From office to nursery

We finally emptied out the office and took everything to storage, or distributed to other rooms so we could start working on the nursery. Or should I say, so Chris could start working on the nursery. (He refuses to let me help with any of it.) I shouldn't complain, but I love doing stuff like this so it's really harf to sit back and not do anything. We chose gray for the wallcolor and then we are going to do bead board on the bottom of the wall which explain why only half the walls are painted.

The empty room

Just a glimpse of what the color will look like

The walls are painted. They still need a second coat, but you get the picture!

A Few Belly Pics!

Again, I am horrible at taking pics, so the belly progress whill be few and far between I'm afraid. I am going to try really hard to take one every week from now on so hopefully there will be more. Meanwhile, here are a couple ranging from 8 weeks to 23 weeks.  I am now 24 weeks so I'll take one later tonight for this week.

 The first pic is 8 weeks and the last one is 23 weeks. I should know what the other are, but all I know is that they are in between the 2!  Stay tuned for 24 week pic!

Is it a boy or a girl???

As long as I can remember, everytime I thought about having kids, I always wanted a boy first. I don't know if it's because I had an older brother or if I thought it would be nice to have a protector for the other, but that was always my dream.....until Clara came that is.  When I first found out I was pregnant all I could think about was how awesome it would be to have a girl so her and Clara could be best friends and play together. I was convinced I was having a girl  Chris, on the other hand, was certain that it was a boy.  It became a matter of who was right and who was wrong. The closer we got to January 12th (the day of the ultrasound) I became more and more unconfident in my thinking it was a girl. I'm not sure if I was tryng to prep myself for the fact that it may be a boy or if it was my "motherly instinct" telling me it wasn't a girl.

Well.........Chris won that bet because it is a BOY!!!!

This picture was taken towards the end of the ultrasound and I think he was getting tired of us looking at him for so long.  He sure is cute!

After finding out he was a boy, I've never looked back, we couldn't be more happy to be having a little boy. I was never the barbie or doll type anyway, I would rather play in the dirt and now I have that chance!

I'm pregnant!

Immediately after Chris and I were married, we started trying to have kids and I talked to my doctor about ways we could make that happen. Let's face it....Chris and I are no spring chickens, so we didn't want to waste any time. In August my doctor wanted to start tracking my ovulation just to make sure everything was working right and the first month, everything was great.  In September, I went in for my blood test and the results came back a few days later saying I didn't ovulate. The doctor then decided to put me on clomid (a fertility drug) which would help force the process. With strict instructions to take the first dose three days after my period started, the waiting game began. Finally after days of waiting on October 4th,  I decided to take a pregnancy test just in case.........and lo and behold....

I took the test when I got home from school one night and Chris was at a friends house becuase I was certain it would be negative. To my surprise, there were two lines!!!! Apparently the test from the doctor was wrong, I counted my days wrong or I was already pregnant at the time of the test.  Regardless, Chris and I couldn't be more thrilled to have a baby.

How could I forget????

I don't know how I could forget to mention the fact that I became an aunt last year to the coolest little girl EVER!  Clara was born on July 31st, so Chris and I were able to see her before we left for Hawaii and fell in love instantly.

I had some weird throat thing going on that day so I didn't get to hold Clara and had to wear a mask.  I was pretty sad, but at least I got to see her!

 Clara has changed so much since these pictures, but I'm afraid these are the most recent pics I have taken myself. I need to get better about taking pics before our babe get here...

Anyway......I love her!!

South Carolina....last trip of the year.

Chris' dad and step-mom asked us if we would like to go to South Carolina with them in September so his dad would have a golfing buddy, and of course Chris couldn't turn that down. I was a little nervous to go at first because there has been hurricanes all up the east coast and we were going to Myrtle Beach which is right on the coast. I didn't want to be on vacation again when a natural disaster hit. :-)

I take after my mom in the sense that I always forget to take pictures so these are all you're going to get from that trip. This was the only time we went to the beach because of the winds, but at least it was documented!

Disclaimer.....

This is my plea to everyone that has logged on to this blog and realized that we have the most boring lives ever, and that I am a horrible blogger!!  I am trying to get the blog up to date so I can start talking about what we really want to talk about.........BABY WARDLE!! I figured the past year was just a necessary evil to get to the good stuff. 

So....bear with me, I promise it will get better! :-)