hey ho everyone, we've had a couple busy weeks. Actually Nathan has. The amount of credits he's supposed to take to stay on fast grad is very very demanding, but he's definitely risen to the occasion and been working his buns off. It's been frustrating for him though because he's been working so hard and still feels like he's falling behind. We've been thinking about getting off fast grad this next semester so that he can resume taking a reasonable amount of credits and keep his sanity. Also it's probably likely that he'll have to find part time work too so a less hectic schedule would be welcome. Things remain less hectic at home with me and the kids. Although I know I don't get nearly as sick as a lot of women I still don't feel like stepping outside the house a lot of the days so poor Benny and Ephraim don't get much excitement or variety. Every once in a while I'll have the gusto to take them outside on a walk, or to some big toys. If school wasn't hard enough already, Nathan has also been helping me out a lot by doing the dishes a lot and giving me naps. He's my knight in shinning armor. I had my first ultrasound last week and got to see the baby!! They determined that my due date was Sep. 6th which means this will be an August baby since they're going to deliver a week early. I got to see him/her wiggle and move his/her little cute arms and stomach. The doctor also predicted that it was going to be a boy. The sex organs aren't developed at this point (10 weeks) but from the way it was looking he said it looked like it was leaning towards being a boy. I kinda had a hunch before this that it was going to be a boy so it was kinda exciting hearing that I just might be right. I'm very excited for another boy and Nathan is too. What a big surprise it will be if it actually is a girl.

Last week was also very fun because we had both of our families visit! First my mom and sister came down for two days. I asked my sister to come down so she could go snow boarding with me before I got big and couldn't do it anymore. Then kinda at the last minute Nathan decided to come too. Nathan was able to get a free lesson from a snow board instructor who was one of Julie's friend and that really helped him enjoy himself better. Unfortunately we couldn't stay all day because Nathan had a lot of homework but Julie and I were able to go on one run together just us. It was nice to spend that time with my favorite sis. Then a couple of days later Nathan's parents came and that was super nice too. Lots of good stuff happening.

lately Benny has gotten into the habit of experimenting with different surfaces instead of paper so I thought I would record all the cleaning he's been doing.

Thankfully he enjoys the cleaning up process as much as the coloring process.

Ephraim helped him make this one.

father son time.
Ephraim gets bored when his brother falls asleep

This is when we found out we were pregnant. the pregnancy test got cut out though.