Annie can't wait for Ellie to get here.

I decided this time around that I wanted to do a maternity photo shoot and get some good pictures of me pregnant. I didn't take too many pictures with Annie and now I wish that I would have. It was fun to be able to have Annie in the pictures.

The new babies full name will be Eleanor, but we will call her Ellie for a nickname.

Annie struck this pose with her hand on her face right before the photographer took the pictures, I love this one the most.

34 Weeks

We have finished painting both girls rooms and we are so excited to start decorating the rooms so they are ready by the time Eleanor gets here. Eleanor's room is blue and Annie's is green.


This is a picture of me this week at 34 weeks. Since my last post things have been going so much better. I think I just needed to wait a little longer for the kicks to get stronger, because she sure is moving strong and a lot.

Paranoid!!!

So, I feel like I have been so much more paranoid this pregnancy than with Annie. Over the last couple days I felt like the kicks from the baby were not as strong as they had been and that she was really low in the pelvis, so I called my doctor and he did a Non-Stress Test. He said everything was perfect and that it's okay to want to be reassured. He told me it was better to do 100 Non-stress tests, than to not do anything. I feel so much better after he told me that. We only have about 10 more weeks to go and we are getting really excited around here.

This is 30 weeks.

Growing Belly

This was twenty weeks

This was twenty-two weeks. I felt like I had

grown so much.

We are really excited about the new baby coming to our family.

Annie's Second Birthday

Annie's birthday was on the tenth and I can't believe so much time has passed. She is getting so big and talks all the time. We got her a slide, books, necklaces, and a toy to learn the alphabet (right now she just likes the sounds it makes).

Fall Review

My friend took our family pictures this year and they all turned out great.

This was Annie's first time out in the snow this year. She loved walking around and especially loves to wear her red hat. She puts it on in the house all the time.
This was Annie's first haircut. We only cut her bangs, because they were hanging way to long in the front. The back is all curls and we want to keep it that way.
Annie was a bee for halloween and loved to wear her costume. Keeping the hood on was a challenge though.
We went to Spirit Lake this year with one of Dan's brothers and his family. The hike to Tamarack Lake is about 3 miles away from spirit lake and it's a great place for fishing.

It's been so long since the last post. But hopefully I can catch up with just a few pictures.

This was from our San Diego Trip

Dan and Annie walking by the ocean

Our little family at the beach, it was pretty cold, but we loved it anyway.