A baby girl and a few other things...

This was a lovely day.  I still can't figure out why I haven't made the time to write about this new little girl that is coming to our family soon.  I'm 35 weeks pregnant for crying out loud and haven't mentioned it on here once!  But this was the day that we had our ultrasound last October and found out that we were having a new little girl.  The ultrasound tech didn't tell us at first, just typed the word "girl"up on the screen so I had Clara read to see what it said, "guh - ih - r.... Mom I already know it's a girl!" and she and Grady went right back to playing like it was no big deal.  They had been telling me for a long time we were having a baby girl and didn't need an ultrasound to confirm it for them:)  She looked wonderful and healthy and I couldn't be more grateful for her.  I will need to write more about all that later.  After that I went shopping all by myself at city creek for some bigger shirts - wonderful - and they came home and made these streamer things to play with in the yard. I

 I've wanted to put some pictures Brandon took that day of our amazing patio and pizza oven he built for us this summer on here for a long time and never have.  That patio was a beast - we built it with mostly donated materials - so we had three different pavers that were all three different depths.  We had to dig down about a foot and a half then fill it all in with road base and then sand and then level and re-level and re-level.  And all of that stuff had to first be brought to our house in the back of a truck, shoveled out onto the road and then brought back one wheel barrow full at a time - and that was after all the hundreds of wheel barrows full of mud we had to haul off that we had dug out of it!  Wow - I did about 15% of that patio and I think it was the hardest physical labor I've ever done! Brandon is a serious work horse - and our poor neighbors have had to have many many late nights listening to saws and drills and levelers and all sorts of crazy machines going off long after they've gone to bed.  The awesome food that we've gotten out of that oven has definitely been worth it though.  Such a creative guy I've got:)