house is finished!!!

our house is now finished....i believe in an earlier post i said i just need to finish the decorating touches, etc. but to see those you'll have to come visit us soon!!!

the backyard fire pit and patio is still a work in progress too....we have a well in our backyard so we had to incorporate that so that is why that is there :) we couldn't plant grass on concrete.

i can't wait for brittany and elijah to come and for my parents to come!!! all in october :)) i'm so excited!!

more pictures from august texas visit!

we had a wonderful time in texas....a few of the highlights!

1) got to tell my family and friends in person! got brittany's captured on camera :) elijah got scared when brittany screamed :( )

2) hanging by the pool with family and friends and their beautiful babies!

3) going with the family to see the bats (emilie and russ had never seen before)...that fam pic is not good but it was the only one i had!! haha my eyes look batty

4) getting to see where emilie works!

5) also getting to see all of hillary's dorm room stuff and being with her before she went to school!

my growing belly....

it is amazing how fast my body is changing...it is such a miracle that is growing inside of me!! i was able to get by with unbuttoning my pants and using a rubber band to hold them on but this week that was not working anymore so i got a belly band! let's just say it has made my week much much more comfortable!

i have only had a few comments on my growing belly....one lady guessed that i was 5 months along....not quite...she felt bad but i tried to tell her it was okay. today, after i left the gym i ran into a group of russ's friends and the first comment out of one of their mouths was "whoah you're getting big!" i must have given him a strange look while saying (and smiling) "well thanks!" because shortly after he texted russ and said for him to apologize to me that he meant no harm in his comment. haha of course russ called him and said "are you calling my wife fat??"

1st picture was the week after we found out (so i was about 5 weeks)

2nd pictures was the week of our 1st sonogram (so i was about 9 weeks)

3rd picture is of today (and i just got done eating dinner!!) - (almost 14 weeks)

first doctor's appointment!

we had our first doctor's appointment on august 19th....russ came with me and we got to see our first sonogram....the baby had a heartbeat of 173! the doctor said everything looked great and that our due date would be march 25, 2010!

my second appointment was on september 16th....russ didn't come with me because it was just a check up but i ended up having a sonogram. (their equipment is a little old - technology wise) and she was trying to find the heartbeat with what looks like a walkie talkie with a cord but couldn't find it....so i had another sonogram so that she could see the heartbeat....it was there!! she said everything looked great and the hearbeat had slowed down to 161 this time.

this week our baby is the size of a lemon...he/she can squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb.

sarah had her baby!!! miles edward jordan

while i was in texas my good friend sarah had her baby!!! it was perfect timing and i got to meet him!

he is a gorgeous baby and had gorgeous hair....it was so fun to get to meet him and to see sarah and eric!

here are some pictures!

congratulations sarah and eric!! i love getting to see him grow on your blog!

going to texas for a surprise visit!

on august 12th i flew out to emilie and gabe's....i had booked the trip a while back when i was overwhelmed with the house....i found a good price ticket and i booked it right away! i had already told my parents i wasn't coming so i decided to keep it a secret....hillary was leaving for college and i wanted to go home one last time before....then we found out we were having a baby and it was perfect timing to go home. russ then decided he had to be home for the once in a lifetime news to tell the in-laws....so he came on thursday.

i stayed at emilie's on wednesday and then we drove down to georgetown on thursday (picked russ up from the airport) and then went to my parents...mom had NO CLUE!!!!

we walked in the back door and she was so excited and shocked! it was SOOO much fun! hillary was at the store and dad was on his way home....we got to surprise them too....it was a success!

russ and i had made a video of our house and in the video we tell them the news in the green room....here are their faces with the news! (emilie was in on it and she was the photographer)

we are having a......

BABY!!!!!!!!

we found out on july 23rd!!! after work one day i stopped by the dollar tree to get some pregnancy tests (thanks britt for the tip!). i went home and debated on taking them right away or should i wait for russ (he was at our favorite store home depot). i couldn't wait any longer...so i took one. and it came back positive! not knowing if the dollar tree pregnancy test was accurate i took another one (i had bought 5 of them). sure enough that one came back positive right away....at that point in knew russ was on his way home so i wrote on a little card. "i think you're going to be a...." and on the back of it i wrote "daddy". he came home and started working on his project (i think we were tearing tying the 2 houses together....i greeted him with a nervous and excited look and said come to the bathroom with me.

he was as shocked as i was and all he kept saying is "cool...cool...are you sure this is for real?" we were in shock for the rest of the night...i don't think it hit us for awhile but we were definitely so excited!!!! russ got me a pregnancy book and baby names book the next day!

the hard part now....keeping a secret until going home on august 12th!

a project almost complete....

here are some pictures in the final stages of the house being finished....

i'm going to be an auntie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on july 24th i found out i was going to be auntie!!!!! i have been looking forward to that day...well since i gave my toast at emilie and gabe's wedding!

on july 24th she was newly pregnant...today she is almost 15 weeks! their baby is healthy and growing and i have already gotten to see her a couple of times and it has been so much fun. i can't wait to love and spoil my little niece or nephew rotten. here are a couple of pictures of her sonograms....CUTEST sonogram EVER! their baby is already praying :))

congratulations emilie and gabe! i can't wait to find out what you're having so i can start shopping for those puma and nike outfits :)

i've been a little behind....

it's been awhile since i've blogged...but for all of my friends that have blogs i have been loyally checking and reading yours!


we have been busy with life, work, and finishing our house! we are finished but now it's those finishing details and decorating that are left....but that's the fun part right? but for now i just want it to be finished and settled. one day at a time!

here it goes on updating my blog....