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This time of year is truly special and reminds us of how fortunate we are to get to share our lives with all of you!  Thank you so much for taking part – whether that be through face-to-face contact, blog comments, or simply knowing that you’re silently checking in. :0)  We hope that you all are having a wonderful holiday season with family and friends!

p.s. A huge special THANK YOU to our phenomenal friend Anna Crane for taking these beautiful images for us!

Thank you SO much to all of you who voted in our boy/girl prediction contest! We counted a total of nearly 400 votes, with 52% guessing girl, and 48% guessing boy.

We had our ultrasound today, and the best news is: So far everything looks great!

Now, on to the fun stuff. Here’s a 30 second clip from our 2D and 4D ultrasounds!

So, who wins the $10 iTunes gift certificate for guessing correctly? It turns out that 52% of you…

Were WRONG!–It’s a boy!!

And that brings us to our winners: Garrett & Joy Nudd! $10 iTunes gift certificate headed your way this week!

Thanks again to everybody for voting–you just raised $400 for March of Dimes! And more so, thank you all for all the kind comments, thoughts, prayers, and well wishes. We appreciate it more than you know!

For those who don’t know, Sean and I lost our son last November in a 38 week still birth.  It was completely unexpected and life went reeling.  We’ve been in a holding pattern ever since, waiting for the go ahead to begin again.  Well, I’m happy to report that life is finally moving forward again and I am 12 weeks pregnant!  Of course we’re taking things a day at a time but we’re so excited to just be moving again and we’re hoping for the best for this time around.  Your thoughts and prayers for the safety and health of our baby are so appreciated and we thank you all in advance!

We would love it if you would celebrate new life with us by giving us your best gender guess in the comment section below! =)  For every person who guesses, we’ll be donating $1 to the March of Dimes foundation, whose purpose is to end premature birth, birth defects, and infant mortality through research and education. ALSO, we’ll have a drawing from the winning guesses for a $10 iTunes gift card as well, so be sure to leave your name/email address so we can get that to you =)

Last time, we had over 200 guesses–let’s try and beat that this time around!

And because every post is better with a picture, here’s our new little peanut at 7 weeks. =)

Please choose one here, in addition to commenting, so we can keep track of the overall vote!