Weekend Update

It was a really nice weekend for our family and we have lots to share with you!  We were super busy but we also had some wonderful time together and we are grateful.  Our weekend started off with our big ultrasound that we have waited and waited for.  The news came back that we are expecting our third daughter!  Everything looked really good and we just couldn't be happier.  I thought the girls were going to be disappointed to not be getting a little brother, but they are just as tickled to have a little sister.  We got some really fantastic pictures so kudos to the nice ultrasound tech who help us.

Isn't this little hand just the most perfect hand you have ever seen?  I feel like she was waving to us. :)

We were fortune to have Gramma and Grampa come to La Grande for the day.  They accompanied us to the hospital for the ultrasound and kept the girls company while we were busy in Radiology.  They spent the entire day with us and we had so much fun visiting, doing Easter crafts, and making cookies.  My mom even brought lunch and dinner for us so what a relief to not have to worry about cooking for a day!!!!

On Saturday we started off by heading to the local "Arts for All" in town.  Each year the Arts Commission has a day where you can come and do all kinds of arts and crafts for free.  We missed it last spring so the girls have been waiting and waiting for it to come around again.  They were able to get their faces painted which were super cute.  Sam had a shooting star and Emma had a butterfly.

They each did about five or six crafts but one of their favorites was the tin art craft.  They used the little hammers and nails to make their own pretty pictures on some tin board.  Their Dad would have been proud of their ability to use a hammer and the pictures turned out great.

Afterwards we went to lunch to a local pizza and games restaurant.  It is one of the girls' favorite places to eat.  Unfortunately I didn't think to bring the camera with me to catch a picture.  After being home for a while and resting our full tummies, we went through baby stuff!  Mark and I thought that we had donated all of our baby things last year when we didn't think we would have any more children but we came across a large tub that was just full of baby clothes!  What a relief!  The girls were anxious to help sort through the different sizes and decide which things we could keep and which things were just a little too used.  Mark did three loads of laundry that night to get everything washed up and ready to be put away in the baby's room.  We had clothes all over the living room!

It was so fun being together and being able to spend some quality time with one another.  We feel so blessed that we have another child coming to our beautiful family but also very blessed to have the two daughters that we have as well as our extended family who are so supportive.  We love and miss you all and hope that you feel involved with us even though you are far away!