Vacation...

New York?
Venice?

Paris?

Las Vegas!

Like I said...

Ed and the kids made the wild turkey soup:

Ava set the table:
And I took the weekend off!

Jem

(I stole this one from Paula)

Guess what's for dinner?

Ed was up three hours before me and out in the pouring rain in pursuit of this ugly guy. Jack was thrilled and stood by the window to watch him plucked and gutted. The rule here is if you kill it, you cook it so I'm taking the weekend off!

Today was frog and toad day at school--big excitement here! It involved wearing green, eating gummi worms, and making a frog mask.

17 weeks.

The baby is now the size of a turnip and can hear. It's ears are fully developed and are starting to stick out from it's head (not too far I hope!). I've had multiple dreams that it is a girl and I have a girl name picked out so I'm pretty sure it'll be a boy...but we'll find out in a couple weeks!

Love.

He calls her pudge and she calls him bubba and they love love love each other.

One of the things we like the best about Jack is the seriously awesome giggles he gets when he's being chased (or wrestled). It's hilarious. I was happy to hear Jem doing the exact same thing today when they were chasing each other around. I thought she was going to pass out from the happiness.

The weather was amazing and my kids were all clean and shiney so I tried to get a picture of them.

No such luck.

At least our lawn looks good!

Good Fun Merriam Catching

As most of you know, I really look forward to this time of year. My long time hunting partner (Tim) capped off a great day of turkey "catching," as my wife and sister-in-law like to call it.

Goofballs

Sadly,

Jack's the only one using the exercise ball these days!

Working on the weekend.

Jemma has two sharp pointers poking through her gums so she was a bit down and out this weekend too. She was pretty much taking the love wherever she could get it!

Ugh.

I got a stomach bug late Thursday night which really shouldn't be allowed for pregnant people, especially those who are nauseous already! The sad thing was I would have felt fine in the morning but I didn't eat anything which I somehow forgot is not a good idea while pregnant--something I remembered when I was putting Jemma in her highchair and totally blacked out and found myself on the couch with my hearing all funny, my hands numb, and seeing black spots. Ed was in a meeting and it was too much effort to drag myself to the computer to email him when he was two hours away anyway (but at least he would have felt sorry for me and that's something, right?). Sweet Jack got me a bowl of dry cereal (his cure-all) after Ava had already gotten herself ready and off to school--dressed, fed, lunch packed, hair brushed (sort of)--what would I do without them? It was night before I could actually stand upright. Ugh, what a miserable day! I recovered nicely later in the weekend by watching the entire last round of the Master's. Yes, golf. I wonder about me too.

Funny girl!

She was this hyper all day and we didn't even give her any candy!

First bite of Easter goodies!