Rogue's 2nd birthday

First I would like to say that I unfortunately do not have any pictures of the little birthday girl on her special day nor of her birthday get together because until just the other day...our lovely camera was on the fritz and so I couldn't take any pictures...bummer. But I can tell you about it.
Her birthday was the 11th and since it was in the middle of the week we didn't do much to celebrate it other than I made her a brownie which she had with a little bit of ice cream and she got to open up her present from her Aunt Christina and family which was a cute little purse with a cell phone, mirror, wallet and debit card.  She LOVED it.  Ran around the house talking on her phone and stuffing everything she could find into her purse... it was pretty cute.  On Saturday we had my parents, Aunt dawn, Cousin Justin, friend of the family Kaleb and Friends Jim and Angie over for dinner and cupcakes to really celebrate her birthday.  It was a lot of fun, we had BBQ chicken, baked beans, fruit salad and of course chocolate cupcakes.  she got to open her presents.  she got the dvd's dumbo and bambi from Jim and Angie and a cooking set from my parents which went with our gift to her which was a  toy BBQ. She loved them all.  The funniest part of the party was when we gave her a cupcake with a 2 candle on it that was lit (for the record I was holding it and just held it in front of her).  she started making noise like singing so we started singing happy birthday to her.  she started laughing and then would run into the kitchen giggling and being shy.  she would then come out and we start singing again and she would run back in.  we taught her how to blow out the candle which was really cute and the poor thing didn't have enough umph to her blowing that she couldn't blow out the candle.  Jeremy quietly blew it out for her the next time she tried.  It was tooo cute. 
It wasn't until the next day that we actually got the camera to start working again, which is funny because we also fixed a drill of jeremy's that we had sitting on the table.  Rogue found it that night and started to play with it.  so Jeremy took the bit out so she couldn't drill holes into anything but taught her how to push the button to make it go...needless to say, she thinks it is the coolest thing ever and because the camera was fixed...Jeremy was actually able to get pictures of it!!!

What a silly, sweet 2 year old girl!!

Correction to title, misleading aka NOT having twins!!! Is it a boy or a girl?

Right before Christmas was my 20 week ultrasound which would not only check to make sure all is going well with OB1 as we have nicknamed the baby but to also see if we were going to be having a girl OB1 or boy OB1.
I will have to say the first time with Rogue, They only ultrasounded me for a half an hour the got some pics, saw she was a girl and there ya go you are done.  Plus the picture quality of those ultrasound pics were not that great with Rogue either.  This time however they took about an hour got LOADS of different measurements as well as got the 3d ultrasound done as well.  we only got one decent 3d pic because this little one is quite a mover and shaker but with the quality of the regular ultrasound pictures we were perfectly happy if we had just gotten those. 
 So onto  the sex, well as you may be able to read from the first ultrasound picture we are having a BOY.  Rogue with have a little brother to terrorize and then to be terrorized by!   

I threw in the other ultrasound pictures we got just because they were cool and so clear.

Of course everyone has been asking what his name is going to be, well we have just recently decided and once we have told our parents I will be happily announcing it.  

Updates

Well since the last time I posted we just moved and announced that we were expecting I figured I had better do another and get myself caught up. 

Pregnancy: My morning sickness wasn't all that wonderful, I wasn't near the toilet as often as I was the first time with Rogue but it did feel worse, I think it was more due to the fact I couldn't just lay around and wish I were dead instead I had to entertain a toddler whom loves to play.  Luckily it has now been gone for about a month now and I am starting to feel a little more energetic ( I can actually keep the house clean). Right before Christmas we did find out the sex and I will go into that more in the next post.

Halloween: Last year we were out hunting and didn't celebrate it, this year we were in town but didn't take Rogue out trick or treating. Jeremy and I felt that she was a little young and the last thing we wanted was to take her out and someone in a scary outfit opening up the door to scare the living day lights out of her. so instead she helped mommy hand out candy. She got to hear all the kids say trick or treat and Thank you. by the end of the night she was saying "thank you" all the time and became her new favorite word the lasted a couple weeks. I didn't mind one bit. she dressed up for a little while as Dorthy from the wizard of oz but before I could get any pictures she spilled juice (grape juice actually) all over it. we did go to Klickers pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins where she slid down their enormous slide once then made daddy follow her as she climbed all over the straw pyramid that held the slide. 

A couple days later we carved our pumpkins and then waited till it was dark and went out to take pictures of our handy work.  Rogue was having a blast running up and down the stairs as we were doing this and one of the coolest pictures makes it look like there is a ghost on the stairs.  we dubbed the picture "ghost Rogue"

Thanksgiving:  We had it at our house this year.  Jeremy's parents were out hunting over this way so they came over the day of Thanksgiving along with my parents, my Aunt Dawn, Cousin Justing and friend of the family Kaleb even one of our friend's Jim showed up for a little while.  I "slaved" away and made turkey, smoked prime rib, and made some of the fixins while a some brought their favorite sides too.  It was fantastic and we all had a blast.  After Thanksgiving Jeremy and my parents stayed for a little bit.  The In-Laws got a new puppy while here, she is an adorable lab/Aussie shepard mix.  This is what she looked like when they got her.  Now she is quite a bit bigger and full of spunk.  But a very smart and loveable puppy.

Christmas:  For Christmas we all loaded up and headed down to Salem.  and by we I mean Jeremy, Rogue and I plus my parents.  We stayed over a Carmen and Gary's house (jeremy's sister)  and had a fabulous time, We ate lots, talked lots and of course had a great Christmas.  Rogue made out like a bandit of course and had a blast with her cousins Calista and Cassidy playing with all their new toys.  It was quite fun watching the girls interact and play together.  The older they are getting the more interactive they are becoming. We also celebrated LaVeta's (my mother in law) 60th birthday.

NewYears:  We turned around after being home from salem for a few days and headed back down there because my father in law Darrell was also turning 60 this weekend and this was when we were really celebrating the parent's birthdays.  we had BBQ ribs, homeade baked beans and chocolate cake as we watched the Oregon duck game as well as the stanford game. It was relaxing and a lot of fun.

Well I think I caught up except for announcing the baby's sex as well as Rogue's 2nd birthday which I will do in the next couple of posts.