Our Flower Bed Are Growing!

Saturday Mom, Ms. Denise, and I went out to Cotile Trade Days in hopes of finding loropetalums to plant in my flower beds.  Our trip was a huge success.  We found them along with a grapfruit tree and a purple magnolia.  We also got Nan and loropetalum and a red knock-out rose bush.  When we got it all home, they helped me place them where they should go.

Sunday was planting day, after church and Carson's (our neighbor) 1st birthday party.  Stephen and I got to work.  He dug holes and planted everything.  I followed behind him watering and cleaning up.  I even got around to planting my daylilies that I got almost a year ago.

Loropetalum

Daylillies around our Maple tree

Purple Magnolia

Grapefruit tree in the backyard

Stephen's green hands after weeding

Fishing Tales

Stephen's new hobby is fishing, since he now has a boat he ventures a bit further than our neighborhood pond.  He caught a good size one at Kincaid Lake and decided to bring him home and let him go in our pond.

We let Scout and Sydnee have a little sniff before we let him go.

Rodeo Weekend

This past weekend we spent in Houston with Stefanie, Matt, Kelsey,and Jeff.  Oh I can't forget Maple and Champ, too.  Friday evening we went over to Devin and Sally Towe's house for a night of Fajitias and Margaritas.  That was "virgin" maragaritas for me.  We enjoyed hanging out and playing card games like our old college days.

Saturday was a big day, my and Stephen's first visit to the annual Houston Rodeo and NEW MOON came out on Blu-Ray!  After a great french toast breakfast (I had 5, yes five, pieces) made by our very own Stef, us girls went off to Target to get New Moon and find me a sweater.  The unexpected cold weather was a great reason for shopping.  Then lunch at Choo! Choo! Sushi.  It was really good and the sushi went around the restaurant on a little track and you just grabbed the plates of sushi that you wanted to eat.  After sushi we were off to the rodeo.  There was so much to see and we had so much fun.  We saw calves, piglets, and sheep that were just born.  I got to play with my dream pet, a goat, in the petting farm. 

There was even a llama for Kelsey.  The potbellies pigs made Stephen want another pet pig. 

We met Elsie the cow!

After all that walking around I was hungry again so I got a BBQ beef sandwich and it was yummy.  Reliant Stadium was our next stop.  We walked in just in time to see the bull riding semifinals.  Then we saw the finals for barrel racing, bare back riding, saddle bronc, steer wrestling, team roping, and bull riding. 

President George Bush came out and starting the calf scramble and it was so funny. 

The rodeo was almost over and the Brooks and Dunn concert was about to start but not before mutton bustin'.  This was 5 year old kids riding on fluffy sheep holding on for dear life.  I could see Sprout doing that one day, haha.  Then the concert started.  It was a really good concert and they played a lot of their popular old and new music.

Stephen and I would definately like to come back for the rodeo again next year.

Spring is almost here!

Along with hearing our little Sprout’s heartbeat AGAIN today and knowing that the heartbeat was loud and strong and we are all doing well, another exciting thing happened today. Three of our tulips bloomed!!! I think my thumb may be turning a little greener. Spring is definitely around the corner, three days away to be exact. All of our plants and my belly are showing signs of new growth.

Girl Time

Ashley and Amalie came up to visit before Adaline arrives! 

Stephen found a new head scratcher.

Eatting breakfast as IHOP with Granny and Granddad.

This is Amalie's funny face, haha... she is so precious!

An Absent Mind in a Great Smelling Head

Earlier this morning I noticed that I could smell my hair. Not really my hair but my conditioner. I have been using the same shampoo and conditioner for months and have never noticed this before this morning. I just chalked it up to my sense of smell getting a bit keener with the growing of little Sprout and I shared this new scent with Shelly, she sits ext to me in the office. I thought maybe I just used more conditioner than I normally do. Then this afternoon I noticed on my black shirt, tiny specs of what looked like dandruff. Okay so dandruff is not in my book as a pregnancy symptom but I have never in my life had dandruff. I asked Shelly if dandruff was supposed to itch on your scalp and she said “yea, I think so.” Neither of us know very much about dandruff. Well my head doesn’t itch but she too saw small flecks on my shirt. Hummmm…I was stumped. I thought about it a bit longer as I could still smell the scent of my conditioner. Wait, I didn’t RINSE the conditioner out of my hair! Oh, man, they say the baby takes over your brain, but has our 1” Sprout already taking action? Needless to say, Shelly and I, along with the others in the office, got a good laugh out of my absent mind today.

Drano Sex

We have recently heard numerous old wives’ tales about how to find out the sex of your baby but this one in particular stuck out to us.


What you need:

       • The mommie-to-be’s first morning urine, during the first
          trimester, in a cup

       • Drano Crystals, it must be the crystals

What you do:

       • Once you have your urine in a cup, put about a tablespoon of
          Drano Crystals in the urine and Wha-La!

       • If it foams up a yucky, nasty brown color you are having a
         boy and if there is ANY tint of blue in the reaction you are
         having a girl.

Our Results:

I always say that Stephen is so smart and if this old wives’ tale proves to be true, I have confirmed once again that I married a smart man. Stephen has said from the beginning that we were going to have a little girl. The foam from our Drano/Urine reaction was nothing but BLUE and boy did it smell awful!

Meet Sprout

We were introduced to Sprout for the first time yesterday. What we saw was amazing and truly a gift from God. We could hear and see the tiny heart beat so fast and strong. Measuring in at 1.34 cm, Sprout is doing great. Stephen could not stop smiling and asking the nurse questions about what things were. Along with smiles from mommie-to-be (me) I couldn’t help but cry. This was the very first time that we got a peek at what God has in store for our lives.