Getting Huge!

I'm almost 26 weeks! We took these pictures yesterday, so I'm actually only 25.5 weeks...like it really matters! I keep growing, so baby must be doing well! I have my monthly OB appt this Wednesday, and hopefully my flu shots as well. Schools around here have been closing because more than 25% of their kids are out sick...and I coach at a high school!! I'm trying to not get too worried, but I'm making sure to wash my hands like crazy and keep germs off me :-)

Steven and I had a crazy weekend. I spend Friday and Saturday in Nashville at a volleyball tournament, and Steven worked all day Saturday from home. Yesterday we had a nice day together though, the sun was actually out for the first time in 2 weeks! We went to church, organized the bonus "man" room...which I invaded with my scrapbooking stuff because my craft room is now a nursery...cleaned out the garage, and I actually cooked a real meal for dinner for the first time in a while!

Steven's commander gets back this week, so hopefully he'll be able to focus on his XO job and not both his and the CO's. Maybe that will mean less work for him in the evenings...I sure hope so!
Have a great week!

25 weeks

Birthday Fun!

I have some of the best friends around! For my birthday we went to our favorite sushi restaurant, Kohana, on Wednesday night. The food was delicious and the company was great! We always order about 8 different rolls and pass them around...yum...just writing about it makes me hungry...but that's pretty normal these days! Thanks ladies for your generosity and such a sweet celebration! Love you guys!

Around the table from the left: Jenny, Erin, Holly, Lisa, Regan, me, Mary

Family, Fun and Fondue!

Another great weekend to put in the books! Mom and Dad came down on Friday night and we had such a fun weekend. Saturday started with a delicious breakfast (thanks to Erin's cream cheese croissant recipe..so good!) then the men went Truck shopping while Mom and I hit the stores as well. Steven's mom gave us this beautiful cradle that all of her kids slept in as infants, and my mom is going to make some bedding for it. We shopped and found some beautiful eyelet to make it classic and pretty...we can't wait to see the finished result!
After shopping, we loaded up, went to Nashville to check out a few more car dealerships, then hit the Melting Pot for dinner. That is one of our favorite restaurants...it's fondue...and it is a treat! Mom and Dad loved it and hopefully we can make it a yearly tradition when they come to visit!
Sunday we went to early church and then they hit the road for Ft. Wayne. It went by so quickly, but we had a great time. Thanks for making the trip!

The Melting Pot...as you can tell by our empty plates...dinner was delicious!
Mom and Dad...couldn't get a pic without dad blinking, so here's the best one! :-)

23 weeks pregnant!

Labor Day Festivities

We had a wonderful and restful weekend at the cabin this past weekend. The cabin was even more beautiful than we imagined and the company was fantastic! I didn't get many pictures...my girlfriends are much better photographers than I am, so I'm waiting to copy all of their photos. Until then...here are just a few!

Our Beautiful Cabin

View off the back deck

Fog through the mountains on Saturday morning

Sunset

The men before their mountain bike excursion...wish i had a picture of them all sweaty and smelly when they returned! They went to Sallee (sp) which is some famous biking park and had a great time!

The girls! This was just before we went to the Cirque de Chine show in Pigeon Forge.

Steven and Sofia. We both had a fun playing with the kids, they were so good all weekend!

Daniel, Erin and Claire Hubert

Erik and Lisa Wright

Me, Steve, and the baby bump!

The Movie Theater

22 Weeks

I'm 22 weeks...5 1/2 months already!! Feeling great! I had an OB appt. yesterday and I actually measured 1 cm larger than average. Also, I've FINALLY started to feel the little man kick...it hasn't been a whole lot, but he's definitely in there. I guess he's just going to be laid back, like his dad! :-)

We've had an insane couple weeks. I've been swamped with work, and volleyball. Steven's new job has kept him crazy busy...waking up at 3:00am, working til 6:00 at least, then coming home and working until 10:00pm or later at home! He's been in the field and trying to keep his Company organized and working. We need a vacation!

Good think we're taking one...starting in less than 24 hours!! We're going to the Smoky Mountains/Gatlinburg this weekend to stay in a chalet/cabin with 4 other couples. Here's a link to the place we're staying...it looks amazing and with 5 couples, it's pretty cheap!! http://www.yourcabin.com/824AGrandView.aspx The guys are going to this famous mountain biking place and us girls are going to hit the outlet malls! We're also all going to a Cirque show on Saturday afternoon in Gatlinburg, and just planning on taking it easy, playing games, and relaxing with great friends. We cannot wait!

22 Weeks

20 Weeks

I finally have a little baby bump! It's exciting! I'm 20 weeks and 4 days in this picture, and I'm still feeling great. Last weekend after we found out it was a boy, we went down to Nashville to the HUGE Babies R Us, it was awesome! We realized that there is way too much stuff we want to buy this little guy...we're feeling the pocketbook pressure already...yikes! We registered for a bunch of stuff, and it was so fun watching Steven get so pumped about little boy gear, it just warmed my heart :-)

If any of you have been to our house, the room we have for the Nursery is TINY, and frankly there isn't much room anywhere in our house for a bunch of extra baby stuff. We're trying to get creative about storage options and went to Lowe's yesterday to look at closet organization units. We're coming up with some good ideas and hope to get some of that sorted out in the near future. My exciting news for the day...we bought a glider yesterday from this amazing website www.hayneedle.com , they have tons of household items at pretty reasonable prices. We think we're going to get a storage ottoman for the living room too...the one we have now is looking rough and not very baby friendly! So many things to do, so little time! Oh, we picked out a paint color for the nursery yesterday, too...our project for this weekend!

