Some exciting news!!!

There are two things that I'm very excited to talk about today.

First, as you might be able to tell from our title, I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming arrival of Stephenie Meyer's fourth book from the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn. It is available this Saturday, August 2nd, at midnight. I'm going with some of my other "crazy about Edward" friends for a late night Friday to get the book right at midnight, and I can't wait!!! I've been rereading the first three to mentally prepare myself, so I've been in Edward-land for the past week. I don't know if I can make it these next 6 days! :)

Second, I finally went to the doctor this week and we are pleased to announce that we are expecting our third baby! Unlike Item #1, the entire family is very excited about this news. Abby must have known before us because she decided to tell a few of her friends' moms that her mommy "had a baby in her tummy." After embarrassingly having to correct that mistake, we found out a couple weeks later that we actually were pregnant. Maybe these kids know more than we give them credit for! :) It was a bit of a surprise for us, and a little nervous for me because my Tessa still seems so little. But luckily about a week after we found out, Tessa really started walking, so it made her seem a little older to me anyway. So after finally scheduling a doctor's appointment, I find out I'm officially 10 and 1/2 weeks with a due date of February 17th, 2009. We would love to find out we're having a boy at this point (especially Tyler so he won't be so outnumbered), but of course, we'll be thrilled no matter what gender of baby we're blessed with. We'll definitely keep you posted.

So, you may be wondering how these two pieces of exciting news can actually be together in the same post. Well, read Twilight, and you'll understand... Right Kasia?!? :)

Summer Vacation...Family and Friends

It has been non-stop action for us the last couple weeks. My brother, John, came into town from Las Vegas so our family has been on the go and enjoying every minute of it. Here's John with Abby. Sadly, we didn't take a lot of pictures with John in them. :( But at least we got this one the last day he was here.

After spending the 4th of July weekend here in Anna (sorry no pics), the girls and I went with my parents and John back to WF. We met up with my brother, Paul's family and our close family friends, the Wrights, who were in town for a family reunion. So we had our own little reunion at Chuck E. Cheese.CEC is the best place when you have 16 grandkids and lots of adults who want to actually visit. All the kids had a great time.
Bente and I have been best friends since we were little. Here we are entertaining the kids while our poor husbands had to stay home to work.
We got to feed ducks with Joseph and Melody. But the usual problem occurred - not enough bread and......too many ducks! Luckily they didn't chase us this time like they did last time.And we had another problem this time. We tried getting Tessa to toss the bread to feed the ducks too, but does she do it? No, of course not; why throw it to the ducks when it's perfectly good to eat yourself? At least she still liked seeing the ducks.

One other fun thing we did was go to a bounce house place with Joseph. They loved it. Especially when Uncle John and Cousin Matt came to play too.

They really liked the tall slide. They went down it so fast. It was hard to get a decent picture.

By the end, I even got Abby to raise her hands in the air. "Just like a roller coaster" as she liked to say.

Other fun things we did included seeing fireworks on the fourth, having BBQs, going swimming, playing games, going to see Wall.E, eating out, shopping, and all the other fun family things people like to do. We had lots of fun with Uncle John and with all the family. Thanks for making our summer a bit more exciting!!! And thank you for letting us share our fun stuff with you. We hope your summer has been just as adventuresome.