Wrightsville Beach

Well, for the most part, another basketball season has come to an end.  Except for the workouts that will happen a couple times a week and the never-ending calls to coaches, players, and new recruits, I get my husband back.  The end of season gets really hectic with practices, games, and recruiting at high school games.  I have learned that there is more than one reason they call it March 'Madness'.  I was needing a 'mom break' and alone time with my husband.  It almost felt like it was time for a honeymoon.  So the planning started...

Last weekend, I surprised Van with a trip to our absolute favorite place of all times...Wrightsville Beach.  It was amazing.  I found a great deal on the ocean and would highly recommend it (The Surf Suites).  We ate at Causeway Cafe' both mornings for breakfast (this is our absolute favorite breakfast joint ever)!  We enjoyed the warm sun, shopping at surf shops, walking on the beach, chowing down a surfer dog from Trolly Stop and popcorn shrimp at Dockside and overall we enjoyed each other's company without the kids interrupting every conversation we try to have.  The downside was that we only stayed for 2 nights...wish it was a whole week. (Just reminiscing and writing this very post is calming my nerves all over again.)  Unfortunately, we didn't take as many pictures as we wanted...

View from our balcony...Oceanic pier.

Yay! The lil man is halfway cooked...20 more weeks to go!

Van felt him kick for the first time tonight...

Spring Break

The second week in March was spring break for our family.  My dad took the boys (David & Van) out west for some awesome powder snowboarding.  They said it was some of the best days they ever had :)

My mom took me and the kids down to Florida to visit Karli for her spring break.  We had some much needed relaxation and warmer weather along with a few rainy days (so we shopped).  It was kind of nice as a mom to just let go and not worry about the kid's schedule.  They stayed up till midnight if they wanted and napped whenever they got tired during the day.  With those late nights came sleeping in...LOVED IT!  The first day we got there was the last day of Karli's golf tournament.

This is Karli's team with their 1st place trophy!

I made her stand by her score (79-74-77)! I'm so proud of my lil sis!

Go USF Bulls!

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It's A BOY!!!

Our official OB appointment to find out the sex of lil 'kiwi' isn't until March 17th...But since I have connections, we had my dad do an ultrasound for us last Thursday.  Here is what we saw.  For those of you that can't tell what you are looking at, his legs are wide open and the lil cone thing in the middle of his legs is a penis!  When we showed Connor, it didn't really phase him...but when we said he is going to have a brother, he got REALLY excited!  He says Haley already has a brother, but now he gets to have one!  We still have not come to a decision on the name.