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BOY!! For those of you who didn’t get the email announcement, we are thrilled. He is healthy and has all his parts and everything is growing in proper proportion. He measured a little small for my original estimated due date, so the tech said it may be a little later then we thought, maybe 5 days. I say, he’s waiting until October I just know it! I’ve thought that the whole time though.

I’m a little sad to say goodbye to my fun game. No more speculating whether each little symptom means it’s a boy or a girl! Andy is relived it’s over, he hated that game! And there is no mistaking this boy. He was not shy about showing off his parts, and there is no mistaking those parts! They were out there! I have a pic of the sono pic for you to see.

In fact, I have a ton of pics today from pappy Goin’s birthday party and new belly pic and that’s it. Today will be a lot less reading!

We are moving in two days – that came fast huh? We fell in love with Sanger after Pappy’s party and found a complex there thanks to brother TC and were approved immediately. It will be a bit of a tight month here as we pay double rent, but thanks to my mother (thanks again momma!) we will be fine and so happy to be out of our little ghetto apartment. No more fires, bullets or car crashes. Hopefully!

Now for the pics!! Remember to click the pic to make it bigger.

Here's me as we arrive to the lake camping ground.

Here's everyone as we come through the bush. Hi everyone!

Judy posing, Janey's back and Lisa sitting down. Judy and Janey are the youngest of the Goin kids, Lisa married Dan Goin. He's here somewhere.

Andy with his Pappy, the reason for the party.

Couple of shots of Rowdy, Pappy's dog.

Janey working on the homemade ice cream. This family know how to party!

Pappy's cake. It sure was rough to get those candles lit in the breeze.

Some frisbee playing!

Little Josh fell asleep after a hard day swimming in the lake with his aunt.

Me and Lorna (soon to be Grandmother Lorna!) chatting before we go on a walk through the grounds. Little action shot for ya!

Close up on the ice cream. They made vanilla and banana which was just the vanilla with fresh bananas. YUM!

Some of Pappy's friends and other family joined the festivities.

Lorna and I are posing for this shot.

Here's a 22 week shot. Now that I have a new due date I may not be as far as I am saying, but I can't change it now. I may just get up to week 42 instead of just 40!

Here's a cute side shot with hand size ratio comparison.

Baby's profile. Little Andy looks like he has a big head! Yay, what a relief!

Here you can clearly see he is a boy. To the upper left is the side of his head I think. But mostly this is between his legs. One leg is bent across the top and other is going straight back so you can only see a circle of it. The thing in the middle, is not a leg! And don't tell Little Andy I showed you all these please! ;)

And of course our first baby, Tyler. He's right next to me right now as a matter of fact. Oh Tyler, you have no idea of what's to come!!

Coming in next week's edition... Pics of the new apartment!! We can't wait. We'll be out of the city. This town is only about 3 blocks big and so cute! We'll try and take pics of that too.

Apartment Drama

Now this has been an incredible week! My belly is not only getting bigger but FEELING bigger. Like now it gets in the way when I bend and things! Only halfway there, so much more growing to do!

But not only that, we’ve had some major apartment drama this week. It started Wednesday night when I couldn’t get to sleep. I’d been reading a book for a week or so and was right at the end so I had to stay up to finish it. It was almost 4 in the morning by the time I was done, and I was so tired I could barely lean over to turn off my lamp. That is of course until I laid down to sleep. Then my asthmatic type allergies kicked in. It starts like such a small feeling of tickling or wheezing that it almost tricks me in to thinking it’ll go away. But it doesn’t and this time it surely wouldn’t. I got up after progressing into a chocking cough for a second and Andy beseeched me to use my inhaler. Now usually after one inhaler puff, my chest opens and I can cough the bugger out. Not this time. It wouldn’t open. I just kept coughing. I stayed in the bathroom and tried to get it out but had to use the inhaler again. It is a two puff dose but I can usually get by with just one. I tried to go back to bed but just couldn’t get my nose to open and my wheezing to end. I got back up and decided to make some hot tea. Sometimes hot liquids clear me up. No such luck this time either. It helped while I drank it but as soon as it was gone, the cough returned. And now it felt more like an itch in my throat that wouldn’t stop and made it hard to breathe through my nose if I could clear a nostril and impossible to breathe through my mouth.

I used the inhaler again. I think I tried to lie in bed one more time before deciding this was just unfair to Andy. He’d had a hard enough time getting to sleep. His cat was trying to get his attention by talking to him and the cats outside were fighting and I was coughing. I thought it’d be best if I just stayed in the computer room.

