Looks like April 3rd!

Today was our ultrasound. It was so neat to be able to see him this far along. I never had any "growth" ultrasounds with the girls, so this was new for me. He is so cute!! This kid has HUGE cheeks. He's also got his daddy's black people lips! His head and chest area all measured "pretty big" the ultrasound lady said and his leg bones are "really long". Currently he's weighing in at a whopping 8lbs 3oz plus or minus 1.5lbs. He's 90% developed, so we are really close to the end.

I'm pretty sure that they will wait to induce me until the 3rd of April given that he's not weighing in at like 11 lbs or anything outrageous like that. I think we are okay with that. It kinda hit us that we only have 2 weeks max left before we have a BABY! So the lists of things to get done before he comes have begun. You would think we would have had those running alot sooner, but I think we were in denial :)

Well this Young family is super excited to have our baby join us. He's cute, healthy, big and a boy. What more could we ask for?!

Okay, so I guess I am a little big.

We are closing in on the final stages of pregnancy. There are a lot of emotions that go on in this stage for me. There are lots of things to be excited about. Not be pregnant, to hold our baby, to see how happy and helpful the girls will be and for Jason to finally quit telling me how excited he is to watch ESPN with is son. Fear is another strong emotion. I am such a routine and schedule person. I know that Alston is going to require me to change up most, if not all, of my little routines that I have down for me and the girls. Sometimes I'm nervous about the delivery. Given that I've delivered two 9lbs+ babies already, I'm not too worried about it. I just hope that all goes well.

With all that emotion stuff out of the way, let's talk about how BIG I really am. Last week I scheduled an ultrasound to check the growth and weight of the baby. While scheduling the appointment, I was told that I was HUGE compared to the ladies daughter who is only a week behind me. There were several references as to what he would come out doing...shaving, playing football, walking, you get my drift. I just kind of laughed it off. These ladies were just ultrasound receptionist, what did they know?! Apparently more than I thought.

Today we had another appt (I'm on the weekly schedule now). When the nurse came and got me from the waiting area, she commented on how big I was looking, then double checked her chart, only to say very surprised "But you still have 4 weeks left girl." Then promptly asked me to get on the scale...great timing, don't you think. Anyways after the usual checking of blood pressure and listening to the heartbeat, Dr. Curtis had me lay back to measure my belly. I was looking up at the cool little mobile they have hanging from the ceiling, noticing that she was taking a while to get the measurement. I look at her and she has this nervous/confused look on her face. I asked her what the number was and she just grinned, tilted her head and said 41!! FORTY-ONE? Are you kidding me, I'm only 36 weeks and I'm measuring 41? So I ask, what was it last week...38! I grew THREE inches in a week. I could not even believe it!!! No wonder I've been so tired and having to get adjustments on a daily basis. Jason, having watched Dr. Curtis's face the entire time she was measuring said that she had to do a double take of both the measuring tape and my chart given the amount of growth and the fact that technically I still have 4 weeks to go.

Well the ultrasound is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:00. We will have a guestimate as to how big he is then. I guess it gets within +/- 1 or 2 lbs. So we should know more next week.

Stay tuned...:)

The Party

Yesterday was our anniversary party. We had alot of fun. Lots of fabulous food and even better people. Jason updated the clinics blog with photos of the set-up (I think you can access it by clicking on the link there to your right), but I wanted to share with you pics of the girls.

Libby and Wendie were telling the girls to breathe deep and relax. You should have heard the heavy breathing going on. It was so funny!

After they were done with their chair massage, they both quickly made 30 min appts with Wendie for this Saturday. What three and four year old girls get 30 min massages?!!? They couldn't be more excited :)

It's a Party and YOU are invited!

As mentioned in the previous post, the clinic has recently celebrated it's one year anniversary. For those of you that know us pretty well, you know that Jason and I like to throw/attend/create parties. What better way to celebrate one of the biggest accomplishments (besides our kids, of course) of our married lives, than to have a party.

Here are the details:

We are celebrating a fantastic year of helping people and changing lives through Chiropractic care and massage. We want to thank everybody who has been a part of our best year yet. If you haven't come by to visit us or use our services yet we want to meet you.Here is what you can expect:

* Free Chair Massage throughout the day by our Licensed Massage Therapists
* Door Prize Drawings every 30 minutes for gift certificates, merchandise, etc.
* Delicious refreshments
* Brief presentations every hour by Dr. Young on the following topics: "5 Steps to a Happy Back", "Avoiding the 5 Pains of Parenting", "How Vital are Vitamins?"

Stop by the clinic at 985 NW 23rd Street in Corvallis between the hours of 11:00am and 5:30pm. We can hardly wait to celebrate with ya!

Happy Birthday

That's right...we had another birthday in our family!

Body of Health Chiropractic and Wellness Center (imagine saying that to every insurance company you call to check benefits with) turned a year old today. On this day, one year ago we saw our first patient...exactly one patient, but our first none the less. I'm happy to report, that patient survived :) and we are even seeing him again tomorrow for his monthly check up.

What a fantastic, crazy, exhausting, painful and exciting experience this has been for us. The girls have been such troopers, spending many many late nights here as we tried to figure out how to operate the business side of things. We get asked all the time how our marriage survives while working together. I'm not sure why it works, but it does. I love working with Jason. We boss each other (okay, I do most of the bossing) around like an old married couple and it works just fine...for me today!

Our massage therapist are some of the best around. We are just one big happy Body of Health family here! They are so supportive to us. We all started out this venture together, as they were new to their massage business as well. What a fun ride this has been for us all.

Here's to a year that we are happy is under our belt and to many more!

We did celebrate Halloween :)

Here are some pics of the girls on Halloween. We started off by going to Albany to trick-o-treat at the businesses downtown on the Saturday before the 31st. This was our first time and we loved it. On the actual holiday itself, we hit up the businesses in downtown Corvallis during the day and then went around our neighborhood that night. It was so much fun. We could hardly keep up with Taylor who was running from door to door saying "Trick or Treat, Happy Halloween, Go Beavers" it was pretty fun!!

They had the building open where they are creating all the animals for the massive carousel that will go in somewhere in Albany. It was amazing to see all the people carving and painting these. This is Rilee on her bear.
And Taylor on her Bunny.

Cutting Up!!!

In November we went to Roseburg to celebrate Bryce's birthday. While we were there, we loaded my mom and dad's truck with a load of wood.

This summer, my sister cut a bunch of trees cut down on her property. We had huge logs that needed to be split and then stacked in the truck.

As you can see Taylor was in charge of running the splitter and Rilee headed up the stacking. It was so cute!! It eventually started to pour down rain on us, but they stayed out there until the very end...what a couple of troopers! After we were done, we all headed in for a warm bath/shower, which was much needed, as you can tell by Rilee's face :)

Their jackets were ruined with pitch and mud, but it was totally worth it!!