Holiday Fun

We've been really enjoying the holidays this year, especially knowing that our little girl will be here before we know it. I'm now off of school for a few weeks and Art was lucky enough to get a little over a week off during Christmas as well. We've kept ourselves busy by...

...baking cookies.

...taking a day trip to Denver to see the Christmas Carol play and looking at the beautiful lights.

...getting Isabella's room ready.

...and spending time with our families.

We feel very lucky this year to be celebrating with everyone so close to home and to be expecting our little miracle baby!

Thanksgiving Fun

We had a very eventful and fun Thanksgiving this year, not to mention a lot to be thankful for. We started out the day by walking in the 3 mile Turkey Trot.

Then we went and had lunch with Art's family at Sylvan Dale Ranch.

And for dinner we went to my parents house.It was a great start to the holiday season.

It's a girl!

We had our 20 week ultrasound yesterday afternoon. We told the technician when we got there that we wanted to know the gender of the baby. She was going through measuring the leg bones and arm bones and then all of a sudden she says, "looks like it's a girl." I yelped a bit. I wasn't expecting her to tell us so quickly. We were only in the room a few minutes. I had this feeling it was a boy, so I was totally surprised. The doctor came in a bit later and confirmed that it's a girl. She was kindof sitting on the machine at one point so they could really tell. The pictures are a bit harder to see her in this time. She's too big to fit on the screen at once.

Here is one of her back, you can see her head to the right and her little spine.

Here is one of her little feet.

Here is her boney little face. I had a hard time seeing the face. Her face is on the right hand side, you can kindof see her eye sockets and her nose bone. She opened and closed her mouth during the ultrasound which was cute.

This last one is a view of her from above. The big round thing to the right is her head. The white circles farthest to the left are her knees. She's sort sitting with her knees by her chest. And in the middle are her little hands. We're so excited for Isabella Rose to get here!

Happy Halloween!

We went to a Halloween party last night. We had a lot of fun meeting some new people and playing volleyball on an indoor court that the hosts had. I dressed up as a black cat in honor of Gizmo.

Art was a red neck. He had these really funny teeth, but they were hard to talk with, so he didn't wear them for very long.

Baby Update

We had our 16 week doctor's appointment today. It went really well. It was kind of hard to hear the heart beat again, so the doctor got this handheld ultrasound machine to show us that everything with the baby is fine. We saw the flicker of the heart beat on the monitor and the baby was moving around. The doctor even thought that it looked like the baby was waving at us. It has gotten a lot bigger since the last ultrasound we had. I could watch that little screen for hours. We have an official ultrasound scheduled at the hospital on November 25th. That is when we'll find out the sex of the baby. I can't wait for that. That will definately be something to be thankful for :)

13 Weeks

Today I woke up and felt just like I have for the past few weeks...fine. I got dressed, put on one of my new shirts that I got over the weekend, and my baby bump had grown quite a bit. I went to work and was there just a few minutes and someone told me how cute I looked. Then they stopped and said, wow your starting to show. It was exciting to hear someone else notice it besides me. The baby must've grown a bit over the last few days. People have told me that I look pregnant now. I was just feeling chubby, so it made me happy that I have a pregnant look now.

Over the weekend we went to the pumpkin patch and we picked out a pumpkin for the baby. That was really fun. Here I am with my baby belly and our baby pumpkin. It was also fun this year because we went with our nephews and Art's sisters. Hard to believe that Halloween is right around the corner.