Finally, I felt I was sleepy enough and could breathe through my nose enough, so I surrounded myself with pillows on our futon couch. I think I fell asleep for a half hour or so before I woke up sneezing. It’s a funny sensation to wake up to your body doing something. Got past the sneezing and I fell asleep one more time, this time for almost an hour. Then Andy woke up and realized I wasn’t in bed and got worried. He found me and woke me up asking me to return to the bed. He said he’d rather be woken by my coughs than have me sleep in the other room! What a sweetie!

So, almost 8 in the morning, I’d had an hour of sleep, was finally going to bed and feeling like maybe the sleep might continue. I hate sleeping all day long but I knew I’d need it after that night and settled in to get some deserved rest.

That is until 930 in the morning when the doorbell rang. Our doorbell rings in the evening a lot with vendors coming to the door to push their cakes or doughnuts or tamales, all homemade, but we’d never had a visitor this early. Any of our friends knew we’d be asleep even if we hadn’t been up most of the night. Andy got out of bed to look out the window and see if he could tell is it was worth getting dressed for.

Next thing I know he’s yelling, “Baby get up, get dressed, it’s the fire department, we need to get out side. Come on, baby get up.” I was trying to pull myself out of a deep sleep and comprehend what was going on. Had I left a burner on last night from my tea? Was our apartment on fire? Were they doing some early morning inspection?

I pulled on Andy’s robe, still had a Breathe Right strip across my nose and ran to the door where about 4-5 fully geared up firemen were pushing past me to get in and asking if we were alright. Andy led them up the stairs to look around. I still had no idea what was going on, and it was so bright outside to my sleepy eyes. As my focus cleared, I looked around; I could see a lot of fire trucks, maybe 3. There was a woman from the apartment office standing outside and all the neighbors home during that time of the day had come outside to see. And here I was a mess, less than two hours rest, Breathe Right strip, husband’s robe, squinting in the sun and quite confused.

I looked back in to our apartment and saw smoke filling the downstairs. The firemen were returning from their upstairs inspection and heading in to the kitchen. I followed them to be sure I had not made a huge mistake and caught our kitchen on fire. I hadn’t. Phwew. But there was smoke in there coming from somewhere. The firemen had a big gun looking machine and were checking heat or smoke or some kind of levels and opening the cabinets on our wall that butted up to our next door neighbor’s kitchen, a complete mirror image of ours. They were opening up windows and doors and brought a giant fan to the front door to blow the smoke through. The cats thankfully were smart enough to be freaked out and stayed up stairs. Raven tried to come see what was up once but rapidly realized that was a mistake and streaked back up to safety.

We finally found out that our neighbors had indeed caught fire to their kitchen. Fortunately none of them were hurt; they have a large family with a small baby and a pregnant woman. The smoke had made it over to our kitchen but the flames had been caught in time. Firemen took their axes into the apartment next door to bust through walls and make sure they got the flames fully extinguished. Glad that didn’t get through our wall either!

Once the smoke cleared – so to speak – and the firemen started to leave, we had to try and air out our smoky apartment. After a night of not breathing well, smoke inhalation was the last thing I needed! It smelled like it was coming out of the AC! And of course this was to be a record setting hot day. We ran the AC on fan and opened all the windows we could, turned all fans on high to air the place out. Fortunately our bedroom is well shaded by a tree and we could take a nap for a short while before the real heat of the day and the dramatic feelings from the morning really settled in.

Must have slept maybe 4 hours before I woke up so hot I couldn’t take it. I gave up on napping for the day and decided to have a day as tired of one as it may have been.

I am still a bit shaken by the whole experience. The fact that we have no control over what the people sharing a wall with us are doing is really becoming a scary thought to us. Suddenly we want to buy a house and not have to share any walls. Hopefully, someday soon.
We are extremely grateful to our wise decision to live so close to the fire department. Who knows how things would have gone had there not been a station right around the corner.

Ending to the story…
They got evicted. They had apparently jeopardized their appliances by covering something with foil. We both spoke very little of each other’s language so getting the story exactly straight was difficult. One lady asked us to read the notice she received from the office manager because it was in English. It was a Notice to Vacate. She said they couldn’t pay the $5000 the repairs would cost and she didn’t think they should have to, so they were asked to leave. I think they finished moving out yesterday.

