Well most of you smart people would say the answer is 4, but in our house one and a half year old twins plus one on the way makes 3. Yes you heard me right, we're expecting our 3rd baby!!!! And we couldn't be happier!
Pretty much everyone knows that it took the help of some amazing fertility doctors in Denver to have our precious little Hudson and Hailey so it was quite a surprise three weeks ago when I took a home test (twice of course, just to make sure) and it was positive. Jeff and I have been talking about a 3rd for a while now. I was ok with going back to the doctors if we had to but Jeff was really leaning toward it occuring naturally or not at all. Thankfully someone must have been listening!
The comment we've gotten from almost everyone is "good job." I guess we finally figured out how to do it! We are very proud of ourselves and of course feel very blessed!
I'm only about 7 weeks so that makes me due mid-May. It's early so keep your fingers crossed for us (I'll keep my legs crossed, that's my and my girlfriends' joke).
Oh, I almost forgot, remember that crazy post about our last Lake Powell trip, ya, that was when this little peanut must have been conceived (just a little something more to add to that un-forgettable trip/story).
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
1 1/2 X 2 + 1 =
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Intruder, Intruder, Intruder...
Last night, or I should say early this morning, 3:40 a.m., I have never been so SCARED in my life, it was a mother's worst nightmare! I got up to go to the bathroom and noticed that our screen door was open. We've been leaving the patio door open to enjoy the cool air. Every night I think to myself as I go to bed "I don't like that door being open, what if someone comes in?" but Jeff always convinces me that "it's fine!" Well, needless to say it WASN'T!
Before I figured out what was going on, I closed and locked the door and went pee. As I was peeing I was thinking "stupid Jeff why would he leave that screen door open (I knew he wouldn't) or could an animal open the door and now be in our house?" After finishing my business I went to check on the twins, I had to know that they were ok and still IN their beds! Thank god, they were fine! But I still didn't feel right, so I checked the guest room, no sign of anything or anyone. Remember that it's dark and I don't have my glasses on, oh, and that I've now walked past the couch 3 times! I didn't want to turn on the lights, I don't know why, I guess I didn't want to scare the intruder (how dumb is that when I'm the one scared to death). So I start feeling around one of the couches and OH SHIT, I felt a leg and foot! I walked quickly and quietly into our room, woke up Jeff and said "someone's on our couch." He grabbed the baseball bat from under our bed and went to look, with me right behind him. Sure enough!!!! At this point I'm freaking out!!! All I could say is "oh my god, oh my god." I'm still shaking as I right this. He told me "maybe it's one of Danny and Julie's friends." I'm thinking "what the hell" (sorry for the language). Jeff and I knew they were having people over, and we had heard their music when we went to bed. So I say "give me the phone, I'm calling them." Julie answered and I told her a man was in my house sleeping on my couch, she freaked and asked if Jeff was home and was then telling her husband what was going on. Then it dawned on her, rather quickly thank goodness, that maybe it was her little brother who had had WAY too much to drink. So she says "we're coming over." At this point I started to relax a tiny bit and I went and looked and low and behold it WAS Nate, Julie's brother, a guy I actually went to highschool with. HOLY CRAP!!!! Danny and Julie came over, we all laughed quietly since the twins are still sleeping, as was Nate, and then they woke him up and took him home just like that!
Jeff and I couldn't believe what had just transpired. Of course we couldn't get back to sleep so we talked and laughed a little about what had happened. He admitted that he was glad to have found a small framed man asleep on the couch rather than some big dude!
Looking back, it's actually very funny now but like I said I was FREAKING OUT! And I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER leave a door open at night again!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Lake Powell, Labor Day Weekend (not the usual quiet trip) !
Our crazy gang! 
Sunrise Saturday morning!
Jeff and I were able to steal away for one last 'no babies' weekend before summer comes to an end. We spent the long weekend in Lake Powell with several friends/couples. It started out with a real bang when we arrived at the dry docks to pick up Beau and Crystal's boat and it was no where to be found. Instead of pulling their big boat back and forth (about 3 hours each way), they leave their boat in dry storage and simply call 24 hours before they are ready to pick it up and the marina puts it out, when they're done for the weekend it goes back in it's spot until the next time, sounds good right? Well, this weekend was the exception. We arrived about 8:00, in a hurry because dusk is getting earlier and earlier (and it's always a race against daylight to get the boat on the water before dark) and low and behold, no boat! Beau called the managers or whoever and they showed up to help find it (hopefully)! Of course Crystal and I jumped to the worst conclusion 'what if someone stole our boat?' Luckily after 30-45 minutes of driving through millions of boats, they found it in the wrong slip. Either it was put back in the wrong spot last time or put out this time and put back for no apparent reason. Who knows, but thankfully we were able to 'boat' rather than swim around with our coolers on our backs all weekend, haha!
