Summer

It's been a pretty busy summer and I'm just now getting some time to catch up on the blog.. so here goes..

15 Months

It's amazing how fast time flies! Zach turned 15 months at the end of May. In celebration, I finally took him to get his pictures taken. I know 15 months is rather random, but we were just to darn busy around his birthday.

Here are the results:

Number Two

So after two years of infertility treatments to be able to have Zach, we were a little surprised when we found out in March that we were expecting again. This time, no drugs, no shots and no stress! Woo hoo! :-)

We feel so blessed and grateful for this little miracle in our lives.

We had our 1st Trimester screening last week and were told that everything is looking great and.. it's a girl!

Farewell to Trev

We just got back from a very quick and very busy trip to Phoenix. It was Easter weekend, which was fun, but our true reason for going was to attend my nephew, Trevor's, Missionary Farewell. He's headed off to the Argentina Cordova mission and reports next Wednesday. We are so proud of him and know that he's going to be an amazing missionary! :-)

Shop Progress

The shop has also been materializing out there before our very eyes. Prior to the San Antonio trip, we got the footings dug, the foundation prepared:





and the concrete poured and finished.



Since coming back, we've had framers working for a couple of weeks,



and as of last Saturday, the entire Phase 1 (80' x 40') is framed in and sheeted.





Next steps? Approval of the permit for Phase 2 (20' x 40'), framing in that phase and then stucco-ing and roofing the whole thing.

It's crazy to look back there and see that huge building where nothing was a few short months ago..

Pool Progress

The weekend before we left for San Antonio, Chad and I spent all of Saturday installing the fencing around the pool. I think it came out looking awesome, and I'm SO excited that the backyard is now safe for children of all ages..

We still have the spa to go, but it's a little harder to get to (at least for Zach at the moment) so we have some time...

San Antonio

We spent 10 days of March in sunny San Antonio visiting Chad's sister, Sharon and their family.

It was a beautifully relaxing time and while we were there we were able to take in some of the sites:

We went to a 'drive through safari' where the animals come right up to (and sometimes into) your car. They give you food to feed them, and they pretty much eat right out of your hand. We saw longhorns, buffalo, ostrich, emu, zebra, antelope, a whole bunch of African animals I can't ever remember the names of, etc. Zach loved waving at all of them out of the window and, aside from the ostriches, which were a tad on the aggressive side, the animals were all pretty gentle.



Once we were done driving through the animals, we stopped and fed the goats. Even Zach got into feeding them, although he 'sample' the pellets at least once.






Zach and I then flew to Dallas and spent a couple of days with Joni. We pretty much just hung out, but we did go for a beautiful walk and were able to feed some ducks




Toward the end of the week, Chad, Angela, Lindsey and I went to the Natural Bridge Caverns.

They were pretty amazing and we had fun hanging out with the girls.





Chad and I also got a chance to go see some of the sites in downtown San Antonio including the Alamo and the Riverwalk. Greg was our tour guide and we had a great time exploring.






On Saturday we tried to go to the Zoo, which was totally packed. So.. not wanting to fight the crowds, we rode the train through the park instead.



It was a fun trip, but mostly we enjoyed just hanging out with the family and Zach LOVED playing with all his cousins.



Being around all of them even inspired him to take his first few steps:




Needless to say, we were a little sad to come home, and unfortunately (or fortunately, whichever way you look at it), he hasn't seen much need to walk since we got here..