baby john!

a few weeks ago we went in for my sonogram and found out we are having a baby boy! the due date is june 24th! we plan on naming him john clinton demaris! we are so excited for a boy and all the blue!

we LOVE our girls, but the new dynamic will be so fun! the girls are pretty thrilled themselves. carly cant stop talking about her soon-to-be baby brother...4 more months to go!

major catchup

so it has been MONTHS since i have updated this blog, but this is my quick attempt to do so! the following posts hopefully hit most of what has happened in the last 8 months!

a few pics from christmas

we had christmas at our house this year, with clints family coming to share it with us...and of course santa came to visit on christmas eve!

fam pics

my best friend amy came out to visit oregon in august and took our family pics, amy your the best...its always the best to have amy visit...we got in much needed girl time, shopping, pedicures, etc...thanks always amy!

july-october

july-october

a lot happened, we moved to a new place in sherwood, my brother jared moved in with us (still with us), and clint recently moved into a new office space...a few pics of other things we did!

2nd half marathon...and the marathon of life!

an entire month ago i did my 2nd half marathon with 2 of my girl friends and it went great!my time was 2 hrs. 17 min. not amazing, but i did it! i think i have run once since, i have been enjoying the break from running ;) however life has felt crazy since then, it really has been busy! here's a catchup:

clint moved into a new office in portland, something bigger and newly remodeled. we really love it! we also moved into a bigger house that will better accomodate the fam. we love our new place (still renting, portland area's housing market is terrible right now and we are waiting out buying anything). we also have my brother jared, 17 yrs old, who just moved in with us and will be with us through his senior year. (now i have 3 kids!) but its great having some extra help around here! no, really its great just having him...but he is helpful! mows the lawn, helps with the kids, clint and i go see late movies whenever we want now...love it! this weekend i have a face painting booth at our towns "Robin Hood Festival," Sherwood has one every year & it is a blast! so far so good, one more day to go! in the mean time clint is in san fransisco leaving me to deal on my own & jared is on a campout. i basically have my other facepainters running the booth while i play with the kids, not so bad!but now, hopefully we can just slow down & enjoy the summer! yes people the sun is finally out in oregon! more pics to come soon!

5-year-anniversary in mexico!

clint and i took a 5-year-anniversary trip to puerto villarta, mexico & stayed at paradise village resort! same place we went on our honeymoon! it really was SO SO SO nice to have no kids, no obligations for 1 full week...and we ate that up for all it was worth! we played a lot, lounged a lot, and slept a lot... we swam in a swimming pool with trained dolphins, clint scuba dived for the first time, i snorkled, we visited FAD (more details below), ate at hole-in-the-wall taco stands (and helped make the food), lounged at the beach, lived it up at the spa, ate awesome dinners on the beach (where the big crabs almost got me), took a "rythms of the night" excursion, and enjoyed being together! after taking the first real vacation since our honeymoon, we are decided that we are buying a time share ASAP at paradise village! we love that place and mexico is our kind of place...the people, the language, the food, the energy, we just love it!

i really am the luckiest woman alive to be married to this wonderful man! clint, the last 5 years have truly been the best 5 years of my life. to make it even better you are my best friend! you have helped me grow in so many ways that i never thought possible. there is no one i trust more than you. i look up to you and admire you more than anyone i have met. my heart is dedicated to you and our lives together, for eternity. i can't believe it has been 5 years already...and i am so blessed to live such a rich, fulfilling life, with you...this is a life that is SO worth living...everyday in every way! I LOVE U!

scuba, snorkling, & dolphins!

clint went snorkling for the first time in mexico! i snorkled, because i failed training...seriously, after 4 minutes under the water i jumped out ready to pass out & started balling...if you are clausterphobic you can't scuba, now i know!i was actually really relieved, because i really did not want to go...i was just doing it for clint!

so i snorkled, saw the MOST beautiful fish, (so did clint while scuba diving), we visited an untouched beach which was very pretty! the entertainment was great on the boat of course & on the way back we were surrounded by wild dolpins! hundreds of them surrounded our boat; they stopped so we could take pictures and see them. the dolphins were doing flips and just following out boat, like they were playing with us for about 15 minutes. they are super friendly things!