Our Family at Our Yellowstone Vacation 2010
We are very excited to make an announcement to each of you!
There will be a new thrifty baby in town with an estimated arrival date of June 18th!!
Yes, we are expecting! Cassie is 23 weeks along and is entering her sixth month. Yesterday we received an emphatic confirmation that we are having a boy! He looked great as we enjoyed those high-tech ultrasound machines and the 3D and 4D pictures. We saw him drinking the fluid and he even threw us a very distinct and cute yawn during the ultrasound.
So here’s the score:
- He will be the youngest blessing of 5 thrifty kids
- He will be the second boy (his brother will be almost 5 years older by the time he is born)
- He will be the fifth child born within 7.5 years but have the longest gap between kids – his immediately older sister will be 2.5 years by the time he is born.
Yes, we have our hands full!
Yes, we know how this happens!
Yes, we intended it!
Yes, we are very excited and feeling extremely blessed by our Lord and Savior who is our provider of all things we have and for giving us another blessing to raise, teach, encourage, love, provide for and enjoy!
And just for the record, our one son is VERY excited! And not only that, but he apparently knew from day one (or rather the 5th week when we found out!) that he had a little brother coming as he has been telling everyone everywhere that “my mommy will be birthing a brother.”
We have been using our thrifty tricks to stock-up on diapers for CHEAP (including buying cheap cloth diapers to try with this baby), grabbing a super deal on a new crib AND playpen (both the crib and playpen we had bit the dust after 4 kids!) and have been keeping our eyes peeled for a super sweet deal on a new cinco-stroller (just kidding!) a double-stroller which is also currently on its last legs – did you know that you can actually get 4 kids in a double-stroller?!
With that wonderful and exciting news, Cassie has been sick the entire time so far (not just the first trimester like with the other four) and very tired. Surprisingly, she was already super picky about meat, but she has become even more picky and just wants to mostly eat all kinds of fruits – she craves them all day!
We wanted to share with you all this exciting news – and yes, we are ecstatic!
Shelly
Congrats to your entire family! That is very exciting and I hope mamma starts feeling better soon.
Rhonda
Congratulations! 🙂
Rachelle
That is so AWESOME! God gives the most wonderful gifts to the most wonderful families! I am so happy for you all and I hope Cassie starts to feel better really soon! Bless you all and thank you for all you do for us Thrifty people!
Kristalyn Ford
Congratulations! Babies are truly a blessing and yours will be blessed to come to such a fun family! Look forward to seeing pictures when the time comes!
Stephanie Lamp
CONGRATULATIONS to you and the rest of your family.From our family to yours
ann b
CONGRATULATIONS!
Amy Love
Wonderful news! All the best!
brenda
Enjoy!! Give that little brother a high five for us..Congrats to all..!!!
Jeanette Benson
Congrats. God Bless you and your growing family 🙂
Sela
Congrats!
A fun little video for you about all the “objections” you already overcame in your post 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaD8xat6VDw
Dawn Sando
Congratulations!!! Wishing your family all the best and hope she is feeling better soon! 🙂
Savvy Blogging Team
Congratulations! We are so excited for you! We’ll miss you this year at the Summit, but you’ll be having a fabulous time bonding with baby #5!!!
Toni- for the Team
Shannon Blanchard
Congratulations!!!
Nan Bixby
Congrats to you both!
Linda Gerk
A true blessing, congratulations!
Frances Kalender
Congratulations & many blessings to your whole family! What a joy to have another baby! Although I can no longer have children, I am so very blessed that I was able to be there for the birth of my 1st grandchild and be a part of her life each and everyday. I think it is truly a great gift to be able to bring children into this world.
Hope Cassie’s sickness eases and the rest of this pregnancy & delivery goes smoothly for her.
Congratulations once again!
Heather Gomez
Congratulations, My 2 yr old was born on June 18th . We have 7 children , and yes each one is a blessing. I also was sick with all of mine , but for the entire 9 months I think they called it Hypermesis gravadium or something like that… anyway conrats, and good luck.
Mercedes Levy
Congratulations! Wishing you a happy and healthy rest of the pregnancy!
Mercedes
Rebecca Z.
Congratulations!
