5 years!

yesterday, john and i celebrated our 5 year anniversary!  he took me out for a surprise evening on the 'spirit of philadelphia.'

 

we had a lovely dinner while floating down the delaware river.  some of the staff provided some live entertainment, and they had an audience participation competition that john was a part of.  shocking, right?  haha.  it was a lip-sync competition.

 

staff entertainment:

dancing:

it was a really great, special evening.  <3

nursery

nothing too earth-shattering to update on other than mom and i did some serious work in the nursery last weekend.  it was AMAZING having her here, first of all, and second of all, she worked harder than i ever expected anyone to.  i guess knowing that it was for her grandbaby gave her lots of energy and incentive.  we worked in excess of 10-12 hours for the couple of days that we had.  the crib and dresser should be delivered this week, so BEFORE and AFTER pics should be coming soon.  woohoo!!  i can't believe a real live baby will be living in that room!  weird!!!!

i got my glucose tolerance test done last week.  don't know the results yet, but i'm pretty sure everything is fine.  wednesday, i get the injection that you have to get if you have a negative blood type.  needles!  i love them! :-/

less than 2 weeks til i fly to north louisiana for my baby shower.  :-)  i can't wait to see all my family!  i'm very much looking forward to this trip.

as crazy as it may sound, i've made the decision to use cloth diapers on my baby.  :-)  i'm kinda excited about it actually.  they've come a long way since i was a baby, otherwise i wouldn't have even considered it.  i'm not THAT much of an environmentalist.  :-)

anyway, nursery pics coming soon.  stay tuned.

Massive Update: Part 4

i took this a week ago at 26 weeks.

Massive Update: Part 3

some girl friends from louisiana came up 2 fridays ago and stayed through this past wednesday.  it was absolutely wonderful and so much fun!  we did a tour of philly the day they arrived and the day they left, a tour of new york city, a tour of our home and church and surrounding towns, a tour of qvc studios, and they got to go to one of our bible studies and sunday morning church service.

pictures!


phildelphia:

with anna

 

 

with ashley

with holly

liberty bell

independence hall

aw...how sweet. :-)

museum of modern art

anna and geno's

cheesesteak!

new york city:

staten island ferry to manhattan:  tarah, holly, ashley, brandon, anna, richie

statue of liberty

times square

subway

minute to win it!

anna and john

richie, em, anna, john

rockefeller center: em, john, tarah, holly, brandon, justin

central park

john and holly

others:

cheeseburger in paradise after our qvc tour

john with baby hands

everyone's favorite place

Massive Update: Part 2

Our little den is now done (except that i didn't order enough carpet tiles on the first go round, so i'm waiting for the rest to come in - i don't think you can even see the missing ones in the pictures).


Before Pics:

 

We then removed all the wallpaper and carpet.  Yikes!

After Pics:

Massive Update: Part 1

The living room is now fully accessorized and is what i consider "finished" (except for my coffee table and sofa table...i want to stain them a darker color).

 

 

 

 

 

 

pictures

living room furniture!  woohoo!  i still haven't done any decorating nor do i have all the pieces of furniture that i eventually want to end up with, BUT this is what i have so far.

o!!!  i guess it might be nice to see the "before" pictures...

last week, we went for another ultrasound because the one from the week before showed something a little out of the ordinary in my uterus.  it turned out to just be a ridge in the placenta which we are told is nothing to worry about, so we're not worried!  it was great, though, because we got lots more pics of the baby as well as some 3D pics.  our baby was folded in half the whole time.  literally...

 the tech called her/him "taco" baby.  it was cracking us up. 

and this was my belly a little over a week ago...

bought my first pair of maternity jeans last week.  SO much more comfortable!  and john was able to feel the baby move last week!  the look on his face was classic!  love it!