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Hi everyone! I decided to create a blog so that friends and family from all over can keep up to date with the latest happenings in our lives. Also, I think that it will be fun to look back at this exciting time years down the road. Let me catch you up to date so far- we just recently found out that we will be having a little girl! She is due June 22nd, and we have decided that we are going to name her Avery. The jury's still out on the middle name. Here are some ultrasound pictures that we were given when we went for the big anatomy scan. (They were done in 4D which made them very realistic. It was kind of creepy to see her so up close!)

It was a really exciting day when we went for the ultrasound. We were so anxious and excited to find out the sex and to make sure that everything was going well. We were met in the ultrasound room by the sonographer, Mohamed. He told us that he was going to take lots of pictures and then the doctor would come afterwards to talk about them. I asked him if he would be able to tell us the sex, and he said yes. We were expecting a couple of minutes to go by before we would know, but he literally put the wand down on my belly and said, "It's a girl." Billy and I looked at each other and laughed. We thought surely he couldn't have seen anything yet. About a minute later I asked him if he could tell yet. He said, "Yes, I already told you...it's a girl." When I asked how he could know without hardly even moving the wand, he replied, "because I'm good." I guess you get really good at telling when you do that all day long. We had a weird feeling all along that it would be a girl so it didn't seem like a huge surprise when he told us. We are so excited about her and can't wait to meet her!