Jodi Knaak
Congratulations!! Enjoy your blessing….
EM
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Mama Laundry
Oh I am so, SO thrilled for y’all! What wonderfully exciting news to share!
I must say I love how you addressed all of the ‘dreaded’ questions in your post! Yes, we’re thrilled, yes we know how this baby got here, etc. We just had our fourth baby in November and I feel like I fielded a million of those questions! 🙂
Praying for Cassie and her all-day sickness. It is a sick feeling like no other and makes it hard to function. I pray it eases soon –
-Lauren
Mama Laundry
And I forgot to add – will this be your first child to use cloth diapers? If it is and you have questions, I’m happy to help!
-Lauren
Annie
Congratulations! I was wondering if that was the announcement you guys alluded to the other day. Praying for Cassie and the rest of you! 🙂
Felecia Walter
Congratulations on your newest blessing!
Katherine F.
Congrats! So happy for you! Thank you for your beautiful witness to life! I know it can be daunting raising a big family in today’s society (I am from a family of nine so I remember all the people in the grocery store that said to my mom “Do you know what causes this?”) May God grant you strength through your sickness. God bless!
Melissa
I stand with you and praise God! Congratulations!
Kelli
Congratulations!!!
Camilla
Congrats! I was the same way with my first; super picky about meat (no chicken!) and craving fruit fruit fruit all the time. We were told it was a girl, but ended up being a boy! 🙂
Heather
That’s great- congratulations!
Rachel
Wow! Congrats to you all! What a blessing.
Deni
You sillies! That’s not the way to save money! 🙂 Congratulations! We have 5 children and it’s WONDERFUL!
Sharon
Praise God – How exciting!
Cloverspatch
Super HUGE congratulations to your whole family 🙂 My daughter was born June 18th, so it’s a very good day in my opinion 🙂
I too want a large family 🙂 And I am happy to see you guys do it the debt free and on a budget way. I can only imagine how much easier it makes it to enjoy the really wonderful things in life 🙂
Thank you for sharing and congrats again!!!
-Kelly
Krystal
congrats!
I wish I had the energy and money to have a big family.
You both are blessed indeed 🙂
Jenny
Congrats! May God continue blessing your family. Thanks for your blog. I really enjoy it!
Nony (A Slob Comes Clean)
Wonderful news! So happy for your growing family!
Mom2seven
How wonderful, Congratulations!!!
Dawn
FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations and I’ll be looking forward to seeing on which day he will be born since my bday is the 19th of June and my husband was born on June 20th 😀
Jenny B.
Congratulations! Children are such a wonderful blessing!
Kiz Lepert
Beyond excited for your the two foot addition to your home! Blessings on all! Hooray for big brother!
Kiz
Katie
Congrats! I am currently expecting my first (in just a few weeks) and have found your blog invaluable, especially since you’re so close (I live in Sandy) so everything that you post about is highly relevant.
I too suffered from the all day sickness and craved fruit constantly until ending up with Gestational Diabetes. What really helped me through the first two trimesters was smoothies! It satiated my fruit cravings and really helped to settle my stomach.
I also noticed that heartburn was a big controbutor to the nausea so I started taking pepcid (got an rx from the OB and that made the copay $0!) and added a couple of 2×4’s under the top two bedposts in my bed so that I was sleeping on a slight incline. It worked wonders!
I hope things continue to go well and wish you all the best!
CARRIE L
Congrats & Best of luck on the new addition!!
Eve
I just KNEW this was the announcement from when I read the title. Congratulations. A baby is such a blessing and this one is so lucky to be born to such a loving family! I am so happy for you.
Darlene
HAPPY news and isn’t it crazy that we have to DEFEND to others the size of our families???
Christi
Congratulations to your expanding thifty family. I’m so excited for you.
Dee Run Run
Congrats. Very Exciting news. Gods blessing are endless! Feel better soon Cassie!
Tami Lewis
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Callie
Congrats and best wishes!!! Thanks for all you do in saving us money!!!!!
Cherie
Congratulations! I’m 26 weeks along with our second child (our daughter is 10mths old!) ……I’m due May 30–and we are having a boy, too!!! I’ve been using your help to stock up on diapers!!! Now……I need some tips on boy clothing?! LOL!