Katrena has been a busy girl...

Sorry, sorry, sorry, I haven't posted in awhile, honestly I have no excuse, and Sara I have not forgotten about the tag, I will do it tomorrow, promise.

Katrena has been a busy girl, to start off they had a wildlife expert come to visit the first graders on 2/8 and he brought animals (reptiles) for them to see and touch. Now everyone that knows Katrena's mother knows that the sight of a snake on T.V. will move me to tears, and Katrena said she wasn't sure she wanted to participate. I looked her in the face and told her that I did not want her to be scared like me, and that I thought she should go, she loved it. She touched a black king snake, a boa constrictor, different kinds of lizzards, chameleons, and rattlesnake skin, they were able to see and of course not touch a black widow, a scorpion, baby armadillo, gila monster, and multiple others that neither of us can think of at the moment. This was a great learning experience and she came home talking about it for days. We also spent that weekend at Gary and Jody's where we watched movies and went shopping, while the boys went mountain biking.

The next weekend on Saturday Feburary 16, Katrena had a visit from Scott and Stephanie. They had a lot of fun, they went to the hole in the rock, the Phoenix Zoo and to Castle's and Coasters, but I think her favorite part was swimming in the hotel pool. (While she was with them Mom and Dad went on our first date since November.)

This weekend has already been a busy one, last night they had a Mother Daughter night at Katrena's school, where we did scrapbooking. We went and had a lot of fun just being together working on a scrapbook of our vacation last summer. Katrena's school, like most, did a fund raiser called Jump Rope for Hearts. If they had at least a $10 donation they were able to participate in Saturdays jump rope a thon. They were in groups of six, her group was called the Puppy Lover Jumpers, everyone in her group was in fourth grade except for her of course and they were very sweet to her. Yes Mom, I thanked them afterwards. After taking turns jump roping for awhile, they then had a contest among the boys and then the girls as well as a dance off and then a raffle drawing. It was nice to spend two hours outside in the sun, especially for a good cause.

I truly love how invoved Katrena's school gets the family. In between all of the fun listed above, she also got a new cute haircut, and has played daily with her friend Makayla.

Her parents lives have not been quite as fun and exciting, but here's the latest...

On another happy note Brent finished finals this last week (YEAGH!!!) and now has a week off of school. As always I am so proud of how hard he works.

We had a quick ultrasound last week because there was a little cause for concern. Everything appeared to be okay, babies heart rate was 144, and was measuring 14 weeks, 6 days and weighed about 3 oz. I have my regular appointment and ultrasound with my perinatologist on Friday, I will blog about that next weekend. For now, know that everything is okay, and I am feeling the baby move some, obviously not a lot, but it is reassuring. I will be so happy when this baby is kicking the daylights out of me, since that is the only way I knew something was wrong with Katrena and Braxton. We are officially 15 weeks today and counting.

Love to all, we miss you.

Karey and Alex good luck at competition!!!