Painting the nursery.

We won't know the gender of the baby until later in June, but I wanted to get a head start on the painting. We decided to make it neutral so we wouldn't have to change it later. Here is the room originally.


I decided to do two colors, green and yellow.


Here are the two colors together. J is going to add some moulding to divide the colors and then I can add some decorative knobs to the moulding and hang frames from the knobs. I'll post a picture when that finally gets done.

Deck Party!

J wanted to tell our college friends in person that we're expecting, so what better way to do it than have a deck party. Everyone was excited. We got to eat outside on the deck, but it was a bit chilly. We had guacamole, crab dip, grilled chicken, beef skewers, potato salad, bread, yummy brownie dessert and lots of beer. Even the kids wanted to get in on the beer, but they weren't allowed. Mean daddy!



Mom, can I have just one?

Baby heartbeat.

We had a 16 week check up on 5/23. The baby was moving around a lot so the nurse had a hard time finding the heartbeat. You can hear it really well at the end. Hopefully next time we'll get a better clip.


Here's a picture of me at 16 weeks.

Trip to DM!

We drove in the new car to DM for N's baby shower. They are due in July. The morning of the shower, we went to the Farmer's Market. I went with K&B and R&M. We got there at 7am on a Saturday morning!! Even though R was a bit hungover, he still went but J decided to sleep in instead!



Here's N opening a gift. We played a few games, had awesome chocolate cake and opened a lot of gifts.

MY new CAR!!!!!

After having the zx2 for 10 years, it was about time to get a new car. I went with my mom to test drive, but ended up driving home with a new '08 Nissan Maxima. I LOVE IT! Justin was on a conference call so I texted him to say goodbye to his car.

My first Mother's Day

Each year I make my mom a corsage and we go to church with her. She always the biggest and nicest corsage and gets lots of comments. This was also my first Mother's Day. Who knows maybe next year J will make me a corsage. HA HA! J got me flowers, a mother-to-be drink book, some chocolate and a maternity tank top. I was bugging him about getting me stuff but he kept telling me I wasn't a mother yet, but he surprised me.

Top Golf Champion

Who knew that I could golf?! Maybe the baby will be the next Tiger Woods! At my work's off-site meeting, we had a golfing event where we shot golf balls with chips in them out into targets in the field. Each target had a value associated with it if the ball went into a target slot. I won!