We're having a girl!!

A week ago we found out that our little baby is a girl!!  I had been so anxious about finding out if our baby was a boy or a girl, and Richard and I were so excited that morning going into our ultrasound.  I was also just excited to see our baby again.  It is such a cool experience seeing your little baby that is growing inside you moving on the ultrasound screen.  For that little moment in time you get to see that amazing creation.  

During our ultrasound, our baby was moving around quite a bit.  I kind of expected that because during our last ultrasound when she was only 10.5 weeks she did a little flip for us, and I had starting feeling her kicks earlier that week, her many kicks!  I'm starting to think that we might have a pretty active baby, either that or a really smart one that is very aware of her surroundings :)  Anyways, since she was moving around a lot, the ultrasound technician had to keep re-measuring things because our little girl kept changing positions.  It was really amazing to see and I kind of wish we would have recorded it on our camera so we could look at it whenever we wanted.  

When the ultrasound lady was looking at her "leg area" she asked if we wanted to know the gender, and of course we did!  She said it was definitely a girl!  And pointed everything out for us to see.  Richard said he had a feeling it might be a girl and he was right!  I, on the other hand, had no idea.  We were both so excited and happy about hearing this great news (we would have been either way).  Knowing the the gender of our baby makes everything seem that much more real and we are so excited to finally meet her.  It's crazy how much love I feel for her already and it's only going to grow.  

We got the ultrasound readings back a few days later and everything looks very healthy!  We are SO thankful for this amazing blessing!

Our little girls leg and foot :)

 

Her beautiful profile.  Her right hand is up by her face, so cute!

Her full body picture.

Thank you to everyone for your continual thoughts and prayers, they mean so much to us and we are so happy to be starting this new chapter in our lives. 

3 Years!

I can't believe it's been three years already!  8-8-08 was our wedding day and it's already 2011!  We've tried to do something fun on each of our anniversary's so far.  For our first we went to the Oregon coast, for our second we went to Seattle and this year we spent a couple days at Skamania Lodge along the Columbia River.  


It was beautiful scenery and perfect weather.  Richard had just gotten back from the youth's mission trip to San Francisco so he was pretty worn out and this was the perfect relaxing place to be.  We had a lot of fun putting at their golf course, hiking through the forest, eating lots of food (too much actually) and just spending time together.  

These last few years have been exciting and challenging, moving to a new place a few weeks after graduating college and our wedding, but there's no one I'd rather be going through this adventure than with Richard.  I'm so looking forward to what God has in store for us these next three years and am so thankful for all the loving people we have in our lives. 


(by the way, this is my 100th post!  I thought that was pretty cool.)