Con-GRAD-ulations are in Order!

We just wanted to take a moment and give a shout out to our brother and sister-- Cara and Phil who graduated from San Jose State this past Memorial Day Weekend with their BA Degrees. We couldn't be more proud of them! We really wish we could have been there to congratulate them in person!!

We are excited to see where God takes them next-- Phil is planning to continue on to grad school, Cara is planning to start her career.

By the way-- not only are they graduates now, but they are about to celebrate 4 years of marriage this July! We love you Cara and Phil! We are proud of your hard work and awesome accomplishments!

To see more of what Phil and Cara are up to check out their blog: www.philwilsonfilmmaker.blogspot.com

Shake your Giggles Out

We are enjoying a fun Memorial Day Weekend with Grammie (Jen's Grandma), Cousin Heidi (as seen with CJ in the video) and more cousins Zach and Alexandria. Hope you enjoy this video it cracks me up!

Splish Splash

Here is a fun little video of CJ and Rory enjoying a swim in the lake. Now she thinks it's always time to swim when we go by the lake. We're going to have fun with her this summer!

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A Glimpse of our Littlest Girl

Here are a few 3-D pictures of our sweet girl at 22 weeks. Amazing! It is absolutely unbelievable to see her little face. She is growing really well. Everything is looking really good. Despite how big I look, she is actually right on track- in the 50th percentile. She has a lot of room, and there is lots of fluid for her to swim around in... this explains why I am so big. (We had to dispel rumors that my due date was in July-- 6 or 7 people at church were under that impression.) It also explains why I don't feel her as much as I felt CJ at this point. I, however, will be pregnant for the entire summer on into September. I am trying to stay positive. But the good news is that we do not live in the South and the Puget Sound is known for it's mild weather year round. But for those of us who live here, we know that out of no where it can get very hot, but fortunately it doesn't often stay that way for the ENTIRE summer. (See I'm thinking positive, just positive thinking right here, Pregnant and Positive... are you convinced?)

Mommy's Mini Vacation

In April I got to spend a very special weekend in Seattle with my mom. This was part of my Christmas present from last Christmas. My parents got me and my mom tickets to see Celtic Woman. They are a group of women from Ireland who sing amazingly and put on a beautiful show. (I would watch their concerts on PBS while I had mono-- right before my wedding). As if the concert wasn't enough we got to stay at the Paramount Hotel and make a weekend out of it. We had so much fun!

First we did a little shopping. Then we went back to the hotel and ate a snack and took a nap (the life of a pregnant tourist). Next we got to go to Palisades for dinner. My sister in law, Genesis, is a manager there. She arranged for 'the car' to pick us up at the hotel and drive us to the restaurant. We were pleasantly surprised to find that 'the car' was actually a limo. We had a VERY LOVELY dinner and then were whisked back to the Paramount Theatre for the show. The show was wonderful and everything I had hoped for. With the beautiful music still dancing in our heads we drifted off to sleep--- and I slept with out interruptions, and awoke to a lovely breakfast in bed! WOW!

The rest of the day we spent doing those fun Seattle things that just never seem to get old. We had a lovely time at Pikes Place. I even found a ring to wear in place of my wedding ring while I am pregnant (This is a big accomplishment-- my finger is usually a 3 3/4 when I am not pregnant, even when my fingers are swollen they aren't a size 5-- so finding a cheap ring is next to impossible) Anyway! I had a lovely time gallivanting around with my wonderful mom and I felt refreshed and spoiled when I returned to my husband and baby (who missed me a little- I think!)

Grass Therapy

Mommy I don't like this!
I CAN'T Walk on the grass!
I like the slide... but not the grass on the bottom. I'll just keep my feet up here!
Hmmm... this swing is OK, keep me up here and the grass down there!
Our silly girl!


CJ started walking on January 15th-- the day we found out we were pregnant, and the week we were moving to our new house. Since then we entered moving madness, and morning sickness season, as well as cold rainy weather, and since CJ had grown out of all her out door shoes--- she did not spend time walking on the grass. (We did, however, go on plenty of walks around the lake.) These are my excuses as to why my daughter came to become afraid of a friendly neighborhood plant called grass.

Now that the weather is nicer, the morning sickness has passed, and CJ has appropriate shoes-- my attention naturally turned towards playing outdoors on our big toy. We joyfully bounded outside only to discover that Cecily would not leave the concrete car port. She would NOT walk on the grass! I carried her to the grass, and encouraged her to come towards the slide (which she loves-- we had played on that earlier, but usually after walks while she was still in her bunting suit-- so she did not walk). She would not budge. She did not like the uneven ground.

Thus began grass therapy. We would go out side, and I would do my best to encourage her confidence about walking in the grass. The first two or three times she would eventually consent to checking the grass out-- but it was so exhausting, and there were many tears. These grass therapy sessions often ended in naps.

However, I am glad to say-- CJ has overcome her fear of grass and now frolics freely in our spacious back yard of weeds and grass like plants.

Frolic! Frolic! Play! Another happy ending!

Look at all the pretty weeds Mommy!