Summer Flowers

I thought it'd be nice to share this photo of what my flower bed looks like right now. My roses have bloomed some, but not as much as I'd like. Everything else is doing great, though. If anyone needs seeds for Lamb's Ear or Purple Coneflower, let me know, I have plenty!!

The Great Outdoors

We just returned from the Rains family camping trip where we celebrated Al's and Tayliana's birthdays and had lots of fun on the lake. We camped out at Lake Tenkiller for a few days. We love to go camping, and Dennis makes sure we are always well equipped. Luckily, we missed some of the bad weather over the weekend, too.

As you can tell, my belly is getting much bigger (I'm the big green one-hehe), but I'm still feeling good and enjoying being pregnant. We're looking forward to being "mommy and daddy".

My mom is home now and having hospice care. She has lots of family coming to visit often, including me, and I know she is happy about that and enjoys the company. Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers, keep it up for us if you will, we still have a rough road ahead.

I finally had the chance to see my mom today, she is in the hospital again after another seizure and vision problems. Her tests show that her tumors have not been affected by her treatment and there is not much the doctors can do right now. She is only 47. We could all use your thoughts and prayers to get through all this, no matter what happens.

Growing

I had a doctor's appointment today, everything is going great. Doc estimates his length about 12 inches and weight a little over a pound. We don't have any pictures of him this time, but his heartbeat sounded great and I can feel him moving around very frequently now, especially when it's time for bed. Dennis even got to see my belly move and feel him for the first time last week!!

I got these little pj's today, they were too cute to pass up, so I thought I'd share, it's fun getting baby stuff!

On another family note, my mom is back in the hospital due to some brain swelling. I don't know all the details at the moment, but she could use your prayers, as could my sister and I as we deal with the turmoil that is my stepdad.

I found this little mechanic hat last week and thought it was too cute! It's sitting on the little quilt that I pieced together quite a while ago, I had someone quilt it for me, turned out very cute, so thought I'd share with you.


Baby boy is definitely growing, I can tell when he moves, there's no doubt when it's him now.
We've been working on a few names, so far the ones we like best are Dennis (probably go by middle name so I won't go insane), Patrick, and Cooper. A few others we liked were Evan, Case, or Mason. Dennis is really getting into the names, we've been having a lot of fun! Right now, I just call him "Baby Boy". Let me know your favorites or any new ones!


Other than baby, there is not a lot of news at the moment. I have not started my director qualification just yet, still getting there, but it will happen soon. I don't have any good garden pics yet, but hopefully the rain will subside long enough for my roses to put on a show again. Dennis has been staying really busy with his business, this is the busy season for him. The latest news on my mom is that she will be finishing up her treatments next week and she is doing as good as can be expected, and getting the use of her right side back so we're happy about that.

That's all the news I have for now- Happy Mother's Day!!!

It's a Boy!!

We went to our 20 week ultrasound and check up today. We are having a boy! It's great to finally find out. Everything checked out good and he's very active. Now we can work on names and shopping for baby things!

(if you click on the picture, you can get a better look- the bottom left has arrows so you can tell it's definitely a boy)

We're at week 17! Everything is going great! I got to hear the heartbeat for the first time today, it was so cool!

The baby has been very active, I've been feeling it move for a couple weeks, it's getting more noticeable now. Little "bean" was a wiggle-worm during the ultrasound, but too shy to tell the sex. We'll have to wait until the in-depth ultrasound on May 1st.

The top picture is the back, a little "mooner"-hehehe. The bottom one is the front (laying sideways) with head on the right, you can kind of make out a little face and arms. Baby was moving too much to get the shots of the arms and legs stretched out and the silhouette, but I did get to see it on the screen.