A New School Year

This is the new deck we are building in the back yard! Working on finishing it up!

Things are going well here in Ohio. Last week I started back to work getting ready for a new school year! We had our meet the teacher night last week, and from the looks of things I am really going to have my hands full! I can tell you that this class seems very different from last years! I am hopeful that I just forgot what the kids were like when they came at the beginning of last year. If not there is always an extended maternity leave!! HA HA

The Pregnancy is going well we are now in our 18 week. We will find out in two weeks if we are having a boy or girl. I can not tell what it is all, but I think I am starting to feel it move. I am getting the belly and my belly button is popping out already....it is very strange looking. I am trying to wear very covering clothes because I did not want to tell the parents or kids in my class yet!

Last week Pat and I traveled to Rhode Island to visit Kristy and Matt. We had such a wonderful time! I have included some pictures.

Don't worry I will post after the ultrasound with our news!

Exciting News!

I know many of you have stopped checking our blog....I believe this might be since I have not posted in over a year! I don't know why it is not not interesting to reread over and over the same post!
I wanted to post Patrick and I exciting news! We are pregnant! We are about 13 weeks along and due the very first of February. Things are going well so far. Two weeks ago we had our first ultrasound which was amazing. I can't believe on something so very small that we could see it fingers and eyes. It was also amazing to watch it move. Lots of flipping and swimming.
Patrick has nicknamed our child Max Power. It has been his favorite name for a very long time. I believe that he has visions of his son on the soccer field saying "Max Power max power now"
We are going to find out the sex as soon as week can. I know this is not the cool thing to do right now but I just can't wait. I can't wait to start saying he or she, and buying gender specific items. We should be able to know in about 7 weeks!
I really have not been too sick a bit of nauseousness, and tired, so I feel really lucky. The only bad thing that happened was during the 4th of July weekend I slipped a disk in my back. I was in so much pain we went the the emergency room. The doctor said there was not much he could do (no pain killers or muscle relaxers allowed) other than to ice and rest. He also told me to be really careful throughout the pregnancy because your joints loosen up to stretch :( I am doing much better now just a little sore!
I promise to do better with updates about what is going on!
I hope all of you are enjoying summer!