Baby Eli at 29 weeks

Thank You Cards

I've not been allowed to do anything for the baby shower, so I decided to hand make my Thank You cards as a project to keep me busy. I made these 4 today and I think they are pretty cute! Eli and I are doing great; he's definitely growing because the kicking almost hurts sometimes! LOL We are down to less than 80 days to go! We have an ultrasound scheduled for this coming Wednesday, and then a doctor's appt for June 3rd.

Eli's Rocking Horse

What a great find at the resale shop!

The painted nursery

Well, the nursery is painted! Now we just have to do the black trim in the middle and maybe get some characters painted on there!

Nursery Progress...and a recent card!

Jason managed to get all the walls primed in the nursery last week and has started on the red. It looks like it might take 2 coats of red paint, so stay tuned for that.

I managed to sit down tonight and make a card with my new stamp set! It was so fun to be creative!

Latest Ultrasound Pics

The appointment went great today! We got to see Eli again and finally got a nice face shot. He's definitely all boy too! :) Next week I have my glucose tolerance test and I am not looking forward to that! Only 17 more weeks to go!

Astros Opening Day 2008

The Garden

Jason has been working hard already this year and here's one of his big projects. We decided to try and grow some vegetables and strawberries this year. Here is the garden he made in the back yard. In the second picture, you can see the beans already starting to come up! The tomatoes and lettuce have both made it through the ground, but are still small. It so amazing to look out and see the plants growing and getting bigger every day. I hope this will help out some with our grocery bill! I can't believe how expensive everything keeps getting.

We are both still doing great. I'm excited about baseball season finally starting! We are going to the first home game on Monday night. We'll see how much Eli likes the noise of the game. He's been moving around quite a bit lately and even Jason has been able to feel him. Our next doctor's appointment is on the 15th!

It's a BOY!

We finally found out today! So, Eli it is! (Elias Gregory is the full name, but I've been calling him Eli for months now!) We went shopping today after the ultrasound and got him his first Astros outfit! :) I couldn't find a newborn one, so I still need to get him one of those. We'll go in the gift shop when we go to opening day in a few weeks! I figure I'll be watching most of the games from home this season, but we are at least going to that one.

We went and ordered this furniture for him today. I love it and we got both pieces! I'm going to try a baseball/Astros theme for the room if I can find the stuff. I went to Target today to get this baseball pig bank I've been looking at for months and of course they didn't have it. I knew I should have bought it already! Oh well, hopefully they will restock soon!

Vacation!!!!!

Our room!
The view from our balcony! Fossil Rim Jason made a friend!
Attack of the Zebras!

We had such a great time on our vacation! We went to Granbury, TX for 4 nights and it was so relaxing. Our room was AWESOME, with a comfy king-sized bed and two-person jetted tub! The breakfasts were so delicious and I was lucky to get a couple of the recipes before we left! We took a tour of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in Ft. Worth on Tuesday. It was so interesting to see how our paper money is made! I didn't realize how much work went into making it! The next day we went to Fossil Rim, this great wildlife reserve where we got to drive through and feed lots of animals! We had an ostrich halfway in the car at one point and were surrounded by zebras a little after that. We saw several of the giraffes, but I guess they weren't hungry because they weren't coming up to any of the cars that day. I was sad about that, but the zebras made up for it! After that we went and did a tour of the Dublin Dr. Pepper bottling plant. They still use real sugar there, so the drinks were SO MUCH better than what we get at the store now. Our last day there we did some walking around Granbury and had lunch, took advantage of the swing down by the lake, and had a nice anniversary dinner. It was a very relaxing time and I'm a little sad to be home! (Mom, I hope you enjoy the deer pictures! Be sure to show Dad!)

Baby Gifts

Mom mailed us the most adorable gift this week! My Granny made these awesome burp cloths for the baby! It's so great to see my family be involved. I know its hard with us being so far away. It's just so nice to see that they are all thinking about us and our little-one-to-be!

Furniture!

We finally found a couch we liked yesterday, so hopefully by the middle of the month, this lovely living room suit will be in my living room! We bought the couch, ottoman, and a recliner! It was very comfy and I can already see myself napping in the recliner!

Anniversary Present!

Woo Hoo!!!!!! I finally got my mixer! This year's anniversary gift was appliances, so Jason broke down and got me one. He gave it to me early so I could play around with it this week. We got up and made biscuits in it at about 7am yesterday. It's so nice! I'm going to try to make a homemade cake with homemade icing this week, so we'll see how that turns out! I've wanted one of these for so long and it's so awesome to finally have! I can't wait to start baking!

March 18th!

Mark your calendars! We will find out the sex of the baby! Yay! I do have to admit that I went shopping a little at the beginning of the week and picked up a few outfits. They were winter clothes that were on a great clearance sale at Kohls. If we are having a girl, I will have to return a couple of them since they are blue. Or, keep them since I know about 4 other pregnant friends! I was hoping to go look at baby furniture this weekend but I've been really sick for most of the week. I don't know if its just a cold or maybe the flu, but it's kept me in bed for 3 days now. I started a round of antibiotics last night so I hope that will help it clear up. I always end up with a sinus infection every single winter, so that's probably part of it.

Here are the outfits I got, as well as Horton, who goes along with one of the books we bought a few weeks ago. I also put the new nursery furniture we like. I just have to figure out a place locally to get some of the furniture we like! I decided to focus on cribs that are JPMA certified since they have passed safety tests. I like this set because it is simple yet beautiful. I can see it becoming furniture for a toddler, and then a kid!