Remington Hardy Vial

8 lbs 10 oz. 20 3/4 in of awesome.

On August 4, 2013 at 7:16 pm Remington officially joined our lives.  Making our family of four now into a family of five.  Five. Wow. 

Rem is our first boy and he's a mama's boy already.  I love the little guy.  He's got a very sweet spirit and a strong healthy body. 

Dot was smitten from day one. She tries to get me to pass him off to her all the time, "I-wanna hold it?" it's hilarious.  Z did the same thing as when Dot was born, ignore the new thing and get very nervous when I'm breast feeding. Poor kid. She is starting to pay attention to him now by playing games with him when he's on the floor.

Chris took a slew of Rem pictures the first few weeks and I figured I should get them up before the kid is basically a toddler.  Of course I can't go without mentioning that the coyote pelt in some of the pictures is indeed a kill Chris had a few years ago right after D was born. Nice, right? My man the hunter!

 D had to jump in on a few of these pictures.  She had been running around the farm hence the crazy hair.  She looks awesome anyways.

 My mama came into town from Virginia for a few weeks, which was a-ma-zing.  I hadn't seen the lovely lady in two years! TWO YEARS! Honestly, how did that happen?

28 Weeks

Mother's Day

 and a random very hot day a few weeks back. The girls and I were thrilled to enjoy the outside.

The Beach

I'm not accustomed to the Northwest beach days.  When I think trip to the beach my mind goes to my previous California days.  We could get there in 10 minutes, it was nice and toasty, and when we were done we went right home.   Oregon beach days not so much. But this beach day, man, it was perfect.  Great sunshine, warm, windy, and the girls were in heaven.  Hopefully we will get more of these this summer.

 (taken at 26 weeks. I'm now at 29. baby boy is not so far away)

baby boy

In my lack of posting (since my discovery of Instagram basically) the girls have probably grown a foot each (Z is 3 and D is almost 20 months) and we found out we are having a baby boy in August!  I'm not excited about being big and pregnant in the summer months, but luckily Oregon summers are beautiful, my house indeed has air conditioning, and the girls have lots of land to roam on.  I still can hardly believe we are actually getting a boy.  Chris and I were very convinced (mostly because of statistics) that number 3 would be another girl.  We were perfectly happy with having another lady, but a boy does throw in a lot of excitement, especially for Chris.  It will be great.

Here's a few favorites from the past few months.  Happy Summer!

 My sister-in-law, Hailey, Is due same time as me... as well as my sister, Cami.  All three are baby boys. Baby season is upon us.