Date Night & Quick Trip to SSI

Friday night we went to Fernbank for our date! It was Martini's & Imax - first time we've gone on a Friday and it won't be the last! We had a few drinks before the show started (Martini for Matt, Sprite for yours truly) and then at 9 pm our show started. We saw Cirque du soleil and it was fantastic. We LOVED IT - truly amazing and made us so sad we didn't go see the real one while it was in Atlanta.


Matt's sister & Mom and some other family members were at the real one in Vegas on Friday night and had a great time!! We know it was just amazing & can't wait to hear all about.
After our show we went to Everybody's Pizza for a late dinner, came home & crawled in bed. Lovely date with hubs.

Saturday we got up early - work for Matt and I was going to SSI for the night. It was my nephew's birthday party. It was fun to be with my family! Mom, Jess, Melissa, Garrison, Ryan & Baby J and I had a really good time together for the night. Matt & I had gotten TBJ a stuffed dinosaur from the museum for his birthday gift, and I think he liked it. He named it "Sushi" - but I'm sure his name has changed a few times since then!






Sunday I drove home and now I can't believe it's already Wednesday evening! This week has gone by so fast. We're about to go eat Indian at a new restaurant we haven't tried yet....Baby adores Indian food which is a good thing because it's one of our favorites!

What did they see?

Guess we'll find out in less than 20 weeks!

We're halfway there, everyone. I can't believe it. I was talking to a friend yesterday who said, "just think, in ten weeks you'll start counting backwards!" and she's right!

This morning we had our anatomy ultrasound, saw the first doctor at 8.30 am. I don't think we were prepared for all that we were able to see! At 2D, we could see virtually everything. When it was time to check out the lower parts (!) Matt and I had to look away, and I'm SO glad we're not finding out the gender. At the times when we could look, it was incredible to see how much our babe is growing in there! You should see the little feet....with ten long toes, sorry baby, you got that from your mom. Long fingers (all ten!), tiny little face, ears, everything was there and looking good. And he or she is seriously a mover and a shaker! Very active and so much fun to watch! Girl or boy - Matt definitely has a soccer star on his hands. Those feet were so unbelievably tiny and cute,and I just can't wait to put some little socks & shoes on them! Oh, and at one point the little one opened its mouth and then put both hands on top of its head! I don't say this without a grateful heart, believe me. I am so thankful for the results we got today. It amazes me more and more each day and every time we are able to see our baby.
We'll have another visit in four weeks, then another peek four weeks after that, so until then I guess I'll just keep feeling this little guy or gal moving around - which is by far the most sensational thing ever. It feels like waves and they happen nonstop. I think he or she loves all the root beer, and the insane amount of peanut m&m's this Mommy-to-be has been eating!

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

My gift to my husband.

Hope everyone had a great V-Day! I decided to get Matt a cookie cake. You should have seen the look on the sweet lady's face at Publix when I asked her to write this. Priceless.
After a long day at work we (Matt, me and especially our unborn baby) wanted to eat some Mexican, so we went to El Torrero and ate too much, then came home & watched LOST. I have to say, that's the perfect name for that show, because that's exactly how I felt after last night's episode - lost. There are some cool blogs out there that try & decipher each episode, but lately those only confuse me more and more. It's still my favorite show, though, and Matt and I look forward to Thursday nights all week. I'm just starting to be intriqued and saddened because the Losties are all turning on each other, and they are all beginning to think life is better on the island. It's the bomb dot com show though.
So glad today is Friday. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Already February?

Time flies when you're having fun!

I am currently 18 weeks pregnant, oh, and by the way, I am definitely a "weeks" person now. I never understood all of my pregnant friends & my sister who would speak the "weeks" lanuguage, but here I am doing it too. It's just so much easier. I have made myself a pregnancy chart, which I'll include here:
Weeks 1-4: One month
Weeks 5-8: Two months
Weeks 9-12: Three months
Weeks 13-16: Four months
Weeks 17-20: Five months
Weeks 21-24: Six months
Weeks 25-28: Seven months
Weeks 29-32: Eight months
Weeks 33-36: Nine months
Weeks 37-40: Ten months

As you can see, I'm in the middle of my Fifth Month today.

I have this feeling that the next four to five months of our lives are going to go by faster than we expect. In the coming months, here are just a few things happening:





We have Valentines Day in February, which we don't really celebrate but it's still gonna happen, nonetheless....
And February is also my nephew, Joey's, fourth birthday. I cannot believe how old he is!



In March we are closing on our FIRST HOME!! We are SO excited, thrilled, beyond ecstatic. We love it and want everyone to come & visit us as soon as we get moved in. Or, if you want to come visit before then, you can help us. Just kidding. Unless you're my Mom or Dad, then I'm being serious!!! :)





In April, Matt has a vacation for a whole week, and we are thinking of going to Seaside, Florida, one of our favorite places ever! Ahhh, I can hear the waves now....
OR, we may stay home, relax and decorate the new house, we haven't decided yet. Either way, Matt deserves a break for sure.


In April we also celebrate Easter....


And one of Matt's personal favorite "holidays" - The Masters.




In May we celebrate our Two Year Anniversary. I cannot believe it's been that long. We've had an awesome first few years of marriage. Went on a couple of really fun vacations, minus a few incidents, and had a ball just doing our thing!


Summer, my all time favorite season of the year, officially begins in June. In the South, it really starts in April or May based on the temps, though! It will probably either be really, really quiet, as I'm sure I'll be nesting in our new home, cleaning like a mad woman, and just getting ready for our little bundle to arrive. Yet, there's a chance we'll get our tiny one a little bit early, so June could be far from quiet!!


And then comes July!! July 4th may come & go with just the fireworks in the sky, but the REAL fireworks for us will be when our Baby Boy or Girl makes his or her debut into the world!

And as for my burgeoning belly, we're going to start taking pictures documenting the size and shape. I'm still in my regular clothes for the time being, but I have a feeling that that won't be the case for much longer!!

Sweet Home Alabama

Matt was a groomsman in a wedding this weekend, so we headed to Birmingham!



I got sick on Tuesday night of last week and STILL have it. It has been the worst cold I've had in a LONG time. Apparently something has been going around and working in a cubicle in an office with forty people daily with poor ventilation did nothing to keep me well. The good news is it's not strep throat (I went to the doctor) and it's slowly but surely getting better. My voice has sounded like something out of a movie though, with me playing the lead male character, so answering my phone has been something I've not done much of the past week. I'm back in the cubicle today - was getting way behind at work so decided I needed to return to the land of selling ads & events. :) Let's just hope Matt stays well.

Anyway, we had a really good time with everyone at the wedding. The tuxes the bride chose were seriously the best I've seen. Matt looked super handsome, the reception was beautiful, and the bride's gown was made for her! And the groom could not have looked more excited to see his bride making her way down the aisle. It was a very sweet wedding & a great party! We left the reception and went to the hotel bar, where I had to make my exit - I left the revelers at midnight and headed upstairs to watch SNL. I even went sans crutches (they were in the car) so I felt somewhat normal. However, with the advent of pregnancy brain, I also left the camera in Atlanta, so no pictures. It's a shame, too, because everyone looked so very nice!

I am 18 weeks now and tomorrow is our 18 week check up at the Doctor. The exciting Anatomy Ultrasound. Although we're not finding out, it's really fun to know that tomorrow morning our Doctor will know for SURE if Matt & I are going to be parents to a daughter or a son!!