Lillie dressing up!

We were at Target the other day waiting for tires to be put on the Saturn, so we were hanging around there. Levi wanted to go look at toys and I told him his sister had to look at the girl stuff then. We went down the isle and I found the boas, I put it around her and she immediately grabed it like a star. At first I was mad because I didn't have a camera then remembered I could use my cell phone. How did we ever live without them taking pictures at spur of the moment??? Anyway here is OUR model Lillie!

It's a.........

BOY!!! They kept my due date the same Oct. 8. He wasn't hiding anything. We have 2 pictures of him showing it all. I tried to put one on here but was having problems sizing the picture and such. Levi is very excited. I went down to school and talked to him. I thought that he would rather me do that in person since he was really hoping for a boy. So now we have to come up with names that we agree on. Josh really likes the name Jesse, the only problem is we had a dog named Jesse and I can't get past that. So if anyone has any ideas please share them, I would like to have a name picked out that we agree on before he is born.

Stay Tuned. Thursday I will be announcing the gender of the baby with pics...

On Thursday I go in for my sonogram and I will be announcing it on my blog. So don't expect a phone call. Even you mom you will have to check the blog. My appt is at 10AM and I will put it on here as soon as I get home. Let's hope this baby doesn't get stubborn and won't let us see anything. I have to say I would like another little girl, because her and Lillie would be close in age, and then when they get older I could dress them together. However, I would also like to have a little boy too, becuase Levi would be sooo excited! He really wants a brother, but who can blame him. Just FYI no there are not two either! In case anyone was thinking that. So stay tuned......

New pictures!! Ok they are a couple months old.

I guess I will start back to when we had snow since my last blog was in Nov. So here is a picture of Lillie in the snow.

Here is our family Christmas picture. This isn't the one we used for our cards, but was still a decent picture.

I was trying to take some cute pictures of Lillie this is what I got.





I started running in Dec., and on Jan.1 I ran the Frosty 5K that the YMCA hosts. This is Wendy and I after the race.
I was pretty proud of myself. I hadn't run that far since high school track and even then it was only 2 miles. To be honest it was my friend Wendy's inspiration that encouraged me to begin running. She is one awesome woman of God. She has pushed through more trials and is just truly an inspiration. To give you a little backround she was diagnosed with Lupus back in Sept. of 02 I believe. She has been running now for I think a year and a half. Back in Oct. of this past year she ran the Wichita marathon. That is 26.2 MILES!!! She finished in 5 hours and 20 minutes, and to me that was just amazing! She had a rough time, but she pushed onward and did it. I guess that was all I needed and I decided to start running. So I ran the Frosty and felt good. Well, then I got pregnant. So I have been trying to run pregnant. In April the Sat. before Easter I ran the 2 mile at the Easter Sun Run. I thought I was going to freeze to death. It was colder at that race than the Jan. 1 run was. I made it running and cold though. Then this past Sat. I ran the Wichita River Run 2 mile. I had not had a lot of running time lately since it is hard to run pushing a stroller. I think it is going to take some time getting used to that, because you don't get to use your arms like you normally would. My time was a little longer, but I had to stop and take a potty break. I guess being 1 day away from 19 weeks pregnant the baby is going to be pushing on something. I did have a little cramping and did end up walking a little bit of my run, but I finished. I think my running days will have to end until this little one comes, and then I will be picking it back up. Here is a picture of Leslie and I from the Easter Sun Run. Ok now back to the kids.

I thought I had a picture of Levi from his birthday on here, but I guess I don't. Levi turned 7 in February and I can't believe how time is flying. He is ending his year in 1st grade next week. I can't believe how much he knows. He reads and I think he enjoys it although I don't think he would admit it. My little boy is growing up way to fast. He did play basketball this winter, it was awesome his first game they played he scored the first point!!! Here are some basketball pics.

In March Lillie turned 1. We had family and close friends over to help us celebrate her first birthday. She liked the cake the most I believe.

Here is a play by play: 1st just getting the fingers into the frosting.
Then a little more into the cake.

It's time to get a drink of milk.
AND NOW....

Who needs fingers to eat with when you can just stick your whole face in it?

Levi had a spring concert a few weeks ago. You can really tell who pays attention in music class and who doesn't. I hate to say it, but I am not sure that music is his forte. Josh is ok with it though, because Lillie already likes to strum the guitar and beat on everything. Here are pics from his music concert.

He even stopped singing to pose and his buddy joined him.
Most of the time he spent looking at the kids next to him.

Levi absolutely loves his sister!!

Well, I hope you have enjoyed the past 6 months in such a short amount of time. I promise to keep up, now that they fixed my account.

Yeah All I had to do was leave blogger for awhile and they fixed my account so now I can add to my original account!!!

I know it has been a long time, but I got mad at Blogger and quit. Now I can add to my original page so I will continue to blog. I am sure everyone is ready to see pics of my now 1 yr old. So I will end this here and add another blog with pics of the kids!!!