It's a...BOY!

On March 8th I found out I was pregnant with baby #3 and surprised Will by getting this cake for him. My birthday is on March 9th, so I told him that my visiting teachers had brought this cake by and then I slid it over to him to see. He stared in complete confusion for a minute and then when he looked up at me I exclaimed, "I'm pregnant!" Finding out we're expecting was the best birthday present I could have asked for! :) By the way, I asked Dippidee's, the cake makers, to put pink and blue frosting on, but they only put blue and now I'm thinking perhaps they were inspired!!!

Yesterday, June 27th, we had a late Father's Day dinner with my side of the family. I surprised them with this ice cream cake and told them that the gender of the baby would be the color of the ice cream. Everyone was so happy to find out we're expecting a baby boy, our little Tyler.
On June 24th, Will and I had the ultrasound and found out we're having a baby boy, Tyler Smith Whitaker! We are so grateful to have Tyler joining our family around November 15th (due date) and can't believe how much love we already feel for him. We are also excited to get some more blue in this house and to introduce trains, sports, and all the other fun boy things!

Will Camping

Will went camping with his friends, Ryan and Kathan over this past weekend and had a great time.

Ryan playing with fire

Steaks while camping?! I remember growing up camping with powdered food or M.R.E.'s!

Kathan perhaps making a bold attempt at skipping a really big rock
Always feels to good to get those push-ups in while camping :)

Lagoon

On June 19th our family received free tickets to Lagoon for Will's work party. It was SO much fun! The girls could not get enough of the rides and Alyssa was tall enough to go on "The Bat" roller coaster with Will!

Alyssa and Will are on the second row from the backAlyssa and Will soaking wet after going on Rattle Snake Rapids

Kathan, one of Will's best friends, and his date LaurieWill won the tiger Nicole is holding in the above picture from playing golf
Will also won the girls a pink bear from shooting some hoops

Be very impressed with Will for going on the spinning ride with Alyssa since he gets very motion sick easily.We all got fake tatoos!
Alyssa got a pink horse balloon
Nicole got a rattle balloon, which really rattled!

Giraffes in a Box

My Girly Girls!

Recently, Alyssa and Nicole have been playing together so well! I can't tell you how happy it makes me that Nicole is finally old enough for the girls to play like friends!