation in California! We left on Thursday morning at 4:30am so we could get on the road while Ethan was sleeping. He of course did great and slept until 8 and then was chatty chatty the rest of the 11 hours. :) It was a smooth ride down and we were all ready to get out of the car after 15 hours. But I have to say that Ethan is seriously a perfect traveler. He is just happy to be where we are! Funny story - Ethan woke up for a bit at 430 and wanted to talk, so we explained that he needed to go to sleep first because the sun wasn't up yet. When he woke up the first words out of his mouth were "the sun is up...we can talk now". LOL, he is so cute.

The whole reason for the trip was because one of my best friends was getting married. I was a bridesmaid (a rather large one) and Ethan was the bible boy. The wedding was beautiful and it was great to be apart of everything.

After the wedding we headed down to San Diego and went to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World. The Zoo is absolutely fabulous! It is huge and Ethan and Jon went 4 times. Yay for passes that work on multiple days and multiple times! It was hot the first two days so I only did half days at the zoo because I was pretty tired. So Jon and Ethan went back without me twice. I am glad they did because they had a lot of fun. They saw all of the animals and Ethan was full of stories for me. I was bummed to not be going, but it turns out little baby Isaac grew a lot on our trip - which explains why I was so tired. But I will discuss that later.

There were so many animals at the zoo! Ethan loved every minute of it. He really enjoys animals and learning about them.

Sea World was okay - the weather was nice and it was only 70 degrees the day we went. I enjoyed that a lot. :) I have to say that Sea World has turned into more of an amusement park. There are rides and the shows are more comedy then anything. The Sea Lions were quite disappointing. It was just a comedy show that had loud music and didn't really tell you anything about how the Sea Lions live or anything. Ethan didn't like the show at all because he hates loud things so he cried for most of it. The Dolphin show was better. But it was still half acrobats and people diving. The dolphins were so cute though. Ethan really enjoyed this show when the animals were out. The whales were fabulous! They are so beautiful and Ethan loved loved this show. It was more educational and it was just the animals. Not a bunch of fancy stuff to try and entertain people.

Here is a link to the pictures. *****PICTURES*****   Obviously I have tons of pictures of animals - so I tired to only pick the important ones and with people. :) And I am not a professional and these are not edited in the slightest bit LOL.

And now for the baby update. Isaac is growing great and things are going good. I measured 30 cm  at 30 weeks when we left and 35cm at 32 weeks when we got back! Yikes!! My midwife said she wasn't to concerned since Ethan obviously wasn't small and so we were expecting a growth spurt here soon. They will watch me for the next couple weeks and I might have to have an ultrasound just to see how big he is. I am not surprised since this same thing happened with Ethan. So I am glad that I didn't push it at the zoo because apparently Isaac was growing a lot! I have been a lot more uncomfortable the last few days and not sleeping so well...but I only have 7 weeks left so I can do it!!

Bapa's Rocks

We finally were able to get rocks for our back yard flower beds and the side of our house. My dad knows a guy..who knows a guy...etc...etc....and we ended up getting them for so so so cheap. Otherwise we would still have dirt because we really couldn't afford the rocks to match the front yard. My parents needed a lot more rocks than we did, but total for the two weekends Jon and my dad moved roughly 21 yards of rocks. They worked really hard to get it all done and our house and my parents house looks really nice.

The best part about the rocks was how much Ethan enjoyed the whole process. He thought it was great to be one of the guys out there with my dad and Jon. I have to say...they both were very patient and let Ethan help through the whole process. Ethan still talks about "Bapas Rocks". In fact, he is obsessed with trailers and trucks now. It's pretty cute.

There are some really cute pictures, but since there were so many this was easier. Enjoy. :)

Bapa's Rocks Pictures - Click Here

Summer Catch-up

Well, I am not exactly sure where the summer went. It would appear that I only have 77 days left until peanut arrives as well, which I am not really all that ready for. Hmmm. But we have had a wonderful, yet busy, summer so far. I have been bad about writing stuff down, but I know if a few months this will be the only way I remember what I wanted to scrapbook. So I will be catching up with our summer fun postings. :)

We went to Dairy Days this year in Meridian. We watched the parade and did a few carnival rides with Ethan. We went with my sister and some friends as well. Ethan really enjoyed the carnival rides. He is definitely like me and loves roller coasters.

This picture makes me laugh. The boys decided to start wrestling while waiting for the ride and the dads seems to realize this at the same time. LOL.

But waiting for rides can get pretty boring....

But once you get on the rides...it's all fun!!

Lots of Fun

This weekend we had a lot of fun celebrating birthdays. First we went to the zoo to celebrate one of Ethan's friends birthday. Ethan really enjoyed feeding the giraffe and the goats.

Of course before we could feed the giraffe we had to see what his food smelled like. :)                        

Smells like salad he said!

 

Love the look on his face in this picture! He was so excited to feed the animals.

After the zoo we came home and had a BBQ to celebrate Jon's 30th birthday. Jon and I had a good time and I know Ethan had a blast playing with the other kids. At the end Ethan and his friend got out the squirt guns and had a blast playing. Ethan was exhausted when he went to bed!!

Happy Birthday

Guess who is 30!! And you better have not said me, LOL.  I wanted to wish my hubby a very happy birthday. Sadly, I am sick so we probably won't do much celebrating today. But we do have a BBQ planned for Saturday. If you want to stop by let me know!!

Today also marks the halfway mark of my pregnancy. 20 more weeks left to go!! Yay!

It's a.....BOY!!!

It's official - we are having another boy! We are of course very excited to be adding another boy to our family. Here are some cute ultrasound pictures. :)

Boy or Girl Peanut

We find out on May 27 if Peanut is a boy or girl. I thought it would be fun to do a poll to see what everyone else thinks.

Is Peanut Thomas a Boy or Girl??

I will leave this up until we have the results. If you want to post a comment with your vote you can do that too...otherwise I don't know how people are voting LOL. :)