Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Sarah is seeing BLUE!!

I have just learned that my BFF, Sarah Jane (Manson) Ewing, who lives out in sunny Corona, California and is five weeks further along than we are, is expecting a son on her second go round! Sarah gave birth to baby Tyler Curtis on June 23rd of last year. And as of today, the Ewing family has been informed that Ty is expecting a baby brother. Congratulations to Sarah, her husband Matt and their son Tyler!!


The Ewing Family (Ty-7 weeks old

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Daddy is chatting on the phone and has no idea that we can't see!!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Insurance...eek...

Rick and I have an appointment with the university's insurance lady today. There is so much to think about and plan for when you are having a baby...it's slightly overwhelming and we are only in the 16th week. Hopefully, if we can take care of this sort of stuff now, we can minimize stress further down the line. Hopefully.

Here is our 15 week photo...

When food is art

Who comes up with this stuff??? Do you have to take a class to do this???








Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday was our 2 year Wedding Anniversary! So, we decided to buy each other furniture for the nursery. I have included a photo.


We went to Captain D's Great Little Seafood Place for dinner (Rick has been trying to get me to go for MONTHS!! But I was always to nauseated to even think about it. But alas, on our Anniversary, I gave in.) Here is what we were doing last year...



And two years ago...


I felt a flutter for the first time yesterday. I felt it twice! Very exciting. I haven't felt it since, but we are only in the 15th week, so I don't expect too much. Below is our 14 week photo.



My darling hubs was all over the Tuscaloosa paper this morning. Check out this link!

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080521/NEWS/355031078/1007

If you click on the video link below and watch the video of AIME (where I work) student Austin Cone speaking about the car seat technology, you can see a man in the top right hand corner wearing a pink shirt and brown pants about halfway through the video. That's my precious baby daddy!!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Mommy-to-be Day!!

This past weekend was Mother's Day! Happy Mother's Day!! My little Beebop gave me a Mommy-to-be card! Wasn't that sweet of little Beebop?!? Beebop's Grammy and Grampy Mims sent me one too! It's kind of exciting getting to celebrate a pseudo Mother's Day. While it's not totally official...I am totally a mom already. I am nurturing like a mom, feeding like a mom and best of all, worrying like a mom. I'm in the club!

We had our four month doctor's appointment yesterday. I so love our doctor! For all of you out there saying a few prayers for the baby-to-be, could you add one thing to the list? Could you pray that Dr. Madden would be on-call when we go into labor? I really want him to be the one to deliver us. WE LOVE HIM!!! Anyway, back to the appointment. We heard a little thunderous heartbeat again yesterday. The first time it was only 124 beats per minute. Yesterday it was 165 beats per minute. Beebop must have been napping on the first go round! We talked to our level-headed doctor about all the good stuff: cord blood banking, AFP testing, amniocentesis...the scary decision making stuff. But that was about it.

I have included the 13 week belly shot. This was taken after church on Mother's Day.



Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Rick's Birthday and ride-along

So, last week was Rick's 31st birthday!! Woohoo!! Good times....getting older...We did a little shopping, did a little dining out, and then spent a quiet evening at home. Our friend Rodney surprised him with a mini-guys-night-out on Saturday. And then Sunday, we headed back to ole Talladega for a ride-along that I bought Rick for Valentine's Day. It was great fun. Three 180 mph laps around the track in the passenger seat of a race car. The hubs likes to go fast. Hence the reason we are building an RV-10. I have included a picture of my adorable little husband in his getup waiting to feel some G's!!!



I have a great video of him from up high doing one full lap, but it is pretty long. So I have included a video from the ground level of a portion of his third lap. Enjoy!