Here are the girls enjoying their new play room. I love how they can play with each other so well... they can also fight well but we won't dwell on that. I am officially 2 weeks from my due date today. It is crazy to say that. Both Hailey and Aubrey were 6 days late so I am planning for 3 more weeks. It is funny how many strangers ask when you are due in that last month like they are expecting you to pop any second. It doesn't seem real to me that we are about to have a baby and this last month is going by way too fast. I guess I better get the baby clothes down and the car seat washed and pick a name and whatever else it is that I'm suppose to be doing. The girls are excited to have a sister. Yesterday Aubrey took a book and asked if she could read to the baby, then she held the book up to my tummy and turned the pages. She also likes to hug and kiss my tummy and tells me the baby is getting big. She seems to know a baby is in there but I always wonder if she really "gets it". This will probably be my last post until the little newcomer arrives. Ready or not here she comes!

9 year Anniversary

2 weeks ago we celebrated our 9 year anniversary. I forgot to take pictures of our weekend so here is our engagement picture...since it was still the days of film I couldn't find a wedding picture scanned on the computer since we just replaced our printer and the scanning program that went along with it.

Charlie's mom and dad watched the kids for a full 24 hours. After much debate about whether to spend money and go up to Orlando we decided to be cheap and spend time in our new house alone and it was pure bliss. We went to a movie and dinner and then enjoyed the silence of our beautiful new home. Our anniversary was on a Tuesday so Charlie's mom babysat for us again so we could go to dinner on our actual anniversary. We wandered over to the outdoor mall to choose a restaurant and decided to try Melting Pot after much debate since we didn't know if the price was worth it. We actually loved it, we had a little booth that faced the window and you couldn't see anyone else in the restaurant and then the whole experience took 3 hours (our waiter was a little slow) but we didn't mind because it was time alone and we had fun dipping all the food in fondue. A lot has changed over the past 9 years including our love because we love each other more now than we did 9 years ago, we are blessed!

Mini Orlando Vacation

We took a little mini vacation up to Orlando before school started. We wanted to do something fun before school started since we didn't get to travel this summer. We stayed 3 days and 2 nights up in Orlando. The first day we went to Disney and visited 3 of the parks in sweltering hot weather. I expected the evenings to cool down like they do where we live but they did not, I didn't factor in our proximity to the beach helping with that but we survived and enjoyed ourselves.

Here is Hailey showing Aubrey around Disney since she has been so many times


The second day we hung around the hotel and enjoyed swimming all day. Then we headed to Sea World to see their special summer night shows.

Here's Aubrey going down the pool slide

Here's Hailey going down the slide

The third day we checked out and headed down to Ikea because we had never been. It was an interesting store and I felt forever lost in it. We then headed to my favorite restaurant and then back home to rest. It was nice to get away for a little while.

The move in update

We have been in our new house for a month and a half now. These pictures are from the day we were moving in. We have furniture and some decorations up and are settled in now. We still need to decorate the bedrooms but we save those projects for the weekends. We have really loved being here and the girls have felt right at home.

We had lots of help from mine and Charlie's family to help get us moved out and moved in. It was an exhausting week and I couldn't have done it without them. My parents flew out to help and the girls had fun seeing their grandparents.


Once we got settled in the summer became more enjoyable and it went by way too fast. Aubrey is 2 1/2 and swims all over the pool like a fish. She loves to dive in and get rocks at the bottom of the pool. She also potty trained herself a couple weeks ago. I thought we were going to have the same challenge we had with Hailey being fearful of going number 2 in the toilet but she conquered those fears and is doing great. Hailey was a good big sister and played well with Aubrey during all the long summer days and moving around. The last 2 weeks of summer break they started fighting more and I knew that although I wasn't ready for school to start it was probably time. She had her first week of 1st grade and seemed to like it, she says it's a lot of work. Aubrey is really good with me at home and likes to help me out and is fine with whatever I choose to do. We have one more month before our baby girl is due and then life changes again.

house

June 12

I keep forgetting to bring my camera when we go visit the house. The landscaping should be finished today and the flooring as well. Our move in date is one week from tomorrow. I am so not ready with only a few boxes packed, I am really going to be relying on help from both mom's.

It's a Girl!!!

We finally got around to find out what we are having and I am 25 weeks along.

Some reactions of the day

Hailey: oh man. later that day..."it's good"

Charlie: Well, I make cute girls so I just stick with what I do well

Grandpa Brown: Don't think of it as 3 times you're out but 3 times you're a winner

Grandma Brown: I love girls

Co-worker: It's part of God's plan, He's the one that sends those children down here

I of course love my girls and wouldn't know what to expect from a boy but I feel a little bad for Charlie having a house full of girls, good thing he is so good with girls.

We left a lot of messages so those are all the reactions I have from the day, now it will be fun to see what this little girl will look like.

Another house update

So, I'm a little behind on my picture posting. They have completed the painting and are working on tiling inside right now but I keep forgetting to bring my camera so here are my last updated photos
June 3