This past weekend was a fun yet busy weekend for us.  To start the holiday weekend off we picked up our friend Amy’s dog, Ellie.  Amy was headed out of town for Memorial Day weekend and we typically jump at the opportunity to spend some quality time with one of the cutest and most loving dogs on the face of this earth.

On Saturday, Derek started working on painting the exterior of the house.  Painting the exterior of the house has been an on going project since last summer.  We are trying to complete this monumental task ourselves, but started a bit late in the summer last year.  Then Derek was back in school, and I got knocked up.  That kind of made things come to a screeching halt.

Right now Derek has a little time in between semesters so he started back up.  I mainly just sit and watch from the window.  I’m a pretty big help.  I know.

On Sunday, Derek got back to painting.  We took a wonderful trip to Home Depot and decided on tile for the bathroom remodel we are about to take on this weekend.  We are attempting to knock a few partially big projects out before Grayson moves in.

Sunday evening we went to a ball game with Davis, my brother-in-law, and our friends Scott and Allie.  Not being smart and remembering it was Memorial Day weekend and the ballgames are pretty busy on these type of holidays we decided to buy our tickets at the gate.  You would have thought we were at Wrigley Stadium it was so busy out front.  The line wrapped all the way to China.  Not really, but it was massive.  Since we all had a brain fart when we decided NOT to buy our tickets ahead of time we decided to use our brains now and called the ticket office while standing in this never ending line of torture.  Derek got though and bought tickets over the phone.  All he had to do from that point was walk on up to the itsy bitsy teeny tiny Will Call line and pick our tickets up.  That quick thinking saved us about 40 minutes of standing in line.  And 40 minutes of standing to a pregnant woman can see like a life time.  Did I mention the game had already started?

After the game and a HUGE bag of cotton candy (yummy in my tummy) there was a fireworks show.  It was a wonderful show, but the wind began to kick up and we got caught in an ash shower from the blowing winds.  We were lucky none of the ash was still lit.  Grayson didn’t like the fireworks.  I’m pretty sure they were the loudest noise he’s ever heard.  He didn’t move the entire game, but when the popping started he moved to the back of my stomach and started kicking my kidney.  Ouch!  I felt horrible for my little guy so while I enjoyed the fireworks I bent over and hugged my belly, hopping to muffle the loud pops and bangs for my little man.

Since I’m tired of being a pastie  preggo I told Derek to take me to get some sun.  So, Monday we headed to my in-laws pool to catch some rays.  We took the two girls with us.  Wrigley is not at all interested in swimming or any water for that matter, but since Ellie is part lab and in love with tennis balls we thought that we could bribe her into the pool.  She made it down the first two steps, but on the third her face would dunk in the water, and she was out!

After a nice dip in the pool we headed home so Derek could finish up the three windows he has been painting all weekend.  He showered up, and we headed off to a romatical dinner at Steak n’ Shake.  We even split a shake.  Ahhhh, romance.  Actually, that’s just my style of romance.  Relaxed, casual, and quality time with my boy toy.

Last week, I noticed it looked like my stomach had the hiccups.  It was kind of strange at first, because I really didn’t know what I was seeing.  Then after my 10 second brain fart I came to realize that what I was seeing was Grayson kicking.  I have been feeling the little guy kick for weeks now, and was awaiting the day that I could SEE him kick.

Right now he still has a little room in there so what I see are quick little pokes to the skin, and it cracks me up every time I see it.  I don’t know what I find so funny about the natural progression of my unborn child, but something about it makes me giggle every.  single.  time.

This past Saturday it was really rainy.  You know the storm that pretty much swallowed Nashville.  I decided to take a little rest on the bed, and make a little video of the G-man kicking.  The green part is my belly…so keep your eyes on it.

Kicks seen at…
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Currently,the Winter Olympics are on and like most people I have a favorite event/sport.  Do you?  Mine is Curling.  I know, I know.  Most people watch curling and say it’s either not a sport or that it’s just plain boring.  Well the 70 year old shuffle boarder inside of me begs to differ.  I found a love for Curling when Derek was laid up with his broken leg about 4 years ago.  The 2 weeks he was out of work were the exact 2 weeks the Winter Olympics aired.

Since we were stuck inside ALL DAY…EVERYDAY there is not much to do but watch TV.  During the day is usually when they air the less popular sports like Curling.  I don’t enjoy the anxiety that the other more physically demanding and competitive sports bring.  I’m a worrier.  I don’t really understand why I love Curling, but I do.  Just watch this video about how addictive it is and maybe it will help you non-believers understand.

The dogs really love playing in snow.  Cohen likes it a bit too much.

So, Christmas day was the big reveal.  Derek and I thought it would be a great idea to record our family’s reaction to the news.  We figured that we would all be so wrapped up in the excitement of it all that no one would remember how it all really went down.  This is the video from my in-laws house.  We’ll the two videos from their house.  Derek started up the camera again when they checked out the ultrasound.  ENJOY~

For my parents house we used my dad’s video camera to film. However, the file he gave me of the day’s events is in a format that I can’t upload to the web. So, once we get that little hiccup fixed I will then post that video.

If you were like me, and didn’t catch the Tournament of Roses Parade this year….just look at what we missed.  Snowboarding Dogs!  I usually don’t care to watch parades unless I know someone in it or I’m actually standing on the side of the street watching the thing with my own two eyes.  However, for snowboarding dogs I would have made an exception.

Here is a video of the pups in action.  I think this was a demonstration they put on before they hit the parade route.

Love It!