Baby News & Thanksgiving Wrap-up!

As most of you now know, CLS and I are expecting our second child on the 17th of April next year. We are excited, and I'm a little nervous since they'll be 16 months apart, but I know it will be such a blessing. Anyway...we found out a couple weeks ago that it will be a GIRL!!! Crazy, I know! I had expected a boy and actually kind of hoped a boy because we are out of storage space in our apartment, but I am getting more excited to have a little girl. It will give us an opportunity to teach MHS how to treat girls and someone for me to play dress up with. Some have inquired about my health, any sickness and what not. I'm thankful to say that I wasn't as sick with this one as I was with MHS. I compare the two like Montezuma's revenge vs. the stomach flu. Not the most pleasant, but not the worst thing either. I haven't had any pregnancy induced vomiting, only flu induced, but that's over with. All is going well and we hope it continues in that direction. I am using the same Dr. and CNM that delivered MHS and will deliver in the same hospital. It went so well last time, why change a good thing?

Onto Thanksgiving...we had such a great time! Some of my siblings, my parents, grandmother, and cousin with his family all went to this beautiful cabin in Pinetop (25 people total). It snowed and we got to do lots of fun things. CLS went squirrel hunting and then cut it up (yuck!), fishing, saw the new James Bond, and put on "Wheel of Fortune" on his projector for the family to play. I got to do some scrapbooking and finished 8 pages (That's good for me!), played Skip-bo, overate and just relaxed! MHS was in heaven on the huge sheepskin rug, he LOVED it! He had a great time playing with all of his cousins, going on a ride in Uncle Mike's Vroom-Vroom (Ranger) to see the Christmas lights, sitting by the fire and eating marshmallows (one of his favorites) and watching the boys have snowball fights (he thought that was really funny!). All in all it was a great Thanksgiving, now it's onto working off all of those extra calories by doing Christmas shopping, ugh!