In other news, my high school team has their first official volleyball match tonight. Go Hawks!

20 Weeks

The Fundingsland Name Continues....

That's right....It's a BOY!
I had my Anatomy Scan this morning, and it was really an awesome experience. Even though Steven wasn't there, I saw him right after and delivered the good news! The Tech didn't tell me what it was...I had him write the sex down on a card, but it was pretty hard to miss when I was watching the ultrasound pictures! I could see a 4 chambers of the heart beating, the kidneys, the spine, the brain, the belly and bladder, and the special boy parts!! At the Army hospital, the OB does not do the anatomy scan, you have to go to the X-Ray and Ultrasound Lab, so I had a technician that I'd never met before, but he did a great job. He was very friendly and told me everything I was looking at. He is not a radiologist, so he is not legally allowed to say how things look and if they are measuring correctly...but he pretty much said that Baby looks like a healthy boy!

I was a little worried that I hadn't felt the baby move yet, and he actually brought that up...he said my placenta is on top of the uterus, so it's blocking me from feeling much of anything. He said I should begin to feel some kicking in a week or so...can't wait!

Here are some pictures!

Face Profile

In this one, (above) both hands are up at his face, one is on his chin.

Another face and body profile...who does he look like? can you tell?

It's DEFINITELY a Boy (above)! Hopefully you won't have any problems telling.... :-)

Body Profile. You can see the black circle in the chest...that's the heart! It was 130 BPM today.

IT'S A ....................

BOY or GIRL!

Yes, I know, that was our reaction too! Bummer. I had my OB appointment and my doc did a quick ultrasound just for fun. Steven wasn't able to go with me (he's just got the XO position for B Co. in 2nd Infantry Batt!!!! yay!) he had lots of meetings that day he couldn't get out of. So, we asked the Doc to write down the sex of the baby in a card so that we could open it together and still have our little "we're having a..." moment.

well, Doc thinks it's a girl, and his assistant thinks it's a boy...that's what they wrote in the card. :-( We'll just have to wait until next Thursday when I have my big Anatomy Scan. There they will check out all of Baby's bones, organs, and hopefully SEX.......so until next week, we still won't be purchasing any baby clothes. :-( pout...

Baby Bump - 16 weeks

Well, I was hoping I would be showing a little more than I am at 4 months...I really feel like I've just been eating too much these last 4 months! :-) Oh well, I can definitely feel the difference, and I'm down to only about 3 pairs of pants that fit. I've put on about 5-7 lbs total so far, depends on the day :-) I have not felt that "Flutter" of a baby kick yet, but we really hope that will happen soon.

My last OB visit was on July 7th and we heard the heartbeat again through a doppler microphone or whatever it's called...Baby was 140 BPM, right in the middle of the normal range! Our next OB appt. is Aug. 7th and then we have my Anatomy Scan on the 13th. They say they should be able to tell the sex at one of those appointments..YAY!

Besides that, I'm feeling great! Here's a pic, clothes don't show so much, so it's another bare belly...sorry!

New Tile

Here you go...as promised, pictures of our new tile. This has been a HUGE job, and one we didn't really plan on getting into. Here's the story....we were at Home Depot (we should have bought stock in that company) shopping for carpet, and our sales guy asked if we like slate tile. We both said of course, and he asked if we wanted to buy 300 sq/ft for $25!!! This company just came out with new packaging and they had to get rid of all of their old inventory...lucky for us! Well, you can't turn down an offer like that, and we really did need something new in our bathrooms.

So we bought the tile, borrowed all the tools from some of Steven's friends, read some books and jumped in. About a month later, we're finally done. We finished the kitchen last night, and we're touching up the bathroom paint tonight and putting the toilet back in. The guest bathroom has been done for a while, but no pics on here. It really wasn't too bad, just time consuming. Amazingly, we didn't have to purchase one extra tile, but we used every single piece of what we had...how perfect is that! AND we finally got new carpet! you can kinda see it from one of the kitchen pictures.

Other News Update: I have my next ultrasound on Aug 7th with my OB, then my anatomy scan on the 13th...they say we'll be able to find out the sex on one of those days. I'll be 16 weeks on Wednesday already! wow, it's flown by and I'm feeling great. I'll post some baby bump pics soon!

My tool man!

Kitchen demo and ugly linoleum before
Demo...that dang glue wouldn't come up!

Living room chaos! This was home for the fridge and stove for about a week...and you can see our hideous old carpet in the background...man, I hated that nasty carpet!

First half down with Mortar and spacers - This is the position Lacy stayed in the whole time, we wouldn't let her in the kitchen and she pouted. :-)

Full Kitchen laid out, no grout yet.

Before grout, but you can really see all the different colors of the tile, we love it!

Kitchen finally done!

You can see our new carpet in the background too...it's so nice!

Master Bathroom before demo.

Check out those knee-pads!

Steven cutting the bottom off the closet doors so the tile will fit underneath.

1/2 done!
Tile up close, each one is so different!

First fruits from my garden. Anyone need basil or tomatoes?