1st photoshoot

Here is baby #2 first picture. Our due date is May 3rd for now. Ricky was so excited to get this ultrasound done and wants to show everyone it, its pretty cute. Tavan knows there is a baby in mommys belly but insists that it be called "Mater", He looks at the ultrasound picture and says "baby" but i don't think he really has a clue as to what is coming. He is very attached to me and every time I even look at another baby he cries and says "no, MINE". Hopefully as time goes on he will get over that.

ovBUNen

yep thats right....now that all the parents know, i am getting the news out there. We found out about a week and half ago, but I wanted to tell my parents first ( I was going to wait until later but my mom figured it out and we thought it would only be fair for all parents to be filled in). So sometime early May, Ricky, Tavan and I will welcome a new one to the family

POTTY!!

Tavan has learned to say his name and so I thought i would catch a video of him saying it . The only place I can put him, and he can't go anywhere and I have his attention is the toilet...Tavan has been sitting on the potty 2-3 times a day for a little more than a week but had yet to use it correctly. He will tell us when he needs a new diaper and is always so excited when its time to sit on the toilet, so even though its early , we decided we would try it out. No real training going on, just letting him sit for a min. or two a day to see what happens. So anyway, I set him on the pot and zoom in on his face...start recording and this is what happens.....

*sorry the video is sideways i cant figure out how to flip it :( but its cute so i put it up anyway

Tavan saying "Tavan Morgan" with a side of hiccups.....

Chocolate

While we were camping, Tavan learned a new word and says it all the time now. I just love the way he says it.

Grand Mesa

Last weekend, since its almost the end of summer and we hadn't gone camping yet, Ricky, Tavan and I headed to the mountains. I don't know what it is about tent camping but I LOVE IT!! I could never consider camping with a camper. To me they are just very expensive, tiny little motesl on wheels (some more a hotel) that unless you live in, never pay for itself. Besides, some of my best family memories have been made while camping the good ol' fashion way. We decided to go up to the Grand Mesa National Forest because it was somewhere neither of us have been before and i'm pretty sure we are going back soon! It reminded me so much of Oregon and smelled almost like it too. They have a lot of little hiking trails, which Tavan absolutely loved. I don't think he ever stopped running everywhere.

Here are some of the pictures from our trip.

my little camper. He loved it, but hated being dirty

Ricky and I. I look like i just spent the night in a tent, but it was so worth it

our little campsite

Tavan would stop and smell EVERY flower that he saw (even some of the weeds that had no flowers). Ricky wasn't so thrilled about it, but i think its adorable!

a view from up top (there was a wildfire near so there was some smoke) There are about 300 little lakes on top of the mesa. Beautiful

Running down the mountain

Ricky and Tavan taking a break

some fellow hikers offered to take a family photo for us

pure bliss

more flower sniffing

My handsome Hubs!

Tavans only injury the whole trip.

Ricky took a ball of fire to the face, resulting in some hair loss

and Priscilla (our car) took a nail in the tire (Shout out to BIG-O for repairing it for free)

Classic Picture

Tavan was pretty excited when it came time to go home for a "bath"

on the way home from camping (2:30 hour drive) I put on some lotion (so i could feel and smell a little more like a lady than camper) and Tavan wanted some, so i let him have some and when i looked back to check on him, this is how i found him. He was smelling his hands going "MMM mama...pretty". He makes me laugh so much