[ good news! ]

Wow, it's really been a long time since I've posted, so I thought instead of doing a lot of back-tracking at this point, I thought I would start with the most exciting news first...

Can you tell what the poster says that Angie is holding in the picture? It says "I'm going to be a big sister!" This is the picture we gave to our parents for Christmas to let them know another grand-baby is on the way. They were extremely excited and overjoyed as we are of course! I'm 7 weeks along, so we just found out the news fairly recently. Our new addition is due August 14th. Unfortunately I haven't been as lucky with this pregnancy and have been sick, I wish that I could call it "morning sickness", but instead I would call it "anytime-of-the-day" or sometimes "all-day sickness". Not fun! I'm just hopeful that it'll only last the 1st trimester!

So other than that we're doing really well. We were fortunate to enjoy a white Christmas this year, which was very exciting for Seattle! We actually got so much snow that we even got to do bit of sledding! We got to spend a lot of time with our families for Christmas and I flew out with my family last Friday for the weekend to go to Brad's wedding in Salt Lake. I got to spend time with my cousins, who I hadn't seen in a year while John and Angie had some great daddy-daughter bonding time at home.

All in all it's been a crazy month for my family with Christmas and Brad's wedding and my Mom still recovering from her surgery, but it was very rewarding. My Mom is doing much better, especially now that she knows she's going to be a Nana again, we're happy that we don't have to keep our secret any longer and most importantly, I now officially have a new sister! Congrats Brad and Krystal! We love you guys! I'll have to post those pictures later!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

[ Cousins ]

So I feel pretty terrible about not posting in so long! I'm feeling overwhelmed lately because so much has been going on. But that shouldn't be any excuse, if anything I should be posting more because of all the excitement! Well, since it takes me forever to post pictures, I figured I'll just post a few at a time over the next few posts and hopefully I can catch up with myself.

John's older brother Mike and his wife Megan and their two kids, Taylor and Caden came to visit for Thanksgiving! They stayed with us almost 2 weeks, so we had lots of time to catch up since none of us had seen each other since last Christmas! Long time! (May I also remind you that John's sister Cristina is also staying with us! So we were very grateful for all the spare bedrooms that we have downstairs! The space was perfect for everyone!)

Here are the kids having fun in the tub together! Everyday they would get so excited for bath time and sometimes we could hardly get them out! :) I was impressed at how well the three of them played together! Especially Angie and Taylor... they were holding hands and playing almost instantly! What a fun time Angie had with her cousins! They flew home on Monday and we definitely miss them, but were so glad we had the room so they could stay with us! We love you guys!