Here we go-83 days til Due Date!

We are beginning the third trimester of this pregnancy, a fact I can hardly believe! It feels like just yesterday we were happily announcing our big news to our family & friends in November. Week 29 has begun today. Wow!

The very excited parents to be!


We are having a good time putting our home in order. Things are slowly but surely coming together which is making me so happy. I have never been in nesting mode as much as I am these days! We get to go pick up our crib today and I am just so excited to start really putting the nursery together for our baby! I even think I've found the perfect chair to put in there for my inevitable sleepless nights. This mom-to-be needs to be comfortable, at least! Matt has been working SO hard on our house - he has done such a great job and not complained even once. The paint in the bedroom & nursery look so awesome!! He now deserves a weeklong beach vacation. Next year, we hope!

We had our first dinner party Saturday night - a total of nine people were there. It was so much fun!






Some pics of the house






Everyone is so thougtfully asking how I'm doing and how I feel, and I can honestly say I am feeling really great. I have the occasional backaches of course, and my feet hurt at the end of the day, I have my moments of intense crying for absolutely no reason (who knew Desperate Housewifes would come back on tv and make me cry?!? But Gabby & Carlos were so cute last night!) and I'm really, really tired at the end of most days. But, all in all, I feel really good and have absolutely nothing to complain about. As the baby's big birthday approaches, everything becomes more and more real, the due date that was once so far off is now closer than ever and I can't wait. Nervous of course, but very excited to begin adding to our family.

These last weeks I have signed up for some pregnancy fitness classes, pregnancy pilates, yoga and the one I'm looking forward to the most - pregnancy water aerobics. I cannot wait to feel light in that pool! Our weekends are pretty much booked, we're going to try and go to a few Braves games in May, go see some movies, and I plan on sleeping a LOT. If my back will allow me that luxury!!

A long week of work...

What a week! This past week was one of my vacation weeks for the year, so we spent some time repainting the master bedroom in our new home. We didn't take pictures before painting, but I included the pictures from the real estate listing for comparison. The room was originally a light purple with white trim; we painted the room to a Gaucomole Green with a Winter White trim. As you can see, we also picked up an armoire from Craigslist for dirt cheap. Amazingly, it fit in the little area between the closets perfectly. Take a look below...

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Baby, Baby, Baby

This morning was our 28 week ultrasound and we were both so looking forward to it! However, 8:30 AM proved to be a bit too early for our baby. Apparently this is naptime, and NO one and NO noise was going to wake this sweetpea up! After taking measurements and getting good results, (thank you Lord), she tried to poke around to wake him or her up, to no avail. So finally she got a buzzer out, and after a few seconds, we finally got our son or daughter to move around and they were able to do a few more of the necessary measurements. But unfortunately Baby C was in a bad position - Baby is breech right now, which is ok for now because there is still plenty of time for the darling to shift, and I am carrying LOW (which explains A LOT). So we were unable to really see much of anything because Baby C didn't want to cooperate! It was quite funny to be honest. He or she was being so shy - who on earth does this child take after!??Seriously, the legs were right in front of the face! Very funny and really cute, as I do think the personality is developing at this stage - wonder what was going through that precious brain?! We are so thankful though, because everything looked great!

Site Redesign

Hey there everyone! First, we want to thank everyone for checking the blog as often as you do. As I think that I mentioned when we started this little experiment, we wanted to provide a place where friends and family members could check in on us. Since we can't make it home very often, and e-mailing pictures can be problematic, we set this up so that people can check back whenever they want, and not have their inbox inundated with a bunch of pictures of Amy and Matt cooking out, for instance. As you can see from the Site Meter at the bottom of the page, we've had quite a few hits (2,398 as of this writing). We try to update this as often as possible, but as you can see, only the most exciting things in our life make it to the blog, so you can imagine the stuff that doesn't make the cut.