It begins...

So the painting has begun. I must say, picking out the right color is never easy. It's crazy how different the samples look compared to the actual paint on the wall. Trying to choose the right color yellow seems especially hard b/c we don't want it to be too bright.. or too yellow.. or too orange.. etc. Here is what the nursery looked like for a few days so we could see the samples in every light of day..

So we finally chose a color.. Frosted Lemon to be exact. So far I think it looks great! We chose yellow because we are doing his room in primary colors and thought the blues, reds and greens would really pop against the yellow. I'm getting almost gitty watching it all come together.




Big thanks to our buddy Dave (who will be a new daddy in January) who came and helped G paint. I think I got about 1/3 of one wall done and had to call it quits due to the fumes.. blech!! Once again Gerald has been a trooper!! He leaves for work at 6 a.m. this morning, takes a short lunch, comes home, grills steaks for dinner and goes to work finishing the painting in the nursery. He has been amazing. It's been great having him involved in every aspect of preparing for Jake's arrival. He even put in his opinion on how the crib skirt and curtains should look. He put up with me and his sister being at JoAnne Fabrics for about 2 hours looking at patterns and material. He jumped right in. I love that he gives his opinion! We are suppose to be getting the finished product in the mail tomorrow.. I CAN'T WAIT!! The bumper pad is suppose to be in Monday and the crib should be here Tuesday and my wonderful parents are bringing our changing table/dresser from Dallas on Friday. The room is really going to look like a nursery. Soon all it will need will be baby Jake to make it complete. Well.. and all baby Jake needs is a middle name to make everything complete. I guess we've still got 11 1/2 weeks to figure that one out.

Oh how blessed!!!

Well, we survived a VERY HOT trip to Dallas last weekend. Actually I was there for almost an entire week. While I was there I had my first baby shower for Jake. It was so much more than I could have imagined. I'm still not sure it's hit me that it was a baby shower for ME. A HUGE THANKS to my sister Tonya, and friends, Kelly, Susan and Jami for throwing it for me. The food was amazing and a shout out to my sister-in-law Connie who made the adorable cake. I got a chance to see friends that I haven't seen in a LONG time and catch up with family. I am so incredibly blessed to be surrounded by such love!! It's crazy how even though I do an awful job at keeping up with people, when we do get together it's like we never missed a beat. As I've said before, I don't think I'll ever be able to get across to Jake how loved he was/is before he even made his debut. Here are just a few pics from the shower. I'll post a link to more when I get them.





After the shower to met up with family at Cooper Lake to "camp". We were split up between two cabins and my parents RV. Needless to say I spent most of my time in the cabin where there was good AC with my precious niece Ella.


Joshua stayed cool down in the lake with his cousin.. or 2nd cousin.. or 1st cousin once removed (does anyone understand all that stuff??) Anyway Josh stayed cool with Cody... this is where I believe many of the observing adults picked up some chiggers.


Caleb couldn't swim in the lake due to a yucky booboo on his arm so he stayed cool in the RV with Uncle GG playing with some dominoes.

Before the end of the trip we had to do a group photo of all the cousins. It was great to get together. It was hot... but it was so fun to see everyone and meet some new members to the family.

There were some moments of nephews getting sick :o( which was so very sad to watch, but when all was said in done we are one blessed family. And here was the ending results.... I love you my sweet sister...

A good laugh

Okay, this made me laugh, so I had to share...

Two Beautiful Gifts from God!!

Okay.. Lesley, I hope you don't mind, but I couldn't help showing off your little blessings!! I would like to introduce you to Delaney (the red burrito) and Aubry (the pink burrito). Their Mommy taught with me at Martin E.C. and then became a diagnostician in the schools. Her and her hubby had quite the journey as well to become parents and here are there blessings! They are 4 wks old and I must say the pictures don't do them justice. They are just beautiful!! Holding them today just made me that much more excited to hold my own little miracle. 3 more months!! He will be here before I know it. Anyway, just had to share the joy with our blog readers. I mean.. who can't smile when you see two such sweet miracles. I hope it brightens your day.