Baby number Two

Fantastic news: Erika is pregnant with our second child! She's 15 weeks along and feeling great; it's been another easy pregnancy. In about 6 weeks we'll find out the sex and can't wait to share! With a due date of Aug 23rd, we're a little stressed about Erika starting her new job July 1 and almost immediately going on maternity leave. Though we can't share any details, Erika did sign a contract to work for a podiatrist in private practice in Tucson.

Kevin also has great news. He's been cigarette free for over seven months! And he's been studying for the ACT so he can go back to school to become a teacher, a job he's hoping will let him continue to be with his babies, and by the time he's finished and ready to find a teaching position the kids will also be in school.


There's one thing you can say about our family, we're never doing nothing! We had the pleasure of having a podiatry student stay with us for the month and we of course had to show him Tucson. We took Alex up Mt Lemmon, which is how we got a good photo of all of us. There was snow up at the top, in which Mason had a blast playing, though he refused to wear gloves and complained the snow was cold. We did a new hike in the lowlands, which would have been quite warm in the summer, but was nice this time of year and didn't have snow. Alex was a great sport and carried Mason, he wanted the workout! He's young and fit so we let him, besides Erika probably couldn't have handled it and Kevin's lungs are still recovering.


Mason will at least know what snow is, even though Daina, Uncle Gary and Aunt Susan (or anyone else in the NE) would laugh at this small amount of snow.


The men looking happy; we'd just started the hike ;)


Mason has been into taking showers, so the mirrors fog. Here he is making "paw prints" after his shower.