Daily toast

Every morning, just like Derek and myself, Gunther looks forward to enjoying his daily toast. While Derek takes his shower, I head into the kitchen and get breakfast ready for the both of us. It always consists of either toast with peanut butter and banana or whole grain waffles with peanut butter and banana. If you can't tell, I LOVE this combo and it has rubbed off on Derek too. Anyways, before I get breakfast ready I will let Gunther out of his cage and he will immediately come to the kitchen doorway and patiently wait for his toast. Rabbits love stale toast, so I just leave the heals out in a bowl for them to harden.

I don't know what got into him yesterday, but instead of waiting in the doorway he decided to wait on the armrest of the chair. It's like he was expecting me to bring him his toast!. So, I brought it too him and captured a couple of pictures of Gunther enjoying his toast and his coma state afterwards.

Good thing leather is easy to clean!

Do you think she's spoiled?

I do!!!

Oh, you notice her tongue sticking out a little bit? She tends to sleep like that a lot, and if your lucky you even get to listen to the suckling noises she makes in her sleep.

Fall Colors

For the past month, every time I have taken Peyton to the park for our daily walk I always wish I had brought my camera. The park is completely bordered by trees that are a really bright red right now and are just so pretty. I absolutely love fall walks when the weather is a little cooler and the scenery is so pretty. Because of that, on the nicer days (when it's not pouring) I have been extending our walks. I don't think Peyton minds though. The pictures really don't do it justice, but I thought I would share them with you anyways. Today while we were there, a guy was flying his kite, which was pretty big and would make noise in the wind. With that said, I don't think Peyton likes kites. She walked around the park with her back hair standing straight up and growling/whining most of the time.

This is Peyton's, "I don't like this" look. I made her get over her fear of kites though.

I wanted to get a picture of Peyton in a pile of leaves, but she wasn't cooperating with me very well.

Let the craziness begin (Derek)

Everyone talks about the crazy eating habits that pregnant woment go through. Well, Lacie quit drinking coffee and eating dessert quite a while ago. Considering how much she loves them, I thought that this must be the extent of the crazy diet. Today she showed me that cutting those two things out was just the beginning. For lunch Lacie had scrambled eggs in a pita...with hot sauce on it, mushrooms....with hot sauce on them, and carrots...with hot sauce on them. (Honestly! Who eats carrots with hot sauce??)


For Dinner I made a really nice fresh chili (granted I did burn it a little). I asked her if she wanted cheese or sour cream to top it with and she said "no, I just want to top it with mustard." (I expected her to want hot sauce but she saw me season it)

The funny thing about all of this is that when I made fun of her she just said "don't knock it until you try it!" NO THANK YOU! I am not pregnant.

It's a boy!! (Derek)

Many people have asked if we are going to find out the sex of the baby...and my answer to them is that I don't need to be told because I already know. It's a boy! You may ask "how could you know that at 11 weeks". Well the answer is that...well it's just a boy so don't question me!

Some of my random thoughts about pregnancy...

Throughout the past three months I have experienced some crazy changes physically and emotionally. Along with these changes, I have learned a lot more about what being pregnant is all cracked up to be. These are a few of my random thoughts I have had so far. If I sound like I am complaining a little bit, it probably is because I am and I thought this would be a good way to vent!

1. Will my 24 hour, 7 day a week hangover EVER go away!? Seriously, I wake up nauseous, go through my day nauseous, go to sleep nauseous, wake up in the middle of the night nauseous...ugh.
2. If I could just have one night of sleep where I didn't have to get up and go pee once, twice, or even three times!
3. Why am I still so tired when I go to bed at 8pm and get up at 8am!?
4. I'm not going to cry...I'm not going to cry...I'm NOT!
5. Three months ago I never would have counted a three mile jog, or waddle, as exercise. Now that is what I strive for!
6. Where the heck did these boobs come from!? I can totally fill out my A cup now!
7. Seriously, my skin looks like I'm 16 again! What the heck?
8. I'm afraid that one of these days I'm going to pop a button on my jeans. I took a pair out of the dryer to put on and I couldn't get those ones buttoned....they shrink in the dryer though, right?
9. I don't know if I'm ready to be a mom yet...I still occasionally watch shows like Full House and 7th Heaven!
10. How the heck is a baby the size of baby Derek going to come out of ME! All I can say is they better have some mighty fine meds and pain killers!

Okay, I feel better now. However, despite all of these things and even though this came as a complete surprise, I am ready to give all that I have to make sure our baby is happy and healthy. It all has finally started to sink in and even though I wasn't ready to be a mom when I found out I was pregnant, I am getting more ready each day.

Fall Fun!

I really love this time of year! I love watching the trees change color and I enjoy the cool, crisp air. Yesterday we went to my parents house to meet up with them and Matt and Kori. We decided to go to the pumpkin patch and corn maze down in Snohomish. It was such a beautiful day with sunny weather in the mid 50s. This particular pumpkin patch had tons of things to do besides pick pumpkins. There were animals to see, pumpkin launching, hay rides, a 15 acre corn maze (that took us about an hour) and a whole bunch more to walk around and look at. Here are a few pictures from the day.