newest addition debut

Well I had my first ultrasound July 28 2006, and I am thrilled that i am 14 weeks along, 2 whole weeks ahead of what I thought. Yessss ! Closer to the finish.

Actually , this pregnancy has been really differant for me, I am still exhausted, emotional, and generally hard to live with, however i am not throwing up 4-5 times a day (weird), I am craving Thai foods, and sour candies, weirdest of all I had a few scares with my heart lately. Actually i was convinced that i was dieing, because i was rushed in to see 3 differant specialists including a heart surgeon to figure out what was going on. Words like occasional PVC's, and heart arythmia were thrown around, and then finally they concluded that whatever(or whoever) is causing this is not life threatening. For those of you who can't tell the babies head is down in the right corner, the white is the babies developing bones and organs, you can see the babies tummy, and the mouth and nose. the black spot in the picture on the top is the babies heart. I hope you are as thrilled to meet our newest addition as we are.

Granny's panties

Granny's Panties is the name for one of the rapids on this river

While Jesse and I were enjoying our long awaited vacation we decided to enbark on an adventure of sorts. White water rafting! Jesse had never been white water rafting, and i have only gone one other time in high school. so we set off to meet up with the group of 12 people we didn't know, actually we sort of knew them because they were the front desk staff at the hotel we spent 3 days at.

Anyhow our guide was awesome, a local business man who owned the skiing lodge in town. Jesse and I were placed in the front of the raft, and with a little practice maneuvered the waters like pros. Our guide took us through some killer rapids, once both jesse and I were knocked into the raft buried in a mountain of water. This particular rapid is called rodeo hole, and if we could have afforded the $50 dollars the photographer wanted we would beable to show you the entire raft buried in Water. we hit this rapid right on!! Oh yeah...

Something Fun!

Hey all. This picture is something that Melinie and I worked up when we were on our Leavenworth vacation. It received a somewhat mixed response from those who saw it. So, I thought I would put it up here and see what we get back from our distinguished electronic guests. Please let us know what you think!

A Little Adventure

Well, as I said before, we have something a little more fun to get back into after our last post. Mel and I just thought we would toss out a few more pics from our Leavenworth anniversary trip. We had a lot of fun, and I think the only thing we don't really have pictures of is our biking. Ok, here you go, these are fairly self explanatory.


Jet tubs are pretty cool, especially when your a guy and you have no idea how much bubble sauce (technical term) to put in!
Our little horseback riding adventure. One of our guides was getting training, so we got the extra long version. Mel's horse was named Blue, and and mine was named Gus. Gus was the only male out of all of the outfits horses....that big stud.


This is just picture of a canal we had to cross over during our ride. We thought it was kinda cool looking, so there you go. Also, this was the second to last picture before our camera batteries died, so.....

Well, I was gonna toss in some of our whitewater rafting pics, but I'm outta time and whatnot, so, more to come later.

A Loss in the Family

Well, today my family suffered the first loss of a pet. That's right, one of our Angel Fish was found to have a disease upon our return from vacation. This morning when Melinie was feeding our fish (we had four,) and she noticed that something was wrong with ....we'll call her Betty. Ok, I admit, we don't remember their original names. But isn't that supposed to be our kids job? Well that might have been a little hard since we have had the fish since before we had any kids!


Ok, back on track here. Anyways, Betty wasn't looking too good, so Melinie rushed off to the pet store to read up on the situation, and to get some help. Upon her return home with much knowledge and multiple medicines, our nurse got to work. There was water treatments, artificial joints, difibulators, 100 cc's of something another and.....ok, so maybe just the water treatments. Unfortunately, it was too late for little Betty. R.I.P. sweety. The saddest part of this story, however, is yet to come. You see, Angel Fish are very prone to pairing, and we bought our fish in two sets of two. So Betty's best friend is now left basically alone in our big lonely tank.

We will be watching the rest of the fish closely to see if they will make it through. Unfortunately, the disease the took Betty is said to be fairly contagious. It is a little sad, but Sierra took it in stride pretty well when we told her that one of her fishies had to go see Jesus. Evidently it was Angel Sushi night in Heaven. Ok, so enough of this downer post. Stay tuned for something a little better.

P.S. Yes we know the water is funny colored, it is actually the medicine that Mel put in that is making it that color.

Storm

On our way to Leavenworth, we drove into this storm, it was fantastic, and a bit scary. We went from clear skies, and looked out into this blank canvas, what i would imagine the eye of the storm looked like. when we finally got into this storm we couldn't see anything all around us, there was rain, lighting, and hail. I was thankful when we finally got out of it.

Much Needed Break

Well Jesse has been planning a surprise vacation, that we are currently on. I found out today that we were going to Leavenworth, WA. We have a huge list of activites which include Horseback riding, white water rafting, possible massages, and biking the many trails around leavenworth. I was a bit concerned about leaving the girls, this is the first time i have left Aaliyah, but being only 3 hours away makes me feel a little better( They are also in really good hands, Thanks Alex and Alicia!!!).

Anyhow our room is really cool, I love it! Jesse Knows that i am a die hard romantic, and have always loved four-poster beds, and jetted tubs! I have such an wonderful man!! More later