Phoenix and her ties~

Phoenix's favorite thing in the world is playing with the ties that you peel off of gallon bottle lids. Any time we open a new milk, water, or sweet tea we always show her and she is front and center to watch as we peel it off slowly and then give it to her. She goes ape for these things. The minute she gets it out of our hands she is all over the place with it until 20-30 minutes later when it ends up under the fridge or the stove. I would bet that when those appliances are moved there will be at least 50 ties found under each. Here she was too impatient to wait for us to take it off before biting it. Below is the play by play action... Travis starting to peel it off but stopping half way to see what she does...
So she starts biting it and pulling at it with her teeth...

She kept doing this so we pulled the rest of it off for her and gave it to her. She tosses it in the air; here is an action shot, you can see it right by her paw. I think she looks like a boxer.
Another action shot as it falls off her paw...
Usually if Travis or I try to take it from her after she has it she runs away with it before we can get close to it.
But this time she just kinda stood there with her paw on it watching Travis to see if she needed to run.
She is so funny. We get such a kick out of watching her with these little things.

30 Weeks~

Well, 30 weeks along and doing great. I am more tired lately and I am swelling a little. I don't think I am going to wear my ring anymore because my hands have been swelling and that makes it uncomfortable. When my feet swell Travis says I have "sausage toes". :)
Jake is moving a lot and I am getting more and more anxious to see him. We love him!

Jake's Sonogram Picture~

Isn't the technology amazing! Here he is with his eye closed.

We are 29 weeks along and it was so fun to see him again. He looks good, measuring big-no surprise to us!

They are estimating his weight right now to be 3 pounds 12 oz.

When I saw his face I immediately thought he looked like Travis. You can't see it as much in this picture maybe as you could on the video. We were able to see him blink too! I was so impressed and proud.

San Antonio Baby Shower

We had our last baby shower Easter weekend in New Braunfels. This was a couples shower with all of our family in San Antonio and Trav's friends and their families. It was such a beautiful day and everyone had so much fun. We ate BBQ, the kids played, had an egg hunt, opened gifts for Jacob, and had a wonderful time.

I loved having a shower with Travis. I had been having all the fun with the other showers and it was fun sharing it with him.

It was really fun letting him open the gifts and having the kids help us. They were all so cute and happy to see what Jake was getting.

With my niece Emma

Travis and I with all the kids at the shower. We rounded up all the kids for this picture while the parents hid Easter Eggs.

PaPaw (Trav's Dad) and Allie (our niece)

Travis with David Walters and Brian Campion. They have been friends since they were kids.

Wood Good Friday Party~

This year we were in San Antonio for Easter. Trav's parents have a tradition of having family and some friends over for Good Friday. They get a Bounce House in the back yard, cook lots of food, have an Easter egg hunt, dye eggs, and have fun. We were able to go this year and it was so much fun.

Trav's cousin Meghan and her son Nathan

Travis and his niece Emma

Travis and his niece Allie

Playing in the bounce house with the kids

All the kids attacking Uncle Travis

28 weeks along

28 weeks this week

Jake is moving all the time! We have a very active boy on the way. I am feeling great. I am able to exercise more now without any pain, unlike my whole second trimester. My doctor said that in the third trimester the body releases a hormone to loosen the ligaments and get the body ready for birth, and it has definitely kicked in. Praise God! I had not been exercising at all before so now I can.

We are with Trav's family this Easter and looking forward to it. We also have our last baby shower on Saturday and I am so glad Travis gets to be there to share in the fun! We are looking forward to it. :)

Our Guest Room

Trav's dad is coming out to see us tomorrow and we are so excited to see him. I hope he doesn't mind sleeping in crowded spaces because our guest room is overflowing with all of Jakes stuff. Plus, John is bringing out more. Here is what it looks like now. It will soon have a crib, pack and Play, and more gifts from the shower. We are waiting until we move to set everything up.
We are blessed and our spare room shows it!!! :)

3rd Trimester!!!!

I am 27 weeks today and the books say this is the start of the last trimester. It sounds like it is going by so fast when I say I am in my 7th month and in my 3rd trimester, but July 5th sounds far away.