Rewind back to May...

It was one of the busiest summers in the books for us, so blogging took a backseat.  Now to play catchup.

As soon as we finished our camping trip, we did laundry, re-packed our bags and headed to Mexico for a week.  It was a fabulous vacation- not only because of the amazing beach, beautiful water and pure relaxation, but also because we vacationed with our friends Nick and Molly (and their daughter Audrey).  We rented a condo on the beautiful island of Isla Mujeres, just a short ferry ride from Cancun.

I'll let the pictures do the talking:

Ready to fly!

Visiting the Turtle hatchery.  SUPER cool.

17 weeks pregnant

We had a wonderful time relaxing and hanging out as a family and with friends.  It was the perfect start to a busy summer!

Annual Camping Trip

Well, I'm skipping ahead past end-of-school year activities (mostly because there are very few pics to show for it), to get to our fun mini-vacation and big vacations!

One week after school got out, we headed to Oklahoma for our annual camping trip at my parent's house with friends.  William and Hudson left a few days early to take a detour with my parents to go see their cousins in Houston, and then headed straight to OK from there.  Crew and I headed up on Thursday. We ended up getting there only about 45 minutes after my parents and the big boys.  But, a lot can happen in 45 minutes!

My dad has bought each of the boys a pocket knife.  The knife is kept in Oklahoma, and is only used under strict supervision.  Well, as soon as they got there, they both made a bee-line for their pocket knives.  As my parents were still unloading the truck, they gave strict instructions to NOT open the knives until Papa was finished and could supervise.  William, too excited to heed the advice, proceeded to "whittle" a stick, and consequently, also "whittled" a hunk out of his leg:

8 stitches later, and we are ready to rock-n-roll:

After the drama of yet ANOTHER Dennison ER visit, we ate dinner, and went to visit my grandma and take her for some ice cream.

My grandma's first selfie!

Friday afternoon all of our friends arrived, and after dinner we headed to Kiddie Park.  Sadly, William and Hudson have outgrown quite a few of the rides.  Thankfully, some of them are still fun for them, but now it's Crew's turn to thoroughly enjoy the park.

I absolutely love taking my kids to this little rinky-dink amusement park.  I have such fond memories coming here as a child, and now my kids get to enjoy the same rides.

We continued our weekend with some late night lightning bug hunting, s'mores, camping, a bit of rain, riding the cruiser around the property, a huge family game of kickball, golf, swimming at the country club, and generally just enjoying spending time with our friends.  

What a great weekend! We are already looking forward to next year.

Things are happening

Things have been busy around here lately! It always seems that with Spring comes busy busy busy. We like it that way, but it definitely makes me excited for the dog-days of summer!

The biggest news?

Yep, we are crazy and pregnant with #4. The first pic was our first sonogram, which I think is probably the best sonogram at this stage of any of our kids. The second was a week later, just to be sure things were moving along. Again, I think it's a great picture!

We're doing things differently this go-around.  With William, Hudson, and Crew we wanted to (and did) find out the gender as soon as was humanly possible.  And most people know that when I was pregnant with Crew, I was desperate for a girl.  So with him, I wanted to know so that I could wrap my head around the fact that I was going to have another boy. And I'm glad we did because I really needed that time to change my perspective.  My heart has changed (only by the grace of God), and I do not find myself longing for a girl anymore.  The same cannot be said for all of the males in my house, unfortunately! In spite of that, we have decided that we are going to keep the gender a surprise until delivery. I'm a little nervous about that 20wk ultrasound, but I figure if I put it out there for the whole world, I have to stick to my guns.  Right? On top of the fact that I'll be happy with another boy (and who are we kidding? Of course it's going to be a boy!), this is our last baby, and we thought it would be fun to have 1 pregnancy that we experience without finding out the gender. So, here is goes!