It's A...............

Well considering we've known for over a month now we thought it was time to share what our new little miracle will be Girl or Boy???

So for those of you that have guessed correctly...

IT'S A BOY!!!

We are very excited and blessed that God has chosen a little boy to complete our family in June. Ava could have sworn to you that it was a girl and was none to thrilled for about a week that she would have a baby brother, but after a little time for it to sink in, many questions, and a little coaxing she is thrilled that she will have someone to take care of and play with...even if it is a boy!

Now she talks to him every morning and tells him goodnight. She can't wait for "summer" to get here and has been Daddy's special helper around the house. Hopefully the excitement will continue... This morning she told me "Let me tell you a secret about what I'm going to do when he gets here"..."I'm going to teach him how to walk, talk, read, sit on the potty, and teach him not to jump on the couch." Hopefully she won't be too disappointed to learn that he won't be doing many of those things for quite a while.

We are very excited and have already begun to think blue instead of pink!

On the 14th we will be 20 weeks and went on the 5th for our anatomy check and ultrasound with Dr. Korotkin. He was very pleased with our little wiggle worm and everything looked great! We are measuring right on track, maybe a little ahead and go back and see him in 6 weeks.

Here is a picture from Monday's visit...another profile pic. The little guy is measuring in at 9 ounces.

Somehow over the past 3 1/2 years we managed to keep it a secret and save the name we had picked out in case Ava was a boy. We literally had this name picked out when I was only 8 weeks pregnant with Ava and thought of it while on our annual ski trip to Utah. So for those of you wondering what his name will be...we plan on naming him...

Bennett Parker Morrow

and we plan on calling him Bennett.

Besides the normal "growing pains" I'm feeling great! Here is another growing belly pic for those of you we haven't seen in a while. Please continue to pray that my Lupus will stay in control and our little boy continues to grow and thrive!

We're so excited to share this next step with you and promise to post more pics soon!

Love you all!

Jennifer, Nick, Ava and baby Bennett

Merry Christmas!!!

As always with lots of wonderful family to see our holiday season is spent just like everyone elses darting from house to house spending time with family, opening gifts, snapping pictures and filling our bellies. Our Christmas Eve was spent with the Morrow Family this year as we alternate each year.

Ava enjoyed spending time in Aunt Libby's basement playing toys with her cousin Andy.

She even stayed still for a quick picture with Uncle Adam and Kalista

And of course her favorite part...opening gifts with Aunt Katie and Granny. Look at the giant triceratops that Uncle Adam and Kalista gave her. She LOVES dinosaurs and named her three horn Sarah.

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve and enjoyed spending time with all of our family!

Christmas Day
After our annual Christmas Eve service at church and hot chocolate at Gigi's house we headed home for a quick night's sleep. Ava didn't seem to mind the lack of sleep...she was all smiles waking up bright an early!

Look...Rudolph ate his apple and of course Santa ate his cookies!

Where does she begin????

Wait...what could be hiding underneath that table cloth?

Oh my...it's an enormous pink dollhouse! (More on the story of this dollhouse later)

ooohhh...look at all the dollhouse accessories!

Nothing's better on Christmas Day than a snuggle from Uncle Chris!

Hopefully sitting on all the wrapping paper will make more room!

Oh no...doesn't Mommy look pretty in this picture :0

After a yummy breakfast, we all got ready and headed over to Gigi and G-Paws house! We opened more presents and had yet another delicious meal!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas...we sure did!

Cookie Time!

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is baking my great grandmother's sugar cookies and other special treats. Last week, while Papa Guy was in Scotland Mimi came down and us girls got to baking! We put on our matching aprons, mixed and chilled the dough and starting pressing our old fashioned sugar cookies with Christmas sugar (or if you were Ava...pink & purple sugar). We had tons of fun and once again it was a very special day for all of us...especially when we got to sit down with the yummy warm cookies and a cold glass of milk!

Peeling the wrappers off the Hershey kisses

Of course...you have to taste test and make sure their perfect!

Pressing the pink & purple sugar on the cookies.

Callaway Gardens & Happy 30th Birthday to Me!

Friday night the three of us and Mimi and Papa loaded up and headed for a fun little getaway & birthday celebration to Callaway Gardens. Right now, nothing better sounded to me then spending a low key fun day with some of my favorite people.

Ava always enjoys the beautiful lights and actually stayed awake the whole trolley ride this year (if it had been 5 more minutes though we would have lost her). It was FREEZING, and while we enjoyed snuggling under blankets, we were happy to head inside for a visit to Santa. Ava couldn't wait to see him and had no problem telling him she wanted a Rudolph the red nosed reindeer and a "hard" dollhouse (as opposed to her "soft fabric" Pottery Barn one).

After talking to Santa we headed back to our Cottage for some delicious birthday cake and presents.

The next morning we woke up and went to breakfast. Ava got another special treat as Rudolph decided to pay our table a visit. When he walked in she stood up in her chair yelling Rudolph come see me!

It was a wonderful birthday and I appreciate everyone who called, sent cards or emailed me!

Please save the date...

We have exciting news to share...that we've been keeping a secret since the end of September!

Please save the date of June 5th, 2009 for the arrival of a new baby Morrow! That's right Ava is going to be a big sister come late spring.

We have been hoping to tell everyone in person, but with the holidays and everyone's busy schedules we can't wait any longer.

We are so excited and thrilled beyond words that God has blessed us with another opportunity to be parents again. We are right at 16 weeks, and everything is going wonderful so far. Currently, I'm only on my normal medications and hopefully my Lupus will continue to stay in a good spot throughout the duration of this journey. I do have to say that it is a completely different pregnancy so far than the one we had with Ava, and we are once again enjoying every minute of it!

So without any further ado, we'd like to introduce a few pictures of the little girl/guy (we already know what we are having...but will keep a few of you guessing a little longer). We were able to find out early at the Perinatologist/Dr. Korotkin's office on Monday, December 8th which was a real treat as Ava got to see the baby for the first time.

This was at 9 weeks...still looks like a "bean"

These are pictures from Monday's appointment (14 weeks/5 days)

Profile pictures

This picture is of one of the baby's feet/ and one of it's legs bent...apparantly it's just relaxing! You can see the little bones in the toes too!

We are delighted to finally be able to share this exciting news with all of our friends and family, and it's wonderful to finally be in the second trimester!

Here's me...at 16 weeks.

We can't wait to share more pictures...and the gender with you soon!!

Love to you all!

Jennifer, Nick & Ava

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Decorating the house for the holidays, is always something that we enjoy (more so when everything is set up). Now that Ava is 3...as you can imagine she is all about trimming the tree, hanging the stockings, and helping mommy in setting up her Christmas in the City. She didn't hesitate in telling us where we should place all the ornaments on the tree, I guess she had her own "vision". We still have some more decorating to do, and as soon as it stops raining she can't wait to help daddy put up our little front porch tree.

Ava posing with all of the Christmas in the City boxes.

Ava with part of the finished product.

The Pink Pig

Every year, we make it a point to pay a visit to the Pink Pig with Mimi. This is something that Ava looks forward to throughout the year. Whenever we go to Lenox and park at the top of the parking deck, Ava asks us when the Pink Pig will be "coming home". She has always loved riding the Pink Pig, but this year she squealed with delight and had so much fun. She was finally tall enough to be in a car of her own and couldn't contain her excitement!