Middle of March already???

Where has the time gone?  It seems like yesterday I was trying to figure out what dessert to make for christmas, and now tomorrow is St. Patricks Day.  Saturday morning Nathan and I went to breakfast with my Mom and sister, and on the way there it seemed like spring had magically appeared.  The grass was green, there were buds on the trees, and my favorite......buttercups.  It was if spring had happend overnight.  This put me in an extremly good mood, as well as the plummber and electrician finishing up on the new house.  Hopefully this week we will get some progress on brick and stone! 

BABY UPDATE:  There are so many differnt websites, and articles you can read that tell you when you start your 2nd trimester, but they all tell you something different!  Some tell you 13 weeks and others tell you 14 weeks, so to be on the safe side I will be 14 weeks tomorrow and officially in my 2nd trimester - the supposed glory days of pregnancy.  I have found some preggo pics that I love and I hope that when my bump gets a little bigger I can have some taken like this from http://www.pacingthepanicroom.blogspot.com/
Our little flipper is 3.5 inches and 1.5 ounces....growing like a weed :)

"While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls." ~Author Unknown

"Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep." ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Happy Birthday Crystal

When life gives you a lime.....compare it to your baby

So tomorrow I will officially be 11 weeks. I had been really sick, but Nathan talked me into getting some nausea medicine, and I am really glad he did! I feel like a new woman. I am still really tierd, and I don't feel like doing much of anything besides laying on the couch. Hopefully, I will get this second trimester energy spurt I keep reading about. In about a week Nathan and I go back to the doctor to hear baby's heartbeat......March 4th can't come soon enough. Here we are as a lime. Much better than a prune at 10 weeks.

thoughts on a nursery.....

GIRL




BOY


I was playing around on polyvore.com looking at rugs, and other house decor, when I thought about doing a set on what I wanted my nursery to look like. I know if I have a girl I want a bird, or owl theme, but nothing too "babyish". I love the idea of using a whale theme for a boys nursery too. I guess I won't be able to start making any purchases until April, but it is still fun to pretend!

New House = Bigger Family

Finally after a year of getting our perfect house plans together, we started construction on our new home in November 2009. Slowly but surely, it is comming along, and we have a little more to show for all the loan meetings we attended, and for all of the papers we signed. We still have a long way to go, but progress is being made! Hopefully our new house will be done by

September 15th 2010 because we will have a
new addition to our family. Currently I am 8 weeks along, and our future child is about the size of a kidney bean or a rasberry. At our last doctors appointment we could see the heartbeat. It is amazing!! The doctor said everything was perfectly as it should be, so keep your fingers crossed and say a little prayer for our berry.

almost a year later.....

It is hard to believe that it has almost been a year since Nathan and I got married! It seems like it was just yesterday that his sister Aubrey got married at Ocean Isle Beach one month before us and they just celebrated their 1st anniversary. This year for our first anniversary we are going back to Cabo San Lucas where we went on our honeymoon. I am so excited to go again and relive all of the fun we had. This trip will be especially fun because some of our closest friends are making the trek to with us to Mexico.

Catching up on my reading....

In high school and college I hated reading. There were occasional books that I enjoyed but never one that really stuck with me. Finally I picked up a book one day and decided that I was going to read it for myself, not for a grade, but for fun. I realized that once I started reading I couldn't stop. I get into a book and feel like I actually get to know the characters and their lives. I am not into the "Twilight" series, or anything of that nature, but instead I pick up a book, read the back cover and either buy it or put it back. I have read some very interesting books and I figured I would share my thoughts....

My sister bought me this book for Christmas & it took me awhile to start reading it. I wasn't sure about reading a book about being a newlywed but once I started getting into it I really enjoyed it and connected with it. It was neat to see someone else's point of view on married life opposed to being single. I really enjoyed it and once I muster up the nerve I am going to read Emily Giffin's other book about having babies...ahhh

"Walking in Circles before Lying Down" is a great book for anyone that has a dog & knows what it is like to sometimes feel like they are human. I always talk to my dogs, but in this book they actually talk back. Merrill Markoe brings the friendship between humans and dogs to life all while talking about relationships, jobs, and family. This book was a really easy read & I would recommend it to anyone.

"Hungry Woman in Paris" is the book that I am cutrrently reading. I bought it at target because it was on sale, I have to say that it is one of the best purchases I have made in a while. The beginning of this book is super hilarious and witty, but the meat of the book is much more serious. I can't wait to see what happens to the main character Canela once she finishes cooking school in France!