We now have no neighbors on either side. Our other neighbors left a few weeks ago. They are still paying on their lease for two more months so no one will be moving in there. Now this other apartment will need a lot of repairs before anyone else can move in there. We will be without neighbors next to us for the last two months we live here! If we stay that long, that is. We are hoping to find a move in special with a first month free or discounted wherever we go, so we can pay July here and not actually have to stay through all of July. I have quite enjoyed our experiences living here but we are both quite ready for them to come to an end.

We want out of this city and somewhere closer to our families. There is no reason for us to stay in Addison or even north Dallas, and so we won’t. Now I need to call Medicaid next week and find out what will happen to our coverage if we move out of Dallas County. I’m a little nervous.

A fun point of this week has been Andy’s hair styles! He had decided instead of continuing to grow it he would go back to the old shaved head that he likes so much especially in summer. But of course as a boy it is much more fun to play with styles before hand. I tried to get him to pose for pictures but he doesn’t always cooperate. These are mostly in the bathroom right before he changed it again. There are some more fun pics to follow. *Remember you can click ont he pics to see the full size.*
Here's Andy's military man cut. We essentially just cut up the sides and tried to make it "high and tight." It was amatuerish at best but looks so cute. I've never seen his hair like this in the 7 years we've been together, and I've seen him through a lot of styles and colors! He considered keeping it this way for a while and actually seeing barber to get it professionalized. But of course he changed his mind!






Always Mr. Serious! He loves to make faces for cameras. Good thing too, his pics aren't as boring as mine!








Here's the style that followed. This one lasted a lot less time but he made it through a day or two. It's his mini-mohawk! The last time he shaved his head, he'd had longer hair and made a mohawk too. Maybe I'm just biased and think he's a cutie no matter what, but I think he looks good like this. He doesn't like going out in public with it much though!



Here I am in one of my warm up suits for non-preggos with a tank top my mom got me for preggos. I remember on that shopping trip, she took me to a secondhand store to pick some maternity clothes, and I had been so turned off by all the horizontal stripes. I guess my years of fashion training had programmed me. Well, she said some women like to accentuate their big pregnant bellies and now I agree! I love the way it looks all squeezed into my old cotton clothes and new tight maternity shirts!





Look how big the belly looks once I put on the matching jacket! It won't even come down all the way! Can you believe I'm only 21 weeks here?? I feel like I look 6 months! How big am I going to get? I already can't see my feet!







This is the one day Andy went out in public with his mini-mohawk. We went to a friends house to hang out and have BBQ. This is right before we left our place. This is also prefire!

Told you he likes to make faces!




21 weeks and counting. Last I checked a few days ago, I had 128 days to go, but I'm not quite keeping that much track. Once I get down to 60 days left I may start tracking it more like that.
Oh, we are just so excited to have a baby! We saw the Goin family yesterday for Pappy's birthday and Andy's cousin Christie has a 7 month old boy named Keith and just watching her play with him was making me itch for ours! Andy and I didn't hold him though we wanted to because he doesn't know us well, and it was hot and he'd been camping all weekend and just wanted to be with mommy. But he sure is cute!

And it wouldn't be our Goin blog if we didn't have some kitty pics right? So here's Tyler sleeping on the futon couch, my new favorite napping spot. He gets upset when I move him around and wont' stay long. He likes having the whole thing to himself, don't you know!




I think the flash woke him! Tyler says "Thanks for reading the blog and checking out the pics everybody! Feel free to comment or send emails to the author! Meow."






We took pics of Pappy's birthday party so the next update will include some more Goins besides just us! And we also see the OB on Tuesday to schedule our next sonogram. It may even be later this week! So perhaps the next update will also include the sex of this little baby I carry. Keep your positive thoughts and prayers coming that it is still healthy and progressing nicely. And maybe that it won't be shy and will let mommy and daddy see what it is!

School's Out!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there and women who have been motherly! I can’t wait for next year to be in the club with you!

Things have been great this week. I got A’s in both of my classes! Phwew. What a relief. I was worrying that I wouldn’t pull it out in the microbiology, but I did it! My friends in class mostly did well also.

