Two posts in one day? What is this world coming to?? I wanted to talk about this next thing in a separate post so that Sawyer would not have his birthday post overshadowed by our other news...I got my birthday present about 2 months early this year. After years of trying, we are going to have another baby!! I'm 15 weeks along and due January 28th. It feels both very close and very far away at the same time. Once school starts in a few weeks I know the time is just gonna fly. I cannot begin to tell you the mix of emotions that we are having right now. We are scared, excited, nervous, overwhelmed, surprised, happy, blessed, and generally in disbelief over the prospect of another little one. I guess we've done something right with Sawyer, so Heavenly Father decided to let us have another one of his special spirits. So far, this pregnancy has been totally different, but not as bad as others that I know, so I can't complain too much. Plus, when we have tried for so long to get pregnant, it doesn't feel like I have the right to complain. I just try to remember what my mom says, "As long as your still feeling sick, that means that you are still pregnant. Just be grateful."

This ultrasound is from our 10 week appointment. We won't find out if it's a boy or girl until Sept. 20th.
I think the neatest thing about this baby is what Sawyer told us before we even found out that we were pregnant. The story goes like this...Scott and I were reading this article about celebrity baby names. We were laughing and joking when Sawyer, who was sitting on the floor playing, chimed in, "We're gonna have a baby. It's a girl. Her name is Aalynn." (Not sure how we would spell it if we use it.) We had never even heard that name before, so we looked it up, and sure enough, it is a real name. It still took us a couple of weeks to build up the nerve to take a pregnancy test. When you have taken so many, it is no longer fun. When we got the +, it was unbelievable...no really...I went back into the bathroom an hour later and took another test. We are still a little in shock, it has been a long wait.

Everyone in the family thinks it is a girl (probably because of Sawyer's prediction)...I will update as soon as we know.