25 Weeks

Week 25 is HERE! Yesterday, we looked at more houses and lectured at church. Since Mr. B was well dressed yesterday (sorry no photo) we went to PF Chang's for a date night! PF Chang's is one of our favorite places to celebrate. We like to go there for birthdays, holidays (Valentine's Day) and what ever else we feel like. You must have a reservation to get a table or wait for like an hour. This time we went because we had a gift card from our anniversary. Thanks Aunt Susie & Aunt Carol! We didn't use it all. So we'll have to go back soon. Not a problem in this family.

Enjoy your week. Please keep praying for a health baby and for us to find the right home for our family. I feel we're close to making a decision soon. I'll give you all the details when I know for sure.

love, Mr. & Mrs. B

24 Weeks

These photos were taken on Saturday. Yes, it's taken almost a week to upload them. We've been a little busy. Tomorrow starts 25 Weeks. I'll attempt to get those up faster.

What I'm working on:

I'm on vacation today. So that means I'm going to relax and get a massage. Then do some shopping in the afternoon. I've got to find some fall/winter maternity clothes for work, Mr. B's 30th birthday is coming up in a few weeks (ideas please), and whatever else I find along my journey. :)

Have a great weekend!

12 days...

No, that is not how long since my last post. That is the amount of days to took for our house to sell while listed on the market. Yes, 12 days! Our house had two offers by Sunday evening and we signed one of the offers on Monday. Monday was the first day of school. Needless to say, I was busy. Our agent had to drive to Mr. B's work to have him sign and then drive out to me for me to sign.

I'm happy someone fell in love with our home. We were shocked that it went so fast. But it was truly the right timing for us to put the house on the market during all the craziness of this summer. Last night, after we turned out the lights I said to Mr. B, I don't even remember what happened in June. That is how crazy and busy our summer has been. Now summer is over with school starting this week for Mr. B and I. Campus is full of students who are lost and the parking lot is packed with cars. These are good signs of a growing college. I'm happy things are going well.

Now, when I tell people that our house sold, they kindly ask "What are your plans?" My favorite answer is "I don't know." We've looked into building a new home and have explored some options of homes on the market. We do have just under 60 days until our close date. So we do have some time to find what we're looking for. But now we're down to business to find a home. We're looking for a home together as a family. That has a nice sound to it.

Our Home Sweet Home

We've done it! The house is finally on the market. If you'd like to check it out please visit our agents website at http://omahahometeam.com and click on "Our Listings". Our home is on Redwood Street. The house has never been so clean and organized since before we met.

Only a few people saw it worst. The summer I moved in the living room was stacked 4 feet high of my stuff from the apartment. Now look at it. We've really worked hard for the right person to come along and fall in love with this house. So please come along and fall in love with it.

23 Weeks

Week 23 photos. "Jack" weighs about 1 pound now and is the size of a small doll.

We're having a GIRL!

Last night, we accomplished some major baby things.

Cotton Babies is having a great sale this weekend. Buy 6 bumGenius 3.0 one-size Pocket Diapers and get one free. This is the diaper store that I checked out in STL a few weeks ago. If you buy a single diaper the price is almost $18 per diaper. But with the sale this weekend the diaper is under $15 each. I thought it was the right time to start my collection of the best selling clothe diaper. I did show Mr. B how to use the diapers on a YouTube video. Then he asked why do you want the pocket ones. I told him the pocket diapers grow with the child. The All-in-Ones you have to buy new diapers as the child grows. So I think we need a combination of both Pockets & AIOs. But Pockets were on sale this weekend. Check it out if you're interested in getting some diapers at a great price. The friends that I know use them are very happy with the bumGenius, including JP3.

Yes, I told you a while back that we weren't going to find our the sex of our child. We still didn't find out the sex. We started our registry. If you know my husband at all, you know how much he loves cars and football. The oldest member of our family is a 1978 Trans Am. Therefore, the youngest member of our family will also have the passion for cars and things that move as his/her father. Well during this registry experience Mr. B wanted to scan everything that was "car" related. So if you go to pull up our registry at Babies R Us you will see that some items are listed as "boy". Not blue or car, it's "boy". We decided through this process as excited Mr. B was about registering for "boy" items we had to be having a girl.

As for the rest of the registry experience, we many some decisions of some major items. We found a high chair that can be used converted and bedding that we liked. The sales person at BRU was very pushy when we gave her back our scan thingy. The top page was a list of items we had not registered for yet. She said, these are still the things you'll need. Thank you very much. But I don't have to register for everything here. I'll have to go back and look at bottles and diaper bags. I was very overwhelmed with those areas of the store that I just had to pass for the item being.

