Mommy and Zachary

A night of Fun!

 
So after much prodding from Asa I finally got him to go out and have some fun with the kids! We went to the arcade and everyone had a blast! I even got fairly lucky with some games myself and we won about 600 tickets so Connor got to pick out cool prizes. It was nice for us to hang out as a family before Asa left to go hunting which is he is the process of doing right now! All in all lots of fun and can't wait to do it again! 

 
Tickets, tickets, who's got the tickets?? 

 
 
Connor and Daddy having fun! Connor loves to do the ride that you see in the bottom picture, he would do it the entire time if we would let him! 

 
My boys having fun with the cars! 

Learning Time

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Zachary loves to play this game! I don't remember Connor knowing his body parts at this age but who knows!

Dancin' Fool!

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Zachary is a dancer!! He got a little shy towards the end when he realized I had the camera!

17 weeks

 
 
Well here is some more belly shots! Connor saw daddy drawing on my belly so therefore he wanted his favorite number on his belly! It was cute, so maybe it'll be something we'll continue doing each time! Maybe we'll even get Zachary in on it and put a number on his belly! He was already lifting up his shirt since Connor and mine were each up! We had our doctor's appt today and it went well. I gained a pound :-( but I'm not gonna get too upset cuz that is my first pound this entire pregnancy!! I even got a copy of my weight from each of my other pregnancies and at this point with Connor I had already gained 12 pounds and with Zachary I had already gained 11 pounds. So I am doing better this time around definantly and hopefully I won't gain as much weight at all and it will then be easier for me post baby to lose some more weight! I am going to call to set up my ultrasound appt in about 30 minutes so I'll let you guys know that date when I call but for now I'm off to work!! 

Yes y'all I'm back!

So I have survived my vacation and am now home with the kids! We all had an awesome time and we were very busy from the time we first arrived to the time we left! Lots of stuff to do and not enough time to do it! On the plane ride down Zachary did absolutely awesome for me, I was pleasently suprised! I woke him up at 4 in the morning and he stayed awake until our flight took off at 615 in the morning. The plane was extremely small only four seats wide so I was somewhat nervous as to how he'd do just sitting there in a cramped airplane but he fell asleep as soon as the plane started moving and stayed asleep until 10 minutes before we landed. Connor and my parents arrived to my grandma's house a few hours after I got there and my mom said that Connor had some somewhat okay on his long car ride. The first day they drove 12 hrs and that was a long time for him to be in the car so the last few hours in the car he was whining a lot! My mom said that when they left their house at 2 in the morning Connor was wide awake and being a chatty Kathy until she got extremely annoyed and he finally fell asleep after repeated attempts to make him go to sleep! She also said that they weren't even to Lapine yet and Connor was already asking "are we there yet?" Makes me laugh to think about it but I realize that it probably got really old really quick for my parents! 20 minutes into a 16 hr drive and he's already asking if we're there yet!! We had two great bbq's that first weekend and spent lots of time with lots of family! We went to Tijuania, Mexico on Tuesday where we got lots of cheap cigarettes, alcohol, and sunglasses! And only the sunglasses were for me! Up here in Oregon the alcohol and cigarettes are a lot more because of the taxes we pay for it so my parents like to get as much as they can while it's cheap! And the cigarettes are only 20 bucks a carton! So we had to get some for Asa and my brother! I was on a mission while we were there to find some fake Oakley's and I had to argue a price with quite a few different stores before I finally got 4 for 20 bucks! These foakley's as I like to call them last for years so I was glad that now we have some extra sunglasses and they didn't cost too much at all! After Tijuana we drove into San Diego had dinner at Red Lobster and spent the night there. In the morning we took off for Sea World and I got fried to a crisp there! I was so worried about getting sunscreen on the boys that I forgot about myself! The kids each had fun there seeing all the cool animals but by the afternoon we were all ready to go home! On Thursday we decided to go to dinner at Chuck E Cheese's and that was a lot of fun!! We had so many tokens that we had to play through but both the kids seemed to enjoy themselves! Then on Friday I took off for him and we arrived at LAX at 6 in the morning and my flight didn't leave till 9 in the morning so that's when things got a little stressful for me! I had my parents with me till about 745 so I was extremely thankful that they were helping me out with the kids. Zachary was having a rough day that day and I think it's because he's cutting another molar in so he was in pain. My parents tried to get a pass to go through the gates with me but they told them no so I was nervous to walk through those gates by myself and know that as of that moment it was all up to me. I tried to hold back the tears as best as I could. The waiting for our plane wasn't too bad because I barricaded a corner for them with my bags and the stroller so they weren't able to roam around. As soon as we boarded the plane Zachary fell asleep and I thought we were home free but little did I know! After about 30 minutes of peacefullness on the plane Connor decided he needed to go to the bathroom but we there was a line so we had to wait in our chair until the line was done so in that waiting he was getting anxious and was getting on my nerves real quick so in my midst of trying to keep him occupied Zachary woke up and was awake for the last hour and a half of our flight. He was not a happy camper with sitting in a cramped airplane with nothing to do. Skittles would not soothe him, Yogo's would not work, toys, cup, nothing. So needless to say by the time my flight landed I was emotinally drained and walked into the airport crying and had no specific reason as to why I was crying other than just being a whole mix of emotions from everything! So with all that being said I am glad to be back home and don't plan on doing that again by myself for a long long time! So my next vacation down there Asa will definanlty have to go with me!

