Who knew you could spend two solid days 'Organizing' our house? We took two full truck loads to Goodwill and threw out a ton too. Although everything was in drawers, and hidden from the 'public' it is definately possible that we were on our way to becoming hoarders. I guess when you no longer move yearly, you don't get that yearly Goodwill purge. Thank goodness we had the time to make it through the whole house! I am happy to say we are no longer occupying all three bathrooms and bedroom closets and there is actually space to welcome a Baby Boy into this house!
Now that everything is cleaned out, we have agreed on room purposes, ordered my office furniture to go with Grandpa Bill's old Judge Desk, ordered a new dish washer and kitchen sink, and picked paint colors. Let the 2012 projects begin! I am definately lucky that I have a husband who gets into all of these things and is willing to help organize and re-do several rooms. I couldn't imagine trying to do this without him.
*Notice there will be no pictures from this week, as I have been in sweats and no makeup all week (minus the 2 hours I went to the office and movie we saw last night)
About a week and a half before Ashley's big day, Tim and I found out I am officially Pregnant! Here is the TMI Pregnancy Story, so if you don't want to hear it skip down to 9.
Tim and I had been 'not playing defense' since January, so I was starting to get a little worried we were going to have problems. It seems like every story I had ever heard was 1. we got Pregnant the first month I was off the pill, or 2. we did fertility drugs forever. Looking back, its funny, because as we all know God's timing is always better than our own... And this situation is further proof.
If you know Tim, you know he began publicly begging for children about 6 months after we were married. I wasn't quite ready. Then we came up with the deal, a boat for a baby. The real story is I wanted to have a boat for our kids, because it was one of my favorite parts of growing up. I knew once a baby got here there would be other expenses and Tim would never agree to it, so I told Tim, I am not having a baby until you buy me a boat :) This plan worked perfectly, if I do say so myself. The boat came at the end of last year, and the 'defense' went away at New Years. As summer quickly approached, I started thinking it would be really nice to be able to have a drink and enjoy the boat for a summer before I had to throw pregnancy fatness and hormones into the mix. I threw that idea at Tim to which he responded, you got your boat, now give me a baby lady!
We continued through the summer with no luck in the Baby Department. In the mean time, we did learn a lot about being boat owners. We learned about 3 flat tires (always on long road trips), some motor issue, new speakers, hitting the wakeboard rack on a tree, and most importantly how not to kill each other while managing a boat for the weekend. I think we both agree that it was a lesson best learned without pregnancy hormones and defiantly without children! We owe a special thanks to my parents for helping us through all of these learning experiences and being with us every step of the way this summer. A boat is a TON of work, but one of the things that makes me the most happy. Looking back, there is nothing that can replace the 1000's of hours my parents spent with us on the water as kids, I hope my children have the same wonderful memories and love for the water and that special family time that I do. Here are some pics of the fun we had this summer:
With all of the fun we were having this summer I was somewhat distracted, but by the beginning of August it hit me. It had been 7+ months, and I still wasn't pregnant. Scary. That is when the OCDness set it. Calendaring (all awesomely color coded), temperature, and ovulation predictors. Operation pregnancy was in full effect. If anyone else is walking through this, feel free to ask questions. I was definitely freaking out at this point, and grilling everyone I knew with children! Luckily, a little attention to detail was all it took. By the end of September Baby Davis was on his way, and we couldn't be more excited!
Hiding Baby Davis until the first sonogram was definitely a challenge. Luckily we were out of town most weekends, so our Dallas friends were easy to deter. Others not so much. The weekend after we found out we headed to Nac. Campbell was officially the first person to know. Tim told her, and she announced to Jeff and Jenny that she was getting a cousin. It was really nice that they knew so early. Jenny is also pregnant, so she got 1000 questions that weekend. Jenny is an awesome sister in law, and walking through pregnancy with/behind her is a very special experience.
9. Now on to Ashely and Steve's Wedding Weekend where we decided to keep Baby D a secret. The weekend consisted of several fun events. The wedding was beautiful and the location was super cool and unique.
Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Rokks! Thanks for letting us be a part of your big day.
On the way to the wedding, Sharon did ask Tim if I was pregnant, which he was able to deny. (I would have fessed up) Tim ordering me Club Soda with Lime all night kept her suspicions under control. Ash was super busy, as expected, so she had no idea. There was one bridesmaid who figured it out. I spent almost all weekend with Haley. I drank Dr. Pepper during the UT/OU game, Club Soda at the rehearsal dinner (where they were not serving vodka) and suspicious looking drinks the rest of the weekend. As Steve and Ashely were running off, she asked when I was due... So she was officially the first to figure it out on her own. We made it through the weekend without anyone else finding out.
Luckily we had a trip to Houston for Maite's Baby Shower planned for the next weekend. We went to my Parents to tell them Thursday, and told Tim's Parents Friday night. Needless to say both are super excited and can't wait to meet their first Grandson.
Maite was one of the most fun people to tell. We decided to wait until after her shower to give her one last present. It was a stuffed baby Longhorn, with a card to EJ from Baby D. She was clearly just as excited as I was and there were tears all around. Amanda (who was an awesome encouragement during the whole getting pregnant phase) was also hanging around after the shower and found out with Maite. It was super fun to share Baby D with Maite, Amanda, Maria, Abi and Judy after the shower. I'm sure we will have many more things to celebrate together this next year, but this first was super fun!
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Christina
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