3 months to go...

21 weeks ( I think some of the growth this week can be attributed to all the great food we ate in San Francisco)

23 weeks

25 weeks

And lastly today at 27 weeks which is also exactly 6 months for me!!! I have been feeling great, but my mom told me I really must be pregnant when I told her that I considered putting a fried egg on my tuna fish sandwich the other day ( I just thought about it, I didn't do it), but honestly I still don't think it sounds that bad. Some other things I have been craving lately include: strawberries, doritos, and smoothies. So far I feel like I have been really lucky in my pregnancy,  other than a few headaches at the beginning, I can count on one hand the number of days I have been sick and still have fingers to spare. I still feel like I have a long time to go till our little girl is here, but we have to be getting closer, right???

Easter fun!!

So I know this post is a little late, but it was too funny not to share. We had a really fun Easter where we decorated cookies and had a super yummy ham dinner with Megan and Andrew.

Since we did the cookies the night before Easter, Carson was at work and did not get to participate. I was texting him before we started though, and he requested that I make a cookie for him that said " Carson Loves Lindsay Most." I told him no way, and I instead made the cookie you see below that says, "Lindsay Loves Carson Most." Then I took a picture of the cookie and sent it to Carson. He said that he was going to take a permanent marker and change it when he got there. I told him he would have to eat it then.

So then when Carson joined us after he got off work I told him to go in the kitchen and see his cookie. Well he went in the kitchen and stayed in there for a long time. We could only imagine what he was doing, (I still had the image of a permanent marker on frosting in my head}. After a long time he came back with the masterpiece you see below.

Quite creative, and probably more edible than ink from a permanent marker.

But we all know I really love Carson most.

San Francisco

For spring break Carson and I headed to San Francisco with Megan and Andrew for a few days. It was a great trip, we did so many fun things, saw so many cool sites, and ate soooo much good food. The millions of pictures below are the big

highlights of the trip

Eating yummy burgers in San Jose

Visiting the Winchester Mystery Mansion

This house was purchased by Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Winchester. She thought she was being haunted and was told that she could keep the spirits at bay if she built a house and never finished it. This led the the mystery mansion of staircases that go straight to ceilings, doors that go nowhere, and many other architectural oddities.

We had a fun time touring the mansion. We stayed near the back of the group so Carson was free to explore all the doors and cupboards, he even found a trap door in the floor.

Even though it was a little chilly, we had to stop at the beach for a bit

Carson thought it would be fun to bury my legs in the sand, and then a random dog came to visit while I was immobile

Hiking in the Muir Woods

Redwood trees are so cool

The bakery at pier 39 really made me want to try making shapes with my bread

Alcatraz

We had a great time learning about the history of Alcatraz with the audio tour. We were particularly fascinated by the break out attempts and successes

We also had a great lunch in China town. I was pretty surprised at how similar some of the foods were to real food from China

We had a ton of fun at the Musee Mecanique

The best part was a heated battle of hockey that ended in overtime with Carson and I as the victors

The losers

He sure is cute

Pier 39

One of our favorite places was the Mirror Maze (yes we drove for hours and paid $5.00 a person to have the most fun at the mirror maze)

Once we stepped inside the maze we realized how confusing it really was. Since we had the whole place to ourselves we decided to play tag, a much harder task than it sounds. At one point I thought I was sneaking up on Carson only to turn a corner and tag/punch myself in a mirror. The best part was watching Megan running at me when she totally ran into herself and bounced off her own image onto the floor. There were actually many times that Megan and I were on the floor because we were laughing so hard.

The sea lions!! We kept hitting the pier at night so we could barely see them, but I kept insisting that we had to see them during the day, it wasn't until our last day there that we managed to see them in the daytime.

Carson and I with Alcatraz in the background

Some other highlights of the trip include:

• Walking hours to see Japanese town in San Jose when it really was not worth seeing at all
• Our super smelly hotel room in San Francisco. The carpets had been cleaned and never dried leading to a very musty smell that the nose never adjusted to, luckily we got to move rooms after the first night
• Hitting Ghirardelli Square for some chocolate
• Eating in Little Italy with a never ending supply of bread
• Seeing the Golden Gate Bridge
• The yummy scone place we stopped for breakfast on our last day
• And the best part... not having to worry about school or work for a few days and getting to spend time with each other

It's a....

We had an ultrasound the other day to find out if our baby is a boy or a girl...

15 weeks

17 weeks

19 weeks

And the verdict is... a GIRL!!!

She had her face hidden through the ultrasound so we never got to see it, but we did get to see her little feet move back and forth, and she gave us a few waves. We are so excited, and we cannot wait for her to get here!!

