Shelby Alexandra

Here are her ultrasound pictures:


She was bent in half- you can see her feet on top of her head here!

Her feet



Proof she is really a girl!

It's a.....

Yep our lives will be turned upside down! We are excited, but all this talk about bows, dresses and tights makes me a little nervous! :) I guess we'll just learn as we go!

Thankfully baby looks great and healthy! She has all her parts and in all the right places!

And her name will be: Shelby Alexandra

Made it through Deployment #5

David made it home today despite one delay and then a slight delay on top of that delay! We are so happy to be back as a family of 4....err 5 for the holidays! Here's just a few pictures- but it was cold and snowy, so we headed back to the bus quickly!

Seems as though things are slowing down, so we are hoping to keep him home for a while this go round! :)

Jackson's Christmas Program

Jackson had his Christmas Program last night at his Preschool! The sang a few songs and told the Christmas Story!

Please excuse that he is in his baseball shirt- umm loser mom didn't think about putting him in a Christmas outfit like most of the other kids had on! Yeah it didn't even cross my mind! Oh well- at least it was red right??


Here is his speaking part- he cracks us up! Love that kid!


And here is him singing a version on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.....God love him and his loudness!

Santa Baby

Here's our picture with Santa.....pretend Daddy is in the plane back there!

Santa came to the Base!

We headed to base today to see Santa! What fun we had! Santa arrived in a firetruck which was enough for Matthew! They had it in a hanger this year which turned out SO MUCH BETTER! There was so much more room and it didn't feel crowded at all! We saw lots of friends out there and played lots of games! We even had a yummy doughnut and some juice!

We were even first in line to see Santa and get our picture taken! The pictures should be up soon on the website for us to download!

Jackson asked Santa for a remote control car (hmmm first I heard of this) and Matthew asked for snacks (haha I love that kid)! I was surprised that Matthew even sat on his lap, but he was all about him this year. Last year- not so much!



Playing a game!

The boys and their swords...that didn't survive very long! :(







We had a lot of rain last night and this morning, so the boys had fun jumping in ALL the puddles on the way to the car. I had to strip them down for the ride home bc they were so wet!

I'll have to post our picture with Santa when they get uploaded to the site! I am excited to see how it turned out!

O' Christmas Tree

We got our big tree decorated a week ago and all the other trees up since. I only took pictures of the boys decorating the big tree upstairs! They have their ornaments on a tree in the basement and then they both have little trees in their rooms! Ah - Christmas time is here!

Crazy Hair Night

It was Crazy Hair Night at AWANA and you just can't do too much with little boys whose hair is a half inch long on their head! So we went with GREEN! I was just going to do Jackson, but Matthew wanted to be like brother, so they both looked like leprechauns!

15 weeks, 4 days

I finally took a shot of my starting to grow belly! I'm still fitting into my regular clothes, but it won't be long before maternity is all I can wear- ughh!

I also had an appt this past Tuesday and I was 16 weeks, 2 days. I heard the heartbeat- 150 bpm, so a strong one! We head back on the 13th to see if baby is healthy and to find out if it's a boy or girl! :)

The good news is I am sick less often than before, but it still comes and goes. And my weight is back up to my original weight, so from here on out it is on the positive side for me!