17 Weeks and counting and some other pics

Here are some pics from the last couple of weeks and a picture of my pregnant belly at 17 weeks.

Looking like I am 6 months along!

Grandpa Bob, Abbys adopted grandparent, bringing her home on the snowmachine, she was so excited. Bob and his wife Jo take Abby about once a week for a few hours so mom can get a break and get some things done (I know I'm spoiled). She really enjoys them and they call asking to see her so it seems to go both ways! They have an Australian Shepard named Chase that Abby loves to death and the dog seems to really love Abby too, he heards her around it is really funny.

Still smiling after her ride!

My little artist painting and making a mess. I'm learing to turn my head and let her have a blast while doing crafts. She seems to enjoy it much better that way and I don't stress until its time to clean up:)

Upon my sisters request

So I was embarassed to be showing this early but now that we know for sure that I am pregnant with twins I have an excuse to be! So since I haven't posted the pics of the twins I am also posting those here. Enjoy and for my sister and the rest of you that want to see my growing belly I will try to post a belly picture often. So long as all goes well the babies will be arriving in the 2nd or 3rd week of July unless they decide to come earlier. My actual due date if it was a single baby was July 30th.

We beleive this is baby "B" but that could change again next ultrasound!

Another Pic of Baby "B"

This is Baby "A", this one was very active and kept kicking his/her sibling in the head, then he/she decided to pose for the picture an relax! (I'm thinking this one is a boy)

And of course Abby and myself and prego belly This was taken at the begining of week 14.

Is it going to be cold or warm?

On December 30th Abby and I had been couped up in the house for to long so Cam and I decided we would bundle up and get some good fresh alaskan -30 below air. We only stayed out for like 15 minutes but it was nice to get out of the house. Abby is definatley our Alaskan kid who loves being outside and if she is in for to long she gets pretty upset.

It seems we have extremes to each end this winter. Less than 2 1/2 weeks later from the first pictures Abby and her dad are out at 45 above. For those of you who have never felt such a huge temperature change before it is pretty crazy! Even 0 degrees feels like a heat wave after going sevral weeks of -35 to -50. So enjoy the pics below and Abbys crazy warm weather outfit!

PS I have also included a video of us turning water into vapor at the bottom of the blog. Thats what we do for fun in Fairbanks Alaska when the tempartures are to cold to do anything else!

It's Twins!!!

Most people already know, but for those of you who I don't have an email address for we found out this past Monday that I am pregnant with twins! It is still really early on but they looked great and we got to see their little hearts beat. The babies in the photo below are only 6 weeks 4 days gestational, so really only 4 weeks 4 days since fertilization. Amazing that things form so quickly.

We are excited but I'm also a little scared. I hope and pray that they make it to a healthy size before they enter this world. Abby is already for a baby sister and Cam wants his boy so maybe I'll have one of each! With Cam's luck though he will have two more girls, hehehehehe. My dad lived with 4 women he can do it to. I have another ultrasound at 12 weeks (Jan 15th) which will probably be to early to tell the sex but we definitely are going to find out. Not only can we not wait, but if it is a boy and girl they can track the progress better if they can tell them apart. With twins the doctor said I will be having a lot of ultrasounds so we will be boring you all with lots of pictures! Hope this finds everyone well.

More pics from Seattle

So we had a lot of fun in Seattle. For the first part Cam's mom met us down in Seattle then my mom came down for the second half of our stay. They both were a huge help, the nicest part was Abby had a sleep buddy so we didn't have to sleep with her! I'll write a little something under each picture to explain and tell stories. They are backwords in the order of events but I don't have the patience to go back and put them in order.

This picture is from the same day as we flew out, we went to the Woodland Park Zoon and Abby thought it was pretty cool to be so close to this Gorillia who seems to be checking her out from the corner of his eye. I guess he is a very new proud daddy, it was to cold for the baby to be out though so we didn't get to see her.

This is us acting silly in Levenworth Washingtion. It was a long days drive and kind of crazy getting back to Seattle. My mom really seemed to enjoy it, my parents spent one of their annivesiaries there when I was a little kid. So it was neat for her to see how much it had changed. It was raining pretty good then when we got in the mountains there was snow for a short way. Then we got back to Seattle around 5:30ish on a weekday. We were sometimes at a stand still and then the last adventure was getting across 5 lanes of traffic to get to our exit. I don't know how people do the commute every day, I would find it very stressful!

My 2 year old daughter acting pregnant, what a silly girl!

We vistited a Cabela's in Lacy WA. It was way cool and we spent 3 hours and a fortune. The best part was the halibut lunch in the restraunt.

Cam's mom loves the ocean so we thought it would be neat to show her the Pacific Ocean, granite it isn't like in Hawaii where the water is really blue but it was very pretty. I don't think she liked the long drive but we made it there and back in one piece. This is near Forks, WA on the pennisula. So Mom Wohlford decided she wanted to soak her feet in the water but didn't want to run through it like the crazy Alaska people so her and Cam thought it would be a good idea to have her sit on a rock and take her shoes and socks off so we could get a picture. I don't think we ever did get that picture, A big wave came and soaked them pretty good. Cam had Abby in his arms so she wasn't to bad off. The rock was pretty slippery, right after cam handed me abby and took his moms shoes and socks he fell and dropped his moms shoes in the water! Then as I was trying to get Abby out of the way so she wouldn't get drenched her shoes started drifting off ot sea, I got a little bit of one foot wet getting them. Everyone finally got off the rock Cam and his mom were pretty wet and Abby was still doing good, I got her shoes back on. Then Cam decided to walk a little bit along the shore again and him and abby had their backs turned and this big wave came and drenched them pretty good. Poor abby was soaked from her waste down. Some how I was the lucky one and got away without having drenched shoes! I think you had to be there to really see how comical this really was so sorry to go on for so long.

Abby and her daddy posing in front of the ocean before they got wet!

Abby at the Seattle aquariam looking into the tank that you could touch the creatures. But she was pretty grumpy that day and didn 't want to have anything to do with that.

Snowqualime falls (not sure if I spelled it right?)

Picture with dad at snowqualime falls on a big boulder.

Fun in Seattle

Today while in Seattle we had some fun! We started our day off by visiting the Space Needle because Abby wasn't going to stop asking about it until we went. When we flew in late Sunday evening (after being stuck in the Fairbanks airport for 12 hours because of mechanical problems) Abby saw the lights of Seattle and let everyone on the plane know she saw the Space Needle over and over again. My sister was heading to Orlando with her family and happened to be on the same plane as us and Abby was sitting with them when they landed. So below are some pics, mostly of the Children's museum. It was really awsome and I suggest to anyone who has kids to bring them to it if you are in Seattle. Very interactive and a good way to burn energy on a rainy day.

Abby and Nana Reading a book at the museum

Abby checking out at the Children's museum grocery store.

Building Mr. Potato Heads with dad at the museum

Abby in front of the Space Needle

Happy Halloween 2008

Abby really enjoyed Halloween this year. We went out to North Pole and she got to go out with all of her cousins. She has no problem keeping up when it comes to candy! I asked her if she was cold and wanted to go back to Grandma and Papa's house and it was "no I get more candy". She was a very polite trick or treater. She would tell them "thank you" and "Happy Halloween". When we got back to my parents house all the kids dumped their candy out and we caught Abby trying to take a piece from someone else's pile. To top the night of we went to her god grandma's house and she got about as much candy there as she did when we went out. Grandpa Re and Grandma Yogi love to spoil her!!! Hope you all had a fun and Happy Halloween.

Abby with her goods

Our pumpkins and Abby, she love getting the insides out!

Dr. Abby checking the pumpkin out!