happy thanksgiving!

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

~Melody Beattie

one years old!

Our precious nephew, Myles Jacob, turns 1 today! Happy birthday cutie patootie! We love you and can't wait to celebrate with you this weekend! :)

naomi claire

Congratulations to our friends, Phil and Allison, on the birth of their beautiful daughter, Naomi Claire! We are so happy for you guys and can't wait to meet her!

preggo update

We're about to enter week 30 of our preggo journey! It's amazing how fast time has gone by! Our little one is going to be here in about 10 weeks! Tim has been working hard on finishing up a couple of rooms in the basement so we can move our office and spare bed down there. Once this is done, we can paint and put together the nursery!


Our little one is growing big and strong and continues to amaze us as she twists and turns and bumps out at us. She should be around 15 inches long and weigh about 3 pounds now. We are seeing our doctor now every two weeks and we are going to be starting our child birth class on Monday night!

We were recently blessed by a baby shower thrown by my mom and sisters. We are so grateful for the way our family loves and supports us! Here's a picture of Tim and I taken that day. My sister, Tara, used her photography skills to take some additional pics of Tim and I and our baby bump. They turned out great and I plan on posting some of them as well as other pics she took at the shower soon!

baking

Tim and I enjoyed a night of Fall festivities with our youth group kids last week complete with pumpkin carving, a costume contest, games, bonfire and a marshmallow fight (Tim's highlight of the night). Our "baker and bun in the oven" costume was a hit! :)

jess made the press!

My sister, Jessica, is a personal trainer and owns Valeo Personal Training, LLC. She was nominated to be featured in an article that the GR Press publishes every Tuesday about people who make living a healthy lifestyle a priority. She was picked and featured in yesterday's paper!! Congrats Jess and thanks for all that you do to inspire the rest of us!

home stretch!

We are officially entering the 3rd and final trimester of the pregnancy! One of the things we've enjoyed most during this journey is reading our weekly updates from babycenter.com regarding the development of our little one and all of the things I can expect to feel etc. during that week. We've been feeling and "seeing" her move for quite a while, however, the past few days we've been able to feel more pronounced features like her head or feet bulging out. Tim especially enjoys "playing with her" as she's been starting to kick back when he taps on my belly.
Here's a little blurp and picture about this week (28 weeks)!


"By this week, your baby weighs a little over 2 pounds and measures almost 15 inches from the top of her head to her heels. She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes. With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through your womb. She's also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world." (www.babycenter.com)