A long while

Anna said our prayer tonight before she went to bed just after I told her we'd be going downtown tomorrow to the top of a very tall building where we'd have a view of the entire city. Hence, her prayer went as follows:

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for today. Please bless that tomorrow will be funner than usual. Please bless that we won't fall off any buildings and kill ourselves. Help us to be safe. Amen.

Seriously. Is her "usual" really that bad?

Yes, I'm posting about a silly prayer when much bigger and more significant has occurred since my last post, namely a new human being who we love and adore has entered the world and has this entire family wrapped around his pudgy little finger. It's so overwhelming to even start such an important post when I'm almost four months late and blogworld's worst blogger. So I decided to start with something 100% insignificant...tonight's prayer.

More to come (hopefully) on Owen Christopher, or in Anna's words, our "tiny little creature." He's a delight.

Our Mighty Gene Pool

Well, there you have it...Ben and me in Junior High School, well Ben in Junior High and me in sixth grade. I have personally deemed these photos as the pinnacle of our teenage awkward phases. Is that remarkable or what? You know those sites where you can enter pictures of each of you and your significant other, and they will blend them together to show us what our baby to be will look like? Can you imagine the finished product of a blending of the Belnaps in Junior High? I won't put you through that... I'll just leave that one to your imagination...

Yep, it's true...our baby to be...I am pregnant and having another baby at the end of June! I don't know why blogger and I have been on the outs for the last few months. I should have updated months ago to share the news. I have been meaning to since December...it's now March and I'm 26 weeks along. We're really excited about this. I imagine it will be much easier having a three year old and a newborn rather than a two year old and a newborn. Anna is so excited she can't stand it while it took Luke awhile to get it. Once again, we're not going to find out the gender beforehand (it's so so great to wait). I'm POSITIVE it's a girl, while Ben is equally POSITIVE it's a boy though neither of us care at all on the gender. Anna wants a boy and Luke wants a girl, so two of us are going to be very surprised with the outcome.

So here's to our desperately awkward phases of Junior High...let us hope that our children can avoid such devastation.