We are having a BOY and we are so excited!!!

We are having a baby!!!!

I wondered what I could post about to get people looking at my blog again after a three month break. Did the post title work?? Before you say, "it's about time".....let me share my thoughts and feelings about having a baby. I did seem to get comments quite a bit and that is totally fine but they did make me laugh. Things like: how old is Taylor, do you want more kids, are you done having kids, how far apart are your other two kids, and so forth. Glen and I always planned on having a longer gap between Taylor and the next one but even I didn't think it would be 4 years. When we started thinking more about it we started worrying about my health problems and what it would be like being pregnant considering that things have not gotten better. We eventually felt like we needed to have faith that I and our baby would be fine and we really felt that it would all work out. I had a miscarriage in November and then I didn't get pregnant right away.
            So...........I am now pregnant and we are so grateful for this huge blessing in our lives right now. Of course I still worry about my health but things are going okay and we will take it a day at a time. I also was a little sad for awhile with how far apart our kids will be but I know it won't matter. Matthew and Taylor are 22 months apart and yes they are the best of friends. I know though that this baby will have the best 6 year old brother and 4 year old sister who will love it so much and are so excited for him/her to come.  I always think of how close I am with my sisters who are 7 and 12 years older than me.  I truly am just grateful to be having a baby and thank my Heavenly Father everyday.
      Now for what you really want to know; I am 20 weeks along, we find out what we are having TOMORROW and I am due DECEMBER 10th but will have the baby either December 3rd or 4th (one positive thing about having to have C-Sections)!!!! I will try my best to post tomorrow. I honestly don't know what we are having and don't really have a preference so it will be so fun!!

-Also I am catching up on the last 3 months for scrapbooking purposes so there are many posts under this one and more to come. Whew.....we are back!

Vacation: swimming

With some saved Christmas money we got a YMCA membership and it has been great. Last summer I would go out at 7 in the morning pushing the double stroller around the neighborhood to get some exercise. It was already so hot but I tried to do it anyway. Being pregnant I refused to push my two big kids in the stroller in the hot summer so the Y has been so nice. There is a fun outdoor pool at one of the locations and the kids love it. It has two big water slides too that are so fun for the kids. Taylor was more brave than Matthew was at first and still wants to go on the slides over and over.

Vacation Week: cute little legs

 Glen had vacation in June and since we went out to Idaho in May we found ourselves with limited funds to go anywhere. We found tons to do here in Memphis though and had a great time. We bought a mini van so that took quite a bit of our time but it is so nice to be done with that. I hate buying cars!! We went swimming a lot, bowling, exercised, went to the cheap kids movie during the day, ate out once, and just spent time together. It was great! Our anniversary was during that week too so we were able to go on a date. In the summer you can have your kids go bowling for just two dollars so it was great. Glen and I didn't bowl because like I said we are cheap but it was fun enough to help and watch the kids. Thank goodness for bumper pads and Taylor's ball sure needed some wind behind it; I really thought her ball wasn't going to make it a couple of times.

I really couldn't get enough of these little legs and how cute they looked with bowling shoes on.  Matthew and Taylor seem to be getting so big these days but Taylor looked like a little person again in these shoes. Why can't you buy these somewhere??

Can't get enough of Daddy!

Tired

I should have put these first two pictures in reverse order. We were playing games on a Sunday afternoon (don't look at our messy house) and Glen of course fell asleep. I am sure he worked all night and came straight to church the next day at 11 and it was probably around 3 in the afternoon and he hadn't slept....so I guess he has an excuse. I love his face though after being woken up by Taylor. The best is watching Glen falling asleep as he is reading to the kids or playing a card game with the kids. Poor guy is always tired it seems!! He handles it well to his credit though.

 Finding a new way to play with the bingo pieces.

Summertime

 Isn't this boy so cute!!! I can't believe he starts kindergarten in less than two weeks. CRAZY!!! The kids love swimming in our little pool and come up with quite the ways to get into the pool. It is fun to watch them having so much fun!

Look at that cheese

Playing

Matthew and Taylor wanted to play soccer and as soon as they got their shin guards on and shoes tied we realized we didn't have a soccer ball. Both soccer balls we have were in Glen's car with him. Oops.....so being the genious mom that I am I got out a basketball. Not so genious really but I couldn't even find some sort of bouncy ball. The kids did not seem to mind. They didn't last too long because of the heat and I went in even earlier; I am a wimp. We have not used our back yard very much this summer because it is so hot and the poison ivy issue (another story for another time). We have been spending a lot of time outside this summer in the water however!!

Dani and Daxton came over and they had fun dressing up. My friend Marie told me about these costumes at party city that were on sale for 5 dollars so I had to rush over and get one for Matthew and Taylor. I have another one for each of them for their birthdays.

 Glen finished his general surgery year and started Urology in July!!! He got all new white coats and so the kids played dress up in his old ones. Glen brought home all the other gear for them to play with and it was a huge hit.

 Taylor can be so girly at times and not at other times but oh does she love her ballerina dress.

 Matthew and Taylor decided they were having a dance and had to get all dressed up. After the dance was a bike ride in the cove. I don't know how Matthew survived wearing a sweater vest in 90 something degree weather. It made for a fancy bike ride I guess.