We met up with all the other boats/couples out in Bullfrog Bay and the night got a little worse as we had an un-invited visitor. This gets a little 'Jerry Springer-ish.' Some woman, probably a little more than drunk, maybe high on something, wondered onto our spot on the beach, stumbling, yelling and looking for her husband. At first she kinda led us to believe that he was partying with another group or something but then she went into hysterics that maybe he drowned or was lost. We got her somewhat calmed down and took her back to her camp because someone said they thought there were children at her camp site, sure enough there were 3 (all under the age of 12), great huh? This is where it gets crazy...the girls and guys from our group who took her back said after they got over there they see a guy (her husband) floating in the water behind their boat, don't worry though he was just fine and laughing that he played this joke on his wife for over an hour. Ugh! After listening to the situation turn to a domestic dispute we decided it was time to call the Ranger. Thankfully an hour and a half later (but not soon enough) the Rangers showed up and took the man and women into custody. Apparently there was an aunt who stayed with the kids (she must have been sober enough to do so).
And that's the end of the drama, YEAH!!!!!!!
We had a wonderful weekend in spite of the first few hours. We got some rain Saturday night and a little Sunday but Lake Powell has some great canyons to hide in out of the weather. Jeff and I water skiied, as you can see Jeff's pretty good, and by the lack of photos of myself, I'm just mediocre.
Oh, I almost forgot! Our guys ended up being quite the little dare-devils, unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me to catch the action. We went into the marina Sunday afternoon for ice etc. and we see this 'bmx' looking ramp on the end of the dock by the houseboat slips. Yes, you guessed it...some teenage boys had retro-fitted a little bmx bike with foam padding (so that it would float) after they jumped the ramp and did back flips into the water. It was cool! And of course, our guys had to try it. One of the guys with us hit the water a little hard and got a little bloody lip but other than that, everyone else just got an adrenaline rush!
Wow, after reading over this blog, it sounds like we are quite crazy! I'd like to think of it as just 'creating memories.'
Until next time! Cheers!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Playtime & Pigtails
Not much new here. We're still enjoying the dog-days of summer! Swimming at the kiddie pool in Fruita, playing with cousins, grandparents and our new train table, eating ice cream...you know, the usual for 16 month olds.
Here's a couple new pics...playtime in the sink, tired lil' Hudson and Hailey's new pigtails (yeah, we finally have enough hair even though they don't usually last more than an hour, if Hailey doesn't pull them out Hudson does).
Jeff and I are off to Lake Powell again next weekend for Labor Day, hope everyone enjoys their long weekend! Cheers!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Quick trip to Vail
Our best friends, the Corrigans, invited us up to Vail this past weekend (Mike was there for work so Ally and the kids tagged along for a little fun in the high country) ! We spent Friday afternoon and night at the Vail Cascade, ate Pazzo's Pizza for dinner, some ice cream for dessert, and walked along the river (Hudson streaked, pour lil' man had a rash from the MMR shot so he needed some fresh mountain air on his tummy and bum-bum). Saturday we swam in the pool, ate lunch and headed back home. It was a quick trip but very fun (a lot of work with the twins).
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Summer Fun!
It doesn't seem like our summer has been that busy but when I started thinking about what to blog I guess we have been havin' lots of fun!
In the middle of June we braved our first and only (so far) camping trip with the twins. Jeff and his buddies golfed in a tourney in Rifle (which is about an hour from GJ) on Friday and all the wives and kids met up with them that evening at Rifle Gap State Park for a fun few days. Our friends' little ones fished, we ate s'mores and hung out at the Falls (huge water falls with a beautiful area for picnicing and playing in the stream). We took my brother's new pontoon boat out (you know, one of those big party barges), the twins loved it until we put on their life jackets, then they were like the little boy on the movie Christmas Story saying "I can't put my arms down." We had to keep a close eye on them most of the weekend but all-in-all it was a success.
The first of June my mom, the twins and I road tripped to Denver. We visited my Godmother, her daughter and new baby girl, the Corrigans and Jeff's grandparents. Needless to say it was a jam packed few days. We were going to try to make it to the zoo but we woke up to rain and quickly changed our plans. We had a great dinner at Hacienda (my favorite place) with the Corrigans, swam in the kiddie pool at Cantebury Golf Course in Parker and did a lot of driving. Hopefully next time we are over there we'll get to spend a little more time with everyone.
The end of June/beginning of July was Country Jam and Lake Powell. We went VIP (all the free drinks you can drink, great food and front row seats) to Country Jam and saw Rodney Atkins, it was a blast! I must have had one too many drinks b/c I quickly remembered why we did that crazy stuff when we were kids and before I had twins at home!
And last but not least, the 4th of July in Lake Powell with my sweet girlfriend and her husband. Crystal, Beau, Jeff and I headed to Powell this past Thursday for a long weekend and met up with 2 other couples (no kids). We ate great (that seems to be a common theme with all occassions), drank a lot (again), water skiied, wake boarded, got pretty crazy (to say the leasty) and LAUGHED a ton! Crystal and Beau have an awesome new boat and are a kick to hang out with! As we said down there, in our tipsy stage, we'll have to do that more often!
Hope everyone is having a great summer! Much love, Ang & Co.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Twins' 1 yr. pics
