Profound

Ok, I got this in my email, it's a very profound ad that really touched my heart. (It's only about 40 seconds) and I wanted to share it with as many people as I can. This video says so much in such a simple way...please take a minute to look at it. I pray that Obama changes his stance on abortion.

WE'RE HAVING A ..............

Yesterday, (Jan 20th) we finally got to have another ultrasound... I've had several ultrasounds already, but the baby was always hiding certain areas from our view! We had decided after some previous consideration that we wanted to find out the gender of this baby, but it just never happened...


until yesterday...



...We found out that we are definitely having a...

BOY!

NO doubt after the pictures we got. We would've been happy with either a boy or girl, but it is so exciting to finally know! And, oh, his little face is sooooooooo sweet. I'm so excited to welcome another little boy into the world. I can't wait to find some time to go through all the boy clothes and things that I still have and get everything in place before this baby is born! Now, we really need to start thinking of names.

Here is one more picture, (this one is in 3D, the tech kept switching back and forth from regular to 3D) if you look right in the middle you can see his cute little footprint!

I can hardly wait to hold him in my arms!

Brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Wow, it has sure been cold here the last couple days! An arctic air mass blew over from Alaska and brought our temps to -16 with a wind chill of -27. School was cancelled Thursday and Friday, because it's too dangerous to have kids walking and waiting for buses in those temps. So, we get a 5 day weekend since we also have Martin Luther King Day off on Monday! I've been relaxing here at home with the kids, just playing games and having fun together. I am looking forward to the 'warmer' weather that we are supposed to have tomorrow (up in the 20's) so that the kids can play outside in the snow like they have been asking. At least then I can just bundle them up and won't have to worry about them getting frostbitten!

Our 2 cats are crazy, we made them stay in all last night and today, and they kept meowing at the door to go outside! They do have a cozy box with a heating pad under a wool blanket in the garage and also a heated water bowl so that they can drink water when they're out there, without it turning to ice. We lock the garage open about 4 inches so they can go in and out. We need to get a cat door, I think. It finally warmed up to a whole 2 degrees above zero tonight, so we let them go out. (To me, it seems weird that it is much warmer at night sometimes than it is during the day.)

Despite the cold weather, our hearts are warm and happy! We all appreciate the beauty of winter very much.