Because I'm too lazy to upload the pictures twice...

This is what we've been up to lately (in scrapbook form):

We had a great Mother's Day and I don't think I stepped foot in the kitchen once! I woke up to the smell of blueberry muffins (yum!) and the treats continued throughout the day. The page below was made by Dave and the painting that they are holding was done by both of them. Dave did the paint and the white part has crayon drawings by Carter.

We decided to have a family day so we went out for frozen yogurt and to Wheeler Farm. Carter is really into farm animals right now and the farm is free so we've been a few times and he loves it. The page below actually won me $100 gift certificate for How Fast Time Flies in their Mother's Day page contest.

Since the weather has been decent (some days) and since Elmo got a tricycle in a recent episode of Sesame Street Carter has been obsessed with riding his "ficycle". He is getting better every day and knows that he can't ride it without his "hat".

I don't have a scrapbook page for this but Grover (baby #2) is doing great. We had a doctor's appointment last Friday and going into it I was a bit nervous about the possibility of twins. I've been getting very big VERY fast and been really sick all the time which didn't happen with Carter. Everyone around me kept planting the twin seeds in my mind and I just wanted confirmation that they were wrong. When I went in and she checked me she was able to find a heartbeat (which is great for only 9 weeks which is what I was at the time) but she said I was measuring 2 weeks ahead and that I would need an ultrasound to make sure of dates and number of babies. Fantastic.

We went in yesterday for the sonogram and I am happy to report there will be only 1 Christmas miracle joining our family this year. It was fun to see little Grover, who is measuring exactly at my due date, although it still doesn't feel real to me. Dave says Grover "looks like a girl" and that he "just got a feeling" it was a girl when we were looking at "her". We'll see I guess.

And that's the update. Below is a picture of me at only 9 weeks. In case you thought I was exaggerating.

Same old Same old...

Pretty much our life right now...

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I love my new bike!!!!

Dear Santa...

I know Daddy took me to Toys R Us to get me a brand new super cool big boy tricycle, but this 'My-saur' is definitely on my Christmas list!

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The California playlist for our theme date

I was going to post this a while ago but I figured now is as good as any time. I made a play list of songs for our California date night, some being obvious and others being songs reminding us of the golden state. Here is what i chose:

-Welcome to Paradise by Greenday

-California Girls by the Beach Boys

-Heads Carolina, Tails California by Jo Dee Messina

-California English by Vampire Weekend

-Some Beach by Blake Shelton

-Seaside by the Kooks

-I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Storm Door (an old school barbershop group)

-My Paper Heart by All American Rejects (It reminds me of the times Brook and I would go to the beach after returning home from my mission)

-Hotel California by the Eagles

-Surf Wax America by Weezer

-Vegetable Car by Joshua Radin (for all the environmental-friendly cars in CA)

-Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard

-West Coast Friendship by Owl City

-California by Rufus Wainwright

-Good Day Sunshine by the Beatles

-San Francisco by Brett Dennen

-It Happened in Monterey by Frank Sinatra (told by Brook after putting it on the list that the song is actually about Mexico but I left it on anyway)

-I Heard It Through The Grape Vine by Marvin Gaye (Wine Country Baby!)

-I'm Walking On Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves

We were planning on doing this every week but have been unsuccessful since the trial run. Hopefully we can start it up again as it was different and fun.

In case the baby with the Christmas lights didn't give it away...

WE'RE PREGNANT! Baby Grover (temporary name courtesy of Carter) is due to join our family on or around December 21st. We are so grateful to have received another miracle and know that we are truly blessed. Thanks to all that have supported us in this journey thus far.