Our Tall Tale Life: Weeks 20 & 21: It's a BOY, Happy Anniversary!

It's a Baby Boy Camden James!!! I knew it all along ;) We were sitting in the Ultrasound room, and the tech was searching and searching for that notorious "boy indicator" and she wasn't finding anything since the umbilical cord was blocking her view. She kept digging around trying to get at it at different angles, and still, wasn't finding anything... both her and Dennis were starting to mumble "looks like it's leaning towards a girrrllll....." I said, "no way, (especially after she told me the heart rate was 134 bpm) keep looking!" So the tech then had me lay on my side to move the umbilical cord, and sure enough, she almost instantly said, "Oh, there it is! Yep, it's a boy!" We were gleaming during the entire viewing... it's just amazing... you see this incredibly formed spinal cord, this little beating heart, a tiny complex brain, a bitty nose, swallowing, curling fingers and toes waving at you.... absolutely breathtaking. Lil Camden even shot us a "Hang Loose" with his hand in one of the pictures! Dennis is beyond proud.

We instantly shared the news with our family, and then with the rest of the world. Completely ignored our whole plan to put it in an envelope and read it in Sedona... we were too excited... of course! Mom has instantly began a shopping rampage ;) It is SO fun to look at clothes now that we know.

We headed to Sedona the next day to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. Very hard to believe a year has already passed, but considering so much has happened in our past year, I'm surprised it doesn't feel like it's been way longer! I guess such a memorable day will just always stand out as if it were just yesterday. We hung at Sky Ranch Lodge's wine bar Friday night for quite some time, enjoyed watching and listening to the rain all around us, and then headed to Sound Bites for dinner & live music. We shared a lobster bisque, mango pineapple salmon & chicken lettuce wraps. Saturday morning we hit Mesa Grill at the airport, where our rehearsal dinner was, and had their amazing huevos rancheros along with the famous lemon ricotta pancakes... amazing. Then headed to the West Fork hike along Oak Creek Canyon. One of the most gorgeous (and different!) hikes I've ever done. 2 Miles in, 2 Miles out, 4 Hours, luckily not much elevation gain or I wouldn't have made it... just lots of ups and downs and crossing over the creek. At the very end, you wade through thigh deep water to get to your own private little hang out (since most people don't like to get that deep into the water) and wow, it was gorgeous and very relaxing after a long hike in. Afterwards, we immediately headed to Oak Creek Brewery to stuff our faces with Hot Dogs / Brats, pickles, chips, pop corn, peanuts, beer (dennis) & root beer (lauren). I was STARVING! They had a guitarist playing too. And Dennis filled his first Oak Creek Growler to add to our collection before we left. Since it was such a late lunch / early dinner, we weren't very hungry that night so we just headed to the Cowboy Club downtown for a light soup/salad, and got dessert at the bakery next door :) Sunday morning, we had breakfast at "The Secret Garden Cafe" before heading out...a breakfast burrito and banana walnut muffin... delicious, but we laughed when we saw we were charged $8 for a glass of orange juice!! That's Sedona for ya ;) It was a most wonderful weekend; we can't wait to experience all the adventures of our 2nd year of marriage...together :)

~*May my heart be your shelter, and my arms forever be your home*~ 9.8.12