Baby E2 Is Coming Soon!

After a year of fertility treatments, hundreds of shots and thousands of pills, we are ecstatic to announce that baby Ehlen #2 is on the way!

My official due date is November 20th- a week before Thanksgiving.

Natalie is very excited for the baby in mommy's tummy and goes back and forth between wanting a brother or a sister. We are sure she will be happy to have a new baby in the house and will be a great helper.

Our latest ultrasound picture at nine weeks (three and a half weeks ago)

 

 

Maui 2014

We had an amazing week-long trip to Maui with my parents.

Here are some of the highlights!

Pool fun

Playing with Grampa

Playing at the beach

We went to Sunday brunch

 

 

I picked Tim up from the airport and surprised him with a helicopter ride!

The waterfalls were amazing

 

 

As soon as he arrived at the hotel, Tim hit the pool with Natalie  

We took a ride on the Sugar Cane Train (and the train got stuck 17 times! UGH!)

 

 

Watching the whales from our lanai (can you see them?)

Playing in the sand with Grampa

 

Playing at the pool with Grammy

 

 We all went to the Old Lahaina Luau

Exploring the ocean

More playing in the sand!

Playing at the pirate pool

 Building sand castles

 We also took a whale watching boat ride, and saw a mom and baby (whales too!)

Pool fun

More sandcastle building!

Snorkel time!

We saw a turtle when we snorkeled!

Easter 2014

We had a nice Easter this year (despite the fact that our little family was sick).

We started with the Las Sendas Easter Egg Hunt last weekend with Grammy. Natalie had so much fun picking up eggs and riding on the horses and the train.

 

Ok, maybe she didn't like the horse ride.

 

At the petting zoo with Grammy.

 

 

 

 

We made a quick visit to the Easter Bunny on Good Friday. Natalie did great!

 

 

 

We spent Easter at home (we were all sick). Natalie was excited for the Easter bunny. He brought her a Little People airplane, a bike horn, a mini-Barbie and eggs with candy, stickers and hot wheels. After she opened the eggs in her basket, we went outside to hunt for more eggs.

 

 

 

Natalie had a great time finding the eggs "hidden" in the backyard.

 

 

 

Our Disney "Surf & Turf" Vacation

We took an amazing week-long vacation to Disneyworld and a Disney Cruise.

We spent two and a half days at Disneyworld (before and after the cruise) and four nights on the Disney Magic cruise ship. We had a great time visiting the Magic Kingdom & Animal Kingdom at Disneyworld, and Paradise Island and Castaway Cay in the Bahamas.

Here are some of my favorite pictures... If you want to see more, visit our Shutterfly site at https://staciaslife.shutterfly.com/

 Disney's Magic Kingdom

First stop, Dumbo!

 

We watched the Electric Light Parade

And visited the talking Mickey!!

 

Natalie got her first haircut at the Harmony Barber shop on Main Street

Atlantis on Paradise Island in the Bahamas

 

We went through their aquarium exhibit "The Dig" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They had a slide that was slow enough for Natalie to go by herself! She loved it!

 

 

We enjoyed the lazy river 

Onboard the Disney Magic

 

 

 

Formal night

 

 

Pirate Night

 

Natalie's first movie! Frozen in 3D.

 

 

We celebrated our third anniversary on the ship 

 

 

Natalie's favorite Princess was Cinderella ("Rell" as she called her) 

 

Natalie liked eating the chocolate that was left each night

 

 

Our favorite stop was Castaway Cay- Disney's private island in the Bahamas

 

 

Natalie LOVED the beach! 

 

Tim & I snorkeled while Natalie played on the ship

 Disney's Animal Kingdom

Natalie bounced with Tigger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Family churro time!