Off to another great day of house hunting. Have a great one!

"Your Wife is HOT..."

"You should buy her an ICEE".

It was too funny not to share. I saw this on a billboard this morning on my way to work. I just love ICEEs as you know.

Anyway, I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon. Baby's heart rate was 160 and she measured me for the first time. I've gained 7 pounds in a month. But last month I didn't gain anything. I can tell that I'm eating more the last few weeks. Plus we've ate out more often. We we're out of town a lot plus I don't like to cook alone.

Right now I'm working on for the baby:
1. Figuring out childcare - we're on the waiting list for the campus childcare and we still need to visit one more place
2. Need to start interviewing pediatrician - if you have a recommendation in my area please email me with the doctor's name and why you like him/her
3. Registry for the baby - I know we'll register at Cotton Babies for the Bum Genius diapers. Everyone registers at Target and Babies R Us. I just need to see what they have in the store. I have no idea what we need.
4. Pick out a car seat - because I was born in OK and traveled a lot to visit family in STL, my grandparents have offer to buy "Jack's" car seat. "Jack" will do a lot of traveling like mommy.
5. Make sure that I stay healthy for the next 18 weeks or so.

Have a great day!

WOW it's August already?!?!?!?!

Where has the time gone in the month of July? I looked at my calendar at work on Thursday and couldn't remember what happened this month. Well please let me recap some of our highlights of the month. Or really why I haven't posted in an entire month.

House

We have been working every spare moment to put our house on the market. It will be official on Wednesday this week. Our house looks awesome, I may say so myself. It has never been this clean. Now I just have to live in a model home until it sells. We have been relocated the stuff in our home to Mr. B's mom's house and a storage unit. Believe it or not, the Trans Am actually started and drove down the street. I couldn't believe it. Mr. B's first "baby" is now parked in our storage unit with Historical Plates. We have 2 spaces in the garage, but he still parks the truck outside. ??? Hopefully, this house will sell fast.

Work

Mr. B did 3 weeks of summer school. I continued to work. Orientation started on July 24th. It is going much better than last summer. I think I know what I'm doing this time around. A lot of the people at the college are noticing it. There are 2 more orientations this week. Then 4 the week before school starts in August 17.

Baby

Doing well. We are calling the baby "Jack" for the moment. This is not the name we have chosen for our little one. My grandma started calling the baby Jack. It's fitting. I have another appointment this Tuesday.

Travel
For our anniversary we traveled down to KC for the weekend. It was a lot of fun. We had great meals out and enjoyed each other. It was good to get away.

On Sunday (our actual anniversary) I got sick right after church. We headed back home. The evening ended in the ER because I wasn't getting any better. I have no idea how I got sick. But it wasn't fun. I'm much better now.

Then the next weekend we traveled to STL to visit the family. Mr. B had training in STL the week after. So it was perfect timing to go down there. "Jack" didn't like the plane ride down there. It was not good. The way back way much better. In STL we went to Crown Candy because it was on Mr. B's favorite Travel Channel show, Man v. Food last season. And it's a STL landmark. Yes, that is a Chocolate Banana Malt. Don't you just want one? I know I could use another.

We had a BBQ at the house. Got to meet our friends Angela and Nate's little boy, John Paul (aka JP3) and talk about baby and house stuff.

Sunday night, we took Mr. B to his first Muny Show, The Music Man. It was really good. I had not been to the Muny in 4 years. I can't remember the last show I saw. But Music Man is a favorite of mine. Oh yes, it brought back loving freshmen year memories. Mr. B enjoyed the show too. I think we'll take him again.

Monday was my parents' 30th wedding anniversary. Mom, sister, and I had a great girls day getting massages, checking out cloth diapers at Cotton Babies, and shopping for maternity clothes. Dad and Mr. B worked. We did have dinner together before they put me on a plane back home.

While I returned home, Mr. B and my parents had a great time in Stl. Mr. B and my dad went to the really long Cards game on Wednesday night. Saw my cousin's band play Thursday. I think my parents enjoyed our visit to STL more than us.

Well, I think that is it for now. Please pray for our home to sell fast and a safe a health pregnancy.

22 weeks!

Yep, I'm over the half way mark already. This isn't my best photo. But I needed to get it done. As you can see I really look pregnant. People I don't know are making comments. This shirt was a gift from Mr. B' mom. Isn't it cute?