Catch you up part two

In california I got my hair cut, then went to take maternity pictures which you will see later.

We had a family dinner with the whole family! We are growing so fast.

And then we opened some presents from the fam :). James, of course, doing the honors of trying on the baby stuff. Isn't he cute?

Time to catch you up....

We went home to CA this weekend and saw everyone that we love! So now I need to catch you up on what we have been up to.

We were welcomed at the airport with oohs-and-aahhs over the growing belly.

Then it was time to eat. I had a list of all the places that I wanted to eat that they don't have in GA, like real mexican food. So we went to Miguel's.

Killing Bugs

So I am not so good at the killing of bugs. I am a typical girl. I jump and stand on a chair and scream for my husband to come and kill them. The worst is the spiders. I try to kill them so they don't eat me, but I always miss squishing them and they run away and come back to eat me later.

So this was on such spider. It was just outside of our front door and it was huge. So I did the only logical thing.
Called James....

He thinks that it is so funny to watch my expressions, so he took a few pictures.
Here I am begging so nicely for My dear protector to save me from the evil spider. It took a lot of convincing to get him to do the "murdering" as he calls it.

And here I am after he killed the spider.

belly update

Week 30
I thought that this was the classic picture of
barefoot and pregnant.
Time is flying by so fast!
The average baby is born between 38-40 weeks....
I am not a math genius,
BUT
that leaves only 8 weeks.
I am in single digits
eek
these last 7 months have flown by
I am sure that the next 2 will also!
Until then I will keep the updates coming.

Welcome to the neighborhood

Only in the south....
We were welcomed to the neighborhood with a large food basket topped off with a big red bow. I have never had a welcome basket before. In our last house we only know 1 neighbor because my parents happen to know them and they told us the house was for sale. I am not sure what has been coming over us. We are outside doing yard work, planting plants, walking around the neighborhood and talking to our neighbors. Its fun.
I am still struggling with making this feel like home. Hopefully we will get some pictures on the walls, maybe then it will feel a little more like home.

Getting ready for baby

Well James is not too sure why we are having to buy tons of stuff for this new member of our family that is so small. He reluctantly went driving around looking at garage sales and we found the exact crib that I have been wanting. We are both realizing not only how expensive this little thing is, but how different our lives are going to be when he gets here.
I am so amazed every day, every time he kicks and squirms, that I have such a miracle growing inside of me.
I am so blessed to be able to grow this baby and care fro it before he is even here. I am not taking this job lightly. It requires lots of sleeping and resting while James is working and even generous amounts of ice cream.

Sorry I have to get sentimental and share my prayer for tonight:
Lord, I will never be worthy of this life that you have trusted us to show this child who You are. Show me how to love him, how to discipline him and more importantly how to point him to you.

Belly update

29 weeks and getting bigger and bigger.

Belly update

Week 28. I can't believe it. I know that I am feeling bigger, but I am really looking bigger too! It's crazy. I'm going to have a baby.

Atlanta's Gas situation... there is none

So we are only a half of a tank down, but James has a few clients this week to call on, so he really wanted to get some gas tonight. You see Atlanta is having some problems. We have almost no gas. There is only about 2-3 gas stations with gas in the city that we live in. I am not sure why we still have no gas here. When we went to FL last weekend every gas station was open for service, but not here. And it is crazy. James waited in line for an hour and a half last week to fill up. Did I mention that it is up to 4.09 a gallon. CRAZY!

So we went to COSTCO... after it closed to see how the line situation was. And it was not that bad. They had cones out and were directing the traffic so everything was fair and it moved right along. It only took us 20 minutes to top it off. So here we are in line at COSTCO

We heard that people are even camping out at gas stations because they heard that a shipment was coming in. Sure enough we drove by one gas station and there was a HUGE line down the street as the big tanker truck unloaded its gas. There was at least 20 cars waiting in the street and there were already cars staked out at the pumps... and this is at 11:30 pm. Wow people.

Frame me

These are some of the pictures that we are going to have to frame. James took a few and I took a few. I am so proud of my creative hubby. Just wanted to share.

What are your favorite photos?