Yes, yes it's true

Yes, my friends and followers, we are pleased to announce that we are expecting a new baby boy (our third, poor me!) in April.

Baby boy #3 came as quite a shock to us! Everything sort of snowballed onto us in the month of September. You all know I took a new job that started mid-August and then about Labor Day weekend I got really sick. I had a horrible migraine and lots of vomitting and for some reason, the thought popped into my head that I might be pregnant....of course I immediately dismissed it...that wasn't in the plans! Surely I was just light-headed from spending so much time bent over the toilet. But the thought persisted until I found a pregnancy test at the very back of my bathroom cupboard. Lo and behold, two lines appeared. But the positive line was REALLY faint, so I thought....nah, must be an old test that's expired or something. I'll go get a new one and wait until tomorrow and try it again. Four positive tests later...I faced the inevitable, we were having another baby. Of course the panic immediately set in. All those things you think about, like just where exactly was this baby going to SLEEP? In our room until it's 5?? And things like, I don't WANT to have two in diapers and how is my new boss going to feel about a maternity leave so soon after me just starting and for the love of pete HOW are we going to pay for daycare for three??? I am not ashamed to say it took me about a week to get over the panic and embrace the thought of another baby. First, my boys are so good-natured that they'll be able to share a room for awhile longer. We'll find a bunk bed or a daybed with a trundle and they'll be more than happy to share a room until Kaitlyn goes to college and then we can move Jax to the basement and the little ones can stay upstairs for a while yet. And two in diapers, so what? Nothing lasts forever. And my boss was thrilled that I was pregnant. Okay, thrilled may be an exaggeration, but he was happy for me and concerned for my health and told me that everything would be okay and not to worry. It's probably a good possibility that when I do come back it will be for three days a week instead of five and then my mother-in-law would take the boys one day while I work and they would go to daycare two days. In the fall, Jax will be in kindergarten for a half day so that will help too. Lastly, I couldn't help but hope that this would be the time that we would have a GIRL! So, I was humming along and coping well and then we find out that the project Shane worked on at American Express was closing the Utah office and he would have to find a new job. It was really bad for awhile. But, he found a job still with AmEx and he's still looking for a better job and we're okay with that. So the only hurdle left was that magical gender ultrasound at 16 weeks. I kept telling everyone that I was okay with either, but I would rather have a girl. Even Jaxton told me that we were getting a baby sister. Alas, it was not meant to be. We had our ultrasound and after some prodding, there HE was, in all his male glory. And my hopes for pink and ribbons and lace were dashed again. I am destined to be surrounded by males. After a moment of disappointment, I was excited to see his little body and hear his tiny heart beating away. And to know that my boys will have another "little buddy" to play with. There are worse things than another boy and FAR worse things than a baby.

So here we go again, another boy to bless our home, giving us five children and giving my parents their 11th grandchild. Everyone is pretty excited and now, of course, begins the search for a new name and all the fighting that will occur over that. I just hope Grandpa Ken comes up with another nickname worthy enough to join the ranks of "Fred" and "Ralph."