Baby update

We go for our ultrasound on March 1st. Please keep your fingers, toes, etc...crossed that Baby Turner will cooperate so we can find out if it's a boy or girl!

Seriously, is it February?

We had amazing weather for our trip up to Birch Bay. Jason, the avid bird hunter, kept watch for every bird in close proximity to the highway all the way up I-5 and beyond. I had to take a picture of the view around the bay yesterday, it was absolutely gorgeous outside. We all kept saying, I can't believe that it's February!

A visit to Birch Bay

We went up to visit 3 of our favorite girls and their fabulous parents up in Birch Bay yesterday and stayed the night. We asked to bring along the dogs for the visit since we think it might be a good idea for them to get used to being around kids more. We really are not too concerned about it, they are always good arounds kids but it's good to get them prepared. Soph and Ceci were amazing and threw the ball for both Duke and Roscoe most of the day yesterday and all morning before we headed home.

As you can see, Roscoe was enjoying himself quite a bit!

We all headed over to the beach for a bit and took the dogs for a walk. They very much wanted to go swimming but we had to keep them leashed. I was somewhat grateful since it would keep them from smelling like swamp rats again!

The girls were totally enthralled with Fonzie so were more than willing to assist with walking him on his leash.

After the beach, the girls got to open their Christmas gifts from us. Yes, I realize it's late February but both sides of the equation have been pretty busy since the holidays. Duke stuck his head in the picture which cracked me up.

Gia came a long way with the dogs. When we first arrived, she was pretty freaked out by them. As time wore on, she was looking for them and wanting to play with them. She even let Duke give her kisses. Fonzie tried to play with her but couldn't quit figure out what to do with her. She spent a lot of time sitting on the floor watching Fonzie to see what he was doing. It was pretty cute!

We headed home after lunch and all 3 dogs were totally and completely passed out on the way home. I had to take a picture of them in the back. They usually have a no touching rule but appeared to be making an exception today. Roscoe woke up when I was snapping the camera. All dogs are still passed out downstairs with Dad watching TV.

Body pillow

Sorry that I've been slacking on the blog posts, but there's really not much to report. I'm still feeling fine, plugging along pretty much like normal. I just get tired faster. I started using a body pillow last week, we got this one at Costco. I told Jason that Fonzie would like this pillow and end up curling up on it or trying to do sexually inappropriate things to it. I got out of the shower the other night and I found him curled up on it. Too cute.

I'm 17 weeks along now, next appt is on Tuesday and we schedule the big ultrasound at that appointment. We're both dying to know if it's a boy or a girl. The planner that I am, I feel like I can't do anything until we have that piece of information.

So my observations thus far for your entertainment.
1) I will never again ask a pregnant woman how she's feeling. I have been asked this so many times that I fear that I am going to snap on a bad day and respond, "I'm pregnant! I don't have cancer! I already told you last week that I'm out of the first trimester and I didn't have morning sickness." I know everyone is trying to be nice so I just try to smile and say fine. (If you're reading this blog, don't be afraid to ask me this question. If you read our blog, you're in the intersanctum pretty much!)
2) Maternity clothes - seriously, who designs these? My experience for the most part is that everything is either too big in my current size or it doesn't fit at all. After a dress try on session at Motherhood Maternity, I was nearly suicidal. I realize I'm pregnant so I will not always look as fabulous as I would like but every dress I put on, made me look like an oompa loompa. And I'm barely showing at all. I think someone needs to take this idea and run with it for the sake of all women who will be pregnant in the future.
3) The bathroom - If I'm not at my desk at work, I am most definitely in the bathroom. Usually at least 10 times a day. It's a double edged sword. Drink water like you're supposed to and pee all of the time. Don't drink that much water and you end up feeling like crap.
4) Pickles - YUM! Even though this is seriously cliched, pickles have never tasted better to me in my life and I am a lifelong addict of them. I used to go to salad bars as a kid and get bowls full of them. They taste even better and I can't get enough of them. Last night, I actually had Fried Pickles at dinner with friends. So delicious!

That's probably enough hormonal rantings for today. I will try to be better about taking pictures and posting updates. We've been laying pretty low these days though.

Mom goes hunting

So that goal of me going was to get good pictures of Duke going to get the ducks on our fancy new SLR camera that I can't quite figure out yet. I think part of the problem is that it was foggy and before daylight but I still liked this one, even though he has devil dog eyes.

He laid obediently at Dad's side waiting patiently for shots to be fired.

It wasn't a very productive day of hunting but we sure look good together in camo!