pictures...

Before we go into the caverns.
Captain Stephanie Morgan.
Shannon, her friend Jenn, Clinton, me in the caverns
goofing off

Blurry picture of Brian getting his certificate.
Man I look all over the place.
All of us.
Linville Falls.
Clinton and I in the caverns

new updates...

So I am once again slacking about updating this thing. I know, I'm not getting off to the GREATEST start in the world, but oh well. The past few weeks have been a major blur. Since we updated this, we have spent a whole lot of money on the baby room getting stuff for her. We bought the furniture, the infant seat, the monitor, basically everything that was on our registry that was too expensive for most people. We thought about it and we didn't want my parents buying everything for us, which we knew they would if we didn't get it ourselves. We wanted to attempt to get some stuff, and let them get the stuff I know they really wanted to buy, like clothes and toys in the future. I will have to take pictures of everything once we get them unpacked to show off. (May 17th)

That same weekend, we watched Brian finally graduate from BLET (police academy) and then we took him out to dinner with the family. That was an interesting weekend, to put it lightly. People are dumb, that's all I want to say about that! (May 16th)

The next weekend was Memorial Day weekend. Clinton and I went to the cabin to get away from Hickory/Newton and to spend some time together. We had a lot of fun. We met Shannon's friend, Jen, and learned that I am a good hiker, even at 7 months! We explored the Linville Falls, the Caverns, the candy store, and managed to look through the shops on the parkway. Shannon and Jen left on Sunday, so Clinton and I were hoping to be able to spend the day just lounging around, maybe going to the bookstore to get him a book (because certain people forget themselves). Brian and his girlfriend ended up stopping by, so we went out with them for awhile to get out of the cabin. I beat Clinton at chess and he won the Chinese Checkers game we played. Overall, it was a really good weekend.

When we got back, we decided to start looking for pictures to be painted on the baby's wall, and colors to paint the rest of the walls. We decided on a very pretty picture of pooh and his friends on the big wall with pooh's tree, and then on the small wall where the closet is, will be a picture of pooh in the air with his balloon and bees all around. The two side walls will be a very light green, and the wall with the balloon will be a pretty light yellow color. Then we thought it would be fun to paint clouds on the ceiling, so that's what we are going to do!

Tomorrow, I am going to put up lots of pictures of all of this so it is not just a bunch of writing all the time!

Baby pictures...

We know we have the cutest baby in the world and she's not even out yet :) This week, we went to get sonograms in 4D of our beautiful child. It was really cool getting to watch her move around, we even got it on video. Clinton loves it so that he can use it to show her boyfriends in the future! She likes to sleep like mommy does on her belly (prebaby).
We are really hoping this is HER leg and not another baby. She is playing with her hands and feet with a big smile on her face.

This was taken on Wednesday when she was asleep the whole time. We had to go twice because Wednesday she was asleep and didn't want to come out of my hip area, and on Saturday she couldn't stop moving! The lady asked on Wednesday to make sure she was up, and she really followed directions...almost too good! It was hard to get very clear pictures because she was moving so much. It was a lot of fun though.

On Sunday, I got my first Mother's Day flower. I was so excited. We went over to my grandparents for dinner with the whole family. Mom listened to the crazy pregnant lady and made an entire salad bar for everyone, even though grandma thought she was dumb for doing it. That's what she gets for listening to me :) but I was extrememly happy about it! It made us both happy. Then we also had chicken and steaks, but I didn't feel like really eating anything but a baked potato and my yummy salad. We were there for a really long time, even though I didn't say all that much to one of my cousins. He is still on my not-nice list because he didn't come to our wedding and never apologized for it, at least to me. He's too afraid of me for some reason...probably because I would tell him that he is dumb like no one else has the guts to do.

We are also concerned about poor Cole because he has a bladder infection. He's heading to the vet tomorrow so hopefully they can fix him. Oreo was attacking my belly today while I was asleep because the baby was moving around and she could see my belly moving. It was very cute because I woke up halfway through her craziness. It will be interesting to see how all of our little children act when the baby gets here!

The weekend and birthday update...

My birthday was wonderful. It was a good day and then we came back to the house and dad and Clinton played Wii golf for almost 3 hours! Before dad got to the house, Clinton was working on his computer and our oldest son Mac decided that he wanted to help. The boys were so cute working on the computer, and Mac seemed very interested in what was going on inside.


Oreo and I are sitting on the couch relaxing after she got her stitches out. We were waiting on the rest of the family to get to our house, and she couldn't get enough of Clinton rubbing her belly in between.
This is dad's attempt at making "25" out of candles. He tried real hard. I got several shirts from "Brian" and some scrapbook stuff and a printer from mom and dad. Shannon gave me this necklace that said "sing like no one is listening." It's really cute. Emilee gave me a music card and a gift card for Maturnity Motherhood to buy some summer clothes that were cute. Clinton gave me two nice shirts and a pair of capris. He also gave me this shirt that said "touch my belly, lose a hand." I also got this really amazingly nice windchime that has frogs on it. It was really heavy and it is guaranteed for life. I was really happy since my bamboo ones finally died outside.

On Saturday we went to Amanda's wedding. It was very simple but nice. We had a good time dancing with Stacy and George. The food was good for being the country club. The rest of the weekend we just laid around or cleaned the house. It was a random weekend of stuff that we did. We had to take my printer to get fixed because it wouldn't work correctly with my computer. It does now and it's wonderful. We also watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, which was cute. It was a little sad but the message behind it was cute. I also talked to Catherine and she is coming down this weekend to hang out a bit. Tiff worked her first big expo at her new job and she seemed to really like it. I hope it stays that way because she is really good at what she does.

oh wow...

oh wow at how long it has been since we last updated this! Okay...so here goes...we have been on the move quite a bit the last week or so. I went to a jewelry party, yippie, and got a really cute anklet for me and something for mom for mother's day. Then it was work, work, work for a few days. We finally went out with Stacey and George for the first time in over two months! It was so fun though. The boys were being hit on by the waiter, and of course they flirted back just enough to get our drinks and salads free. Stacey and I were laughing the whole time!

