For Papa Hooah

It's a BOY!

Okay, so I have a TON of blogging to catch up on, but I thought that before I catch up on that (Halloween, yes Halloween.. my November 10K, Thanksgiving, Christmas, visits from family, etc.) I would FINALLY "officially" announce that we are having a baby!

Not only are we having a baby...but it's a BOY! We had an ultrasound today (I'm 17 weeks 6 days) and it's a BOY.

I asked the radiology tech how sure he was...he said "Oh, I'm pretty certain." That's better than the 91% the lady told us about Emily last time, I guess. Boys have a little more...ahem....there to see so it's more certain.

One thing is ABSOLUTELY certain....we are SO excited about it!! (Emily's still trying to grasp the idea...)

Here are some pictures for the sake of far away family and friends. (No, I did not post the picture of the little guy's..well..y'know..)

Here's the newest little Mabb!

Profile shot:


This is my favorite...he kept putting his hand up to his mouth like he was going to suck his thumb or something:


Hand up to the mouth still, but you can only see the fingers:


Our little guy:


The foot: (Awwww...)


4D picture of his little bum and legs that are crossed. Cute, huh?


This is his face with his little hand up to his face. He has his head on the placenta...like a pillow!


Any name suggestions?! Middle name is Scott... first names?

Sorry so belated in posting "officially" about this. Alot of you already know and I'm starting to show a little so it's probably obvious.

Another adventure will begin in June!!

Tender Moment...

This morning was a typical Sabbath morning...doing "Sunday" activities before it was time to get ready for church: I was getting dinner into the crock pot, Emily was downstairs coloring with Scott, and we had some beautiful church music playing.

When, all of sudden, Emily comes sprinting up the stairs and gives me a hug saying something about "Thank you" and "Temple" was all I could make out with her face muffled in my skirt. I picked her up and asked her to repeat what she had just said...

"Thank you for temple, Mommy!" followed by a HUGE hug that lasted WAY longer than her usual half of a second hug.

Scott came up stairs right behind her to explain. While they were coloring downstairs, out of the blue without even said anything about the temple, Emily does this exact thing to Scott--gives her a huge hug with the words, "Thank you temple!" This is when he sent her upstairs to tell me too.

Scott and I did attend the temple in St. George yesterday. It had been a while since we had been, so it was very lovely and a wonderful reminder of the eternal aspect of our lives. We left her with my Grandma Nelson in Hurricane, told her Mommy and Daddy were going to the temple, and told her we would be back soon. (She had a BLAST at "Grandma Mouse's" house!) After we picked her up, nothing was said about us going to the temple, so the fact that the next day she would bring this up out of nowhere seemed so significant.

The only thing I can say to explain it is, perhaps, the music we were listening to was a very powerful orchestral arrangement of a hymn. Even upstairs in the kitchen, at that moment, I was thinking to myself how much I love this gospel and the Spirit that I feel especially with music. And at that moment, she came running up the stairs.

I'm not sure if she meant, "Thank you for going to the temple yesterday," or "Thank you for being married in the temple," or simply that she was grateful for the temple. But, whatever the explanation, it was very sweet.

It was a tender moment for all of us. We did a group hug and big kisses. I cried knowing that my sweet daughter was so in tune with the Spirit that she could tell us of her feeling of the temple.

"Yea, even babes did open their mouths and utter marvelous things..." 3 Nephi 26:16