13 weeks

Baby Podczaszy turned 13 weeks today... so this means I've officially entered into my 2nd trimester!...which means a picture was needed... please deter your eyes from my farmer's tan and instead look at that huge bump - I feel HUGE!!! Why does everyone tell me that it still doesn't look like I'm pregnant???

We can't believe how much Baby Podczaszy has grown in one month...the head is now completely defined, and we can see a mouth, nose and eyes! Unbelievable! The white bright line on the baby's back is its spine - what a miracle!

I am starting to feel much better - still hungry, but not so tired any longer - yea! Still can't eat chicken for some reason, but everything else seems fine...

Backyard Is FINISHED!

After 6 long weeks of working hard in the Porterville heat, Jeremiah and his friend John Lujan finished our backyard! Definitely a learning experience for Jer! It's crazy how the yard pictured here was just dirt 6 weeks ago! And well, it was just dirt up until a couple of days ago too! But so much was done to that dirt to get it looking the way it does now! He dug these huge trenches (felt like we had a graveyard for a backyard for some time), put in an entire sprinkler system, planted gorgeous plants and trees, raked the soil, installed 5 yards of dirt chips, got rid of any weeds that dared come up, and finally lay down sod. Another coworker came and helped do this last part because he wanted to learn how to do it for his own backyard...Now Jeremiah feels like an expert on backyard landscaping...but says he doesn't really want to put anyone else's backyard in... perhaps it was all that work in the 100 degree weather that got to him!

We LOVE our backyard, and Sandy & Clara can't wait to run all around it (the sod has to settle in for about 2 weeks before we allow them on the grass). The home officially feels like HOME! Our little paradise in Porterville :)