Friday night we had our friend Beth a 50th birthday party at El Chapala in Hickory. She had no idea we had been planning it for two weeks. I love hole-in-the-wall places to eat, but they are usually the best food. I had decorated the table with lots of 50 stuff and John, Brenda, Clinton, and I were sitting there for like 30 minutes before Beth and Mike showed up. Mike had to physically push her over to our table because she was oblivious to us waving our hands frantically in the air. We had to wait another 30 minutes almost before Patty, John, LaGina, and Gene decided to show up. They kept getting lost because some of them were not from around here. LaGina just didn't remember the name of the place so she and her husband kept driving right past it. We were there until like 9:00, and then we ran to my grandparents house to get her truck.

Then I ran to mom and dad's and picked up the seed spreader and met Clinton at Lowes. We got the grass seed stuff and the last of the retaining block for the yard. Saturday Clinton got up really early and started working on the yard until Brendan got to the house. I went by mom and dad's to get my headlight fixed. Dad called me at like 8 and said that he would fix it for me to save us a little money. We greatly appreciated that one! Shannon and Brendan came to our house to help at like 2:00, and the boys were working on the yard and wall until like 8, even in the pouring down rain! My hormones enjoyed a sweaty husband working in the yard ;) Shannon and I got some stuff to work on scrapbooks with since I figured I needed to begin the ones I started a year ago for the bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, and our honeymoon. My goal is to finish them before the baby comes. I am trying to keep myself busy this summer so I don't go crazy. Between Shannon's math class (yay i am very excited about this one...really), my scrapbooks, and the baby's room, I feel my summer will be busy. I like busy though. Then Shannon and I got some dinner for the boys and we rented two movies, Juno and I Am Legend. Juno was really cute. We had to stop it in the middle though because there was a tornado warning for Maiden for like an hour. It was kind of scary because I had a really weird dream two nights before about our house being torn down by a tornado. (My dreams have become very vivid and random.)

Today we plan on taking it easy. Clinton is making me breakfast because he is an amazing husband. Then Clinton plans on working on the yard a little more, then taking the truck back to my grandparents. We have to pick up his car at work, and I am going to do a little school work. Hopefully we will be able to watch I Am Legend today and then maybe working on one of the scrapbooks.

On a big exciting note, Clinton felt the baby kick for the first time on Thursday night. He was so excited he grinned even in his sleep! Every time he touches my tummy, the baby kicks or moves. This time he actually felt what she was doing instead of just me telling him she is moving. It really is amazing and I know he is excited. He will be a wonderful dad. The baby already has him wrapped around her little finger, and she's not even born yet! Imagine how bad it will be when she comes out!!! Our other baby girl had all her woman parts taken out and her claws removed. She has been very clingy to Clinton and I since then. We don't mind though, she is very cute about it. The boys just keep looking at her and running away because they think they aren't getting attention. Of course they are, but it's just funny watching them. Cole is just happy he has his perch back at the top of the bookcase. I moved the books around to where it was just movies in the living room and books in the bedroom. That way, he would have a place to run away from Mac. Mac is still Mac. We love them. One big happy family :)

Joe's Surprise 25th!

We got to Raleigh on Saturday morning fairly early. Joe was already out and about with his mom. Tiff was in a fury to get everything decorated. It was so fun working on all of this without Joe knowing ANYTHING! Clinton went to the store as our little gopher while we decorated and started cooking. It was so funly decorated with different fiesta gear. Here is what our table looked like after we finished. We also made Joe wear this wonderful outfit, complete with a sombrero. He looked like a big dork! He got a lot of awesome things, including the amazing game of Apples to Apples (given by us)
Tiff had a cake made into a sombrero to go along with the fiesta theme. It turned out very pretty. It was a cute little cake, just big enough for everyone. Sabrina and LB were there, and so was Sam and Sherry, Max and his mom, and Billy and Beche. The cake was overflowing with candles...not something I am looking forward to!
We are working very hard. Joe was getting ready to whack the pinata. I picked out a wonderful pinata for the party and stuffed it with the cheesiest, funnest, random stuff ever!
Oh the confetti was interesting to get up. I did that especially for Tiff because I knew how much she would LOVE THAT! Poor pinata.
After the party, we went bowling. Everyone left except Clinton and I, and Sabrina and LB. It was a lot of fun. Of course the girls lost, but oh well. We had a huge handicap (me). Then we went back and played board games. Sabrina won Apples to Apples, the boys won Buzzword, and the girls won Guestures. We kicked butt on the games. It was a very good weekend. It sucked we had to go home early, but we had to attend a funeral for Clinton's coworker's grandson. Yeah it is a mouthful. My hormones are driving me crazy though because I cried during the whole dang thing and I hardly ever cry! So we came back and watched a funny movie and I worked on school work to cheer me up. Fun weekend :)

Operation Baby Registery...Complete

So we decided to go ahead and register for baby stuff since we have already had so many people ask where we are registered at. It was definitely an exhausting day because there are so many different things out there for babies, so many different brands, kinds, etc. that it boggles my mind. It took us forever to decide what would be better for us, but now that we have decided, we are excited. If only we would be able to afford everything...we would all be set :)

www.babiesrus.com
www.target.com

There are some really cute things out there for the little one! It was even fun looking at all the cute little pink stuff for our little girl :)