It’s such a great and scary feeling to know we are over halfway there to baby time. On one hand, I can’t wait to have it in my arms and start learning all about it and teaching it the ways of the world. On the other hand, this is such the end of a way of life we’ve had for so long, it is really scary to think of all the changes coming down the line. It’s just so nice to be able to both be working from home, and really accomplishing things and making money. It’s almost surreal. But this way I know we can be together as a family and both be consistent contributors to the baby’s growth and development. This was very important to us when we decided we wanted to have kids. Andy could just as easily go back out to the workforce and get a very high paying tech job and we could have all brand new cars and a big house, but I don’t want any of that! I know it’s hard for most people we know to understand that way of thinking, but that’s just what is important to us. We love each other and our future family and want to enjoy the short time we have here in this plane with each other as much as possible! I feel so lucky!

I think my biggest fear for having this baby right now, is the sleep thing. I love to sleep, and I’ve been trying to do as much of it as I can while I still can. It’s already starting to get hard to stay comfortable, could be all the cats on us too! But I know the third trimester will be REALLY hard to get comfortable. Yet another reason I am fortunate enough to run my own schedule. I’ll be able to sleep whenever I can for as long or as short as the baby allows, then when I am up I can work on getting things ready and our sites! But after the baby comes, I know I still have my own schedule for working, I just also know I’ll have so much more work to do for the baby too! I want to cloth diaper, I think it’s worth the extra effort for the money and the trash we’ll save. But I am completely aware of the extra work involved. I also want to make my own baby food when it gets to that point. Another great money saver (and health option) that will take a little extra time. Plus we’ll be victims of this baby’s schedule for at least a few months, probably longer, and if what I am feeling is kicking and baby movements, it’s got a schedule that will be hard for me to keep!
Like this morning, I woke up and couldn’t’ breath so I had to get up and get my inhaler. Well, then after I use it I have to cough out all the junk (which leads me to another fear all together about waking the baby with my allergies!), but when I got back in bed, I sat up for a minute feeling some acrobatics taking place. Not sure if I woke the little one or if it would’ve woken anyway! Now again, I don’t feel completely confident that it’s baby not gas, but when I feel the pushing out of my belly with my hand from the outside, I know that can’t be gas! Plus I think I’ve figured out how to tell where in there the little one is hiding, it’s the harder area of my belly. Everywhere will feel pretty squishy except one spot which is rock hard. Pretty cool. I’ll ask the nurses about it when we see the doc in a few weeks. By then, maybe I’ll really be feeling it!

We’re very excited about the next doctor visit because we’ll be setting up our next U/S appointment then too! Once we know the sex, it’ll make the planning so much easier! I don’t know how people survived without finding out the sex for so long! My mom didn’t know what I was till I was born. I can’t even focus on names or think about registering. I have a friend who never found out hers and she loved it. Good for her I say! I want to know darnit! And the closer I get to maybe finding out, the more and more I want to know. Of course, I still play the, “that means it’s a boy – that means it’s a girl” game. Like yesterday, we used our last gift card to Olive Garden from my mom and I couldn’t get enough of the soury salad dressing, that’s means it’s a boy! Then last night I wanted dessert and syrup and sweets, well that means it’s a girl! I want both!

Getting ready to move. Still no place to go yet, but it’s a little early for that. I just want to take my time with the packing and sorting of our junk so I’m not trying to squeeze it all into a week or so. Last time we moved I got us completely packed in about a week or two while still taking three classes and being at the end of the semester. I took a leave of absence from my job to do it, but I sure wasn’t pregnant, so it wasn’t that bad! This time I need to leave as much time as I can. I’ve gotten two things crossed off on my list and another halfway done – making progress!

Here’s my latest belly shots. That’s all I’ve got for this week, sorry. I just didn’t catch any good pics of Andy this week. I never remembered to take the cam with us when I wanted to. I’ll try and be better next week!

This is the end of week 19. Looks bigger I think from the cam angle. But people are starting to notice!

Here's 20 weeks. Actually this is this morning! The different cam angles make it hard to tell if I'm bigger, but it's funny, for some reason I feel like I haven't gotten any bigger this week. Not for lack of trying! We don't have a scale so I don't weight myself, I'll just wait for the OB visit to see what I've gained.

And just two cuddly brothers on the couch! Raven is on the left spooning his little brother Thunder. At night Thunder usually sleeps at my feet while he waits for his daddy to wake up and pay attention to him, while Raven sleeps on my left by the edge of the bed waiting for me to get up and feed him, or he'll sleep on Andy's pillow as long as Andy allows. Don't ask where we sleep, we haven't found a spot yet!

Halfway There!

Well, I’m at 20 weeks today according to the last U/S measurement and that means halfway there for the average 40 week pregnancy! Such an exciting time! Real growth should be happening from here on out.

