Don't Know Where to Begin

Well, here we are at last. On my last post I accidentally eluded to being pregnant and wanted my next post to be the big announcement, but then I waited too long and got out of the habit and the blog fell by the wayside. I've spent the last couple of hours browsing through pictures looking for the ones that would sum up the last few months. Now, here it is 11pm, and if I don't post something I'll never dig myself out of the hole I'm in. I'll have to do a few quick catch-up/highlight posts over the next few days.

Birthdays are a good place to start. Claire is now three and requested a pizza party and kite flying for her special day. Grandma and Grandpa Solano came down for the week-end and we feasted on pizza at Felipe's pizza and were blest with enough wind at sunset park to fly our fish kite.

Before Grandma and Grandpa headed home we had to blow out a candle and sing to Ashlyn who turned 5. She had requested hamburgers for her birthday meal, and was excited about her cheeseburger cake. We made s'mores and had ice cream sundaes later that evening with all her local cousins and Grandma and Grandpa Plumb, and we put her candle in her ice cream. Grandpa Plumb can sure toast a marshmallow to perfection.

No birthday for Lara, but she is a year and a half and I wanted to post her picture because she looks so much older than she did in my last post. Lara is our queen of facial expressions and can give some pretty mean scowls. Here she is on our horse Snow Pea. I also thought this picture sums up Lara...Oh you don't want me to touch THIS...you mean this thing right here...Brock made it to the big 30. One of the reasons I married Brock is that I knew he would just keep getting more good looking as he aged...see for yourself.
The girls enjoyed decorating his ice cream cake with strawberries and candles... and we had a fun get together with a bunch of family and friends to celebrate. I'd like to thank Grandma Solano for all the decor and my mother for the hot pink frosting cupcakes...Claire LOVED the frosting.

I will not be posting any pictures of me because I am pregnant and despite expectations we are having a boy. Ashlyn was very excited about that and has already said we should name him after my sister's duck, and Claire said she wants him to be named Sunshine. Ashlyn recently said, "We'll have a brother and someday he will be my hero." :) This little prince will be dealing with a lot of little mommas. I am due September 20th and all is well.