Another day in Texas.

Well I guess summer is here. It seems to be a weird spring down here. It isn't quite as hot at the end of April as it normally would be. But yesterday it reached 85 so we put on the swim suits and went for a swim. Or I should say the kids and matt went for a swim and I sat and watched. The water was just too cold for me. The kids have been bugging me to go swimming for the past month. I've tried to explain to them that even though it is warm or hot outside the pool water will still be pretty cold. That excuse was wearing thin so we went yesterday. Caleb was on the top step in the water so I decided to help him the rest of the way by pushing him. :) I know, I know, any mom would do the same. :) But seriously, the kids had a blast. It was good to be back to swimming. Although, I don't think we'll get any time in today. It seems like it will be cloudy all day. Who knows Texas weather can change from minute to minute. I sure hope the sun comes out so we can do it again today! Ahh.... even as we speak the sun is trying to come out from behind the clouds. I hope you all have a great weekend.

jenn

You know you live in Texas when....

Ok I promise this is a true story. So the school Caleb goes to is affiliated with a Baptist church here in Austin named Bannockburn. I love everything about this school and church. They are some of the most wonderful people around. Every day after school we let the kids hang in the court yard or play ground and play for an hour or so. You all remember what it was like, having to be good all day in school and just needing to run off some energy at the end of the day. Well every once in a while they have a funeral at the church. It's one of the larger churches here in South Austin. So on Wed. afternoon there was a funeral. It was crazy, there were no parking spaces in either parking lot to pick up the kids. As I drove by the first parking lot I looked and there was a "Texas truck (duelly)" parked near the playground with a large horse trailer attached. Didn't really think anything of it, seen them around before. So I park at school and just outside of the church on the side walk is a "Ranchers hunting truck". When I say this it is a big truck like a Ford F250 or larger and it has two seats attached to the front end of the truck. Mind you this is parked outside of the main church entrance on the side walk. So we moms are figuring that some well off Texas rancher died. Well this next part is the reason for the title. As the mourners are filing out we see the Ranchers Horse. Yes indeed, you know you live in Texas when a horse attends his owners funeral!!!! Apparently as my friend David put it, "in Texas a rancher's horse ranks higher than the wife." I smiled at him and no really, "a rancher's horse is esteemed higher than the wife." Amazing. All funniness aside, it is touching when you think about it the rancher probably spend a good eight to ten hours a day on the horse checking out the ranch, the animals and the ground maintenace. So the the horse will probably go through a mild depression over missing his owner/good friend. So anyway I just thought I would share this with you all.

Happy Easter! God Bless!

jenn

All well

Just a quick post to say all is well here. The sickies kinda stopped a few weeks ago, so I'm back to feeling quite normal, and I'm no longer quite as tired. I just want to eat chocolate all the time. (But is that really the pregnancy? Not so sure.)

We had our first ultrasound last week, and that came back fine. More than fine. So far, so good. This one is just as active as Noah was, and spent the entire test doing the back stroke. So he/she was a bit hard to photograph, but the tech was confident she got all the information she needed.

And there is only one baby on board. Also a relief. Next ultrasound is early next month. I'm hoping we'll be able to find out the gender. I've got my fingers crossed.