Fun Saturday

We had a lot packed into our day today. Richard had staff duty yesterday so he spent the night on the floor in his office! He was home by 9:30ish this morning and then went to do more work in the garage...so far, as the garage gets cleaner, the house gets messier. :( Oh well. It will even out eventually...hopefully by the end of the weekend. Richard is off until Tuesday.

After eating breakfast and doing some stuff in the garage we headed off to get a 3D/4D ultrasound. I wanted to do it when I was pregnant with Benjamin, but you know, Germany...So, since I don't know if or when I'll be pregnant again, we decided to do it this time. I also thought that if we saw the baby's face we might be able to better decide on a name. (Not so much...but it was still really cool) I think she looks like Benjamin though, and she has my nose, according to both Rick and my dad. :) Now..if we can get some brown eyes, we'll be all set.

Look at those perfect little lips :)


See, my Benny has them too. This is him only a few hours old. A good view of her lips and nose. Aww....seriously, he's so precious. 16 months old as of yesterday...where does the time go?!


And here she is yawning. 3D ultrasounds work with a "picture box" thing...so anything out of the "box" gets distorted or is black space. Which is why you can only see parts of her little face. We had a really fun time though watching her wiggle around, stick her entire hand in her mouth, and even attempt to suck on her toes. It was fun for me because she was moving around and now I now what she is doing in there when I'm feeling those odd rolling movements.

Once that was over, we went to Michael's to pick up another 9ft garland for the porch...that's right, I'm decorating for Christmas. I also got a really pretty wreath for the front door and it was 50% off! All the Halloween stuff was on mega sale, so we got a second candy bucket just like Ben's...but instead of 3.99 we paid .99! Ah well...

A quick snack from the McDonald's dollar menu and we were home again. We had limited time to get ready and take Benjamin to the neighbor's house. Our church small group meets every other Saturday. Tonight we went out for pizza and then go-karting. It was SO fun. I didn't kart of course. Richard won the race...kind of. He didn't have the best lap time, but he went 13 laps when everyone else went 12. Plus, his race name was "BlackSmoke" and he wore a black jumpsuit. Haha!
The group in their "head socks" to protect their heads from used helmets.


BlackSmoke is in the lead!


And here he is...so sexy in that black jumpsuit. MmmHmm!

Once we got home, we picked Ben up and then came home to fix our ottoman. Benjamin was so cute, trying to help daddy out in every possible way.

Benjamin has the drill. He actually has such excellent hand/eye coordination that he was able to get the drill bit into the hole in the wood. We were impressed anyway...

What a great life we have. We are truly blessed! :-D