Welcome Baby Jovi!

I Just wanted to say Congratulations to my dear cousin Jackie and her awesome husband Ben. After being a week late, their sweet baby girl finally arrived yesterday(6/29/09). Weighing in at 8lbs 4oz and 21 inches long. They named her Jovi Jane Atkinson! I think she's just beautiful, but how could she not be with parents like hers! Ben and Jackie your going to make wonderful parents!

Tates 3yr checkup

It went well! got in, got out!
Tate's STATS: Height- 39" (80-85 Percentile) Weight- 37.6 lbs (90 percentile)
Tate is a normal, healthy, 3yr old!

12 weeks and 3 days

I had my first Dr. appointment today. I have been waiting for so long. I made my apt when I first found out I was prego, at 3 wks. They didn't want to see me til I was 12 wks I saw the nurse 3 wks ago, I just had a bunch of blood drawn and they gave me my due date, and whatever! So this time I got the exam and got to hear baby's heartbeat. I was really looking forward to hearing the heartbeat and whether or not it was high or low. They say a higher heartbeat for a girl and lower for a boy. I know this isn't always correct. Especially, since I have a friend that's pregnant and her baby's heartbeat was high and she found out she is having a boy. I just wanted something to go off of since I still have 8 wks til I find out. Of course, I didn't get anything. Heartbeat was in the 150's she didn't tell me if it was higher 150's or lower 150's. Aah! I just want to know!!! I am thankful that baby sounds good tho.
Just a lil bit of how I have been feeling. Pretty good! I have been sicker this time I feel like then the other 2, but I still can't call it sick. I just feel a lil nauseous if I don't eat breakfast right away, and if I take my vitamins on an empty stomach. I haven't thrown up at all tho. I definitely feel bigger this time. They say the more pregnancies you have the faster you show, blah blah blah. I don't know, but my belly is definitely large.
Anyways, that's all I guess. I'll put up a picture soon!

I love my Cricut

It was my birthday on sunday the 7th. Eric got me the Cricut Expression(the big one). I am so excited! Just wanted to say thankyou babe, I love it, love it, love it.

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Ok, so there is again another HUGE round of woman who are newly pregnant. Everyone I stinkin know. I've posted before, about how much it drove me crazy. I just want a baby #3 so bad. Also as I have mentioned before, Eric and I were scheduled to start trying for baby 3 in April. I got my IUD removed in Jan. so I could track my menstrual and ovulation schedules for a few months before. We always knew we probably wouldn't get pregnant right away. I mean, who does that ever happen to? right? Oh wait...........that happens to me. They call me fertle myrtle!!! That's right Baby number 3 is on it's way. We got pregnant literally on the first time "trying". It was 4 days before I missed my period that I took a pregnancy test. I just knew, I can't really explain how, just a feeling. I am 10 weeks today! My due date is Jan. 1, 2010 "New Years" What a fabulous way to start a new year! I think everyone knows what I'm praying for. GIRL!!!! I think we all want a girl here. We'll love it no matter what tho. I'm just so excited to get to go through the amazing process of being pregnant again!
Kenden is so cute he is so excited, I know he is going to be a huge help. He tells me all the time it's gonna be a sister. That he wants a sister, because he already has a turd of a brother. He of course has named HER too. Cutest thing! 'Happy Feet'! He comes up and rubs my belly all the time and talks to HER!
Tate, I don't think understands as much as kenden, but he's excited too and tries to talk to baby, by prying open my mouth and talking into it.

I feel like I never have time to sit down and post about the things going on. This is going to be another long post.
Starting with the weekend before memorial weekend! Our 6 yr wedding anniversary was on Sunday the 17th. I can hardly believe it's been 6 years. We decided to go to Bandon for the weekend. We rented a cute lil cottage that was on the river, and a short distance to the beach. It was the cutest thing. It was definitely kid friendly, with a childrens play area, lots of toys, and a tricycle track that went all the way around the cottage with 3 trikes. Kenden and Tate especially loved the tea set and the chalkboard. While we were there we went to the petting zoo. It's just outside Bandon, and it's supposed to be the largest petting zoo in America. They have all sort of goats, Llama's, dear, and peacocks running around that you can touch and feed. Then, they have the wild animals in cages like the Tigers, lions, and bears (oh my) Pumas,chimps, Leopards lynx, etc. We got to pet a Lynx (that was awesome), an elk, turtle, wallaby, and we were able to hold a possum, skunks, and some ferrets. The boys had so much fun. Kenden was trying to hug every animal he could get his arms around. The Llama's didn't like that so much. Tate got followed around by a little pygmy goat that tried eating his shirt. They really loved the Wallabies and enjoyed feeding a Mama and Joey.
After our trip to the game park, we got some lunch, then went down on the beach for some playing in the sand. It was beautiful in Bandon, but of course windy on the beach we found some huge rocks and sat down in the middle of them, to block the wind. Kenden and Tate ended up wrestling and Tate got sand shoved in his eyes and mouth. poor kid, he was trying to rub the sand out of his eyes with his hands that were covered in sand.
When we were finished at the beach we went and walked around old town Bandon for a lil bit and told the boys they could pick out one thing. Of course they wanted these lil tiny, I mean teeny glass figurines. Kendens is a duck, and Tates is a clown fish. After walking around we headed back to the cottage I started not feeling very well and we wanted to try and get the boys to nap. Eric went fishing on the river while Kenden, Tate, and i napped. We decided to make dinner that night, so after Eric went fishing he went and got the groceries we needed. And snuck back to old town and bought this necklace and bracelet I had been eyeing earlier that day. We had decided to not get anything for each other for our anniversary just go for the weekend, he always breaks the rules.
The next day we headed back. We had to get back to Eugene in time for Erics lil sisters Sweet 16 birthday party. It was a sweets theme so they had all kinds of yummy sweets and chocolate covered strawberries. YUM! My husbands step mom had a bunch of people talk about macaela or tell a memory about her. Eric and I included in those people. Well Kenden wanted that microphone and was up there grabbing for it any chance he got. He gave a lil speech, and sang quite of few songs, ABC's, twinkle twinkle, and Country boy, being a couple of them. It was pretty cute, and it turns out it was the cutest version of ABC's people had ever heard.


Pictures won't upload right now. I'll have them up soon!

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND-

We didn't do much Memorial day weekend we headed down to Klamath Falls to see our families. Eric ended up helping his mom and step dad, tear up their old deck and build a new one. He did that for 2 days, he says he worked harder doing that then he works actually at work. So I didn't get to see my family as much as I would have liked, but it was a good weekend anyway.
Cranberry Juice got spilled in my purse so my camera is broken, so I have no pictures from this trip.

LAST WEEKEND-

Nothing to exciting to post about. We all got burnt. Kenden and Tate not so much, cause I put sunscreen on them, but Eric is fried like a lobster. The tops of my shoulders just got really red. We took the boat on the river, for about 5 hours. It was really relaxing. We cruised up and down til we found a lil island we liked then stopped. Eric went fishing and the boys and I played in the sand and the water. We island hopped a few times, whenever Eric got tired of not catching anything on one island. Again no pictures!