Big News!

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!!! We can't believe it happened so fast! We are so happy! By my calculations, my due date is February 18, 2010. It is still very surreal. My confirmation appointment is next Monday, 6/22/09. We will have this blog set to private until I let my job know. I am planning on doing that sometime between this appointment and my next one (7/20/09). I am hoping that everything goes smoothly and they say everything is progressing nicely. It's just the strangest feeling. I have been so exhausted. I feel like I need a nap around 2:30pm everyday haha! I had a little nausea this afternoon, that was no fun. I have also had ALOT of soreness in certain upper regions lol. Other than that, it's been good so far. Brian and Jeanna both think we are going to have a girl. I am leaning that way too, but, I will be ok either way. I just want a healthy baby :)

Bedding

Aren't these so cute?? (if you click on the pics, they get bigger)

Cookout

For the last few months, we have been going to these fun little neighborhood gathering. Just a few couple from the neighborhood getting together for drinks and some food. It has been great getting to know some of our neighbors. Well, it's our turn to host next. I am trying to figure out when we are going to have ours.We are thinking sometime in late June or early July. The last one was the first weekend in May. We are looking forward to hosting. I live for this stuff. It always makes me a little nervous whe we have people over for the first time. I am just so curious as to what they think of our place and everything we have done since we moved in 2 years ago. I also wonder what they think of our food selections, music preferences, etc. I have always been one not to care too much about what others think, but some times it would be nice to know lol.

Well, the hubby is upstairs working on repainting our master bedroom, so i better go join him :)

Our Garden

We did some more planting yesterday and I was inspired to post some of the plants we have planted over the last few months:

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1. Purple Salvia
2. Pink Vinca
3.Not sure :)
4. Gladiolus
5. Lily
6. Purple Mexican Heather
7. Foxglove
8. Dahlia
9. Clematis
10. Autumn Joy Sedum
11. Sedum Angelina
12. Hosta
13. Gulf Stream Nandina
14. English Boxwood


We have really enjoyed fixing our yard up. Brian got pretty into it and actually enjoyed it too :) I just love looking out the back window and seeing everything we have done. It feels much more inviting than it used to.

We have some baby birds in our big bush/tree off the back patio. I am pretty sure they are mockingbirds. They sure are hungry little fellas. They chirp a lot! haha! There is always a net in that same tree every year. I really think it is the same birds that keep coming back. This is what the babies have looked like in the past:
I haven't looked in there this year. I am always too afraid that I will get to close and the mom won't come back or that she will be in the nest and come after me!

Happy Anniversary to Us!!!

I can't believe it has been a year already! Wow, time flies. We have had a really great anniversary weekend. Friday night we went to Jared and I got something sparkly for my anniversary gift! It is a gorgeous vintage inspired cushion-cut amethyst ring. I was trying to find a picture of it to post on here, but they don't have it on their website. I goes really nicely with my wedding set. I love it!


Our dinner last night at The Magnolia Thomas House was fantastic! They did a great job on the rebuild. The food was great. We even had the same crab cakes they served at our wedding :) After dinner we wen to Publix and got cake slices (we didn't freeze our topper) and came back home. We drank champagne out of our toasting flutes and ate our cake and had a wonderful evening! Today is our actual anniversary, but it as been like a 3 day celebration!

Yesterday we went an picked out or storm door. Brian has been installing it for most of the day. It is so nice. The natural light that we get now is unbelievable. The only windows we have on the front side of our lower level are the sidelights next the the door, so it is a MAJOR improvement. We also got paint to re-do the upper half of our master bedroom walls. When we moved in 2 years ago we jumped the gun on painting and we have never really been able to find any bedding that we like that matches the paint. The top half was a really pretty light blue and the bottom was chocolate brown. Now the top half is being repainted in a light khaki-type of color called Sandstone Cove. We painted a color swatch on the wall before we bought the full sized can. I think it is going to look nice, and since it is more neutral, we will have more bedding options. I saw a set that I liked in the Macy's sale ad for this week. I think we will go check it out. We are both super-picky when it comes to bedding. So hopefully I will like it in person. They have it with pink sheets in the picture, but obviously we would go with something more neutral.

So Cute!!

How cute are these?! I love them! I was looking at the HGTV website (I love the Rate My Space section) and I saw these in a nursery on there. I googled the description and found the company that makes them. They are from a company called Doodlefish Kids. The pictures are priced at $189 each, whew! Steep! I think I could probably paint somehthing close to this easily. The frames are what really make it. That could be done too. All-in-all, an easy project when the time comes! Rate My Space is full of so many great ideas. We have a couple of rooms from our own house on the site.

We are so excited because Brian put in a bid on a pretty big job and they accepted it! Finally! He has actually been super busy lately so we can finally get a little relief from the month-to-month stresses that come along with having a household were one person is self-employed. Yay! I am fairly confident that we will be getting a storm door for our anniversary gift to each other since everything worked out. We have been wanting one so bad and it will be a nice practical gift.

I think that in addition to our anniversary dinner plans on Saturday night, we will be going to the Virginia Highlands Summerfest this weekend. We have wanted to go for the last couple of years, but there was always something else going on the same weekend, like our wedding :) Not quite sure if we will go on Saturday or Sunday. I'm thinking Saturday so we are not so rushed to get back for our reservations at 7pm. Either way, it is shaping up to be a good weekend!

HOT!

Wow... summer is most definitely here! It has been SO hot the last few days. It's only the beginning of June, so it will only go up from here. Brian has been crazy busy lately. The calls just keep coming in. It's great because we really need it!

So, this Sunday is our 1 year wedding anniversary! I can't believe it has been a year already. Time really flies. It seems like yesterday. We are going to the Magnolia Thomas House for dinner on Saturday night. They catered our wedding so it should be really nice. The restaurant just re-opened on May 15th. There was a fire last year about 6 weeks before our wedding. I just checked out the new menu online and it looks like they have the crab cakes we had at our wedding, yum! Check out the website, http://www.magnoliathomas.com

I am really looking forward to it! That's all we have planned for now, but who knows, the hubby may surprise me :)