"Playing" the mandolin and singing

Kent borrowed a friend's mandolin and was fiddling around with it tonight. AnnaBeth was absolutely fascinated and wanted to play it too. She also thought singing along with her playing was a splendid idea :)

Quick Scrap

Father's Day Gift

This morning I happily received an email from Shutterfly for a free 8x8 20 page photo book (not including shipping). I got one around this time last year and used it to create a Father's Day book for Kent. I'm using it for a Father's Day book again this year as well. It ends up giving me a $30 photo book for $8.26 ($7.99 plus tax for the shipping). I quite enjoy making the photo books and it allows me to give something that will be cherished without breaking the bank. This is the 3rd photo book I've gotten for free and honestly, I look forward to that email with the promo code!! It's been a really neat way for me to document some of the highlights of the last year and really allows us to see how much AnnaBeth has grown. And next year we will have pictures of Mason to include which I'm very excited about! Here's a digital version of the book that will be arriving just in the nick of time for Father's Day :)

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Zoo June 3, 2011

Friday was my day off from work so AnnaBeth and I went to the zoo with my co-worker Retta and her daughter Kayla. AnnaBeth had been looking forward to going to see the animals since Thursday when I asked if she wanted to go see them. We spent about 3 hours there and she did really well with staying in her stroller. She  did stand up in it at each exhibit so she could see better. While at the petting zoo, one of the trouble maker goats stuck his head through the fence and grabbed our zip lock baggie of kettle corn right out of the stroller! With the help of a zoo worker we were able to get the bag away (he only ate a small piece of it) and the kettle corn spilled all over the ground. A few of the goats came running over as fast as they could to eat it all up before the zoo worker could sweep it up. The girls had a really great time but unfortunately, that may have been our last chance to visit the zoo until it cools down at bit in a few months. As a zoo member, I can get in at 6am but everyone in our house is still sleeping at the time so we may just have to visit the science center quite a few times this summer where we can have lots of fun inside where it's air conditioned. Anyway, enjoy our zoo pictures!

Race car bed!!

We set up AnnaBeth's race car bed tonight. She was SOOO excited about it!! If we had let her, she would have slept in it tonight! But we need to organize some of the stuff in there (all of her too small clothes and all of the big baby items are stuffed in the closet and there's big toys in there as well) before we can expect her to sleep in there without any issues. We are hoping to have her in there for the first time this Friday night. Monday is a holiday for me and because of it I will only have a 3 day work week next week so I figured that now is a probably a good time to transition her to her new bed and her new room. I will have more nights without work the next day between this weekend and next so I will have more opportunities to take naps if she's up a lot during the night.

 Helping Daddy put the car together

Testing it out a little

Testing it out a bit more

20 Weeks

I hit 20 weeks this past Saturday. Yep, you got it. That means I'm HALF way through my pregnancy with Mason! It is just flying by this time around. He's an active little guy, especially when I lay down in bed for the night or for naps. His kicks and punches are getting stronger and I can't wait to feel them from the outside. Here's a few shots of my ever growing belly.

And the ultrasound said.....

BOY!!! That's right, AnnaBeth is going to have a little brother! Everything looked great today, although some of the measurements were a little hard to get because he was so squirmy :) My due date is still going to be October 8th even though he is measuring for October 5th. Here are a few pictures!

You know, he kinda looks like my dad :)