5 months

Hey, there is a baby in there after all!

It's a Girl!

The boys were right, and Mike and I were wrong -- the baby is in fact a girl! Joshua has been so excited for the ultrasound. We checked him out of school early and made the apointment a family affair. The baby looks so good - everything seems normal and is measuring just right. My first thought when I found out it is a girl was "but I don't know how to change a girls diaper." I guess there will be a learning curve involved with this one. We are very excited!

Hardware Ranch

Grandpa Jaussi checking out the fur pelts

Jon: maybe if I sit by the cougar people will leave me alone...

You don't say!

Who's running that camera?

Carrie made a freind!

Anastise Smith, Zion, Abby, Adalade Smith, Carlie, Joshua, Michael, and Andrew and Isaac in front.

Hardware ranch closed for the season yesterday, so it's pretty lucky that the Jaussi clan planned their outing for last weekend. Dad and Jan brought Jona nd his family and some friends up in the big 15 passenger van on Saturday for an outing up the canyon. We had lunch at McDonalds, and then drove to the ranch. There were still alot of elk there, and several of the bulls still had their antlers. We took a horse drawn wagon ride around the meadow where the elk were grazing, and then visited the visitors center. With a group of 15 people, any activity is fun! Afterward we came back to our house and played rock band. The adults decided to take advantage of having two 12 year old babysitters in the house, so we went out to Olive Garden and ate ourselves silly for dinner. Thanks to Dad and Jan for the fabulous day.

Shuttle rocket test fire

Andrew and I spent the day Thursday with Betsy and her family out at ATK. Betsy's husband David works there as an engineer, and invited us all out to see last shuttle rocket test fire. Betsy has a little baby so we were a little late getting out the door. Traffic was heavy getting out there, so we ended up watching the test fire from our cars just barely out of sight of the rocket. I was still blown away by it's power though. Andrew was hanging out the front window, and I was trying to drive and gawk at the same time as the ground shook, the smoke billowed, and the roar sounded. I felt like I was watching a volcano erupt. After the test fire the crowds thinned and David took us on a tour of the rocket garden. All the pictures are from that. Then we picked up a few souvineers in the shop, had a quick picnic lunch and headed home. It was a very fun day!

Out of the mouths of babes

2nd Nephi, 2:6 according to Andrew as given over the pulpit in Primary opening exercises today:

"Second Nephi, Chapter two, verse six. Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah, for he is full of grace ANDREW!

Laura - 4 months pregnant

I plan to post a profile picture of myself for each month of pregnancy. I did this for my pregnancy with Andrew and it has been a fun thing to look back on. I will admit, I may have been sucking in a little in this picture but that tactic won't work for much longer!

***Michael is 33 years old***

Yes, we actually got 33 candles on that cake, all burning at the same time. It's a miracle the smoke alarms didn't go off....maybe I should check the batteries.