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20 Weeks!

Happy Fall everyone!!! Autumn is definitely here, and we are loving it.  Temperatures finally dropped in Tucson, and it's starting to feel like the holiday season!  Rusty and I have had a fun few months.  We attended my sister's annual Halloween dinner party last week, tailgated and cheered on the fairly pitiful U of A football team this weekend with my coworkers, and this upcoming weekend brings Rusty's mom and dad to visit us!!!

 The MOST exciting event of the month was definitely our ultrasound appointment last week!!  We are having a baby BOY!!!!  We really had no idea what to expect and were just excited to have a BABY either way, but we now get to be excited about all the joys that will come with having a son!  Rusty's first words were "Maybe he'll like baseball".  Oy.

Here is a picture of our son!  If you're not good at deciphering the black and white blurs like me...this is an UPRIGHT profile where the baby is facing LEFT and opening his mouth for a big YAWN.  You can see the nose sticking out on the left and just below it the open mouth-hole.  If you still don't see it...just wait to see the real thing in a few months:).

Now that we know we are having a little boy, we started the massive registry process!  We registered at Babies R Us, and we are working on building the Target and Amazon lists, too.  Links are on the sidebar.

We are hoping to have a shower in Tucson in early February!  We can't wait to celebrate with everyone!

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Dodge

 Today, Rusty began a project that has been a long time coming - fixing up his classic truck!!  He has had this '55 Dodge pickup since high school, and his  parents have graciously stored it for him for over a decade.  He has been excited for the day he would begin restoring it at our home in Tucson, and today was the day!!

  

He and one of the junior high students from our church youth group worked on it all afternoon...along with more than half our neighborhood, who helped heave the truck up onto work blocks.  So far she's still not running, but getting closer!  The brakes are fixed as well as the clutch.  The truck just needs a working battery to get started at this point, and then it's onward from there!  In other news, the pregnancy is moving along well but slow right now!  We are excited for November 2nd, when we find out the gender of the baby!!  The next few weeks are full of fun events like a concert with my sister in Phoenix and Halloween party with family, so time will fly.  We'll keep you all updated soon!

Second Trimester!

We're moving right along into the second trimester now!  Things seem to have smoothed out a bit now. Morning sickness is over!  Some tests to determine congenital risks for the baby have come back negative, thank the Lord!  And I have started some new meds to control my thyroid, which I'm hoping will be healthier on my next checkup!  The specialist diagnosed me with Hashimoto's autoimmune disease, for which I had been seeking answers long before I was pregnant but had been disregarded by the medical system before now.   I am thankful I was referred to a great specialist who can finally help with that!  I am also thankful to have a break from being at some doctor's office at least once every week in the month of October!
September has been a fun month for us even with all the craziness of medical visits.  We went to our first U of A football game last weekend and had great seats thanks to one of Rusty's patients with season tickets!  We had a great time even though the Wildcats got trampled by Stanford.  I was with my husband, and there were nachos, ok?  I don't care who wins.  Below is what I believe to be the ONLY picture of Rusty and me in 2011.  We gotta get better at that:).  To the right, clearly, is a picture of Baby Foxe at 14 weeks!!!!  We made an appointment on November 2nd to find out if the baby is a boy or girl, so stay tuned for that news!!  Until then, have a blessed October!  Love you guys!

Growing Family!

Surprise!!  Our family of two (three if you count our cat, Jasper...and we do) is about to become one bigger!!  We're having a baby!!

How's that for my first post in 6 months?  Hopefully, now I'll be better about keeping up to date with this blog so you all can stay in touch with what's happening in our life!!

Our due date is March 17, 2012 - St. Patrick's Day!  So far, I've felt pretty well and everything is going smoothly.  I think I've eaten a dozen whole boxes of Kraft Mac and Cheese (the spongebob shape kind if anyone was wondering), and besides that I'm fairly certain that all I do is sleep.  Rusty is taking great care of me.

We had our first ultrasound two weeks ago, and I'll have another this week.  We still have about a 6 week wait ahead of us before learning if we'll have a boy or girl...after which I'll immediately morph into the nursery-designing-nut that I am currently suppressing deep inside.   We are pretty excited for our little Foxe to join the family.

I hope this post finds all of you well, and I'll try to post some pictures of us soon as well as the new ultrasound this week!

Much love to all our friends and family!