Step by step cookie making instructions

First, get everything ready. Including your stool if you're just not tall enough.

Then, mix all your "wet" ingredients. Take a little snitch to make sure it's going ok.

add "dry" mixture.

Add in cheesey smile

And watch the spiffy kitchen-aid mix it all up. Smile again for good measure.

Breath a sigh of relief because Mom says that NOW you can FINALLY add the chocolate chips.

Put them in, hurry! Before she changes her mind.

Throw in another cheesey smile while wondering how many snitches you can snitch before you're told to quit.

at this point, you MUST do a taste test. Otherwise you're whole batch might be ruined.

Hehe, this is not my first snitch. Those stinking cameras, sometimes it's hard to get just the right picture, so you have to keep trying...

Wonder if you can convince mom to forget about baking the cookies and just eat the dough.

Put cookies on the pan and bake for a very looooong 15 minutes

Then put in the cookie jar. Because now it's supper time..

And mom is mean and says I can't have one until I eat my supper.

Just as a warning, she might make you put on your pajamas first too.

But all's forgiven when you eat the cookies.

A goalmark passed...

We just officially paid of more than 5K of debt.
It took 6 1/2 months. We've also put aside $1,200.00 for our birth fees for this baby.
I know that's not a whole lot, really. But it's much better than what we were doing before. :)
Things will go slower / get tighter soon, but we'll deal with that when we get to it.

How do you...

Plan a proper 1st Birthday party when you have nobody to celebrate it with.




Stupid hormones.

Ding ding ding!

Timer has popped!
I think it's timing is a little off though....
It's funny, with Jessi only the very tip-top stuck a little bit out. With Barrett, about half of it stuck out. This is the first time it's come all the way out! And it was all of a sudden.
22w 3d

So, we had our U/S on Tuesday. I was very determined that we wouldn't find out what we were having this time around.

Well, Here's the story.

When we found out we were expecting again, we decided we were going to wait a while this time to tell people. SO, that ment that we didn't tell Jessi either. Because she likes to talk.

About 3 days after we found out, Jessi asked me out of the blue if I had another baby in my belly! I didn't want to say yes, so I just asked her if SHE wanted there to be another baby. She said Yes!

Then, about 2 days later, she started telling me that I had a baby sister in my belly. Ever since then, it's been all about the baby sister. She wouldn't hear ANYTHING to do with "him, he, boy, brother". She would correct you if you said otherwise. (When we finally told her that yes, there was a baby in the belly at 13 weeks when we told family, she just looked at us like "why are you telling me this? I already knew that.")

Wade felt very strong that this baby was a girl. And he's been right with t he other two.

I felt very strongly that this was a girl. But I refused to say so, as I've been wrong with the other two.

So we go in for the U/S. I don't want to find out. Wade does. Jessi doesn't care, because she knows already.

The tech ask's us if we want to know. We kind of laughed at each other and she says she'll wait until the end of the u/s and ask again.

We have lots of fun, they had a brand-spanking new machine and it was awsome!! You could see things you couldn't with their "old" (only 3 years old!) machine. The regular images were almost as good as 3D!

Then, I think I see something. But don't say anything.

I ask Jessi if she really wants to know if it's a girl or if it was really a boy. She answers, "It's a girl." We ask again in a few different ways and she looks at us like we're dumb and says "It's a girl!" She called the baby a "she" or "sister" the whole time. Asked about every 2 minutes what "she" was doing on the screen.

Then, I see another image. And I know. So I tell the tech that she might as well comfirm it becuase I wasn't going to know, but not "know". That's no fun.

Here's some pictures:

The only 3D image we got. The tech waited until the end and by then the baby had put on quite a show and was finished. So here the baby was folded in half, holding it's feet. We couldn't get a face image or anything.


And here's what ended up being the telling shot. I REALLY think that if it had been done on the old machine, we wouldn't have been able to tell. But you could see EVERYTHING with this one, so it was pretty clear. (click to make bigger)

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So yes, It's a GIRL!