20 Weeks and A Wake-Up

This is me with Caden-19wks
A)smooth pre-pregnant skin, those were the bikini days
B)I know I'm in a sports bra, I wasn't thinking.


Here I am in my glory of 20 weeks.




I got to say this little girl inside loves, me I'm still down 6lbs and loving it! And I'm at the point of feeling great and feeling her move around a ton!
I'm super nesty this time, currently working on the nursery, pics to come!

We still dont have a name but since I appreciate every single one of you I'll tell you what we have so far, but we are always up for suggestions
my only requirements(doesn't have to be all of them, just one):

a older name, classic ya know? Go dig through your genealogy
a simple name, slaughter is kind of a mouthful
and NOT a name from Eric and I's generation, you know Lindsay, Ashley etc. (No offense to any lindsay's or Ashley's out there)

So, what we have so far is

Lucy
Emmaline(Emmy)
Annabelle

Your thoughts??

God fearing Southerners

So, there is a LOT of church's in Columbus, mainly baptist but a good variety. So, when driving around town Eric and I love reading the church billboards outside the church. And since moving to this house, we live near this great church that has the best sayings we've seen:

Try God, if you don't like him. Satan will always take you back.
-God

What if you don't believe in me and you're wrong?
-God

And this one is from a church by our church but I actually liked it a lot:

Choice is the Authority to do Right

Scratch the last post

I'm going a whole different direction. I liked the last set but wasn't in love with it. So.... went to local fabric store and was inspired AWWWWW. I will be using a bunch of different fabrics to cover the last set and this is some of what I'll be using...





there is more that goes with it but you get the idea of where I'm going with it. i feel like this might be my only shot at a girl room so I want to make it somthing I love.

help me... I need ideas

This is our awesome bassinet that I scored for $10 at the consignment sale, and it vibrates. Fun, huh?




Here is the crib set I bought.Super cute but I don't know what to do for the rest of the room if I could find a picture of the nursery from Pottery Barn all done. So, i need input, thoughts on:

Curtains
sheets
Wall Decor
And anything else



The pink checkered/gingham is the bed skirt.

Studly Man and such

This is Caden before church I bought him a tie at the big Consignment sale. First one ever, kind of sad and he's 3. But I think he's looks adorable and surprisingly he didn't mind it.






What do you think? Does he look like Eric or me??

There is an awesome bush out front that makes these beautiful flowers, I don't know the name but I think they're gorgeous!

Macon, GA

We decided to venture out for the day and head to Macon for the Cherry Blossom festival. It was a nice drive, beautiful scenery.


Cherry Blossom Farms on the way to Macon.

There was supposed to be Lawn Mower Races, Bed Races, Sea lion Show, Snake Show, eateries etc. But to be honest, the blossoms weren't bloomed yet, a little disappointing but understandable it was the beginning of the festival and that can't tell you exactly what day. And I felt like the festival was more of just a big Carnival. So, we didn't stay very long.



But, overall nice drive, Macon was pretty cute.

We're there...

Caden is officially into super heros:
Spiderman
Batman
Superman

it's so funny he flies around the house with his arms stretched out, flying like Superman.

and then he'll come to me and say "I'm Batman and mommy your Joker"

He's figured out how to shape his fingers/hands to look like spiderman shooting out a web. So funny!


This is C doing his Spiderman pose!

Once I'm done with the Craziness of March, I'm going to make Caden a Superman and Batman Cape!

I love how his imagination is getting so active.

And to end on funny note yesterday I said "You're so goofy" and Caden replies by saying "I'm not Goofy, I'm Mickey Mouse"

Well today we found out that

We are so incredibly blessed with a healthy, growing baby GIRL!


Spread eagle, nothing there!



16weeks, let's remember it's my second. Be gentle with the judgement




So excited and so blessed!



And just because he's so cute...

Happenings..

Been pretty boring around here. Most days especially in the evening I take Duke and Caden out in the front and let them chase eachother and fight over sticks. It's very entertaining and quite relaxing. By far my most favorite time of the day!

I'm Starting this...

So, don't be mad if I'm out it for awhile, I've only got a couple weeks to read this bad boy for Book Club.

Snowed In...Phones are down

Well, yesterday morning there was a tornado warning and a tornado touched down in Alabama, about 20 minutes away. Sirens and all were going off.

Then later in the day it was 70 and sunny.

Then today it's SNOWING, and sticking. Total craziness.



How does Columbus react?

-Church is cancelled after sacrament.

-Everyone driving like the roads are iced up. It's 35 and snowing people and it was 70 yesterday. Think.

-At Ft Benning, yes an Army Base are reporting late to work tomorrow. Yes the snow has already started to melt, but they shouldn't go to work til 9.

-AND Schools are closed. Including Caden's preschool, I can't believe it, the snow is practically gone and they are closing schools.

So funny. But, it was nice to see a freakish change here. I've heard from the locals it happens every 5-6 years. Too bad we won't be around for the next big storm. Shucks!

Almost...15

So, I went to Doctor last week. And things are going well. Baby is healthy, even got some pics because I went to a different doc who was super lazy about finding the heartbeat.

Crazy, it actually looks like a baby not an alien. YEAH!



