SoCal Weather In VA

It feels like a nice breezy Southern California day here in Virginia. Jackson and I spent a little time on our back deck. Here is little Jackson in action.

Graduation Time...

Ok, so Dan's graduation from TBS was two weeks ago, but things have been in a constant state of flux lately. Graduation I am sure was wonderful, but Jackson didn't even make it through the opening remarks before he had had enough. So I spent the ceremony out in the hall with NUMEROUS other moms and little ones. Luckily we were able to peak in the door and watch Dan walk across the stage. It is hard to believe he is done with TBS! It went by a lot quicker than we anticipated. Last Saturday he headed down to Camp Lejeune where he will now be in Engineer School. He graduates from that school May 14th and then will head out to hopefully catch the birth of our little girl before he heads to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion at Camp Pendleton, CA. Jackson and I will head back to Colorado on March 15th by way of Camp Lejeune, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, and Amarillo stopping to see various friends and family along the way. Hopefully we will be able to Join Dan in CA in June or July. What a fun year it is going to be! Here are some of the pictures from graduation.

Dan, Capt Prato (Dan's Boss), Richard Sala

Arron Elliott, Dan, & Richard (ALL GOING TO CA!!)

Richard & Melanie (Melanie is due March 5th)

Our little family

Big News!

Jack is now walking! He decided to have his walking debut the night before Dan left for North Carolina. He must have known his daddy would have been very upset if he had missed it. I am going to attempt to attach a video of his new skills.

One of these is not like the other....

We will soon be the proud parents of a little girl. Yep, Little Hannah is on her way! Well, I guess she has always been on her way it is now we just know what we will call her and what color to do her room! Dan is very excited to have a little princess and I am glad to not be out numbered! Looks like all those who voted girl were right!! Unfortunately I don't have a scanner, but I hope to be able to scan in an ultrasound picture in the next few days. Yeah girls!!

Blue or Pink...I am not sure what to think

Tomorrow is the big day of finding out the sex of Baby Bean #2. I am not sure why I am so wrapped up in finding out. I know with my luck the baby will be super shy and not show the goods. I would love to have one of each, but would also love for Jackson to have a little brother to romp around with. So far the boy would be nameless. Dan and I cannot agree on anything! Maybe that should be the next poll if it turns out this little one is a boy. So far in the running, in no particular order, Lucas, Brayden, Tucker, & Caeden. Those are just the top four! Who knew naming a baby would be so hard! So much relief would be found on the naming front if the baby is a girl. We have had Hannah picked out as our girl name since we got married. We still squabble about the middle name, but at least she would go home with a first name. It looks like more think it will be a girl. My NP told me yesterday if you believe the old wives tale that girls have faster heart rates than boys then she would cast her vote for a girl (the baby's heart rate was 155 bpm). We we will keep you all posted. Check back tomorrow for the results.

The Bump....

Well some have asked so here it is...the Baby Bean #2 bump. Not a great picture...sorry my head is not in it, but it was not a pretty day for photos.

2007 Wrap Up...Welcome 2008

Ok so I am FINALLY getting around to updating this blog! Here is what happened in the past few weeks....

Christmas Eve

We spent the evening of Christmas Eve with our good friends Richard and Melanie Sala. It is an Italian traditon in Rich's family to make spaghetti on Christmas Eve so Richard made the sauce and we brought French Bread (homemade by me with Adam's recipe...it was hit!), Caprese Salad, and green salad. Needless to say it was a FEAST! Before dinner we took a little Metro ride into DC to see the National Christmas Tree at the White House. We were not the only ones with this idea...it was PACKED! The tree was not the Rockefeller Tree, but it was still neat to see.

Christmas Day

We spent the morning with out little family of 3 1/3 opening presents and eating a hearty breakfast of Eggs Huntington! YUMMY! Dan opened most of Jack's presents for him, but Jack certainly played with them all...that is after we managed to free them from the packaging!! For Christmas dinner we once again joined the Sala's for a tradtional meal. All in all a good Christmas...not white..but still fun.

Our sorta Christmas Tree....the real one is packed somewhere in the basement...

Trips to D.C.

We took two more trips to Washinton D.C. with the Salas and their 9 fmaily members. The first was on the 30th...we made it as far as the Lincoln Memorial before it began pouring rain! I have decided I would rather have snow! We took a quick side tour to the Korean Memorial and then headed back home to watch the sorry showing CU gave in the bowl game again Alabama.

The next trip was on New Years Day, again with the Salas and company. We went in the evening and were able to see the mall at night. It was a little frigid, but we managed to make it most of the way through the momuments. The most spectacular was the new World War II memorial! WHAT A SIGHT TO SEE AT NIGHT! I would love to go back during the day and read all of the inscriptions and take some picture. Only one of the ones I took at night turned out.

Over all, the holidays went well, of course we would have LOVED to have been with family, but had a good time with our Marine Corp family. Dan is headed back to school tomorrow for his last two weeks of TBS! It is hard to believe it is over. Then he will be headed to Camp Lejeune for Combat Engineer school on the 25th. Jackson and I will pack our things and head to Colorado in mid-march to stay and have baby bean #2. Then it is off to Sunny SoCal. Thanks for hanging with us this year...keep checking in with us...this next year will be another wild Marine Corp Adventure!