WOOOH!! Finally back to blogging...

Well it's been a while dear friends... April was a bit crazy, last month of school and all that, so I didn't put in much time on our blog. So far in May, we graduated (hooray) and then left 3 days later for a two week trip to Germany (pictures coming soon). So now we're back and I thought I'd give a quick update. We had our ultrasound the day after we got back from our trip and we were so excited! I couldn't wait to find out what our little baby was going to be! Well after about a million different angles and attempts at getting the baby to move, we still aren't totally sure what we're having. The ultrasound guy said he would bet on a girl but he couldn't be sure because if the baby moved at all, she may be a he instead. Haha. Only a small letdown, right? Well naturally I bawled my eyes out after we left (hormones). Todd, forever positive, told me to just buy everything brown and then we can just add in blue or pink after. I liked my sister Sarah's idea better, we're just going to get another ultrasound. Anyways, here are the pictures. Leave me comments and let me know what YOU think the baby is after looking at the photos...

Here's a little leg, you can see the crazy lookin bones at the end of it.
There's it's little foot, look 5 toes!
This is the head and the spine, the baby was facing my spine during the whole process.
Here's a cute little profile, Todd said that it looks like me. He also said it looked like a fish, so I don't know if that's a compliment or what. haha.
Here's the money shot, little baby with its' legs crossed at the ankles and a very limited view of where any gender parts may be.
Another one of the legs, but this time it has it's little arms down in there too. Apparently my baby can do yoga in utero.
The last one is just a picture of the baby's arm, it kept moving it back and forth during the ultrasound. One minute it was up by it's face and the next it was down by it's legs.

April Fools!

So yesterday, I had to work on April Fools but I wan't going to let that slow me down. I was working down at the girl's home in New Harmony and figured that most of these girls never had enough older brothers to play tricks on them, so I took full advantage. I taped the nozzle down on the sprayer at the sink so whenever somebody turned on the water, they got soaked. It worked at breakfast and lunch... I rearranged all of their bathroom drawers so none of their stuff was in the right place. I short sheeted all of their beds while they were out of the house and then gave them all fake consequence essays for making fart jokes at lunch (one of the girls had a fart machine and used it to trick the newest girl in the house). Over all I felt it was a pretty successful day. The only rebuttal I received was a crank phone call telling me I had an appointment on the dating service, I had figured they would have done better than that! But I'm not going to complain...

Arizona!

So I finally got our pictures online and wanted to give a little shout out to Kevin and Natalie! Just going through our pictures and remembering how much fun we had makes me want to go back!

Here we are at the Science center... the girls seemed to have more fun on the top of the building than inside! We had a blast!! Coloring Easter Eggs, Natalie had to make fun of me because I had to make sure that all of the right colored dyes were in the right colored cups. She said it's a family trait. ha. thanks mom!
Todd and I at the Mesa Temple....



Here we are at the temple Easter pageant, we stayed an extra night and woke up at 5 in the morning the next day to drive home so we could go to the pageant and it was totally worth it!
Rustler's Roost for a great dinner, cool hats and a big slide! Sounds like my kind of party!

So at the science center, there was a big nose that shot foam balls out. When it blew I freaked out and fell over. At least Ellie was brave enough to stay standing. Bested by a 3 year old again!

Kevin and Natalie and Family, we love you guys so much! Thanks for letting us come and play for a weekend! We love the atmosphere that you have built in your home and think you are amazing!

Catching up

So this month it feels like all we've been doing is playing catch up. Getting caught up on homework, caught up on church callings, caught up on the blog I started and never post on... haha. Anyways, I'll play catch up again and give a quick rundown of the past month. The first week this month we had some friends cook us dinner and the next day Todd and I both came down with the stomach bug. It was awful! I was out for like 3 days, Todd managed to recover within a day (he says it was due to his immune system building up while he was in Germany, ha!) I really hoped that it wasn't the start of morning sickness because I had it for so long, but luckily I recovered and seem to carry on the luck of the Cowan women during pregnancy.

Well the stomach bug passed and then came spring break! Todd and I were able to arrange our schedules to head down to Phoenix to visit my brother and his family. Thanks Kevin and Nat for an awesome time! I'm going to do another post with pictures about our trip, but I don't have the pictures on my computer yet... So keep posted it's coming!

We had a kind of sad Easter, we both had to work like crazy over the entire weekend because we were working off our time from taking off the weekend before. Luckily we were able to find some time to go down to Zion together and have a rushed dinner on Sunday. It's still hard for me to be away from my family on the holidays and especially since being pregnant I've been super homesick.

Since then it's just been crazy work and getting back into school. So keep posted... and if you're feeling nice, send me some fruit. That's all I want to eat lately. haha.

Our due date...

Ever since we found out we were expecting, I've been convinced that I will get a Halloween baby. Todd is a bit more skeptical. I was sure enough about the whole Halloween thing to sew a little baby Tiger costume with orange and black stripes to tell both of our parents that we were expecting. My favorite part was telling my Mom... She opened the box with the costume inside and said, "why did you give me a Halloween costume for your dog?" well it wasn't for the dog, but mom, this one is for you!

First Blog!

So this is our new family blog! Of course we had to jump on the blogging bandwagon... I wanted to start this to give little updates throughout the whole pregnancy thing. I'm sure you'll all want to know about my morning sickness and silly cravings! Anyways, keep checking in for new info!!