Happy Anniversary!
Today, Nick and I have been married for 5 years! As with everything else in life it has flown by in the blink of an eye! It seems only yesterday that we were at Chops Lobster Bar celebrating our first Anniversary and we were pregnant with Ava...now this time around we have another miracle on the way with Bennett.
I know there is no one else I'd rather share this roller coaster journey called life with. While there are moments we would both like to rap our hands around the other person's neck...the majority of the time we are the perfect balance for each other. When one of us is "crazy" the other person is perfectly sane.

While life continues to present us with tremendous joys and ever present challenges, it all seems better just knowing that we have each other by our side. I know I look forward to many many more years to come, and I thank God everyday from the bottom of my heart for sending this loving, funny, and generous man my way!

I pulled out the video I posted last year, and updated it a little bit...so I'm sure many of you will get the same laugh as we did when looking back to 2000 when we first started dating. It's funny to see once Ava arrived how all the pictures seem to include the three of us...we wouldn't have it any other way!

The girls getting ready

"The Boys"
Where would we be without our family!
Here's to many more!!

Update...25 weeks!

Well only around 15 weeks to go, and we know it will be here before we know it. Monday, we went to the Perinatologist Dr. Korotkin for a ultrasound/scan. This time they did their normal measurements, but also check the placenta for good function and the cord/placenta for blood clots. Everything looks great and it seems Bennett is growing in leaps and bounds! He is measuring in at 1 pound 12 ounces and looks wonderful!

He put on quite the show and yawned and even stuck out his tongue. I guess that's one plus with being considered "high risk"...you get to see little things that the "average" pregnancy doesn't get to. Ava was able to watch on the TV and thought it was pretty neat!

On March 2nd, I have the glucose screening test so please say a few extra prayers that I will not have gestational diabetes. The Doctors feel that it was the prednisone that triggered the diabetes with Ava, so hopefully since I don't have to be on it this go around everything will come back fine and I won't have to take the 3 hour glucose tolerance test.

Here's another profile pic...it seems we keep getting the same one every time but we are thankful that we do get a few extra pictures of our little guy!

This one might seem a little odd...but it is a image from the front of his face...you can tell he is smiling. Don't worry his nose is normal...he moved just as the image was captured.
Oh...and as requested another one of me and my ever GROWING belly!

Again thanks for your continued prayers, and we are hard at work on the nursery so we'll post pictures soon!

Happy "Heart" Day!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Valentines Day, spent with all of your favorite people! The past few weeks have been full of Valentine's Day fun, so I thought I would post a few pictures of our little love bug...she's been quite busy!

Ava and I recently made heart cookies together. She had so much fun rolling out the dough, using her heart cookie cutter, making pink frosting and adding pink & red sprinkles. Needless to say...we were all different versions of pink by the time this fun day was over!

Ava was so excited to pack up valentine goody bags for her classmates at school. She carefully picked out a different pencil, eraser, stickers and other goodies for each child...I know she can't help it...she's just like her mama!

Friday, they had a sweet hearts dance at school. They exchanged valentines, had pink & red treats and danced their hearts out! It was so cute and she had tons of fun!