Fiona, Kaisa & Nathan Judd

For those who may not have heard via text or word of mouth, we are having a boy!  We are all very excited and can’t wait to have our little boy here with us!  He is doing very well and everything looks normal.  He measured only two days bigger, so they won’t change my due date.  Now I just need to collect some little boy blankets & clothes!  Oh, and the biggest chore of all…Nathan and I have to agree on a boy’s name!  Wish us luck, we’re going to need it!

I can’t believe it’s finally here!  This week we are moving into our new townhome!

Tomorrow afternoon, we close on both of our contracts.  Then, on Tuesday, we will be painting our new house and moving lots of boxes that we have been packing.  I still have a lot of packing to do, too.  It’s amazing how much stuff fits in a small condo!  We also find out the gender of our sweet baby on Tuesday morning, so we’ll let everyone know via text and/or blog.  We also plan to buy a new washing machine on Tuesday.  Yay!

Wednesday, we will continue moving boxes and smaller things.  On Thursday afternoon/evening, we’ll have a rental truck and move all of our furniture and big stuff.  Thanks to our wonderful ward, we had 8 guys sign up to help us in church today!  It’s fun to move and stay in the same ward, then you don’t feel like you are asking a huge favor of people you’ll never see again. :)

I just want to say quickly that I am so appreciative of all of our friends and family who are helping us out this week.  I am super-stressed, but it really eases that stress knowing I don’t have to do this by myself.  I also want to tell those of our friends who are going through trials right now that we are praying for you and love you so much!

Kaisa and I got to take a trip to the Hogle Zoo (first time for both of us!) this morning, thanks to an amazing friend who scored us free passes!  (I have such a great group of friends in my ward that all have young kids Kaisa’s age.  We love to get together and do fun stuff!)  Here are some fun pictures of the trip.  Enjoy!

This lepoard was just pacing the glass over and over, watching the kids.  Here you see Kaisa’s little ponytail sticking up…she thought he was pretty cool.

I love the giraffes!  (It reminded me of the amazingly hot giraffe print handbag I recently ordered online that is on its way to my home right now!!)  Kaisa’s not sure what to think of them.

Their elephant exhibit was really quite nice!  I think it’s the best view of an elephant I’ve ever had at a zoo.  It probably helped that is was feeding time on a cool morning.

Here’s the really cool albino croc that Hogle Zoo prides itself on.  It was neat!

Kaisa stopped to check out the little baby croc.  Can you see it?

For the grand finale, Kaisa even got to take her first carousel ride!  I was so pleased with her…she was a little scared at first, but as soon as the horsey started going up and down, she was having all kinds of fun and shouting “wheee!”  Unfortunately, when I stepped away from her to take this picture, her fear returned, and as a result she doesn’t look too happy!

Overall, it was a fun-filled morning for all of us!