And on to some even greater news I'm down 7lbs. WAHOO! Don't ask me how, I should have been eating better, but if you want to know my secret. Ben and Jerry's! Most would probably be concerned, but let's be real I'm not starting off the skinniest girl alive and if the baby growing and happy and then dang it. I'm Excited!

Carrie Finally Came

Well after some confusion with flights Carrie finally came this last weekend. Caden and I voyaged to ATL to pick her up, got lost a little, hit some traffic and ended up driving around downtown ATL for some dinner.
Carrie was happily greeted(not really) by duke at home. On Saturday("her birthday")
Started it off by making a cake with Caden. Carrie's favorite White Cake with HOMEMADE Cream Cheese frosting.



Then we headed off to Lumpkin, GA to see Westville. Which in turn turned out to be closed. Boo! So they told us of the "Little Grand Canyon" or Providence National Park, which ended up being pretty cool.



We took a mini hike. Which Caden enjoyed very much. I think we'll be heading back to do it some more.



We finally and YES I mean FINALLY got some great BBQ. Delicious, Caden even partook.



Headed back to Columbus did some Furniture shopping, ended up with a sweet sectional. Got some Chinese, rented some movies. Frosted the cake, candles, presents. YEAH to Carrie!









Sunday we crashed, Eric, C and me the most we're sick all weekend. Carried didn't get the best side of us. We did hair, had our little Oscar party and Eric treated us to a delicious dinner.

It was a great weekend!

Happenings

So I thought I should update since I've been a total slacker lately.

There's not much too exciting around here. Carrie(the sis) was supposed to come and visit valentines weekend but turns out she nor I can read a flight itinerary correctly so she will be coming this weekend. YEAH! Happy belated birthday party to her.

As for our Love Day, it was okay, I'm just not a huge Valentine's day gal, it goes along with my theory for new years eve but that's a whole nother post.

So, Eric was actually home for the weekend and we slept in somewhat, aww. Did a tiny bit of shopping for spring/summer clothes for c. Chilaxed and then went bowling and to the PX. We had a good time bowling Caden was a little stubborn though, he wanted no help throwing the ball and so he would do it and it would roll as slow as humanly possible and then stop. Good times, us trying to hit our ball with his, several times. It was fun!






We concluded with rummaging for dinner and homemade chocolate covered strawberries, yum!

I'm currently 13 weeks, which is so exciting to me, but probably not to you. Baby is a peach, so exciting! I think I'm on the up-hill(or is it down-hill) of morning sickness. SO YEAH!

Caden's current obsession MADAGASCAR 2-I can recite it. He just dances the whole movie and pretends he is Alex the lion!
And sings "I like to move it, move it"

Eric's working like machine this cycle hours wise has been better, but now they just lost on of his drills so he's down to 2-boo to that!

So. that's our life..for now anyways.

We have moved..

And I know your all at home anxiously checking our blog see when the pics are up, but people be patient. I want it to look good and for some odd reason this house which we like is challenging me. But, I think I can get some pictures up, a little at a time, you can't expect the whole place to be done all at once?? Right?

This is the front of the house, its funny it looks like a log cabin but the rest of the house's on the street look normal, like with plain siding. But we like it and will pretend we live in the mountains, with close neighbors.



This is the view of the backyard, first off not our pool, so that will be gone and we hope to do something nice with backyard after talking to the owners and getting there approval, like grass:) But it's a yard that we are grateful for and love to have.







This is Caden and Dukes favorite spot on the whole yard, I guess there was a huge tree here, but fell this last year, too bad. They like the stump though.



And here's just another of Caden cheesin' it. He loves playing outside.

Caden's off...

Well, after searching around I found a preschool I really like, signed Caden up and here is our sweet little man with his rockin' Thomas backpack heading to his first day of school.



To be honest I was sad, I didnt' think I would be, but its such a big step(if you haven't been there yet, you wait and you'll see it IS a big step) and Eric kept saying "Tabitha you know he's coming back right?" so funny.
Since I am so behind(ugh, ugh pregnant, moving etc) he has been going for a couple weeks and loves it. And is doing pretty well, he's practicing transitioning, making friends and I am getting all my errands done and just over all loving my 3 1/2hrs of my time. YEAH!

For Shiz up the Spout

We're pregnant! YEAH! Little one is due Aug. 24 2009

Jesus wants me for a SUNBEAM

So in our church, the children go to nursery at 18 months to 3 and then they graduate into the next class, where they go and sing songs and go to sharing time with the other big kids. And the class is called "Sunbeams". They switch class's every January instead of the middle of the year like school, so each year he'll move to a different class but with the same kids.
This is Caden's first Sunday as a Sunbeam!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Well. things are changing around here. We have Duke again, turns out the people we gave him to turned out not to be the best dog owners ever. So, here he is back in our life and to be honest it's a good thing, we missed him. And our glad to have him in our home!
And now that we are moving(still in Columbus) to a house. YEAH! I'm so excited, and ready to let my dog play in his yard and my son jump up and down and not fear of the neighbors getting angry at us. So, as of the end of this month we will be in a house, with a drive way, our own trash can, a yard, walls I can paint, a home we can run around in. HEAVEN!

And as an added bonus a video of the The Duke and Caden playing. Background Duke just recently realized caden exists, so this was very exciting to us and especially Caden.

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