It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I made cut out cookies today that are waiting to be frosted. It's too tiring to decorate and bake them in one day. We got our con color fir tree. We had a living Christmas tree last year (root ball included) that didn't survive the summer so we decided against trying to go that route again. The tree is off to a great! Josh set up our village and nativity and it looks great! His only complaint...he doesn't have enough Christmas Story houses :-)

Thanksgiving in the Smokys

We had such a great Thanksgiving in Tennessee! We had a traditional meal prepared by Mom, Dad & Becky...I guess I did add a couple things too. We went to Dollywood, visited Gatlinburg, saw a bear and even felt a 3.0 earthquake.

IKEA...wow

It's a good thing IKEA is two hours away! Josh and I had our first ever trip to IKEA and we both LOVED it! Sooo many ideas for our house. We bought some storage for our kitchen and a rug for the baby's room. It looks great! We were there three hours and didn't even look at everything IKEA has to offer. The coolest part...our total food purchase was taken off our merchandise bill so it's like we ate for free!

Baby Shower/Birthday Week

I had such an amazing shower. My family worked so hard on making it so special. The time and effort they put into it warms my heart. We all feel so blessed and loved.

For my birthday my parents and my sis got me a maternity winter coat! I was so happy! I didn't want to spend the money on a coat (which I desperately needed) and was overjoyed when I received a ohh so warm black pea coat.

Josh surprised me on my birthday with cute birthday decorations. Very thoughtful :-)

24w1d aka 6 MONTHS :-)

Our first baby shower gift

We received a very large/HEAVY package in the mail today.  Our first baby shower gift!!  It was sooo exciting!!  Thank you Uncle Danny, Aunt Mandy & McKenna!  We can't wait to set up the nursery now!!  Too bad there is alot of organizing before we can put the crib up :-)

21w3d

We had our second trimester ultra sound today!  I was sooo nervous the u/s tech would reveal the gender of our baby today but after seeing her lightning speed there was no chance of that happening.  Thank goodness, our little surprise is still a surprise!  The average heartbeat was 152.  The u/s tech said our little one is very photogenic...whatever that means when you are in a womb ;-)  She or he has very long femur bones.  They measured in a high percentile.  The u/s tech and dr both said this means a very long baby...we shall see in Feb!  She or he had larger feet to which prob are in proportion to the long legs.  The belly measured a week ahead...maybe he or she hadn't had their afternoon poop yet, ha ha.  He or she was moving, moving and moving.  The u/s tech teased and said it seems like we have a feisty baby...ohhh ooo look out mommy and daddy.  We even got to witness what our baby looks in 3D.  3D in an u/s is basically like claymation, so remember this when you view the picture and think wow that kid sure is lumpy.  Everything looked great.  We are VERY happy and this much more excited for February!!  *