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!

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!