Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
We'll the verdict is in...
50% chance its a girl, and 50% chance it's a boy.
Good to know, good to know. Our ultrasoundist wouldn't give us better odds since our little fetus kept his/her legs properly closed the whole hour. We feel pretty strogly it is a girl, however, Brock watched the ultrasound pretty closely and saw no evidence to the contrary, so that's what we're telling people if they ask. We're scheduled for another ultrasound in January, so we will let you know if we're wrong.
Here are some fun pictures. I still need download our pics from our Thanksgiving dinner at my Grandmas, and from our visit up to Bakersfield. I'll post those later. Here are a couple good eating shots and a few from our trip to seaworld with Jared and Missy Fox and fam.

(smiling with a mouth full of pasta is no easy task)

Brock captured some pretty incredible shots of Shamu. I was pretty impressed. Ashlyn loved seeing the seals, sharks, dolphins, fish, polar bears, walrus, etc. The flock of pigeons flying around during the Shamu show was especially exciting for her. It was fun to have the Fox family visit from Utah. Their little boy Cade had a laughing/screaming match with Ashlyn on our way out of the park they had a great day holding starfish and seeing the animals. Ashlyn also had fun with their baby daughter Macey. She'll be a good big sister.

It was a fun hair day today, and Ashlyn had a good time at breakfast. Usually breakfast is the biggest meal of the day for Ashlyn. She isn't a big eater at dinner time. This morning it was eggs with cheese and shredded squash inside with a half a slice of toast and a cup of strawberry applesauce. She is doing pretty good with utensils, and gets most everything in the vincinity of her mouth. When in doubt, just use your fingers. Sometimes she will eat her whole bowl of cereal in the morning with her hands...very talented.

If you look closely we did finally get pigtails into Ashyln's hair. It is amazing how two rubber bands can make someone look so much older. We were carving pumpkins the day before Halloween with the Plumb cousins. Ashlyn took the scooper and started eating the raw pumpkin pulp. YUM
Cruel and unusual punishment #1
Brock thought that feeding more pumpkin pulp to Ashlyn might be funny...she ate it.






Cruel and unusual punichment #2
Emily thought it would be great fun to climb inside a 77 lb pumpkin. Ashlyn did not and gave us a her "very confused/offended" look. She was shocked we made her get all slimy...The fact that Cinderella rode in a pumpkin did not make any difference to her.




The Plumb cousins on Halloween night. Rachel was the only one not too distracted by candy to actually look at the camera. I kept having to be the mean mom that night in wrestling tootsie rolls and other candy (graciously given to Ashlyn by her cousins because she said please) out of Ashlyn's hands.