What's happening here

We've had a few things happening here lately.  I'll try not to spend too much time rambling on though, as I have a lot to do today.

First, last week we finally found a new to us vehicle.  We traded in my minivan for a Ford Excursion, it is older and has high high miles (2000 with 163,000 miles on it) but it runs beautifully and is a great fit for our family.  There is enough room for even the new baby coming in the spring.

Isn't it a pretty piece of machinery?  I love driving it, and have gotten a few funny looks from people when they see this short little girl get out of this huge truck (the mirrors are at eye level to me).

Saturday night we took it for our first drive out of town, going to church.  Remember what I said about the extra space this gives us?  Well here's what I mean (I'm later going to move Preston's seat to the 3rd row where the empty spot is so that we can put the baby in the middle row where he is now)

Like I said, a LOT more space, and I got cargo room too so we can go grocery shopping on weekends as a family again.  I can't wait until next payday in 2 weeks so that we can do this (nobody wanted to go over the weekend with me for the short trip so I did it alone).  It also is allowing us to be able to go on a vacation, we're talking about going to the beach next summer at some point (likely when public school starts up again for next school year).

The other fun thing is a pregnancy update.  I had my first ultrasound and labwork done this morning at *yawn* 7am.  This is thankfully only 1 baby, this is a concern we had based on my symptoms and history (I miscarried triplets before having our oldest, and our second had a vanished twin).

As you can see, we have a perfectly formed baby there as far as we can tell.  The little booger is already incredibly active, the tech had trouble taking measurements because he (we'll call it a he until we get a gender, then we'll start using our chosen name, yes we have names already picked and no we aren't sharing until we know who this baby is) was waving, kicking, and bouncing so much all over in there.  We also changed my due date.  Based on my cycle I was due May 25th, and now according to the scan I'm due May 19th. Lydia's birthday is May 10th, and she is not amused by the change in due date.  His heart rate clocked in at 170bpm, which is excellent.  Now I have seen who it is exactly that's made me so sick I can barely function some days.  Zofran is my friend right now.....

That about covers it I think, for now at least.  Hope you enjoyed the pictures I had to go with today's update.