oh my word....I'm finally blogging!

sorry to those who've been waiting for updates...they just might be a little fewer and farther between the next couple of months....at least until my first trimester is over, because mason's naptime is now mommy's naptime, and if i'm not throwing up, i'm sleeping...so apologies ahead of time, i'll do my best! we're hanging in there! first of all...I CAN'T BELIEVE we are HAVING ANOTHER BABY!!! we are so excited...it's crazy, but we are so glad they'll be close in age, just like kerry and brent and mara and i (little closer in age than mara and i hahah) but we're so excited about that! i think brent and i were somewhat shocked yet elated! God's timing is always perfect, so we know that things will work out just fine! (i keep hanging on to that promise...because late oct.-early nov. will be here SO soon and at times that freaks me out a bit...like just now haha) so anyway...what else has been going on??

one funny story...the first pregnancy test i took, i completely didn't believe the negative part of the (+) was FAR darker than the vertical part of the plus...so it was about 10pm and i made brent run to walgreens to get another kind of test...he came back with the kind that said "pregnant" or "not pregnant" to clear up any confusion...smart man, i married. :)

well...we have ONE CHUBBY baby right now! he is weighing in still about about 26 pounds and has NO desire to crawl. We put him on his stomach so much now, too (which our next baby...we'll do even MORE) haha....but he spins around and then just lays his head down, like "oh mom..it's too hard, i'll just take a nap instead" he LOVES walking and can walk almost all alone with his walker (needs a little help to keep from going too fast or else he face plants) but he does great doing that...and LOVES it, the dr. said he might just go pretty much right to walking, i just keep thinking, especially recently because he's almost 11 months and still doesn't go anywhere...HA...one of my clients said the other day, "JESSICA!! YOu have GOT to get him crawling!!" i was like???WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO??? i do all that i can, i can't MAKE him crawl...he needs a fire in his belly. he's too dang cute when he lays his head down to get mad at though...here's mason 'trying' to crawl...


let's see...what else? trying to make up for lost time...everything else has been going great...easter was AWESOME and so much fun being able to spend time with both families...we are so blessed with the family that we have. we REALLY don't ever want to take living close to them for granted, because i feel SO blessed that we have that opportunity. Easter at Palm valley was so great then sunday morning Mason and i went to west side and that was so great too! being there was so much fun!


i wish we had the money to take a trip back to IN, emailing and being in touch with friends from there, makes me want to come home for a visit! that would be SO much fun! blogs, emails, phone calls...for now will do! just some random thoughts! :) heheh!!!
Noah...mason's little buddy turned 2 on Easter...his "curious george" bday party was adorable and lots of fun...he was so excited that night at this party, it was so cute! here are some from that night...we had lots of fun celebrating with the Rudd's!


and last but not least, i have to give brent some credit for picking up some major slack around the house lately, because honestly i felt like our house was falling apart and crashing down around me but i couldn't think about anything but resting my eyes when mason's sleeping :) SO...i came home to several loads of laundry done, our room picked up...lots of little things done around the house that normally need a little prompting from the wife :) and brent had done SO much without me even muttering a word...you know what that means...business time. :)

LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH! off to bed...hahah, it's 7:52. NIGHT!