my first ultrasound

On Thursday October 23rd I had my first ultrasound! It was pretty cool to see, however the baby doesn't look like much right now...just a little peanut! One cool thing that I didn't think was possible to hear yet (I know it's beating, but just didn't think you could hear it) the heart beat! It was very strong...measuring at 160!

Here is the picture from the ultrasound. Like I said it doesn't look like much, but to the left is the head and to the right is the body. "She" is measuring right on too! If you can see in the bottom right corner it says all that. So...yeah, there "she" is. My ultrasound to find out what the gender is is January 9th. I am really excited to find out what it is! I'm hoping for a girl, but will take a boy just the same!

yuk!

Well....we have been here for over 9 months and I thought we were going to be lucky enough not to see one....but we did last night! Thankfully it was just a small one though!

Yes, it's a snake! We looked it up last night on the internet after all this happened and we think it might have been a small (baby) Copperhead of some sort. We aren't positive, but that's what it looked the most like....and those are poisonous! Boy are we glad it was this small!!

Close up of the head.....gives me the willies!!

Slowly slithering along the house under the back window!

So, Cory got the broom and used the stick end and tried to pick it up and it immediantly coiled up and struck at the end of the broom!! Don't ask me what he was going to do with that thing once he had it on the broom....fling it in the woods I guess. It never worked though...he slithered away...it was dark though so we have no idea where it went! Hopefully far far away!! Luckily it is starting to "cool" down here so maybe it will never come back! It was quite the excitement though last night at 9:15....Gavin even got to see it...and now he is asking a million questions about the darn thing!

baby #2 is on the way

We thought this day would never come, but we are finally expecting our 2nd baby! After just about nine months of trying. Although the baby will be coming at an inconvenient time....right around the time we will be leaving here...and my brothers high school graduation! So we will be trying to work around that! We know that this was all in God's timing....and his timing is perfect so it will work out. Gavin really doesn't know what's going on, but he keeps saying, "I want a baby brother!" And I say, "No Gavin, and baby sister!" But he had been set on a baby brother...until today...he has said a few times today, "I want a baby sister!" Go Gavin!! Although I really don't mind either way!

Here are some pictures I took of G to email to first my mom and dad and then other family members! He's so cute!