Busy day.....

This morning I got to work and they were all dying to know the news, was it a little boy or a little girl!  I showed them the ultrasound picture that stated "GIRL" and after that all I heard were screams!  By mid-morning they put this cute little basket full of suckers in the break room for the winning girls' team!

The boy guessers got a cute basket full of suckers too, even though they didn't guess correctly!

It was a very cute idea and I think they all had fun with it!  Thanks girls!

Tonight I met Dixie and Sandy at Panera Bread for supper.....we also Skyped Dina, she is still living in Guatemala till the beginning of June.  I haven't talked to her in a while so it was fun catch up with her.....I also got to tell her our news, not only were we expecting but that we are having a girl......she was pretty excited as were Dixie and Sandy!

Here is a picture of Sandy and Dixie talking to Dina via the computer.....

That ends my busy day....this busy week is catching up with me....good thing tomorrow is FRIDAY!


One last picture to end the night, this is a picture I forgot to put in my last posting.....this is the cute oneies that Carson showed up with last night, he is going to be the "Best Big Cousin"....

It's a.....

GIRL!  We found out that come August we will have a little girl on our hands!

We celebrated last night with a "Gender Reveal Party" at our house with our family!  I thought it was a fun way to tell them, hopefully they enjoyed themselves as well!

All week I had them submit their guesses if it was going to be a boy or a girl.....then I ordered some cupcakes that had little plastic stars inside that said "It's A Girl" and in order for everybody to find out what gender we were having they had to bite into the cupcake.

Lanette, Ang and Carolyn though we were having a boy........

And Dad, Chris (who must be way off to the side), Mom/Carson, Gary and Dennis thought it was a girl....

                                                                                ...good job girl guessers!

Here's Nathan enjoying his cupcake....

Before everybody left we gave them a "HERESHEIS" Hershey's candy bar with a copy of our ultrasound picture on the back!

Now we just have to wait till August to meet this little girl!

Guess the Gender...

The girls at work are having so much fun guessing the gender of the baby, they even put up two little jars in the break room, one with a blue rattle and another with a pink one.  They are having people guess which sex we are having by writing their names on a little piece of paper and putting it in the jar of their choice. 

I hear there is a fun prize for the winning "gender team"! 
Who will win?  Find out tomorrow?

Anniversary!

This is us just 2 years ago.....

Tonight I came home to flowers on the table......

We thought about going out for supper tonight for our 2 year Anniversary but after a weekend of a little stomach bug for both Nathan and I, we decided it was probably better if we stayed home....so we had steak and potatoes on the grill and green beans, yummy!

We also had many family and friends either call, text and/or send us cards or gifts for our Anniversary, thank you everybody for making our day "extra" special.  I can't believe how fast these last two years have gone! 

Check List

We have another thing to check off our (okay my) check list of things I would like to do around the house.....

Nathan got the hallway upstairs painted this past week and it looks so much better, no more ivy stencil on the walls.....yeah!  We weren't really planning on painting the walls right now but you know how it goes... we painted the baby's room in order to get the carpet put in.....which lead to painting the trim in the spare bedroom so we could change the carpet in there.....which lead to getting new doors in the baby's room, spare bedroom and our bedroom.  Now that the doors are white I thought we needed to change the trim to white (it used to be tan) which you know lead to painting the walls tan instead of white.  Did you follow all that?

Here's my little worker bee......

Back to normal.....but looking much better, tan walls with white trim.....

Thanks honey.....it looks awesome and I promise I think I'm done with the painting projects for at least a little bit!

Have a great weekend everybody!

Week #19

We've made it another week, I can't believe we are at the 1/2 way mark next Wednesday plus we get to find out if we're having a little girl or a little boy....stay tuned.  I hope these next 20 weeks go as fast as the first 20 weeks, minus the being sick part....I could do away with that forever!

Well we received our Week #19 gift a little early, got it delivered to me at work yesterday....which was a fun surprise....so I took it home and told Nathan that he could open this one, which he was so excited about!

As you can see my Mom and is getting pretty creative with her gift wrap/decorating skills......

And here's what's inside......

                                           ....a cute picture frame, Ho Lo stickers and a gift card!

My favorite!  My Mom & Sister know me all too well!  Thinking ahead, I have a feeling that going to Ho Lo will have to be one of the baby's first outings :)

We've been enjoying a some what relaxing week at home, trying to get some odds and ends inside the house done since the weather has been cold and rainy out...I thought last Sunday was the 1st day of Spring....so bring on the sunshine!

Weekend of Fun!

What a fun yet busy weekend....Friday night we worked around home, cleaning, working on the laundry and any other odds and ends we could get done before headed to bed. 

Saturday morning I headed to Des Moines with Mom, Ang and Carson.....our first stop was of course lunch, Texas Roadhouse....yummy!  Then it was off to Homemakers where we spent hour after hour shopping for baby furniture, chairs and anything in between.  I ended up finding a white dresser (in the clearance section - yeah) for the baby's room plus a crib w/mattress.  Ang got a new chair for her living room and Mom got a new chair for one of her tenants.  Now we just have to wait till April 6th when all of our goodies are delivered.

While I spend the day with the girls Nathan headed off to Greene right away in the morning with Gary to buy his new toy......a new John Deere riding lawn mower.  Boys and their toys!

Later in the afternoon the guys drove to Des Moines to meet up with us....we all met at Brandie's house and took off from there, 1st stop was to an Irish Pub for a quick drink, then it was off to the "Funny Bone" for a night of laughs and supper!

Toast to Janis' birthday.....

And of course Carl had to get himself on the stage with the comedians before we left.......oh Carl!

After getting home really late Saturday night night and/or early Sunday morning we spent Sunday morning sleeping in and catching up on things around the house.  I ran some errands right away in the morning while Nathan stayed home and painted the trim upstairs in the hallway.....hopefully within the next day or so he will get the walls painted.......then I think we're (he's) done paiting for a while.