1st Belly Pic....and some...

Hamming it up for the camera

Savannah wanted a picture with me..she is saying "cheese"

my little bump at 16 weeks

Since I took a belly picture almost every week while pregnant with Savannah, I decided it was finally time to take my first picture while pregnant with peanut # 2. I am now 16 weeks. I have started feeling him/her move. That is a lot of fun! We go to the dr. June 1st to have our big ultrasound and find out the sex of our little peanut. Daddy thinks it's a girl...but I am leaning more toward a boy. I can't wait to find out.
When I asked Joel to take a picture of me this morning Savannah immediately piped in "me too...cheese". She is such a little ham and loves to have her picture taken. So here are also a few of her that we snapped this morning while she was posing for the camera.
We are headed in the morning to visit a friend of mine, whom I went to high school with, and her family. She lives down in South Carolina about 4 hours from us. She has a little boy, a little girl (only 5 days older than Savannah), and is also pregnant again. We haven't gotten to see them since September so I am very excited to go and visit. This will be the furthest that Savannah and I have traveled alone and also the furthest Savannah has traveled while being potty trained. I am curious to see how smoothly our car ride goes. I will be sure to take lots of pictures to post when we return.

Happy Mother's Day!

Fun Day at the Park

After a long, fun day at the park

sifting for "pretty rocks"

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There is this park about 30 minutes from our house that I have wanted to go check out. It was so much fun. We needed a whole day to discover all it had to offer. Savannah got to ride a little train, a carousel, see some animals in a little zoo (her favorite were the black bear and the rooster), play on a huge playground, and sift for "pretty rocks". We did not get to do the petting zoo, splash pad, miniature golf, or paddle boats. We are hoping to go back again in the near future, pack a lunch, and spend the day there. We had a BLAST though! Even though it was very hot today!!

Cutie Pie!

Savannah's New Play Set

We recently bought a play set off of craigslist.com for a great deal! Joel fixed it up and changed a few things to make it a little better. He still isn't quite finished. He needs to add 2 more hooks so we can add a regular swing and a teeter-totter swing. We are getting rid of the family swing because Joel thinks the wood is bad on it. Savannah is LOVING it! We spent hours a day outside playing on it and with some other new toys we recently got from a yard sale. Her favorite things to do outside is play on her new play set, her sandbox, her little tikes basketball hoop, her lawn mower that blows bubbles, and her bubble machine. I will try and post more pictures of her playing outside later this week! Here are a few of her playing on her new play set with a little neighbor girl.

Cutie Pie!

Savannah laughs just like my grandmother used to "covering her mouth with her hands" I love it!

On her new inch worm

We spent the past 4 days at my parents house while they were during our upstairs loft into Savannah's new big girl bedroom. The construction is almost done. Joel just has to put up the base boards, door and closet doors and it will be finished. Then I can pick out her bedding, wall color, etc. and start getting her room ready. We had a great time at my parents. She got to play with her cousins non-stop! We also threw my brother and SIL a baby shower this weekend. It turned out great! They got a lot of nice things and seemed to have a really good time! Here are a few pictures from my parents house this weekend.

Renovation....

So they are in the process of turning our upstairs loft into another bedroom. This will be Savannah's new big girl bedroom. We will be keeping the nursery for the baby to be. With all the hammering, workers, sanding, and mess we have decided to take up residence somewhere else right now. Savannah and I are headed to my parents house to stay indefinitely (until they are finished). Therefore, I will not be posting a new blog until sometime next week. So check back then and I will try and have new pictures up....