Hanging out at Mulhalls!

Stevie and I went to Mulhall's today to visit Daddy. Stephen has been working there for the past month as  second job for some extra cash. It was beautiful out and it was nice to get a walk in, looking at all the plants and picking out my wish list for our home. They also had a playground there, so Stevie was able to swing for a while.

Easter! He is Risen!

Easter Sunday! Stephen and I went to the Sun rise service at 6am before we headed over to my sister's. The family hung out and ate a big meal, turkey, ham, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, etc. We had a lot of food, plus a lot of desserts! Also, it is a tradition to have this big bunny out in the yard and each family has to have their picture taken in front of it. We were missing 2 sets of families and also some members of each family were missing due to work and other things. We had a blast, ate lots of food, hung out and cracked opened eggs that had money in them!! Gotta love family time!

 The cooks!

Some diving into the yummy food!

 The Prasch's

                 The Young's                  The Paulsen's (missing Brian, Jami, & Dakota, along with 2 other families)                                                                                      

My Parents with Sammy (my cousin's daughter who her and family couldn't make it)

The Graham's

 Stevie playing with eggs!

Easter Weekend -Saturday!

My side of the family gets together for Easter and usually on Saturday we get together to go shopping, pedicures, etc; along with dinner at night and games to finish off the evening! This year we decided to have it at my sister's house, (usually we all go to Creston, IA and have it at my uncles'). It was a great time, the girls all went together while the guys went and did their thing. Some of the family was missing, not all could make it. We ate lunch at La Peep, went shopping, pedicures, and ordered pizza for the evening and then they played games. The games didin't start until later at night and we had to go since Stevie and I were tired.

 Funky Monkey smoothie, made with chocolate and bananas

Us at La Peep, we are missing about 5 other family members

 Stevie playing before dinner with Daddy!

 Some of the family hanging out!

Dinner catered by Valentino's

Good Friday at the Park

On Good Friday, my sister, Sydney, Stevie, and I went to the Good Friday church service. Stephen would have gone , but he was working at his second job. :( At our church there is a playground right next to it and well we decided to play after service so traffic wouldn't be so bad.

 Stevie a little unsure about the slide with his cousin.

A big smile at the bottom after he went with his Aunt holding onto him!

Methodist Student Ultrasound

Methodist Sonograph students needed some volunteers for ultrasounds, so of course I said yes. I am not going to post all of the photos, but I have to post some of the baby. It lasted about an hour since they do a full exam on the baby, which was long, but at least I got to see the baby again. I took Stevie to daycare today so I could have a "Mommy day" to myself. Which so far as turn in to a laundry and errand day, but I did have lunch with Julie at Olive Garden on her lunch break. (which I didn't get any pics, :( .)

20 week ultrasound (well 19 weeks & 5 days to be exact)

Today was the day we got to see baby Prasch. We know that it is a boy, but we haven't decided on a name yet. We like Noah James and Ethan Isaiah, but we still have time to decide which one we like. The ultrasound looked good and he was measuring big, which is to be expected since I make big babies. I am concerned about how much weight I have put on already, but this baby is like Stevie, making me crave fast food. I told myself I need to eat better, salads have tasted good, so I have decided to cut back on fast food. Stephen and I never usually eat out that much anyways, but that was until I got pregnant. I will work on it. As long as the baby is healthy, that's what is important!

Going downstairs

Yesterday, we decided to teach Stevie how to go down the stairs. He likes to up them all the time and is unsure on how to go down them, he has tried head first once and luckily it was only 2 stairs. I felt terrible, but sometimes we can't always make there in time. I showed him 3 times yesterday and today we worked on it again about 4 times. He is such a quick learner on his motor skills and is getting the hang of it!

Daddy helping him get started

Almost there!

 Yeah, I did it!!!

 Eating Raspberries at lunch today!

Half Walking, Half Crawling

Stevie is half walking and crawling right now, I image that he will be walking all the time here soon. He also said the word "duck" the other week in the bathtub. He says "uh-a" for "uh-o" when he drops things and will call Stephen "Da Da" at certain times. It is pretty cool, can't wait for him to speak full sentences.