We Are Having A Girl!

    Oh. My. Goodness guys! We are over the moon that we are going to be adding a little girl to our family. When Aaron and I got married we always talked about how we wanted to have two babies, one boy and one girl. We always said we wanted the boy to come first so he could always protect his little sister. Well our dream is coming true and we feel so blessed.
     Yesterday morning, I had my 20 week anatomy scan. We had a sneak peak at the gender from our ultrasound before, but we weren't 100% sure because the doctor wasn't confident in telling us. We asked the doctor to mark bambino or bambina {the Italian word for baby boy or girl} on a card I printed out the night before. When it came time for her to check the gender, Aaron and I looked away. We were given the envelope after she was done checking the baby, which she looks perfect by the way, and we anxiously made our way home to get ready for our reveal.

Connor's Fourth Birthday

   On Sunday my sweet boy turned FOUR! It's so, so crazy how fast he has grown. Because we move in three weeks, we chose to skip the big birthday party and do something small. We went to the zoo with our good friends, drove through a safari park, ate burgers and shakes at Steak 'n Shake, and then walked around Verona. When we got home Connor played with his new toys and then we sang Happy Birthday. He had the biggest smile on his face the entire day because he knew it was his special day. Here are a bunch of pics I took through out the day...

Connor's Birth Story

My Sweet Connor,

      I can't believe tomorrow you turn FOUR years old! You are seriously the cutest, funniest, most hyper, talkative, rambunctious little boy I know. I am so, so lucky to call you mine.  It seems like just yesterday I was in the hospital about to give birth to you. I realized that because I started the blog after you were born, I never documented your birth story. It has been something that I have wanted to do for a really long time, I just haven't made time to do it. Now that we are about to add another baby to our family, I want to make sure to document yours first. It was such a beautiful and special time that I want you to always have this to look back on. A special story of how you came into this world told by me.

CONNORisms 3.0 {All About Baby}

     Babies have been a popular conversation topic with Connor, even before I got pregnant. He has said some really sweet and funny things. One day when he and his future brother or sister read this, they will get a good laugh. I know I did!

 Reading about what it's going to be like to be a big brother.

Saturday at the Park

   Weekends are my favorite and this one has seemed to go by particularly slow. On Friday we had a BBQ at our house with a few friends, and then yesterday we spent the afternoon at a park that was only a 30 minute drive from our house. Our friends were going and invited us, so I said yes and woke up Aaron so we could start getting ready. We met at their house and then followed each other there. It was lunchtime when we arrived, so we setup our picnic in the most perfect, sunny spot. After it was all setup, we realized it was way too bright to get pictures, because you know pictures are everything, so we moved it to a shady spot. We got our one good shot, while our guys were rushing us to hurry up because they were hungr, and then we moved all the food back to the sunny spot. 

 We had so much yummy food we had to get a good picture of it all.