Fun times in Iowa!

Scott and i had a grand time in iowa this weekend. The weather was nice, and the food and company of family was great! You may notice my blog posts coming from my iphone these days. Work has decided to block facebook and blogs. Boo.




Johnny got up around FIVE to go to farmers market. This week he made these delicious sandwiches. really. they were yummy.






The cutest nephew ever!






Nine months and six months! Can you believe it?! Johnny and Kari's little Eva will be here before you know it!

It's a GIRL!!!

the deck

So I am sitting here at work bored out of my mind. And I realized I haven't posted any pics of the house in a while. We are officially moved in to the master bed/bath! So exciting let me tell you. Except for putting the drawers in our vanity, we are finished with that project. Just in time for me to move on to the baby's room:) So I will try to post pics of our bedroom and bathroom once the vanity is finished.

For now, here is a little teaser. A couple weekends ago, Scott and I went to St. Louis for a concert. We met up with his sister and her husband for a brunch on Sunday and passed a World Market store. I had never heard of the place but Mary Margaret(his sister) had and so after brunch we all went over and looked around. Scott and I ended up finding some deck furniture and a nightstand for a GREAT price! p.s. I wish we had a World Market here in Little Rock. We didn't get the potted plant there though. That was a very nice gift from my mom-in-law. Aren't the flowers pretty?

I am happy to say that now when you drive by our house, it can longer be said "there's the hillbilly house of the neighborhood" hah!

4 Months!

I can't believe I will to be four months on Monday! The first three months went by SO slow, but this past month has flown by. And let me tell you, I have really started to enjoy being pregnant.

No more waking up with gingerale and crackers to tell me good morning. No more getting to work, sitting down and fighting the urge to hit the bathroom and make it all feel better. I was pretty stubborn about not throwing up. And the best part, drumroll please, I can eat DINNER and love eating it! I would feel good all afternoon and really early evening. Then once Scott started cooking something I had asked for, I would all the sudden not be hungry and want to run away from it.

I think the one thing God has already started teaching me through this is sacrifice. Some of the little things that I have held on to I have had to give up. This summer, I have missed wakeboarding! I miss my iced starbucks latte(although Im thinking about splurging this weekend:)). I miss my glass of wine on Friday's after work. I miss not being able to take claritin D...seriously! I miss the way my body looked four months ago. And I know this is just the beginning of sacrifices I will be making.

What's makes it all worth it is knowing that precious living being inside of me is still there! Sometimes I feel like I get caught up in counting the days and and looking for the next big moment that I fail to appreciate what's living inside of me. What God has so graciously given Scott and I. How amazing it is! When I first found out I was pregnant, I signed up for a weekly update from babycenter.com on the developments of our baby each week. How big it is, how much it weighs, what was forming, ect...Unbelievable! By week five, at just the size of a sesame, the heart is already starting to beat. And now, almost eleven weeks later, at the size of an avacado, it's moving around fully functional. I think I even felt it move for the first time this week. It felt like a little bubble. I have had this verse in my head a lot lately and thought I would share it with you.

Ps. 139:14 "I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."