Running Our Race

We made it to 17 weeks! Hooray!! I am feeling great and have no complaints! Brett came to one of my Dr appts on Monday and he got to hear the heartbeat which is so fun! This week the baby is an onion...yum! We scheduled our sonogram for the first week in August and I can't wait. We tackled a major list of projects this past weekend. We didn't get all of them done....but we definitely made some progress. One of them was to "revamp" our screened-in-porch. We decided to stain the boring concrete floor as a starter. We chose a dark brown color. Here is a pic partway through the process. We then put a couple of high gloss sealer coats on it...looking good! We ordered a big "lounging" sofa to go on one half and a dining room table will go on the other. Soon we plan to "mortar wash" the entire outside of the house which is this dark red brick, so that part of the porch will get changed then too. I will post some pictures once the transformat...

Yesterday I was officially 15 weeks!!! Hooray! My stomach is definitely making an appearance this week. Here is my first official prego picture: We spent the Monday with all 3 kids and had fun! I love long weekends! We watched a movie, went over to a friend's house and swam in their pool and just hung out all day. I caught Kate at the computer singing her heart out to a song. She also added some "moves" to her performance. Funny!! This is what Sadie usually looks like when the kids leave. She LOVES being with them and seriously gets depressed when they leave. She stayed like this on the couch for hours. She looked so pitiful I didn't have the heart to shoo her off of it. This weekend Brett's parents, Gina and Bob, and his Aunt Linda are coming into town and we will be with the kids-yeah!! Should be busy but fun!

Here at the Scullen house....we have some VERY EXCITING news to share with everyone!!! WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This week we are 14 weeks along and the baby is the size of a lemon!!! Our due date is December 28, 2010. Looks like it will be a Christmas to remember. We will be doing weekly updates every Tuesday as this baby gets bigger!! Brett and I came up with an idea of how to tell the kids when we were about 12 weeks along. We are a "card-playing-family!!", so we thought we should incorporate that somehow. One night we all decided to play the game of Spoons. I wrote the message " We Are Having A Baby" on some extra cards and secretly placed them in the deck. Spoons is a fast game and it took the kids a minute to realize the "message" as the cards were flying!! It was so exciting!! Everyone was shocked and hugs were everywhere. It was so hard for me to keep this secret from the kids. Especially Emma Grace-- she had been telling...