Counting Down

I am officially counting down the days/weeks

until our new addition arrives. I know this picture is kind of blurry (Ellie took it for me), but I'm about 32 weeks here. Huge, I know. We have all of our baby equipment ordered, bought, or borrowed and ready to go. I'm almost 35 weeks now, so hopefully that means baby will be here in about 3-4 weeks! Now for names. Do we have any picked out? A few, but none that I'm sure of yet. This happened with Brody. We just couldn't figure out a name until he was a day old!

March is here!

Where has the time gone? Suddenly I'm only about 8 weeks from my due date and realized that I am not ready for this little one to arrive. I have been so busy organizing and nesting that I haven't gotten anything ready for the baby! No bed, no diapers, no blankets, or burp clothes, or bottles, and did I mention binkies? You get the picture. I better get busy.

Some fun things that have happened is Kevin's sister Jody got married to a wonderful guy Steve on Feb. 27. They had a fun wedding at the Phx. Zoo. Our kids got to be in the wedding, except when it came down to walking down the aisle, Brody didn't want anything to do with it. I would love to share pictures of how fabulous everything and everyone looked, but I couldn't convince Kevin to go back out to the car and get the camera. I'll have to wait until the wedding pics come in, and then hopefully be able to post them. Everything was so beautiful, especially the bride!

We also have some big changes that may be coming our way, but I don't want to post about that until we have everything finalized. It's been a very exciting month to say the least.

Finally, I have to give my very sweet husband some kudos right now. I don't think I could have a better man in my life than him. He does so much for me, especially right now when I'm huge and tired and all those other wonderful things that come in the last trimester of a pregnancy. Now for example, I woke up on Sunday morning to hear him downstairs doing the dishes. Shortly after that (I'm still in bed being super lazy) I hear the vacuum running. We had such a busy Saturday and the house was a mess. He wanted me to wake up and not feel like I needed to clean up. He does this for me often, and I could go on for a long time with the list. I should also thank his mom for raising him to know how to take care of a home. I love him!

I hope to post pics next time!

Happy Birthday Ellie!

Ellie turned 9 today. On Saturday she had a birthday party with her friends and cousins at Carter's Gymnastics. They played games and jumped around the gym. Then they had pizza, cake and ice cream. After that they played and jumped some more. I think we sent the kids home very tired.

This is the cake I made for her birthday party. She wanted a soccer themed cake. Kevin and I tried to figure out the best way to make a soccer ball and decide little mini ones would work the best (since I didn't want to carve out a round tier). He had made all the little shapes for the balls and I colored them in. It was pretty fun having him help me with a cake. I think he should do it more often. (It keeps me more relaxed.)

Today Ellie celebrated by waking up to decorations and opening presents. Then we went to Dunkin Donuts for a hot chocolate and doughnut breakfast. This afternoon she was spoiled with a trip to the nail spa for a pedicure. Then we all went out to dinner at YC's Mongolian Grill (her choice) with all four grandparents. We hope she had a wonderful fun filled weekend of celebrating. She is a wonderful girl with a very sweet spirit. We love her very much!

Here goes!

So here goes my very first blog post. I've been thinking about doing this ever since I saw a gift someone gave to my sister-in-law this Christmas. It was a bound book with all of her blog posts from the past year. I thought how fabulous that was! Scrapbooking has gone out the window for me (oh about 4 years ago). I am doing this mostly for me because how much easier is it to keep track of you and your family's life digitally? I am assuming it is much easier since I haven't done it yet. My very talented friend is going to help me jazz it up and look super cute, so hopefully the next time I post something it will be super cute. By the way, that is our latest family pic taken by Shannon White. I didn't get Christmas cards sent out this year, but if I did, this is what you would have received. I'll try harder next year.