I think the baby is a nocturnal. Either that or my gas is worse at night! ;) The only time I really think I feel it moving a lot is if I happen to be up around the 2 or 3 o’clock hour AM! Sometimes I think I feel little swishes at other times of the day but not like the middle of the night. Must be like its daddy!

I swear I felt a full fledged kick last Wednesday. 2 actually! Like little pokes pushing my belly out for a second two times in a row. I just happen to have my hand on my belly because I thought I was feeling inner swishes and then there it was. I’m still not for sure that’s what it was, but I haven’t been able to feel anything from the outside except that. I can’t wait for Andy to feel it. I read some pregnancy forums with women due the same month as me and their husbands are just staring to feel some kicks and they all say it’s so great for them. Like they really get to feel involved finally.

School’s finally done too, so this is a big day for me. I’m not going to worry about grades for the week. They should be posted by Friday and maybe sooner so I’ll check once a night until then and that’s all. It’s already hard to resist the urge! I have so much to do in the next few months to get ready to move and then after the move to nest for the new family member. I think it may take me a couple of days to recover completely from school, but I’m not going to give myself too hard of a time about needing an afternoon nap still.

Here’s a little info about the baby from one of the websites I read about weekly progress. There’s not too much to tell from here on out I guess, it seems to be all done building and now just baking and growing!

Lanugo forms from sebum and skin cells to create vernix. This creamy white
substance is believed to help protect the baby inutero. It will cling to the
lanugo and in the creases. This is also something that can be seen sometimes
after the birth. Rumor has it that nursery nurses use it for hand lotion,
because of its smooth, protect quality.
You may be aware of sleep wake
cycles in your little one. The weight is now up to 10 ounces (283 grams) and the
baby measures about 25 cms total length, about 9.8 inches.

Also this is the beginning of the sixth lunar month – measured by the moon and not by the calendar. If you think about it, 40 weeks divided by four weeks in a month equals 10 months, not 9. The only reason it works out to 9 calendar months is our weird 30 day, 31 day months. So most tracking is done by a lunar calendar. It’s probably one of the most confusing things to figure out when pregnant for the first time! I still may not have it right.

Things are well with us at the home front. Just going to be working and getting ready to move and trying to find a place we can afford. The next U/S is at the end of this month and hopefully we’ll get lucky and little one will show us the goods. If not, I still have the free 3D U/S that should show us. Then, time to start thinking of names!

Crazy LONG Week

PHWEW! What a week! I have so much to tell you I don’t even know where to begin.

First off, saw the internal med doc and he was awesome! What a great experience! And after the almost 2 hour wait for the OB two days prior where we had to wait outside the office because there were so many patients, it was a very nice surprise. Unfortunately, although he agreed it is probably allergies creating my breathing problems, he said it is not a good time to start allergy treatment. I had a feeling he’d say that. He said there are many great steroidal nasal sprays out there that would probably work really well for me, AFTER the baby is born. So until then he says as long as I have been using the Albuterol for so long and it’s been working, keep using it. So now that I have and can get a prescription for it from a regular doctor, I am more likely to use it when I need it immediately instead of waiting until the last possible second of chocking because I don’t want to run out, and I have been doing much better overall. Still on a daily usage that gets worse when it rains, which has been constantly lately. On the dry days though it seems to clear up a bit and I know there are plenty of those in the future, so I have that to look forward to!

It’s time to get a swim suit I think! I tried some maternity ones on and as usual I am too skinny! Big belly and chest, but that’s all I got. So I am going to go to Wal-Mart from a suggestion and get a cheap regular suit that’s just a little bigger than usual. If my growth patterns don’t change much and I get a good size, it could last all summer! I am ready for some swimming. Plus at the end of my nutrition class this week we have studied pregnancy nutrition and fitness and swimming and walking were the best forms of exercise for the preggos.

Speaking of classes, I am done with nutrition, took my last test this afternoon online, and the teacher already emailed me to congratulate me about my A! As much as I bitched all semester, it really was an interesting class. I will be keeping the text book for reference. It has some awesome info for early childhood!