 
 
The boys had an awesome time just hanging out in the back yard! They spent the majority of the days outside so by bedtime they were both so worn out that they each slept well for me! Zachary espicially loved playing with the bird baths outside! As you can see they each got themselves soaked with the water! They also decided that my grandma's fly swatters were their new favorite toys and would go around hitting the ground with the fly swatter and Connor was getting pretty good at finding a fly and squashing it! 

 
 
We had an awesome bbq one night with my cousins! I haven't seen them in many years so it was nice to catch up on everything and seeing the majority of the family together was pretty cool! 

 
While we stayed the night in San Diego we had to go to a hotel with a pool so the kids could swim! Zachary wasn't too fond on swimming this time but Connor is getting so good at swimming! He can swim all by himself quite a distance to me and then turn around and swim back to the side of the pool! I guess me working at the pool as paid off quite well because these kids love to swim now! 

 
We all had a blast at Sea World. Connor loved seeing all the animals and he espicially loved sitting in the soak zone seating during the Shamu show because we all got completely soaked! Zachary didn't like getting wet at all! He cried and cried but Connor thought it was awesome and wanted the whale to do it again but we only got soaked once! I will have to post more Sea World pics when my parents get back this next weekend because my battery died on my digital camera so the majority of the pics are on their camera :-( 

 

Really I just figured I'd throw in a random picture while I give you the latest run down since it's now been over a week since I've blogged! Although not too much has happened in the past week that is worth blogging about! This weekend I'm heading off to California! Yay!! Hopefully all goes well cuz as I've said before I'm more than a little nervous to fly on a plane by myself with two children! On Saturday morning I'm flying with just Zach and hopefully my little devil does okay! This kid is into everything and wants to do what he wants to do no matter what! Makes life interesting around here to say the least so hopefully in an airport he'll not be so into wanting to wander everywhere he is not supposed to! Connor is getting super excited about going on vacation! We've already bought him some new movies to watch on the drive down and some new toys I'm thinking he should do good! If not my mom is not gonna be a happy camper when I see her Saturday morning! On a different note I found out one of my friends is pregnant today!!!! (And for those who are gonna start guessing, I'm not telling cuz you probably are gonna guess wrong anyways!!) I am beyond excited to go through this expierence with her, it's always kinda fun to be pregnant at the same time as someone you know! It's hard to believe that I'm already 15 wks pregnant! I'm getting more anxious about finding out whether this is a boy or a girl. I get to make my appt for the long awaited ultrasound right after I get back from California. I'm such an impatient person I want to know now! I had a dream last week that it was a boy but I'm not sure if it was "my boy" because this boy was of a different ethnitcity and the women giving birth to him was not me because I had to go find Asa who again was sleeping to tell him that we had a baby! So I have no inkling as to if this is a boy or a girl, we shall see!