It's a BOY! End of Week 20

Yay!  We are thrilled and excited to announce our first will be a boy!  We are naming him Dawson.  

So far, he's a kicker and a wiggler.  My doctor had told me at 14 weeks that we had a squirm-er.  He moves a TON!  It's fun getting to feel him moving around.  Jason has felt him once, but won't sit still long enough (seriously, only allows seconds) to feel him kicking.  Oh well, he'll just have to wait a little longer.  I'm carrying high and all out in front.  

Jason is a proud daddy already.  He loves telling his patients all about his baby -- now, his baby boy.  He also tells them that he's glad that he won't have to be spending the next few years in pink.  I kept trying to tell him he wasn't going to have to worry that much.  I wouldn't completely surround him in pink, especially Barbie pink.

Lately...

Okay, for some catch up...on the two of us.  Or rather the three of us! 

We have Baby Packard coming and is due January 20, 2012.  We are really excited!  As far as what each of us want, I think we've come to the conclusion that what ever comes to us, we will be thrilled.  Jason has mentioned that he would like a girl first, but that's so we have a little mommy to help out.  The next prenatal appointment is when we have our sonogram to find out how the little munchkin is doing and also find out what we are having.  We will have to update when we find out.  That'll be August 15th, as long as we don't become camera shy.  

Pictures to come...

6 Months

Every year, for who knows how long (without looking it up), Port Aransas, has their Sand Fest.  We went this afternoon and had fun.  It's amazing how detailed and creative people were.  I've never even come close to those sand creations.  We found out they use one part Elmer's Glue to 10 parts water.  THAT would be the missing ingredient to all my failed attempts!!!  I think we might go ahead and give it a try this year and see what we can come up with.  We might even have a future blog post of it! 

We took pictures and I'll see if I can post them.  Reason being, I was using Jason's laptop when suddenly, I had pop-up alerts about his hard drive show up.  I decided to exit out of them and not do anything since I had no idea if it was normal.  He had been having some issues a couple nights ago...  Well, needless to say, either he now has a virus on it or his hard drive crashed.  Hopefully, I wasn't the cause of it... 

Now, I am blogging from my phone -- pictures or not!

Kissed Frogs -- Found Prince!!!

WE finally GOT MARRIED!  

And here are the lovely photos from my uncle at Cecil Photography.  He did a great job and we had tons of fun.  It took place October 16, 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  We got married in the Salt Lake Temple and then had our luncheon/reception at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.  It was truly a special day for us and we are happy and very blessed to have found each other and chose to marry.  I can't speak for him, but I know that I'm one lucky girl to have him as my eternal companion and husband.  He's a pretty special guy and I feel that I must have been doing something right to find my prince.  I guess the saying is true, 'you have to kiss a bunch of frogs to find your prince,' in my case, that is.  Okay, so enough of me talking and here are some pictures of the two of us in our finest!

New, Latest and Greatest, with the Packards ... *Sneak Peek*

Okay...it's been awhile since the last post, but to all who have continued hoping, with fingers crossed -- indefinitely, I am dedicating this *Sneak Peek* post to all of our fans.  Thank you and here you have it.

Yes, ankles...  We aren't back in the 19th & earlier 20th centuries where showing ankles was an immodest flash; I would consider it a sneak peek in the present day we are now living in.  We have the missionaries coming to dinner tonight, but I will give a full and juicy post with lots of filling to savor and last until my next post.  Luckily, I prepared the majority of the food ahead of time, but I still need to do some odds and ends, connect the dots, etc...

Until my next post...

Ciao!!!!

Your Happily Ever After

I saw this today and really liked it. 

Learning My Shapes & Sizes

So, I did a Facebook status after Jason had asked me to help him with the airsoft equipment and it went like this:

Rachel is thinking to herself, 'Self, Jason is only trying to have you help when he asks you to sort out his magazines for his airsoft guns, even when he asks, "does it make sense?" I tell myself, 'Self, just smile, nod, & clap like Kimball when she's proud of herself for doing stuff - like walking.' Poor boy needs kids of his own to have fun & teach, AND to sort out his magazines "by shapes," before going to play army. 

Yes, sadly he asked me to sort out his magazines by shapes and sizes...  AND THEN!!!  Asked if that made sense...  Knowing myself, I couldn't help but laugh in my head, roll my eyes, AND then add "no...what do you mean...?"  AND THEN to MY DELIGHT!!!!  He then proceeded to explain (okay, he says "demonstrate"!) how I should go about sorting the magazines by SHAPE and SIZE.  Hmmm...  I had to laugh!!!!  And now he's laughing with me and it's hilarious!!!!  I LOVE it!!!  Yes, it truly happened just a bit ago and I couldn't help, but share it.  :o)  It's not every moment that I can have fun and get him to say something funny and then have a great laugh afterward.  Okay, so I have fun teasing and taunting him much.  It's great fun!  

Jason asked, "How come you said it's not everyday that you tease me?!  IT IS EVERYDAY!!!"

Tomorrow -- Airsoft at Harwood.