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Hi all!  Thanks for those of you that haven't given up on me yet!! I haven't forgotten about our little family blog!  However, after an unexpected summer, I haven't been able to bring myself back to the keyboard in these last few months!  Thanks for your patience and understanding :)  

This morning, as Kincaid is napping and Jon is on a birding weekend with friends, I'm forcing myself to get out even the smallest of posts!  I'm not quite ready to pick up where I left off with the blogs, so instead, I'll start with right now!

For those of you that don't know, Kincaid will become a big brother sometime in March!  We are so incredibly excited and nervous!  We've loved all this time with Kincaid and watching him grow and learn more each day!  It's hard to imagine dividing our time even further!  However, we know that this new addition will be an incredible blessing, and wouldn't trade that for anything! 

I am grateful to report that, while I've felt more nausea this time around, it has been very manageable and has tended to be in the evenings!  Thankful I don't have to suffer through that while at work! I'm also very happy that I'm nearing the end of my first trimester so most of this has subsided!  I am very tired by the end of the day, and am looking forward to the point in pregnancy where I have tons of energy :)  Bring it on! 

If you'll remember, when I was pregnant with Kincaid, our family got an awesome surprise that not only would he be joining our family, but that we'd also be having another little baby join, too!! Well that little gal is my niece Zayley, born 2 weeks before Kincaid.  While it doesn't happen often, when it does, we love to see Z and K play together and all the similarities in their development!  We love having them so close together and hope they become great playmates and friends!  That is why we were in disbelief and even more thrilled to find out that not only is Kincaid becoming a big brother this spring, but that Zayley is also going to become a big sister!! Thankfully, their due dates are a month apart this time, so it won't be so stressful for some of our family!  We couldn't be more excited for Cait & James to be welcoming baby #2 near the same time as us!! 

I'll wrap up for now and get some more posts out soon on our summer and what we've been up to!  Here's are parting pictures of our sweet little guy sporting his new cowboy boots from Gpa Mark and visiting the piggie (we visit her often as her days are numbered...she is in line to become bacon now that the local fair is over)!