It's a Boy!!

Savannah Pictures

So I finally got blogger to work so I could publish some pics from our August trip to Savannah.

We toured this house and apparently it is haunted . This sign was in the basement and no, we did not find any ghostly guests on our camera. Thank goodness!! Scary!!
Collin and I in front of our bed and breakfast, The Eliza Thompson House. No ghostly guests sighted here either.

The Lady and Sons, Paula Deen's restaurant. People were lined up at 9 am to make reservations for the day.

Have you ever touched something dated 1825?? This was a tombstone in the very old Colonial Park cemetery.

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, built in 1873. Too bad photography was not allowed inside. Beautiful!!

Collin with "Paula" inside the Paula Deen store. She was awfully quiet and shy!! haha

I asked her for some secret recipes but her lips were sealed!!

Forsythe park.

Baby, Georgia Trip

Well, I 've been a bad blogger lately, but here are a few happenings in our life.
The big news is that on Sept. 18th we find out whether to buy blue or pink paint for the nursery!! We can't wait!! It feels like it has taken an eternity to be almost 20 weeks and be able to schedule the "big" ultrasound. I have also started to feel some flutters from the baby moving around. And there is no doubt that I am pregnant...I am beginning to show!

Two weeks ago Collin and I went to Atlanta for a wedding of one of his good friends. Collin had a good time catching up with his old buds from Georgia, playing some golf, and staying up way too late for us old folks!! On Sunday, after the wedding was over, we took a short trip to Savannah. Neither one of us had been there before and it is a place that I wanted to "check off the list" as having visited. It is as beautiful as it looks in the postcards and on TV. Lots of moss dripping off the trees and blocks and blocks of old, historical homes. We stayed in one of them which was transformed into a bed and breakfast in the historic district part of the city (The Eliza Thompson House: http://www.elizathompsonhouse.com.) The first day we were there we lined up at 9am to get on the reservation list at The Lady and Sons, Paula Deens restaurant!! Eating at Paula's was a MUST on the to do list. We then took a trolley ride through the city that hit all the highlights of the history in the city. We then went back to a couple of the stops that were of real interest to us so we could spend more time at them. We saw Forsythe Park (the famous fountain), a really old cemetery, The Mercer House, two old churches, one Catholic and one which was the first African American built church (it was also a stop on the Underground Railroad), and we toured a haunted historic home which had entertained Gen. Robert E. Lee. We topped the day off with dinner at The Lady and Sons. I had her southern buffet and Collin tried the peach salsa grouper. The tastiest dish was the fried green tomatoes!! Delish!! Although we got a pic with the fake Paula Deen, the real Paula Deen did not make an appearance that night. We left VERY full and very tired after a really long day of trying to see all the sights of Savannah. We headed back for Big D the next day after having a wonderful time on our "Babymoon."

Note: my computer is acting funny so I am not able to add pics at this time. I will work on it some more after I publish this post.

Thanks Allison!

I got the cutest thing in the mail today. My first onesie!! It is for a baby 6-9 months so it is hard to believe that the baby won't even fit in it at first!! My dear friend in Houston, Allison, sent it to me. Allison has 3 under 4 so I hope she will have lots of advice for me.

We still have about a month to go until we find out if it is a boy or girl. Collin seems to think it is a boy and I have no clue. All I know is that it will be nice to know who has been pinching the nerves in my back!! I haven't felt any kicks yet, but I can just imagine the baby pinching them. Ouch!!

Collin now reports that when he hugs me he can feel my belly between us. That was a first this past weekend!

Second Trimester

I have finally made it into the second trimester of my pregnancy!! I began the 13th week on Friday the 25th. I feel blessed that I have made it this far without any morning sickness, just fatigue and the need to pee all the time!! We still have about 2 more months to go till we find out what we are having. Time has passed by fast so I am sure that Jan. 30th will be here before we know it!!

We are Pregnant!!

Well, time to end the speculation. Yes, it's true, we are pregnant!! I am 10 weeks and the due date is January 30th. We had our first ultrasound on this past Wednesday and everything looked great. The baby is about 1 inch long and the heartbeat was 176 bpm. The baby looked sorta like a gummi bear on the screen and even did a little wiggle dance for our entertainment!! We thank the Lord for this little one and look forward to this adventure!!

Weekend Roundup

"Kids, don't try this at home!!"

Hello all!! I know it has been awhile since the last post, but we've been busy, tired, ect., ect. What a fun weekend we had. We flew out to Indianapolis on Thursday to visit Collin's family. His parents live there as well as one of his sisters and her husband. We got to see lots of Collin's cousins, great aunts and uncles and caught up with them. We also had a good ol' time on a two seater bike. It was a hoot to watch two people try to be coordinated together on this bike. It is harder than it looks!! Steve and Cheryl took top prize!! You can tell by her "anybody can do this" expression above that it was no problem. Collin and Clay look a little tense and frightened on the thing!

On Friday night I was having a hard time falling asleep so I woke Collin up to see if he would talk to me to help me fall asleep. Initially, I didn't know he was so sound asleep but I realized it when he looked at me and asked me if I played baseball!! Literally, he said "Do you play baseball?" It's like that's all he could think up to start some conversation. We both started cracking up!! I think we woke up everyone in the house. So we have an inside joke now where we'll ask each other it they play baseball. God bless him!

Hope you had a great weekend!!