It's a...............................

GIRL!!!!! We had our ultrasound today and found out that it's another little girl in there! :-) Once we started, Keith said right away, "I see a little hamburger!" She was very active in there (thanks to the Snickers bar and Mountain Dew I had before hand...didn't want to take any chances on getting her to move around so we could see the sex!). We are just so excited and looking forward to her arrival already. We're pretty much set on the first name Anna, but the middle name is up for debate. I love Elizabeth, but Keith isn't sure about it. We'll keep you posted. We have another ultrasound on Monday with my Dr. and that's when they'll do all the measurements and everything. Here's some pictures...we were able to talk the tech into a quick 3D sneak peek.

The heartrate was 142:

Peace!:

The proud parents and big sister to be:

Christmas with the Williams Family

Our Christmas festivities began last night with Christmas with the Williams family. Keith's mom, dad, brother, and sister-in-law all came over for dinner, present opening, and a little bit of Wii playing. We had a great time and Ella really had fun opening her presents. She loved the chair that Meemaw and Pawpaw got for her, but the real fun was opening presents and playing with the wrapping paper. Typical 19 month old. :-)

Meemaw and Pawpaw:

Uncle Kevin and Aunt Trish:

Latricia and I received little flashlights last night that Ella thought were pretty cool:

Enjoying her new chair:

16 Weeks

16 weeks yesterday and only 2 more days until we find out if there's a Parker or an Anna in there! Yippee! :-) I've been feeling some flutters for a couple of weeks now, but I've started to feel little taps and thumps. Feeling the baby move is the absolute coolest thing! Such a miracle that there's a whole new little person in there. God is so amazing! Ella was super active in my belly which we've discovered in very true to her personality outside of the womb. I'm interested to see what this little one will be like. Baby Dos is now the size of an avocado.

Christmas Cards over the years

Since we unfortunately can't send a Christmas card to everyone that we would like to, I wanted to share our card from this year on the blog. See, I told you it's an action shot!

And just for fun, here are our cards from previous years. I think it's cool to look back and see how our family is changing and growing each year.

2007:

2006 (scanned):

2005 (the picture I included in our card. I had not discovered photo cards yet):

Little People Nativity

Cute story that I just wanted to share: Ella has a Little People Nativity set that she likes to play with. The other day I was in the foyer working on something and Ella was in the den. I heard her saying "night, night...night, night" so I thought she must be getting tired and ready for her nap. However, when I went in there, she had all of her Little People (Mary, Joseph, Jesus, etc.) lined up on the coffee table and turned face down. She was waving to them and saying "night, night...night, night." She was putting them down for a nap. It was precious! :-)

Here are a couple pictures on her playing with the Little People tonight before Saddlar came over.

Christmas with friends

We had a Christmas dinner tonight with Sonya, Jerri, and Saddlar. It has been a long time since Ella and Saddlar played together and it was adorable to see them together tonight. Ella is such a little bossy boots! Poor little Saddlar was so sweet and shared everything with her even though she didn't always want to share with him. That sharing is a hard lesson to learn! :-) Anyways, they enjoyed playing with all of Ella's toys and just got along marvelously. They even let us take a couple pictures of them together! Ella is really into shoes right now and she had the best time putting Saddlar's shoes on and walking around. It was pretty darn cute.

Frazer Staff Christmas Party

Frazer held their annual staff Christmas party on Thursday night. We had so much fun! It was a Hawaiian theme and some people (my parents included) really got decked out in Hawaiian shirts and sandals. We stuck with "Holiday Casual." My mom also works at Frazer so that's why my parents were there too. We got to sit with good friends and really had a great time.

Jennifer (about 8 months pregnant with her 3rd) participated in the hula-hooping contest and won!! (I should add that she hula-hooped on her arm :-)) Emily, in the middle, is Keith's boss's wife and a good friend. We're all in Sunday School together also.

On the left is Ken, Keith's boss, and Josh, the father-to-be for the 3rd time, is on the right.