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....

house update!

we have been kind of busy around here....we haven't really done much ourselves to the house but for some reason our weekends seem to be busy doing things around the house.

we have drywall!! the painters came today (i lucked out!) painting was supposed to be my job but one of the drywall workers gave us his cousin's business card. i called him to give us a bid for our floors and he gave us an offer we couldn't refuse to do our slate entry, bathroom, and study, wood floors, painting, trim and crown molding. they will be finish in 10 days (approximately)! yahoo!!

russ's only goal is to be finished by the time the broncos season starts....i do believe we are well on our way to that goal!

fence!

we almost have our fence complete....it's turning into a yard! one step closer to grass!! i know little val will be happy...he's not too fond of the dirt when doing his business (if you know what i mean).

it's fun because i can see many fun memories in our future in this house and backyard....we will get to bring a baby home someday to this house, we will have birthday parties, bbq's on the deck, having fun family times...it has been and will continue to be a fun adventure.