am i having a niece or nephew???

that has been the question in my mind since july but especially since we found out we were having a girl!!!

i'm having a NEPHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am SOOOO thrilled and i can't wait to kiss his cheeks!

my parents traveled from colorado to austin to denton on tuesday to go to emilie and gabe's appointment as well....they found out this afternoon (wednesday, october 28th!) that they are having a precious baby boy.

i know a name they are thinking of but i'm keeping it quiet for now :)

congratulations emilie and gabe! ya'll are going to make wonderful parents...i think our babies are going to be best buds :) cousins for life!!!!! auntie lauren already loves him so much! i'd be out shopping if it weren't for the foot of snow outside! boy clothes here i come this weekend though!

first snow day of the year!

it's a beautiful fall wednesday....with 14" of snow out our door!

russ took me to work (he still doesn't trust my snow driving skills...and part of me doesn't either!) and then we headed home about noon today...it's been a LOVELY day at home!

my parents just missed the real snow! i would have been so sad if they would have gotten stuck here (that was being sarcastic!) but i'm so glad they got to go home to here some other wonderful news! (post to follow!)

it's a.....

GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

russ and i found out last thursday, october 22nd that we are going to be blessed with a baby girl! my parents were also there to here the wonderful news! russ and i were extremely shocked (we had in our minds that it was a boy!) but we are so thankful and the doctor gave us an encouraging report that the baby looked healthy...which is all we prayed for...a healthy baby! the spine looked good, we saw 2 hands, and 2 feet, the 4 chambers of the heart...it was incredible seeing and knowing that russ and i created her!

i have started feeling movements and i am so anxious for russ to be able to feel her move too!

mom and dad came to visit!!!

my mom and dad came to visit! they hadn't been here since last year and had not seen our house and all the changes that were made...they saw it when you had to have a vision last august 2008 at our wedding. i remember my mom making the comment to me..."you must really love him" (that's how awful the house was!) hahaha

they flew in on wednesday night...thursday they got to come with russ and i to our ultrasound...it was an exciting one (post to follow!)...after that exciting day we did some shopping! for either pink or blue :)

we just had a wonderful weekend of hanging around the house (russ and dad working on some projects we needed help with) and cooking dinners. we had a couple seasons while they were here...beautiful fall weather which allowed us to take some walks and then it snowed a little too!

they left yesterday (tuesday morning)...i of course was sad but it's always good to know when i will see them next! christmas will be here before we know it.

i love my parents so much...they are such an inspiration to me and i hope russ and i can be parents to our son or daughter like they have been to me (and now are to russ). i had so much fun with you mom and dad! it was fun having you here while making memories! i love you!

making a house feel like home...

russ has been very eager to get pictures on the wall...i finally got an idea of what i wanted to do and got to work...here are some pics of my picture wall i did.

they are pictures that my dad and sister have taken (i think i've taken one) haha

brittany and elijah come to visit!

last weekend brittany and elijah made the trip to colorado! it was elijah's first flight and brittany said he did great! (technically it was his 2nd flight but the 1st time brittany was about 5 months pregnant with him).
i was so excited to have them in our new home! on saturday morning when we woke up it had snowed over night! elijah got to see snow for the first time. saturday we went to the cherry creek area and shopped around. we also went and had burgers at the cherry cricket (supposedly one of the best burgers in denver...they were pretty tasty!) saturday evening we came home and elijah was worn out from all the cold and shopping so we decided to stay at home and we cooked soup and watched a movie. sunday morning we went to church, then we went to boulder later that afternoon. after boulder we headed up to lookout mountain. from there we went to idaho springs and went to colorado's famous pizza restaurant beau jo's! it was a wondeful day and elijah was an angel and just went with the flow!