Family Visit

This last weekend we had Preston's sister Wendi, her husband Wade, Preston's cousin Carly, and her boyfriend Adam all over for a fun stay. We had lots of fun hanging out and doing some fun stuff around the city. They all wend to Pops (without me) which is a semi-famous gas/food station on historic Route 66, we visited the Oklahoma City Memorial, went to a Red Hawks game, had dessert at the Melting Pot, etc. Good times. Here are a few pics....most of which I stole off of Wendi and Carly's blogs. ;)

Poor Wade. Chase pretty much crawls all over him the entire time they are around each other. Wade, it's only b/c he loves you!

Check out those guns!
Us at the baseball game.
The whole crew at the Melting Pot.

Preston ran on a relay team in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon this weekend. They all did really well. So well, in fact, that I missed Preston finish it (he was the last leg) by about 5 minutes. So mad. Here is his team:

Random: I just thought this picture was funny. Last week Chase went over to play with his friend Ty at his house (I was sick...thank you Jen!). This is the way he fell asleep about 5 minutes after getting home. I guess he played hard!

Ava Update

Miss Ava continues to grow as you can see from the picture below. I'm now 26 1/2 weeks along and doing pretty well. Other than a week long sinus infection that I can't kick, joint pain, and a tooth ache of all things, I'm doing great! Almost exactly 3 months until the July 31st expected arrival time. Wow! I can't believe how fast it is going. Seriously...my last pregnancy crawled compared to this! I've picked out a crib bumper, baby book, and maybe even a diaper bag but I have yet to buy any of it. I really need to get going on the room. Actually I need to get Chase's new room squared away first (which is going to be super cute by the way) so I can get him out of Ava's room and start painting it. Preston says he'll be ready to start working on it once school is out. He graduates with his masters in ONLY 2 WEEKS! Woo-hoo! Ava kicks me all the time which is really fun. Chase talks about her a lot. Sometimes he will stick out his stomach and tell Preston to do the same saying "lets make our Ava's in there". So funny. I go for the dreaded glucose test next week. I actually don't mind drinking the stuff so much...it's wasting the hour at the doctors office waiting to have blood drawn that I am not looking forward to. Anyway, here's a 26 week picture. Getting bigger!

April Update

Chase and I went to Abilene to hang out with my old roomies and my sister. We all had a great time. Chase liked playing with their kids (when he felt good) and also LOVED seeing his Aunt Amy.

Earlier this month we went to my parent's house for a visit. Chase likes to help his granddaddy. We also went to Canton trade day. It was really fun getting to shop for a girl! I bough Ava some goodies and Chase got some decor for his new room for when Ava kicks him out of the baby room. :)

A few days ago I heard some banging noises coming from Chase's room and this is how I found him.

Nice hair Preston. :)

Potty training. How's it going?....well....it's going.

Father-Son Back Yard Camp Out

So Chase and Preston decided to have a little camp out in the back yard on Friday night. You may be wondering why I didn't join in. 1) I don't know why you would sleep on a camping pad when your king size mattress is mere feet away 2) If you don't know what number 2 is please see the belly photo below.

Anyway I think they had a lot of fun. Chase was soooooo excited while the tent was being set up. They were roughing it as they watched Peter Pan on my laptop until they fell asleep. I'm not sure Preston slept that great since he came in that morning and slept in another few hours on the couch...not like him at all.

Here are a few pics:









So just to let you know I went to take my weekly belly photo and Chase said "take my picture, take my picture." I said OK and picked up the camera and started to take one of him up close but he ran away from me and I was like, what the heck are you doing. He ran to the exact spot I had taken my own photo....and I got a good belly photo of him too. I was laughing so hard. What a copy cat.

