Goodbye, Charlie

No, our beta fish didn't take a dive off the deep end...today we gave him away to a good home (just as good as ours,anyway!) After some thought we decided to give him away to a friend we knew who wanted one and would continue to take good care of him. With only eight weeks left or so left until Aaron makes his debut, we're starting to re-evaluate some responsibilities. Unfortunately, we decided until the kids were old enough to take care of their own fish that Charlie needed to go.

I continuously get more shocked that time is passing us by so quickly. Eight more weeks! I'm now almost thirty one weeks along. I've been seeing a PA at my OBGYN office lately, and basically after my next appt in two weeks she would like for me to schedule the rest of my appointments with the doctors. Not for any medical conditions or anything, just to get to know them each a little-because within a month it's possible one of them will be there with me at 2am! What seemed like a slow start to the pregnancy hasn't turned out that way. If anything, I'm starting to get anxious to get Aaron's room finished up and everything cleaned,bought,etc. Here's a recent bump picture from last week :



Josh is leaving later this week for his hiking excursion to the Grand Canyon with some friends from work. As long as I'm not feeling crummy, Nate and I already have lots of plans while he's gone. In particular-on Saturday I'm taking him up north to Globe to see Thomas the Train! It's called "A Day with Thomas"-he'll get to take a 25 minute ride on a Thomas engine and then there's lots of Thomas related activities to do there. I can't wait to see his reaction.

Here are some other pictures from the last two weeks--


Jousting at the Rennaissance Festival-Nate enjoyed seeing the horses



Checking out the wooden toys with daddy


Intently watching the drum show



Meet The Creature--Nate is too scared to really pet or hold any exotic animals (that aren't dogs anyway!) so he preferred just watching the hen,bunny and guinea pigs from a distance



The view at the Arizona Diamondbacks spring training game-they have a gorgeous new training facility!


Barely got a few autographs (sorry, don't know the player!)



This is the life