Riley Graduated!?

I was so lucky to get time off work to be able to go to Riley's grad, and spend Canada Day with my family!

So Riley decided that he didn't care to go to the banquet so Dad took us all out to the Saw Mill for dinner. For any of you who don't recognize the two extra cute girls in the picture. Riley had is girlfriend Madison, and Dallin brought his girlfriend Makenna. Both of them are really fun, it's kinda wiered that both my little brothers have girlfriends!


After dinner Dad wanted to get some pictures down at the Legislative grounds, it didn't last long cause it started to thunder and lightening so we high-tailed it out of there before the rain started.



(yes Emily's hand is on my belly in the next picture, she thought it was pretty funny.)


Riley and Madison were both lookin smok'in that night, pictures don't do justice.





Crazy right, I know. This also means that Riley is planning on leaving on his mission in a short 6 months.

Our fetus flavour

So I have a lot of things I've been wanting to post about lately, but I really wanted to do them in order that they happened and I really wanted to be able to put up pics, so I had to wait till I was able to scan these pictures, but I am really excited for this post!

So we had our ultrasound on Monday, which went really well. My two favourite parts were when I could see and feel the movements at the same time, and when we saw it making sucking motions. So cool. And yes we did figure out what it is...

So in this pic, I don't know if you can see without me pointing out, but just above the body were its legs, it had like completely folded it's self in half.

Then it moved and we got a really good shot of the legs, knees and everything.

And a great picture of its little had and arm!

Alright so, the story about the flavour. So keep in mind that the ultrasound techs are not aloud to tell patients what the gender is, the have to just say it in the report and then leave it for the doctor to say. So that is why she didn't just tell us...

But anyways, so part way through the ultrasound I asked our tech if we could try seeing what the gender was. so she moved from where we were looking down to the side of the leg and then around, and we got a really good shot of its butt with the legs bent up. The legs weren't blocking , and so not wanting to assume anything, I asked if that thing between it's legs was the umbilical cord. She replied by moving back over to the side of the leg and pointed out the umbilical cord, then went back to the butt shot and pointed out the bum and legs. My reply... " So that isn't the umbilical cord..?" She then again went to the shot of the umbilical cord (which is much bigger than the thing in between the legs) and then back to the butt shot and said " if you don't know what that is you should go back to grade 5." HAHA! ( I really just wanted her to tell me than me have to make assumptions).

So yes it's a BOY! We are both very excited. And we do have a name picked out, we have actually had a boys name since like a year and a half ago. Although I don't think I am going to post what it is, at least not this post. I have told some people, like family, and for some reason calling him by his name while he is still in me kinda gets to me, I don't know why. But I just call him, him or wiener ( my mom thinks it is so crude that I call him that, which makes it funnier).

Also during the ultrasound she got a really good shot of the heart which she seemed so intrigued by and just kept saying how good it looked and how amazing the shot was, which was so good to hear. Not that I was ever worried about there being something wrong with any of its body parts, but just to hear how good she thought it was made me feel awesome. It was really cool since we could see all 4 chambers of the heart and the different stages of it beating.

So we haven't been officially told by our doctor what it is, but it's pretty safe to assume what is in me is of the male gender, but if it's not we will know by Wednesday and I will repost...