Our biggest news of the year 2005 was that we discovered Ann is pregnant and we are expecting our first child in mid-July 2006.  We told our families with these.  No, we don't know if it is a boy or a girl, and we aren't planning to find out until he or she makes it's arrival, although Ann is fairly sure it's a boy and Paul is equally as sure that it's a girl. In the tradition of Ann's Oregonian friends, we have hired two midwives and are planning a homebirth (we've posted here some of our reasons why).