Cowboy Up

Ryan recently spent a stint in Montana on his parents ranch to help them out as they came home from the horse racing season. He painted, did repairs, caught a bear, broke some horses, and grew a few inches. Here are some pictures of his trip (yes, those are Wranglers).

The baby cinnamon colored bear



We also spent Thanksgiving on the Ranch which was wonderfully relaxing. We definately ate a lot of good food, and Katie's belly has been a little bigger ever since. I haven't had the nerve to post a belly picture yet despite the requests from family and friends, maybe soon if I have a weak and irrational moment. Hope you are all enjoying the snow!

The Reveal

Alright, the moment we have been waiting for. Our good friends threw us a small party where we as well as all the guests were suprised by the gender of the baby by opening up a present. So, here is the picture story of the night . . .

The Party:






The gift:


And

IT'S A BOY!!!

It's A . . . .

Stay tuned for exciting news. Last chance for gender predictions.

The Thinker

I know we mentioned before that our baby was going to be really smart based upon the size of head in comparison to the rest of the body, but check this out: We had another ultrasound done recently and our baby was deep in thought in the "thinker" pose (not to mention the well developed brain in photo 2). Talk about intelligent! Ok, so maybe he/she was just sucking their thumb, but even figuring that one out at such a young age takes some skill. Enjoy the photos!

We Have a Heartbeat!

This is the baby's heart rate at 14.5 weeks! yeah! 160 bpm. We are officially taking bets at this point on the gender.
I couldn't figure out an easy way to post audio (any tips would be great) so you should just be able to copy this URL and paste it in a new page and it should open right up. Hopefully!

http://learn.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/kkyler/documents/voice_messag.wav

Baby's First "Shoes"

My beautiful friend Mandy gave the baby his/her first pair of shoes toady (they are sitting on the baby blanket my mom gave us)! Man, so far having a baby has been great! Thank you Mandy and Mom!

The baby party that is!

That's rigtht! We're having a baby!
We hope to use this blog to keep family and friends informed on the latest news and pictures. So to start things off here is the little guy (no gender implied) at 9.5 weeks. Mostly head at this point - that means he/she is really smart (no surprise there)!

That's it for now!

-Ryan and Katie