Colorado & Other Stuff

Baby Watterson
Remember how I said that our friend did an ultrasound for us and was 99% sure that it was a girl? No?....did I fail to mention on here that we weren't 100% sure? Well we are now! I had an ultrasound today and it's a done deal. Ava it is! Now I'm giving myself the OK to go buy some pink stuff! I feel her move all the time now so that's really fun. :)

Here is a pic of her cute little profile:

I think Chase is really starting to get it. He talks about Ava a lot. He'll ask when she is going to come out so he can hold her. My answer to this is always that she has to grow big, so now when you ask him what Ava is doing he says that "she is growing big". I'm not too sure that he really understands that another person is going to live with us and take up room in my lap. :)

Watterson Family Ski Trip

Over spring break we went with Preston's whole family on a fun ski trip to Breckenridge. We all had a great time!

The whole crew

Chase in all his winter gear

All of us just before our sleigh ride

Chase loved the sleigh ride!
Chase and daddy
Cute pic with Papa
A walk in the snow
Our fam on the gondola
Chase met mom and dad at the bottom of the mountain...when Preston and I went back up and he didn't get to go he said that he wanted "to skateboard too!"
Me and Preston on the mountain
Preston showing off his mad snowboard skills
I can't wait to learn to ski!

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Fun in Portland

Last weekend I headed to Portland to hang out with my sister, Leah, who lives there. Our other sister, Amy, came too so the three of us got to have a fun time together. It was great getting to see where Leah goes to school and meet some of her friends....even her boyfriend. ;) We did some cool sight-seeing, visited touristy places, shopped, etc. Here are some pics of our adventures:

Saturday Market...taking a rest to eat and warm up

We happened to be sitting in the right place for a Chinese dragon show!

Heading off to winter formal

Skiing! It was a little interesting since I was the only one of the three of us who has ever skied before!

Thought this was a good one of Amy headed back up the bunny slope!

But then disaster struck when Amy hurt her knee. Luckily we had an excellent view of Mt. Hood while we waited on the ski patrol to come get her and take her back to the base.

Amy was pulled down the mountain on a sled by one of the ski patrol guys.

Over all it was a good trip...but I wasn't the one who had to wear a homemade card board box leg splint in the airport the next day. :)

In other news
In case you were wondering what Ava and I are looking like these days well here it is:

Here are a couple of funny videos of Chase. In the first one he is eating his pasta in a very interesting way and in the second one he is playing with Lucy. (This one is kinda long so it may be only grandparents that will care about it!)

Photo Card Cafe' was in the paper again! Read the story...

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I'm in the paper! You can read the article here... I'm sure this page will change so if you don't see a story about Photo Card Cafe' that's why. :)

My friend Sara and I were hoping to get in a newspaper so we could drive traffic to the website. So yay! It's a first step hopefully to getting into some bigger publications.

Speaking of driving traffic to the website, I thought I would ask my friends and fellow blog stalkers to add Photo Card Cafe' to their links list if they want. Absolutely no pressure but if you feel like doing it it could help us get a few more hits. Here's the link: Photo Card Cafe'.

We've got some new photo Easter cards and also some new photo wedding save the dates....all of which were designed my some of our friends. Good work people!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We hope you all have a happy love day!

Yesterday we had has some friends over to make valentines. I think we learned that 2 and 3 year old boys are WAY more interested in playing in the back yard than making 12 valentines for the kids at school! haha. So the mom's ended up doing most of the work! Oh well!

Here is a video from Chase to all the people that he loves!

Baby Watterson Photos!

So we have an AWESOME friend who is a sonographer and she took us up to have an ultrasound of baby Watterson. Well guess what! IT'S A GIRL! Yay pink! You may now start refering to baby Watterson as Ava! She was very squirmy while we did the ultrasound. I loved watching her little legs kick! Chase was more interested in all the cool equipment in the room than looking at a boring black and white screen of a blurry baby....but hey he's 2. What do you expect. Preston and I are both really excited. After the initial excitement Preston actually said, "oh man, we need to start a wedding savings account." haha. What a dad!



Here are a few pics of her:

In other news, Chase spent a night with Aunt Wendi and Uncle Wade (read more about that on Wendi's blog) and then a week with Mimi and Papa. Here are some pics from that: