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As many (or all) of you know, we are expecting a little girl in the beginning of March!! We are SO happy, grateful, thrilled, excited... I'll just let you look at the pictures first, because that's really what people want to see. (Sorry for the bad quality of pictures. We're trying to figure out our scanner.)

Her cute foot! I have definitely been feeling them kick. Andrew thinks she will be a soccer player, "or she can be whatever she wants to be, but maybe a soccer player."

We love her and her cute little nose.

I can't believe that's inside of me! What an amazing, crazy thing.

Us at our ward Halloween party. We got this cute idea from here.

It was a long road to get to this point, but I know many people have/had longer. We are grateful for all the prayers for us. Even though we had wonderful doctors that helped us get to this point, we know that it was a miracle. We're grateful for the Lord's plan for all of us. We can't wait to meet her! :)

Cabin!

These pictures are from July, and I know it is September. I am really bad a blogging! I think part of the reason why is because I really don't know what I'm doing. Like, why is all of the writing so light on our blog?! If you know how to fix this, let me know, because it's really annoying.

Anyways, in July, we headed up to Lake Wisconsin for a fun week at the cabin with the Thomas family. It was so relaxing! We fished, played games, ate food, road on a boat, watched movies/ Pysch.

The back of the cabin we stayed at, and Amber looking sneaky.

Alex, Josh, and Andrew our fishing on the dock. There was a lot of fishing going on! And almost everyone caught a fish while we were there.

Andrew's birthday at the cabin!

Andrew and I on the closest thing I have seen to a mountain in the Midwest. It had a gorgeous view!

We loved our time there! We got to spend a lot of great time with my family! Thanks Lake Wisconsin! :)

Colorblind

After working on de-cluttering our house, we came across some pillows that came with our new couches...

Andrew: But what are we going to do with all of these red pillows?

Erica: What red pillows?

Andrew: These right here! (Pointing)

Erica: You mean the black pillows?

Andrew: (Looks closer) Oh yeah.

I just hope our children don't fail preschool because Andrew's teaching them their colors.

Josh's Grad Party

A week (or 2?) before Josh graduated, my family had a graduation party for him (as is tradition in Minnesota). It was great. I can't believe my mom has done 4 of these!

The Josh Shrine.
Yummy food.
Andrew was the cake-serving master.
I think this was actually the week that Josh graduated. Trevor, Heather's then fiancee, came to visit. The boys initiated him into the family by the traditional burning of the Christmas tree. When Andrew came out to visit when we were dating, Josh, Dad, and Andrew burned two Christmas trees in the backyard. The flames seriously were 5 times higher than this one. It was a great bonding experience for them. ;)

More pictures to come-- This is just the beginning of the summer!

Josh's Graduation

My brother graduated from high school! How could this be?! He heads out to BYU next week, and I'm in denial. But he'll love it. Josh with my parents.

Oops, not the best pic of Josh. From left: Andrew, me, Amber, Josh, Nikki, Heather, and Trevor (the newest member of our family as of 8/13/11).

I don't know where he is, but he's in there.

Right after they called his name. Yay for Josh!

Chocolate Inspiration

"When you can't control the wind, adjust your sails."

I read this quote on the wrapper of the Dove dark chocolate I just ate. I really liked it-- the quote and the chocolate.
I tend to want to be in control and dictate how things in my life should be instead of making the most of situations. Trials come, and it's up to me to adjust, relying on the Savior.
Thanks Dove for giving me a better perspective.

Also, our apartment is really hot right now, so the chocolate I ate was a little melted. I think I'll have another one. Dark chocolate is good for you, right?

The Windy (and delicious) City

Andrew and I went on an adventure to Chicago! We had a blast, and had a LOT of great food. Looking at the pictures we took, I realized that pretty much all of our pictures were about food.

Ghiradelli sundae. Need I say more?

Hershey's Chicago. This bar was like $40 or something ridiculous.

A cute Swedish restaurant that had a delicious breakfast.

Andrew very happy. He's giving two thumbs up by the way.

Yum.

Oh yeah, and we saw Blue Man Group. It was a very different experience-- we liked it, but it was pretty weird. We also walked around Magnificent Mile, which was so fun. I love walking down streets like that in big cities. We will definitely go back again!