We have a back yard now!!!!

For the past two years our back yard has been washing away. We have either been putting off getting it fixed or we couldn’t find anyone to come do the work. Well, 13 loads of dirt and 5 pallets of sod later, we have a yard! Trey Logue did the dirt and did a great job! Then Skip and some friends put down the sod. Now we have to just keep it watered. I don’t even want to think about what the water bill is going to be like. I am just very excited that we have a back yard that we can enjoy. Now Hogan has more room to play and our daughter will have a back yard to play in. I have posted a few pictures of the project…

The dirt work...


Our big helper...


The sod project...


Taking a break...

It's a girl...

I got a little scared today. I went to my doctor visit by myself because the doctor said they were just going to listen to the heartbeat with the doppler and make sure everything was okay. Well the nurse took my blood pressure, which was 122/67. So that was good. Then she tried to hear the baby's heartbeat with the doppler, but couldn't find it. She called another nurse in to try again. I asked if I should be freaking out and she said no. Then we heard a thump. She said that is probably a kick. I thought that was pretty cool, but I am still upset that there isn't a heartbeat. Then the nurse calmly said, "we need to just do an ultrasound because we can't find the heartbeat." My heart kind of stopped. As I am walking to the room for an ultrasound the nurse asks if I want to find out the sex of the baby. I hesitated at first because Skip wasn't with me. She asked a second time and I couldn't resist. She found the baby right off the bat. That little thing was jumping everywhere. Then she tells me it is a girl! I got a little teary eyed. It was so cool to see her (I don't have to call the baby "it" anymore). At one point she tried to straighten her legs, but we didn't get a picture of that. She looks like she is going to have some long legs. After the ultrasound, I talked to the doctor. He said everything looks great! At my next visit on August 18th, they will do another ultrasound to measure the baby's organs. So everything is going good. Now we get to start shopping for girl stuff. I can't wait!! I have attached a few of the ultrasound pictures. Enjoy!

We are finally home…

Skip and I got back from our trip to Delaware late last night. We had a great time. I wasn't really to come home, but I was ready to see Hogan. It was so nice to relax and do whatever we wanted. We went to the beach almost everyday for a few hours. Skip was like a big kid on the beach. He played in the water most of the time while we were on the beach. He had a yellow tube (my aunt calls it the Cheerio) that he would sit in and just float down the beach. He got dunked by the waves a couple of times, which was pretty funny. He lost his hat in the one of the wipe outs. He thought it would wash back up, but we never saw it again. After the beach, we did some shopping and a lot of eating. There were several good restaurants that we were able to enjoy. I wish we had time for all of them. One afternoon we decided to rent a scooter for an hour. It was called the scoot coupe. It was so much fun. It didn’t go any faster than 35 mph, which was fine with me. Skip and my cousin, Beth went fishing one day for 4 hours. They didn’t catch anything, but they seemed to have a good time. We didn’t take very many pictures, but here are a few that were taken.


Skip in his Cheerio...

The scoot coupe...