This past Monday we recieved highly anticipated news when we went for a scan to find out the gender of our baby. While Bailey and I along with many other friends and family were rooting for a girl, the boys in the family including Devin were hoping for another boy. So when the doctor said it's a girl there were mixed emotions among the crowd. We are all excited and happy to be having another healthy baby but the boys were only a little disappointed. Teagan, our most stubborn is the only one still holding out, believing there is a margin of error to the doctor's guess. Anyway, now we can start working on names and unpacking baby clothes, and sewing projects. Bailey is thrilled to be getting a sister and I'm happy it's even with 2 boys and 2 girls. Let's just hope the doctor's margin of error it very very small. ;-)
As for other news, we've been busy with the usual things like school and appointments. Just about every week in April and May has some appointment. By the end of this month we will have been to the dentist, the vet, the OB, and the optometrist at least 3 times each. I like the fact that since we homeschool we can have morning appointments when these place are typically less busy but it also interferes with the school schedule and leaves us missing more days than we should.
This month wraps up our extracurriculars like cub scouts and the boys' Bible study. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with something for them to do over the summer but they don't want to do anything I come up with. I may just have to pick for them.
We have several trips planned for the year. We are taking a long weekend over Memorial Day and headed up to Yosemite. We are staying in a cabin outside the park. I am not a Californian and haven't learned the art of booking campsites 6 months in advance! We've never been to Yosemite and are looking forward to a nice weekend spent mostly outdoors! Just not the 6 hour drive with a dog. :-) If anyone has tips or suggestions on what to see there please let me know!
In August we are planning a family reunion (on my side) in Breckenridge, Colorado. So far my sisters and their families, An Uncle and his family and possibly my Grandparents are planning to come. It will be a long drive especially while being 34 weeks pregnant by then. We are so looking forward to getting away though and seeing family. Some of which I haven't seen in years!
In October we plan to go back to England for Devin's graduation from University. He has really wanted to do this and we had to postpone going in March because we thought he would be deployed. So now we plan for October. We will be leaving our bigger kids with my parents and be bringing along a 1 month old. Not ideal but I'm going to support my husband and I'm proud of his accomplishment. We will finally be able to call him Dr.!
Well time to end this long ramble. I haven't been very good about taking pictures lately. I hope to get some recent ones put up here soon!