Microbiology is almost done. Final is next Monday and that won’t be too hard. All the questions come directly from past tests, which we have access to. So about half the class got together and split up all the tests, copied them down and emailed them out to everyone participating. Now we just need to study/memorize those and we should all do fine. In the past week for this class, I have finished my Unknown Paper, where I was given a microorganism towards the beginning of the semester and I had to run a variety of tests to figure out what is was, (paper was 27 pages long!), presented to class with my lab group a model of a microorganism we had made and all about it, and took three tests, two lecture class tests and one lab test. What a week, I told you! My grades so far are awesome! I can’t believe it, I thought I was losing my mind, but something is still working, some kind of common sense. I got a 95.5 out of 100 on the paper, a 28 out of 30 on the lab test, and a 48 out of 50 on one lecture test. The other one I know I didn’t do well on, we had one day to study and it was super hard! But I’ve done well on all my other tests and she drops one, so that’s going to be the one! I don’t know when we get the grades for it though; we just took it this morning. We haven’t gotten our presentation grade yet, but she promised sometime tomorrow. I’m sure it’s good because I had an awesome group and we worked really hard to make sure we met all requirements. I could still pull off an A!

I can’t wait until Monday after 9am when it is all over though!

Plus my two lab mates this semester both got accepted to the nursing program for next fall! Very exciting! I couldn’t apply for obvious reasons; I won’t have time in September to start a full time nursing program! But I am so excited for them and they’ll be able to tell me all about it. Plus they get to do it together!

Andy and I have decided we need to focus on our own websites more than we have been. It’s hard to rely on outside clients and we have less control over that. He’s still trying to pick up a new client for some extra money, but it’s not the main focus. We are revamping some of the old sites that need attention and have great potential. They have fallen by the wayside with all the work he has done on other people’s sites. I am very excited about the future of our network of sites!

I started a new blog site too with videos only. Please check it out:
http://babyclips.blogspot.com

We have our next sonogram the second to the last week in May. Maybe then we’ll find out the sex. I have been trying so hard to get Andy used to the idea it might be a girl. You know how men are, they always think they want a son. But I show him examples all the time about how sweet and good little girls are and how immature and rowdy boys are. And how girls are so in love with their daddys! I may have done too good a job because now I think he wants a girl! I want both. I just want a child! I can’t wait. I know Andy does too. Whatever it is, it will be greatly loved and well taught and played with!

We also have an appointment for a 3D ultrasound and thanks to my mom and her friend Donna (one of her other “daughters”) from her small group at church, we are getting it for FREE! The place provides a service like the one we went to for our proof of pregnancy way back in the beginning, they try to prevent abortions. But they also have nurses or techs that are training to do the 3D procedure and need to get in practice time. I’ll be a practice time! I need to look up some more info on how it’s done. I had a nightmare that it was an invasive technique where they had to go inside. Nothing bad happened in my dream, but it scared me a lot. Also in the same dream, I dreamed it was a boy. He was lying back in there with his legs spread wide open showing his goods to all! Just like a boy! If it hides its goods during the U/S, we’ll see for sure on the 3D.
Now for the fun picture part!
I fell asleep on the futon a couple of weeks ago and my little girlie Sami slept with me, on and under my feet! I can't show you all the pics because I was in my panties on top of the covers, but she ended up under my feet! She's such a sweetie, what a moma's girl!




This is on our way for a walk last week. I need to keep in shape! I'm wearing one of Andy's T-shirts so it's harder to see the baby belly, but I had to show it off for the camera.









Here's week 17. I'm in week 19 now. Means next week is the half way point! I can't believe it, already! At first it seemed like it'd never come, but here we are, almost halfway to a baby!






Believe it or not this is the week after the last one. It almost looks smaller! Could be that I ate a little less gassy foods or something. Plus the cam angle is really different. Usually Andy is sitting down and I stand right in front of him, but here we are about to walk out the door. We fell asleep so early one night that he was up before 4 in the morning. And what is good about that? The donut shop on the corner opens at 5! And their donuts are the best! They take cash only and if you catch them first thing in the morning, the donuts are crisp and warm and delicious.
This is from yesterday. We are about to walk out the door. Just a few errands, groceries from Wal-mart and what not. You can't read the shirt but my mother-in-law gave it to me (future me-ma) and it says, "Coming This Fall." I think I really look pregnant here! Which I love!








And this is my favorite. Aren't we cute? You can see the storm coming in behind us, too and the tree looks so bright and green.

We are so excited to be starting this family of our own. We know there will be many changes to come. And they just keep coming! But we're really up for the challenge. I know I for one can't wait to have a baby and he can't wait to have a playmate! And we still can't get enough of each other. The love and respect is strong and will be a great example for any number of children.... maybe 6?