20 Week . . . Drum Roll Please

This is me at 20 weeks on the beach near my in-laws house in Laie, Hawaii, which is on the North Shore of Oahu. Isn't that background lovely (minus the few bits of trash)?

A couple of days, a total of 10 hours on a plane, super swollen ankles, and utter exhaustion later,  Matthew and I were back in State College eager to restart our life and to find out just what sort of baby we were having. I prayed, Matthew prayed, and I asked everyone we knew to pray that Wee Babe would show him/herself to us at our ultrasound appointment.  While Matthew and I were excited and eager to have a little girl, we wanted to know one way or another even more.  When the appointment started, the baby was in the WORST position to show off, but thankfully by the end HE had switched it up enough that the ultrasound tech was able to take a couple of pictures identifying that Wee Babe is now a Zachary Daniel! A few hours of shock and ironic laughter later, Matthew and I are so excited to welcome this new addition into our family.  He will have good company with his at least two other boy cousins (one more to determine) that will join the Booren family in 2012.  While he is the first Marler grandchild, he will also be the twenty-second Booren grandchild, the 18th boy, and the 13th boy born in a row.  We now not only have a full soccer team, but we are filling out a football team of boys as well!! Holy Hannah.