Oh baby!

Here are a couple of pics of our little one. The first is our sweet little one sucking her thumb. :) The next is the not-so-little foot. LOL...

This past weekend I travelled to Gardendale, AL for a Roomie Reunion and baby shower! Our trip started with dinner on Friday night and our 4th Annual Roommate Christmas (btw...can't believe we've been out of school 4 years!) Moving right along...Saturday morning we had a baby shower for Crystal. She is expecting a baby boy, to be named Collin, due at the end of February. We had a great time and she got tons of cute stuff! It really made me excited about our little girl - and motivated to get some stuff marked off my to-do list! :)

Here is Crystal and me - with babies in tow. Ha!

Here are the roomies before the shower. Can't get enough of these girls!!! Wish we could get together more!!! (From left to right, Sarah, Kerra, Crystal, me, and Allison)

I have already started back to school. I am currently taking a Jan term class at Union and will start a new class in February. While I am still working out the kinks in my schedule, the plan is to be finished with class by the beginning of April. Jamie and I are beginning to get some things marked off the list in preparation for baby. Picking out a name is not one of those things. Ha! I'm honestly not that concerned about her name at this point...maybe I should be! We have ordered a crib and I have picked out the material for the bedding. My grandmother has graciously agreed to make it for us. :) We will have pictures up as we make continual progress! Stay tuned...

Christmas & New Year's Fun!

We started our "official" Christmas celebrations by doing presents with Jamie's family a couple of days before Christmas.

This is our niece, Taylor, showing off her gift from Aunt Lauren and Unlce Jamie. She looks like she's not smiling...but that's because she's saying "cheese."

Our traditional picture in front of Jamie's parents tree.

We then left on the morning of Christmas Eve to go to my grandmother's house in Kentucky. Jamie and I both got houseshoes - his, of course, were camo. :) Here we are showing them off.

This is after church the Sunday after Christmas by my grandmother's tree. As I was putting these on here I realized we never got a picture in front of OUR tree. LOL... Oh well!

For New Year's Eve we headed to Nashville with our friends Allison and Drew. We then met up with another friend, Kerra for food and fun. :) We ate at Stony River Steak house.

Jamie and me by the fireplace at Stony River.

Allison, Kerra and I...

Kerra then took us to a place called Sweet Ce Ce's for some dessert. It was so good! And such a fun little place!

Me eating the last of my ice cream...

Jamie...being Jamie. Hiding behind the Christmas tree on the table.

We had so much fun hanging out with Allison and Drew, and getting to see Kerra! We spent the rest of the night watching the UT ballgame (and by WE, I mean...THEM), playing games and ringing in the New Year. Happy 2010!

Our favorite Christmas gift!

Since I didn't care if we found out the sex of the baby or not, and Jamie definitely wanted to find out, our compromise was to go for our ultrasound the Monday before Christmas, and have the lady place the pictures in an envelope for us to open on Christmas. I then proceeded to wrap the envelope to ensure that no one tampered with it before it was time to open it! Ha! WE actually opened our gift on Christmas Eve right before we went to bed, then shared the contents of our precious envelope with our families on Christmas morning.

This is what it looked like wrapped...

Opening...there's the envelope!

I was nice and let Jamie look first - IT'S A GIRL!!!

This is my kind-of-real-surprise-kind-of-fake-surprise face. :) (and please remember this was RIGHT BEFORE bed...hence my super cool outfit!)

ALMOST everyone we knew was convinced it was a boy prior to seeing these pictures. So, we had not even begun discussing GIRL names. While our plan is to not reveal the final name until the baby arrives, at this rate...we're not going to have one by then anyway! Ha! I will put some ultrasound pics up in the next few days along with pictures from our Christmas and New Year's travels...

Happy New Year!

Long time, no blog...

(Well, it won't let me move this picture to the bottom, but Jamie went on a 10-day hunting trip to Texas and came back with this beard. It only lasted a few hours!)

SO...I must admit when I began this "blogging adventure" I expected to be much better at it then I am! Ha! However, after a very long, BUSY semester, I think I'm starting to settle in to a new schedule a little bit more. Here's what we've been up to over the last few months.

This was baby's first gift...LOL...purchased at a store called "Knife Works" when we went to Gatlinburg. It was a very, ahem, thoughtful? gift from Jamie's sister and sister-in-law.

Again, our trip to Gatlinburg...it rained the day we decided to go into the mountains and grill out.

We also made it to the Dixie Stampede while we were there. This is Jamie being a goob.

The time has come...

to share our big news...

Our family is growing! The baby is due May 6, 7 or 9 depending on who you ask. :) I've been telling people the 6, Jamie's been telling people the 7 and the ultrasound tech said the 9. SO...early May. More info to come later - just wanted to share our excitement!

Wasting time...

Well, as I sit here trying to eat up the last of my 4 1/2 hours between classes at Union (sigh...), I thought I would write a little note. As some of you may know I have very recently changed jobs! I am currently working two days a week at Savannah Christian Academy teaching elementary Spanish in grades kindergarten through 8. (Whoa! I know...what were they thinking letting me do this?! ;) ) I've really enjoyed it so far and it will be great experience for the future. I've already had some funny moments with the students - like the kindergarten student who told me I cheated at "I Spy"...you can't pull one over on a 5-year-old! Ha!

As I mentioned, I'm taking classes at Union working towards a Masters of Arts in Education degree as well as licensure in Teaching English as a Second Language and Elementary Ed (K-6). So, I spend two days a week wandering around Jackson in between classes. Ha! As Jamie will testify, my main challenge is not purchasing things as I wander! The sooner Nekayeh, David and Norah Kate get to Jackson the better!!! (You too Chula.)

Jamie is currently busy starting up his fall hunting season...anyone like to eat dove??? And working and golfing as time allows. LOL...

Furniture! Yay!!!

Here it is! We have furniture to sit on again!