It's a girl!

That's right folks, "100% girl" they said. Although we had told everyone we wanted a boy next (only because we already had a girl) We are thrilled that she is healthy and doing well. Alice and her will no doubt be best friends and now Dustin doesn't have to permanently give up his study because they can share a room! I also told him, that when he gets older, there's nothing better than having a bunch of women dote on him--which is the truth.

I love this picture of her legs crossed. It won't be long before she can't stretch out like this! The second picture is of her profile.

I have had several requests for belly pics so I took some today to post below.

Utah Trip, Dustin and Corey's Birthday Party

Good Evening everyone! We've had a busy couple weeks, and they're going to get busier! Alice and I were able to visit Utah (we hadn't been home in a year and a half) It was great to see my grandparents who haven't seen Alice since she was five weeks old. Now that she's getting a little older, she really enjoys to travel and visit family--we don't have to worry so much about her being in 'her element' and 'on schedule'.

Playing with a Cinderella doll and dress on the Airplane (that thing was a life saver!)

Grandma and Grandpa's newly landscaped backyard. Her favorite part was the rock waterfall. Saturday morning, we had pancakes and hot chocolate on the new deck with the cousins.

Kora is Alice's cousin that's only 12 days older than her. We call them the twins. They especially loved picking apples from grandma's trees and chatting on the 'table rock.'

Cousin James and Alice getting rides on ponies at Gardner Village.

Aunt Ginny and Vilolet at Gardner Village--what a cutie!

James and Alice trying on bracelets. Sooo cute.

We had dinner with her great-grandma Harding. Alice was in chocolate chip cookie delirium.

The 'twins' enjoying a slumber party and gelatto :)

Grandma took us to a corn maize and we actually made it all the way through!

Man I miss these mountains! If I wasn't preggo I would have done some serious hiking.

We went to Logan to visit my two younger sisters, Aunt Jess and Aunt Cass. We had lunch at Angie's restaurant, a Logan original.

hmmmm. Jess, do you feel like Betos?

Little Alice on our Logan River Trail hike. Auntie Cass showing off her cat-like reflexes.

Alice wasn't so cat-like. She fell and skinned her knee-which resulted in much drama and my sisters and I carrying her for about a mile and a half.

She was finally soothed with a granola bar.

We were anxious to get home and see Dustin again. When he picked us up from the airport she didn't stop hugging him for 10 minutes straight. awwww.

As promised, here's some pics of the deck we, ahem, Dustin built. His buddy, Andy came over and helped him a lot while I was in Utah.

Here it is 95% done. It's very nice to have all this outdoor space, I'm very proud of my handyman!

On Saturday, Melissa and I had a joint party for our hubby's whose birthdays are only 3 days apart. She got them these hilarious shirts and Corey did his famous crab and shrimp boil. Oh, Dustin turns 31, so give him lots of grief if you can!

What a handsome man!

No new news on the gender

I had my ultrasound at my mom's hospital yesterday, and she couldn't really see anything. So it looks like we'll have to wait until Oct. 7 to find out. :( On the plus side, everything else looks great!

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Also, I posted a poll for everyone to vote on the baby's gender. When I'm in Utah next week, my mom is hooking me up with an ultrasound at her hospital to find out early! Sometimes I forget the perks you get when you have a mother and mother-in-law who are both labor and delivery nurses :)

Preschool, Nana, Indiana, and more

I only did small pics for this post because it would have taken hours for my computer to upload larger versions. And yes, I still haven't got my laptop fixed :(

On Aug, 13th Alice went to the dentist for the first time. She did well even though she was scared during my teeth cleaning, I kept reassuring her that it wasn't hurting me. She even let them clean her teeth a little, and she loved her new Spongebob toothpaste. Not that she really knows who Spongebob is, but the toothpaste was yummy and fit in her hand.

These are Alice's new Cinderella flipflops. She calls them "Cindawella shoe fwops." They light up and are a hit at church in nursery--every kid tries them on. I'm sure you'll see them in many pictures from now on . . . .

We were also lucky to have Nana come visit at the end of August. We got lots of pictures with her camera but had a tough time trying to copy them onto my computer. This computer is so slow! I wish we got a video of Alice greeting her. As soon as Jo walked in the door, Alice yelled "NANA!" and ran into her arms. We enjoyed our time with her very much!

We went to Indiana for Lily's funeral, and while we wish we were visiting under better circumstances, it was great to spend time with Ben and Ruth's family. The older kids were still in school and we took Alice and Sariah to the children's museum.

Here they are 'diggin' for dinosaur bones. If you look at Alice's face closely you'll see how tight her goggles were. oops.

What cute baby dinosaurs! Actually, Alice was scared of the whole dinosaur exhibit. However, as you'll see in the video at the end of this post, she really likes dinosaurs now.

She loves playing with her cousins!

Dustin with one of the new Batman tumblers. I guess the made a total of 8 for the two movies, one of which is displayed at this museum.

Alice and Eliza

Jon and Alice

Dancing queens! Alice absolutely loved playing with all the kids, they were sooo great with her. It made me a little sad that we didn't live closer to family :(

This picture was taken by miss Alice

As was this one!

This pic cracks me up! She was mad that she wasn't in control of the camera, hahaha!

On this day, Dustin decided we needed a deck. Soooo, he rented a bobcat and played outside for all of labor day weekend. More deck pics to follow . . . .

Alice's first day at a local church's Mother's Day Out program. It's only two days a week, but gives her a chance to learn and play while I can have a few hours to run errands or attend doctors appointments. Her best friend, Dane also attends and they love it.

Okay, so it's a tad long, but it's her best dinosaur impressions! Yes, she has no pants on. We usually do while we're at home. She can get to the potty a lot quicker without worrying about getting her pants in the way.

Well folks, that's all for now!