The day after Amber and Tyler’s wedding, we all got up bright and early to do an Us Session before heading out of town.  The mosquitos were thick and blood-thirsty but the sunrise was beautiful!  It made for a perfect quiet morning on the beach…

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Good morning everyone!  Hope your day is off to a wonderful start.

Today is the day.  Five years of having the BEST. WIFE. EVER.  Thank you so much for everything, Mel–I love you so much!

We’re still amazed at how quickly the time has gone.  It seems like we were getting married a few months ago, but at the same time, it’s been forever.  We couldn’t be any happier, and are thrilled looking forward to the next five years!

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Check out that rad shirt.  “With bump. Not plump.”  Mel was worried about the awkward “is she pregnant, is she not” stage… and one of our brides, upon hearing about her worries was absolutely fantastic and ran out right away and got this shirt for her!  Thank you so much, Claire!

We’ve got multiple requests for a belly shot.  Here you go.  Me, poking [insert yet-to-be-determined-awesome-name here].

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On another note–we have a ton of thank you’s to send out!  All of the comments you leave on our blog are wonderful, and greatly, greatly appreciated.  It really does make our day to hear from everybody out there, and we are over the moon thankful to all of you.  To show our maximum thankfulnessocity*, we’ve got several $10 iTunes gift certificates going out, today.  And many more to come…  Here goes:

*thankfulnessocity (n.) feeling or expressing gratitude; usually accompanied by the level of that gratitude, ranging from “minimal thankfulnessocity” all the way up to “maximum thankfulnessocity”

We have been absolutely itching with anticipation to get to our 20 week ultrasound!  Generic baby is not nearly as much fun as a son or daughter. :o)  The big day finally arrived yesterday and wow, what an experience!  I’m starting to show now so obviously there’s someone in there but it was just so amazing to see our baby moving around, yawning, and clenching tiny fingers.  There’s actually a real, live baby in there!  I guess you’re probably wondering whether Baby McLellan is a girl or a boy.  We have the official word and there’s no mistaking….   

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it’s a BOY!!! :o)  I guess we should have known there was a little Sean in there.  Ever since the pregnancy hormones kicked in, I’ve picked up all of his food oddities.  From a lack of love for chocolate (I mean, come on!), to a constant love of McDonald’s cheeseburgers and pizza (lovely for the figure), and the resignation that I’d rather die than run into any kind of gristle in meat – I hardly know myself!  Anyway, we’re SO EXCITED!!  He’s healthy and we’re having a SON!

We drew a name from all of the boy votes and my dear friend Allison O’Dell is the big winner of an iTunes gift card!  Thanks so much for playing along everyone!  We had such a great time with the baby poll and hearing from you all!  Thanks to your 137 comments and 200+ votes, $200 has been donated to St. Jude Children’s Hospital on behalf of Baby Boy. :o)

Have a wonderful weekend!!

– Mel