It's official!

Today we went to the Dr. for our first official appointment. We heard the heartbeat of the baby...strong and healthy! Dr. Parker asked me a few questions about dates, etc, did a pelvic exam and determined that I am a week and a few days further along than we originally thought and moved my due date up to April 13, 2009!! Excellent! One less week left until we meet our surprise! Evan is certain that it is a girl. When we told him we were expecting he said, "It's a sister!" Our conversation went as follows:

Me: We don't know if it will be a baby brother or a baby sister.

Evan: It's a sister, mommy. What's her name going to be?

Me: Well, we haven't really thought about a name. What do you think her name should be?

Evan: (Very thoughtfully) Her name should be. . . Kaylie.

Me: What should her middle name be?

Evan: (Again, very thoughtfully) Kaylie. . .Faye.

Me: That's a lovely name. How do you know that we are having a sister?

Evan: I just know.

Me: Did Heavenly Father tell you we were having a sister?

Evan: Yeah Mom, 'cuz when you hear that voice in your head, you just know!

I love the innocence of little children! They have such complete and honest faith! I hope, for Evan's sake, that it is a girl...I would hate to have to explain to him that Heavenly Father told him wrong!! I was quite impressed with his name choice though. Lately the names he makes up for things are very unique...like Otch, or Jujua. So we are pretty lucky that he chose Kaylie!! And just a side note, "Faye" was my grandmother's middle name...I think it was not coincidence that Evan pulled that name out of the air! So anyway, all looks healthy and good on the baby front and it's official! Baby #3 is for sure coming to join our family and we couldn't be more excited!!

*The belly picture is not me...but I thought it was a beautiful picture!

More Outings

So, on Labor Day we had the billiant idea to take a picnic lunch and go to the Zoo...well, the weather was not so cooperative! So, we went to the Living Planet Aquarium instead! My parents came with us and we had a really good time!

Evan played in a choral reef...

We also got to pet the sting rays, just like at Sea World!

We saw lots of different kinds of sea creatures and fish and the kinds of habitats that they live in. We even got to see some toads and salamanders. Evan really liked the jelly fish! This was a really fun place to see and a great way to spend a rainy day!!

Summer Outings

This summer we had the chance to do some fun things. We took a trip to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. (I hate having other people take pictures with your camera...this is not the picture I had in mind, but it's kind of embarrassing to ask a complete stranger to take the picture over again...)

Man...the Supersaurus is HUGE!!! Evan is as big as one of its toes...

Evan and Ben had fun building their own dinosaur habitat (the girl behind Evan was quite the little dinosaur hog...that's why Ben was playing too, he had to fight the little girl for some dinosaurs to play with!!)

Evan built his own three-legged (all on one side) tri-stego-ceratop saurus...(just so you know, the sign between the dinousaur's legs says, "Parents please do not let your children climb on the dinosaur." Ben chose to ignore this sign for a quick picture...)

We all dug for some fossils and dinosaur bones.

Afterwards, we found a nice park in Lehi and had a picnic lunch...

Which Dillon slept through! He was exhausted after the museum...but he was so happy while we were there! Thanks little man! : )