Another Family Member!!!

As most people already know, seeing how I don't update my blog very often, we are having another baby! SHE is due June 3rd and we are all so excited to have another little girl Herrbach in our house! We have decided to name our second daughter Kara Faith. We had the gender ultrasound this last Tuesday and the tech said she is very certain that we are having a girl. Though we did see a little problem in the ultrasound.....the signs of Placenta Previa. That is where the placenta is still covering the cervix. Not a HUGE problem right now but the doctor wants me take it easy and follow certain precautions. I will have another ultrasound in 4 weeks, Feb. 10, to see if the placenta has moved at all. This becomes a problem when I get in to the 3rd trimester and closer to my due date. So, I will keep people updated on whether or not we are out of danger with the next ultrasound. As far as my problems with preeclampsia that I had with Mikayla? NO signs of it so far. Please continue praying that my BP stays low and I don't start swelling!

We hope everyone is well and I will try to be more diligent about updating this silly site! :) I am off to make Orange Rolls now :) Thanks to my friend Cassie Jones for posting the recipe on her blog earlier this week.....way to tempt a pregnant lady!!

Just playing....

Mikayla and I just relaxing at home. She is such a happy girl, laughing all the time. Just wanted to share a little of her personality with you.

Mini photo shoot

This last weekend Chris, Mikayla and I went to the bay area so Chris could play in a benefit golf tournament. We were blessed with the opportunity to stay with some very good friends of ours at their very beautiful house. I couldn't resist the opportunity to take some pictures of Mikayla in their front yard. They had such beautiful landscaping and flowers.

I did find out on this trip that Mikayla does NOT like grass! She seems to be very scared of it. Possibly the new texture. This was the first and last time she let me put her down on the grass.

Beautiful little pathway in their front yard that made a perfect picture spot.

Oh so cute!

I may be biased but I think our daughter is so cute. Lately she has been doing this thing that I call her thinking tongue. It is almost constantly out of her mouth and covering her top lip. It is so cute.

Yes, she also thinks she is a very funny girl too. Perhaps it is because I tell her all the time how funny she is....
I love her so much. Man I need to mop my floors too :)

Mikayla can crawl and terrorize now!

Mikayla is now a crawler! She took her first crawl forward on May 15, unfortunately daddy was gone on a golf qualifying trip and missed it but we got it on video. She has now been crawling for a week and a half and loves it! She has already had her first (and second) taste of dog bone and dog kibble!! OH SO GROSSS!!! Yeah dog dishes are now on the table when she is on the ground and so are all the dog toys/bones. Nothing like having a 9 month old with doggy breath.

Mikayla loves to follow the animals around. Coco, our rottie mix, is a very good sport about letting Mikayla lay against her and pat her on the side. Canvas, our dachshund, likes to try to play with her by running up to her and getting in her face then running away again as soon as Mikayla trys to reach for her. Putter, our tuxedo cat, likes her enough to be around her for a little while but does get annoyed pretty quickly. That's a cat for you. He is declawed so I dont really worry about him hurting her.

Apparently crawling is not enough for our little Mikayla. She is already pulling herself up to the couch and slowly walking along it. She has even been brave enough to let go with both hands and try to stand on her own, but of course she just wobbled for a few seconds and fell down. She didn't cry or even seem scared. She just turned over and pulled herself back up to the couch.

New sunglasses

Last week Mikayla and I went to Chico to walk with Aunt Alicia. Afterwards we went to Target and got Mikayla her 1st pair of sunglasses and a new outfit! The glasses are still a bit big but she will grow in to them this summer, same with the outfit. We are just getting prepared in hopes that the weather will actually get warm here again...it just seems like it is taking forever this year to warm up.

Mikayla with her new sunglasses. We barely made it out of Target before I was taking pictures of her. :)

Yes a bit big, but still so cute on her!
Modeling her new outfit at home. The shorts are too big in the waist and keep falling off.

Must finish off the outfit with the new shades....get the full dramatic effect!

She knows she is cute...love the leg tucked underneath the other.

My Birthday

April 13th was my birthday. I had a very nice relaxing time with my daughter during the day and a fun evening with my husband Chris, playing board games and eating lasagna and cake. Mikayla and I made my birthday cake that day. It was so yummy, chocolate cake with cherry pie filling and vanilla frosting. Mikayla helped decorated that cake with the sprinkles, well she actually wanted to eat the sprinkle container instead of decorate the cake with it. Hey, not a bad helper for being only 8 months old. :)

Well Chris can say that he is married to a 20 something year old still, well atleast for one more year he can! Now time for the weather to warm up so we can get outside and burn off that yummy cake and oh so good lasagna dinner (Which Chris made for me :P ).