It's a ...

GIRL!!! 

We are beyond excited. 

JT has said from day one that this baby is a girl and I was set on it being another boy. My side of the family has only boy cousins so far so I figured we would just keep adding to that! This pregnancy has been exactly the same as my first, and I just thought it would be so fun to have two boys that close in age and be buddies, into all the same things, etc. so I was pretty set on boy! BUT. it's a girl and I could not be more excited! We can't wait to meet our little princess! She will definitely be spoiled rotten that's for sure. 

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was on Saturday this year and we had such a fun family day together! I got up with thomas at about 630 and we made breakfast burritos for JT, who got to sleep in a little bit. He wakes up early with Thomas 90% of the time, and I am so grateful to him for it! We ate our breakfast and thomas played with his new play kitchen I found for cheap and on sale too! I brought him upstairs when he woke up and as soon as he saw it he almost fell over from trying to run to it so fast. He was so excited. I've been wanting to get one for him for awhile now, kitchen stuff is his favorite thing to play with and has been for a long time now. The little stove burners light up and make noise, and he loves to open the stove and fridge and all that. It's adorable. 

The oregon zoo had a free day so we got ready and left at about 915 to go! It didn't open until 10 but I figured it would get really crowded quickly, and it did, so we went early. JT and I went to this zoo on our honeymoon one day randomly, but we didn't stay long or see hardly any of it.  It is such a great zoo!! Sooo much better then the utah one. Thomas loved it and would laugh and point at all the different animals. We stayed about two hours and still didn't see it all. But Thomas got tired and the zoo got seriously so crowded so it was a good time to leave. 

The four lion cubs were our favorite. They reminded me of Thomas a little bit with all their wild energy and playing. 

Thomas fell asleep instantly in the car on our drive back and ended up taking a FOUR hour nap. Yes. Four!!! It was much needed. 

We found a cheap little grill at lowes Friday night that we bought as our valentines present, and the weather was so nice that we grilled burgers and made our favorite pasta salad and the best fruit dip and had a dinner that made it feel like summer time. It was the first day since moving out here where I really felt happy and content with where we are. Slowly but surely I'm learning to love Washigton and I am so so thankful for my two valentines! Three including baby #2!

B A B Y

So first things first-we announced baby number 2 this last week! I was going to wait until we found out the gender but so many people already knew, I had people texting me that I didn't even realize knew about it! We are very very excited, and slightly nervous to have two under 2, but I can't wait to add another one to our family. Especially for Thomas to have a sibling that will be so close to him in age!

We were planning on getting pregnant this spring, like March or April-with Thomas it took a good six months or so for it to happen. This time I went off birth control in October just to let my body adjust and I never expected it to happen right away! Here's our little nugget, we aren't sure on the gender yet. 

I hit 14 weeks this past Sunday and have had a pretty easy pregnancy so far. I had a few weird weeks of awful nausea, but that passed. Now it's just heartburn (already!), insomnia, and feeling like I constantly just got hit by a bus. I think I tell JT every night that I have never been as tired as I am now. He has been great and so helpful though. Which helps tremendously! Everything seems to happen earlier this pregnancy, I have a very obvious baby bump which didn't happen until after 20 weeks with Thomas. The heartburn and insomnia also didn't hit me with Thomas until the last trimester, so that's been a surprise. But I can't complain much-we are so grateful for the opportunity to be parents again!

These are just pictures of our life lately: we went to Multnomah Falls on Satirday and hiked a ways up the trail. We are out of shape and it was SO steep, we didn't go to the very top. But it was beautiful!! I've never seen anything like it!

On Sunday we went to our new ward. I have never been to a ward where I have felt so instantly loved. Everyone was so kind and welcoming, I didn't pass anyone in the halls who didn't stop to say hi and introduce themselves. We already met with the bishop and I think he knows more about us in the first day then any of our past bishops did in years! So we are really excited about this ward and I think it will be a good fit for our family! Also it meets at 9 which is awesome for Thomas's schedule. 

Later in the afternoon we went to the Portland temple. We went to a wedding here last fall but I wanted to take Thomas to see it, and it was a good Sunday activity. 

It's a beautiful temple. 

Here's a few other random pictures from our last week: 

Stickers at Olive Garden. Best idea ever! It almost felt like we were on a date, they entertained him the entire time!

Brave kid. He is up and on everything. 

Waking up at 6 is tough. I wish he was sleeping in this. But he has never just fallen asleep anywhere.  He's so stubborn when it comes to sleeping!!