Special Announcement!!!

Drum roll please!!!!!!

We are having a baby girl! Jaren and I couldn’t be more excited. We would have been happy to have a boy. However, we have both felt very strongly that this baby was going to be a girl, so it’s very comforting to know that our parental instincts aren’t completely missing.

Here are some cute pictures with some photoshop help for the ultrasound reading impaired:



This is an important time to note that I have more self control than I thought. I went to the ultrasound while Jaren was at SERE school. I asked my ultrasound tech to not tell me what we were having, but to put a couple of pictures in an envelope (which I had her seal right there!), so that Jaren and I could open it together when he got home. Then I wrote on the sealed part “DO NOT OPEN BRENNA!” This is where my true genius came in, and I hung the dang thing on my refrigerator. Who does that? A masochist that’s who! I walked past that thing all day for two weeks. Sometimes I contemplated putting other notes on it… like, “You would be selfish to open this without him”, or, “Don’t you even think about it!”

But alas, I didn’t… because I knew that deep down; I wanted him there for that moment... and that he should be the first to know besides me (lets face it - the whole world would have known before him if I opened it before he got home) Anyhow, it was totally worth it! It was a great way to welcome him home from SERE, and a fun memory.

Here is a picture of my baby bump.


Jaren and I took a trip to the Florida Caverns last weekend. We enjoyed the 110 degree heat index, and being chased by mosquitoes outside the cave. Luckily inside the cave was a cool 63 degrees. It was a perfect little trip for the two (almost three) of us!