Happy Unvalentine's Day

Ok...so if any of you know me well you know I am not a HUGE fan of Valentine's Day. It has always been my arguement that a day should not be disignated to do something you should be doing EVERYDAY! We should be loving, appreciating, and honoring those we love everyday. However, since we are now with child I am going to have to put aside my immaturities and embrace this holiday. So here is our Happy Valentine's Day greeting, but my little peice of rebellion is posting it late in the day so most don't read it on the actual holiday. Maybe by next year I will get over my strange obsession with the holiday...until then Happy Valentine's Day!

Semper Fi

I am not sure if any of you caught the new Marine Corp commercial during the super bowl. Here is a link to the extended version. I thought it was really neat! The only place that is not real footage is in San Francisco where I guess the city would not allow them to video tape it, so the footage is done on a Blue Screen. Enjoy and Semper Fi!

http://our.marines.com/cms_content/show/type/blog/id/169

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.