You can't tell yet...

But there is a baby in there!!!

This is my pic from 13 weeks, I am now closer to 15 weeks, and maybe showing a tiny bit more. Hopefully I will post more pics soon. Carson and I were so happy when we found out just a week before Thanksgiving that we are going to have a baby. We decided to keep it a secret until Christmas and then we would tell both our families. Boy was it hard to not say anything when we saw everyone for Thanksgiving, but we managed. Then for Christmas we wrapped up our ultrasound picture, a cute little Christmas outfit (that will hopefully fit our little one by the time Christmas rolls around again), and some diapers. At the Dalton's we let Morgan open the present because she told us that all she wanted for Christmas was to be an aunt. She screamed she was so excited, as was everyone else. We let my Mom open the gift at the Holyoak's, and I am not really sure what everyone's initial reaction was because I was sitting next to Stacy who was yelling at Jeremy that he was missing everything. I did hear my Mom exclaim, "there is only one," when she saw the ultrasound picture. I guess one set of twin grandkids is not enough for her. The baby is due on July 24th, which seems really far away to me. I have been feeling pretty good so far, just a couple headaches, and only one or two trips to the bathroom to toss my breakfast (always at work because it is much more embarrassing there).

Besides sharing our exciting news, we also had a really fun Christmas. We managed to both get a few days off so we could have a little longer vacation. We played games, ate great food, and got to spend lots of time with family. We also got family pictures taken on my side, something that has not happened in a long time since it is so hard to get all of us together. Our pictures won't lack character though because there was lots of crying and unhappiness from some of the younger ones, and of course since I have the brothers that I have, there were many snowballs thrown directly at the head. It was not uncommon to be standing there patiently waiting to get your picture taken, and then all the sudden you would get hit in the back of the head. I'm sure there is snow, and more than one messed up hairdo caught on camera.

Now one more amusing story for the end of my post. The other day I was at work and this little 4 year old girl kept climbing and jumping on me. I finally told her that she couldn't jump on my belly because there was a baby in there. She immediately says, "Are you fat?" and starts trying to lift up my shirt. It was way funny, and then she would ask me if my baby was crying? Kids say the funniest things.

Decorating!!

Oops I didn't really mean to go a month without posting, but since Carson and I seem to be forgetting our camera everywhere we go, there were no pictures, or worthy stories to post about.

We did have an awesome Thanksgiving (even though there are no pictures). We got to go to Moab for a quick trip, and even though we would have liked to have gotten to stay longer, we also like being employed. Anyway we had Thanksgiving at 1:00 with the Daltons, and then at 2:00 with the Holyoaks, so we were very stuffed by the end of the day. It is so fun to see family, and we played many games, and ate lots of yummy food. It was awesome. The day after Thanksgiving we had to head back home so Carson could go to work that night, but that just gave us a head start in getting our Christmas tree and decorations up.

We headed out one morning in search of a suitable tree, but oddly enough even though we drove around for hours all we could find were cedar trees, or very large pines. We had gone out past Carson's work because he said he saw a guy driving back from there with 3 trees in the back of his truck. Well we have no idea where he got his trees, because we couldn't find anything that we would even consider cutting down (and believe me were were not being picky at that point). So the next day we headed out again to a different spot, and we found our perfect tree surprisingly fast.

Our tree in its former home!

Superman after cutting it down

Carson begged me to let us get a yum yum tree this year, and then he even let me cut it down, a duty I took very seriously

Our stockings (can you guess which one is Carson's)

And our tree all decorated in its new home! I love our Christmas tree because we collect ornaments whenever we go someplace new, it is a tradition I started when I was off traveling the world. It makes me happy to see the ornaments now and think "that came all the way from China, or Ireland, or Switzerland..." Our newest ornament this year came from Yellowstone.

Pumpkins and other stuff...

Carson and I headed over to Megan and Andrew's to carve pumpkins the other day. We had to distract Alex a bit, but we had so much fun. I really like carving pumpkins, too bad you have to do the messy cleaning them out part first.

My witch and Carson's spooky tree

Our birthday party!! Carson and Andrew planned this little get together all on their own, and Andrew made us a sweet brownie cake.

Happy Birthday to us!!!

And the rest of the pics are of my Halloween village. I started collecting last year with a large total of 1 house. This year Megan got me another, so I decided that I would try to get a whole village, unfortunately some of the houses and buildings, and even the accessories are very expensive. So I decided I would try to make my own accessories, and even though they don't look as good at the ones at the store, I think it is way cool. I couldn't get a very good picture of it all lit up, but it looks pretty spooky and realistic in the dark.

We even made little hay bales :-)