Once a student always a student.

Times are continuing to change for us. We are adjusting to being a family of four. We're trying to figure out what allergy Charity has that causes her to break out in hives, we're leaning towards strawberries, poor thing.

Lee is career searching and is preparing to graduate in April from BYU-Idaho. We just got the news today that Danielle has been accepted into grad school at Kansas State University under the Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs program. This doesn't mean that we will be moving to Kansas, because she's going to do all of the classes online.

Other than this news we don't have much more yet. We did get to travel to Utah this weekend. We celebrate a birthday with friends in Tooele. We played at the Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake. And we shared dinner and company with family in Logan.

Randy is here!

Little Randy Lee was born this morning at 4:22 A.M. He weighed in at 7 lbs 5 oz and was about 20 inches tall. He is happy and healthy. He is sound asleep now, snoring and cooing away. He is quite the handsome little man. Charity loved visiting him and bossing everyone around for him. She's going to be quite the helper. We truly are going to have a happy new year.

It's A Walk In The Park

On Sundays we like to go for family walks in the park. This past weekend we went to the Nature Park. Here we get to feed the ducks. Charity and Jack still like to eat the duck treats so Lee and I do most of the feeding.

Jack is Lee's new puppy. He's mostly border collie. He's very smart, but needs lots of attention. He's doing really well with walking on a leash, but needs to work on "come" and not bitting/nipping.

At the park Jack got in to the pond. At first just his feet got wet, which made him look very silly with 4 stick legs coming out of a giant black fluff ball. So Lee decided he needed to get all the way wet, and perhaps work on his swimming skills. Needless to say, they got to walk home instead of drive, because Jack was much too wet to go in the car.

Charity loves playing with her new puppy. She's so proud of him as she shows him off at the parks to other kids. They usually play well together.

Stimpson Baby #2

Today's the day! We finally got to get a good look at the little one that's been kicking me in the belly and making me feel not so fun. Our little man! Charity gets to have a little brother of her very own. She'll make a great big sister.

Lee's really excited to know he won't be outnumbered by women in our little family for long. He's already dreaming up father-son camping, fishing, and whatever else trips.

Our son's blog address will be: http://ourownlittleman.blogspot.com You can go there now to see a bunch of his ultrasound pics.

By the way, We're pregnant!

If we haven't already told you, or if you haven't already heard, we're pregnant. I'm about 17 1/2 weeks along now and reality is beginning to set in more as I start to feel the little flutterings of the baby in my belly. We find out in 9 days, if all goes well, if the baby is a boy or a girl. That'll make reality even bigger in our eyes. With Charity we were sure well before her ultrasound that she was a girl, but with this kid, we're not sure of anything except that it's not twins. The ultrasound picture above is an older one, so the baby looks more like an alien cinnamon bear than a baby. Hopefully we'll get some better snap shots in the next ultrasound.

I've have hyperemesis gravidaram again, and a little worse that I did with Charity's pregnancy. It was no fun then and it's no fun now. All the more reason I can't wait for this little baby to come. I'm due January 14th, so sometime around New Years the baby will be here ready to change our lives forever. Forever and for good.

Lee finished his classes this summer and is searching for a good internship for this fall. He just got back from camp. We're so glad to have him home again. Charity wouldn't let him out of her sight the first couple of days he was back. She had only big smiles for him when she saw him again.

Weekends

This weekend Lee has been off on a camping trip with one of his classes. Charity and I have been home enjoying the sunshine. I have been working on the cushions to Charity's sofa that I am recovering. I almost have one done, but now the sewing machine is PMSing. Dang. I'll have to wait until Lee gets home so he can kick it or do whatever he magically does that's different from my attempts to fix it.

I can't believe May is already half way through. I was sure it had just barely started. Time is really going by fast. Charity is working on two new teeth, and is not enjoying it either. Her little personality and new words come out more and more each day. We're also still trying to get our new home in order more, cleaned up more, and with everything in a place more. We still have picture frames scattered, just waiting to be hung.


Oh, we have kittens. Our orange cat, Dash, had 5 new kittens about a week ago (although with how fast time has been flying, I'm not sure that's accurate anymore). There are two orange kittens, one gray, one white, and one black with patches of all of the aforementioned colors. So, if anyone will be needing a new kitten (or two, they do better with a friend to keep them entertained) just let us know! It will still be some weeks before they are ready to leave their mommy (or mommies, rather as both of our cats are acting as mothers).

Welp, this is our life these days. Could be better, but always could be worse too.

2 Years!

Lee and I celebrated our two year wedding anniversary this weekend. Time flies by fast doesn't it?! 'Can't believe that it's been two years already, although two year also seems like such a short time for how long we feel we've been together. We've now completed our first two years of eternity together--and survived! We couldn't be happier.