The Circus

The Ringling Brothers Circus was in Trenton, NJ just down the road from our house, so we ventured to the arena for the show. The kids had a great time. Dylan loved all of the lights and music and seemed to love every act more that the last. Hailey was super excited about the tigers and watched without blinking the entire act. Hailey even had her picture taken with one of the girls in the show. Mom loved the elephants the most...maybe since I have felt like one these days.

Much requested pregnancy pics...

I know that all of my far away friends and family have been asking for months to see pregnancy pictures of me...and I was really being honest when I told them that I was not showing at all. Just recently (around the end of my sixth month) I finally started to look a little pregnant. I was actually really tickled when the lady at Wal-Mart noticed that I was pregnant when she was checking me out at the register. It may have been also that I was buying some baby things...but I was still flattered that she noticed. These pictures were taken on May 30th and I am almost 33 weeks pregnant. The baby is doing great and I am just starting to waddle, so we are well on our way to having our baby on or about July 19th.

Dylan has a new trick!

Our big boy Dylan has just taught himself to get to a seated position all by himself and stay sitting up. We are so excited that he is doing new things and getting better all the time. I look around the room and he is sitting up by himself and grinning ear to ear!

Hailey's First Sailing Trip

We were elated when a friend from our branch invited Earl and Hailey to go out on his sailing boat on Friday. Hailey had not ever been on a boat before and since we now own one (it's in the shop right now) we thought that this would be a good start for Hailey to get used to the water. Hailey needs to get used to the water so that she can have fun when we go out on our faster boat later in the summer. Earl is looking for a really tiny life jacket for the new baby, but I say that if they don't make them then that is a really good reason not to take the new baby out on the boat until at least next year! Brother Roberson took Earl and Hailey out on Barnegat Bay near our house. They had a short little trip, but had tons of fun. Hailey was afraid at first, but settled in pretty quickly.

The Sesame Place

The Sesame Place is a Sesame Street themed theme park just north of Philadelphia, PA. We were blessed to get free tickets from a great children's charity called Variety. We went as a family and had so much fun. It was a really hot day. The kids got to see an Elmo Live and rode tons of fun rides. Dylan's chair even went on the carousel!