Lucas @ the dairy farm!

Lucas went to the Ropp Dairy Farm with his preschool. We toured the animals...a pair of Alpacas, Tom the Turkey, and lots of cows. The kids got to milk a heiffer, play with a 3-day old baby, and bottle feed some of the other little ones. They also took us on a hay ride and showed us how they make cheese from the fresh milk!

Hunting for Easter Eggs at Grandma Cindy's farm!

It was frigid cold and windy...but Abby was so excited that she found eggs!!!

baby smiles!

I think Maddy was about 2mos old here...















Such a good big Sissy, holding the baby!!

And we've had enough!!

It's been a while!

I've been slightly busy and kinda forgot to post on here...sorry! So, to catch you up to speed...well, I had a baby! If anything else important has happened, I'm too sleep deprived to remember! Madelyn Alice was born on Feb.2nd. She was 8lb 13oz and 20.5" long. She was (and still is!) supremely healthy, she's growing like a weed and tipped the scales at 14lb 3oz at her 2mo checkup! I won't bore you any further...all you wanted was a picture anyways, so here ya go, in no particular order...because the baby is screaming and I don't have the patience for this formatting:

Field trip to the Apple orchard!!

Here's Lucas searching for the best apples!

Lucas and the daycare girls feeding the goats.

Lucas checking out the turkeys!

New curtains!!

Here's the "before"...our lovely lace curtains hanging on the cheapest of cheap white pocket rods. I'm sure they would have lasted just fine in a house without kids and dogs, but my crew managed to shred the lace and pull the pocket rods out of the wall! It was definately time for an upgrade! And considering these lace ones came with the house, I was very happy the day they all went in the trash!

And here's the new curtains! I know they look a little strange b/c they are so short, but with kids and dogs, they need to be short!! As much as I love the long, floor-length curtains, they just aren't practical in my house.

The 20 week ultrasound!

In case you didn't know yet...SURPRISE!! Yup, we're expecting number 4 due Feb. 3rd! February is coming faster than you might expect, I'm currently 33 weeks pregnant, so this ultrasound photo is from 13 weeks ago!

If you really want to try and guess what the baby is, the top-left ultrasound picture is a gender shot, but unless you're trained at these kinds of things, I doubt you'll see much more than baby's femur bones!

I included a baby-bump picture from around 20 weeks. I'll get a more current one in the next couple of days....you will be surprised how much the bump has grown in the last 13 weeks!!