It's Summer!

Israel's Family (left to right): Ismael (his dad), Zulema (sister,2nd oldest), Lupita (his mom), Me, Israel, Asher, Abelardo (nephew). Israel's oldest sister, Liliana, took the picture, and his brother Zaid and his wife Veronica are in Mexico with their two daughters. We are at the Boise Zoo.

So, I'm not the best at Updating my blog :-) but I love to look at all of yours, so I thought I'd try and update a little today. I'm not great at posting, for instance, I can't figure out how to get that picture of Asher turned the right way, so, there you go.

It's my birthday and Israel's family is here. We've had a good time. We went to the zoo yesterday and had a picnic. His family has cleaned up our entire yard, bless their hearts. Asher is having a wonderful time with so many people to take him outside whenever he wants. At the park he decided he wanted to climb a tree. He would stand at the bottom and put his foot up on the trunk and call for someone to come. His tia Lili was usually the one to help him "walk" up the tree. I think they did that 20 +times.

The pregnancy is going really well so far. I feel great, especially since I've been able to nap regularly since Tuesday when Israel's family came, and I'm not too big yet. In fact, they couldn't tell that I was pregnant until we told them after getting home from the airport. I'm at 22 weeks today. For my birthday I got a bunch of summer maternity clothes which I'm VERY thankful for. All my maternity clothes from Asher were for winter and it's getting warm. As much as I don't immediately look like I'm showing, I just hide it well, because none of my clothes fit. I was down to one pair of "yoga" pants from Old Navy that I literally wore every day except for when I wore a pair of size 16 shorts that are also too small in the waist. I'm super comfy now.

Yesterday Israel was able to feel the baby kick me for the first time. He's been kicking me for a while, mostly at night of course, but he doesn't keep me awake yet. The Ultrasound was fun. We were expecting a girl for some reason, so to find out it was a boy was a shock, but we're really excited!! I don't have cravings as much as I did with Asher, actually, food in general just isn't appealing to me, unless we go out to eat. I think that's my favorite thing to do. I actually lost 4 pounds at the beginning of this trimester - hooray! - I'm not worried, losing too much weight will never be an issue for me I'm afraid. This morning I ate a piece of german chocolate cake, bacon, and milk for breakfast. I'm in no danger of loosing too much weight, or any more weight for that matter.