Clue 5

When our jellybean is a bit older, she will love that there is a children's book with her name in the title!

Clue #4

The first name is pre 1950's and has never reached the SSA's (social security administrations) top 100.

Clue #3

No repeats :) We did not choose a first name that begins with an "A" or an "S" :)

Name game, Clue #2

Ok, heres clue number 2!

Our sweet babe shares her name with a song title and a recording artist.

THE NAME GAME BEGINS!!!

SO i have tried to do an update post on our lives lately a couple times, but to no avail so instead I will tackle that another day and announce the beginning of round three of the NAME GAME!!!

For those of you who still read the blog and may have missed out on the other two rounds, heres the deal. With each child, at the end of the pregnancy, given out clues to the name of our child and welcomed guesses via the blog or Facebook with the winner receiving a small prize. The clues will be about the first and middle names and you must guess both correctly to win. We wont be revealing the name until Jellybean is born, but will keep track of the winner and will get out the prize after she's born.

I'll keep a running list of the clues on the side of the blog for easy access. :)

So drumroll please:

Clue #!: The first and middle names together have a total of 9 letters.

Good luck and happy guessing! :)

Busy at work

hehehe How could I resist?!?

We are just DYING for Anabelle to get potty trained sooner rather than later and she shows NO interest so the other night we plunked her on the throne with multiple sippy cup refills and kept her entertained there as long as we could. She was happy as a clam to have books read to her and to have the undivided attention of one of us for over an hour. Towards the end we gave in and let her play the "cake game" on daddys phone while daddy got some work done. Cute photo op...but sad to report no success this time!

Spring Sunday

Oh how we have waited for some time to play outside! Brad has been hard at work getting the yard projects completed in the cold weather and the girls have had to watch from the house. We have been adding landscaping and a firepit! :) Finally this Sunday the weather cooperated and the girls were able to play outside and Brad could have some rest (as much as my dear Hubby can tolerate).

First he and the girls tried to fly a kite together. Though, I think it was daddy who did all the work. Unfortunately it wind kept switching directions so success was very short lived.


Here is a shot of the fire pit my dear hubby created :) I'm so thankful to have a very handy husband who enjoys dreaming up and making things like this happen. I already see years worth of family memories made in this little nook in our yard.

Sabrina testing out the pit for us :)


After a little bit, Brad and the girls got bit again by the work bug and decided to move the wood pile from where the compost is over to the new firewood pad at the back of the fire pit. The girls got the gator and daddy loaded it up with logs and they drove it over and added each of them to the new pile. Anabelle was very into looking for sticks for kindling and Sabrina with the driver extrodinaire. They had all kinds of fun helping.
Not sure if you can tell, but in these pics Anabelle had a mouthful of beef roast. We had eaten 2 hours earlier and beef roast is apparently not her fave and she tucked away that final bite in her cheek so she didn't have to swallow it. We didn't notice it until much later when she finally gagged it down. WIll her food quirks ever end? :) hehehe