April in Arizona

 We took a week-long "babymoon," if you will, to Scottsdale.  It was extremely relaxing for all of us and we are so thankful to my parents for being such awesome hosts!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Lake Pleasant.. by far the cleanest, clearest lake I've ever been to!

Ava feeding our two little duck friends.. who consequently stayed with us the rest of our lake trip.

33 weeks, 3 days :)

A Day in the (new) Life

Oh, and I quit my job.  How did I forget to blog about that?!  Pregnancy brain, hellooo!  I've spent the past 6 years now working in investment finance.  Mutual funds, equity trading, fund accounting, institutional insurance investing, complex securities.. you name it.  For the past 3+, I've been at this firm in downtown KC.  I was fortunate to be able to port my job to Salina and work out of my house, but it wasn't working out as well as I'd hoped.  The hours, the demand.. anyways, it became too much.  After a couple weeks of soul searching, discussing with James (and Ava!), we decided that it was time.  Staying home was never really in my plan, but the guilt factor was creeping in and it became evident that my family needed me more!  The timing was pretty perfect.  I get the last 2 months of my pregnancy to enjoy life with Ava and transition to life with 2 kids!  (yikes)  Anyways.  My options are always open, we'll see how it goes, I do miss the people, I don't miss the hours, yadda yadda yadda.

So what are we up to now?

Well, our days are pretty busy, actually!

We cook..

 We have dance parties..

 We have friends over to play..

 Plus preschool, soccer, crafting, shopping, playing, day trips, and whatever else we can think of!

 And we finished the backyard!

 James has been working hard on the lights.  I take it back, honey, I do care and I do like them.

 Our inaugural fire and marshmallow roast.

 How to roast a marshmallow, according to Ava:

Place on stick

Light on fire

Blow out

Repeat

Discard charred 'mallow into fire once it no longer resembles a marshmallow.

 "woowwww, cool fire!"

Other than that, I hit the 8 month mark and I'm feeling it!  At our last appointment, the baby was measuring nicely and I start the bi-weekly appointments now.  And with that.. we're taking a little "baby moon" this week and going on our last vacation as a family of 3!  Yahoo!

Baby Bogener in 4D!

 Today, we saw our baby in 2D, 3D & 4D!  He's so big our ultrasound tech said he barely fit on the screen :)  I think he looks like James but has my nose.. any early predictions?  Our little man has sure gotten big since the last time we saw him.  He was head down and the tech said he had quite a bit of fat on him!  And after 3 sonograms, it's still a boy.. nooooo doubt about it.  So say hi to our little chunker!

yes, he has his foot in his face :)

30 weeks and other happenings!

30 weeks - 30 weeks - 30 weeks :)

 30 weeks with Ava...

 And proof that sometimes carrying high vs. low determining baby gender is only a myth :)

 More random happenings.. lots and lots of soccer!

 The nursery is almost done!!! Pictures soon :)