We're having a...

GIRL!! 

Here is a little picture of her trying to be shy and hide her face with her hand.  We had our 2nd trimester ultrasound yesterday and found that we are going to be having a little girl.  According to the ultrasound, she looks healthy as can be.  She has 10 little fingers and 10 little toes, a good looking spine and a strong, healthy heart.  

You are NOT Going to Believe This...

What you see before you is an actual prize that Jamie pulled out of an actual General Mills Cereal Box, that is an actual $5 credit card!  Can you believe it?  I have been combing cereal boxes since I was like four, and I believe this was the most exciting find.  (Although I was not present this morning at the discovery,  I feel the energy. Come on, who has the Trix Rabbit on a credit card?) You know how they say on these promotions you can be an instant winner?  Well... we were.  This is big.  This just made up for two days of getting home from work late.   Okay, I'm done, if anything is worthy of the blog, this definitely is worthy.   

SURPRISE!

First of all, we have to apologize for our slacking off in the blog department.  We have been meaning to post because we have so much to share.  Here are a few of the upcoming posts:

1. Our trip to the Bronx Zoo (the largest urban zoo in America!)

2. Our trip to Palmyra and Niagra Falls with mom and dad.

3. Mom and Dad and Alicia/Darin/Garrett and Cole come to visit.

For this post, we thought that we would make it a little different.   We will post some random pictures and you get to guess what this post is about (hence the surprise!)

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If you haven't guessed already, here's a BIG clue...

So, yep we're going to have a baby!  We are so excited and can't wait.  We are now 18 weeks along and doing great! The baby's due date is October 30th and we find out if it is a little "D" or a little "J" in just two weeks.  (for now it is just called DJ jr. compliments of Its Grandpa Anderson) 

Sorry that some of these pictures were random, but I warned you!  Plus, I didn't want you to guess on the first pic.  But if you stretch your thinking really hard, you can connect them.

We haven't announced until now because well, we didn't know until we were two months along!  Plus we wanted to wait to tell our own parents first.  We didn't tell our parents until just recently (Jamie's mom on Mother's day, her dad the next day and Derek's parents when they came out last week) It was really easy to keep a secret when you live so far away from family except when we were on the phone with them or doing web cam!