Anniversary Fun & Loving Nicholas

Jacob and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary last week with a fantastic night at the Marriott near the Galleria. We had a free night because of Jacob's last travel for work (got to love our Marriott rewards card!) and the owner upgraded our FREE night to a king suite, gave us a bottle of sparking cider (no champagne for me!), a rose, chocolates, and breakfast. Did I mention this was all FREE? It was great! Jacob and I had a wonderful night together and ate super yummy food at Bucca Di Beppo.

Nicholas is doing well and getting big. I definitely feel like the world can tell I am pregnant now. I am thankful to begin looking pregnant and not just kinda chubby! Yesterday was the first time a total stranger recognized that I was pregnant, yeah! Then today I told our photographer and she still didn't believe me...funny! We are 18 weeks and a few days, I can hardly believe we are almost half way there!

Curtis has decided he is ready for potty training this week. We will see if he fizzles out or keeps going until he is really done with diapers. He gets really excited when it happens but sometimes still refuses to get on the potty. He isn't a bribe kinda kid and really doesn't like sweets too much. We are still trying to figure out how we can make it more exciting for him to try...Moms out there any suggestions??

We have a busy few weeks coming up with a friends rehearsal dinner and wedding this weekend topped off by a birthday party for one of our favorite little guys! Next week is bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, and wedding for my cousin Megan in College Station. Two weeks after that we are going to Galveston with my side of the family. Hopefully this will make for some fun blogs this month!

I'll leave you with two cute pictures from the 4th of Curtis and his best buddy Clare!

The Verdict Is In

And it looks like we are having a baby BOY! Thankfully we decided upon a boys name last night :) he will be Nicholas Michael. We are absolutely thrilled and elated to have two boys! Curtis is very confused by the whole thing. He thought it was a girl all along so he has been calling the baby sister. Now he is telling people it is a boy but his name will be sister :) Either way he is really excited about the baby "toming out" in a "llllong time." Yahoo for boys!

16 weeks

I am going to try my best to be better at taking pictures throughout this pregnancy to document the growing belly. Here is my 16 week shot...Taken just before we left for Americas (YUMMY!) and then to Jacob's ten year class Reunion. It was an absolute blast to see old friends! Since Dan was also in the class of '99 I knew quite a few people there. It was really interesting to see who has changed and who was absolutely the same...for better or for worse!

Happy Tuesday!

Just Plain Funny!

Really no words for this one... except I LOVE this age!

Goodbye Morning Sickness!

The first trimester is officially done! Yahoo! I am definitely feeling much better this week, praise God! We had another doctors appointment on Wednesday and of course everything looked great. The doctor got a great picture of the baby laying on his/her back with both hands clasped in front of his/her face. The doctor said it looked like the baby was praying, I told him of course he/she was we get them started early in this family! Maybe the baby was praying that Mommy and Daddy could finally decide on names! I told Jacob today that I wish we had our own Angel Gabriel to announce to us what we should call this little blessing! We are really struggling this time! We have until the 24th to decide as we will hopefully find out the sex of the baby at that appointment. I can hardly believe it is less than 3 weeks away already! Have a great weekend everyone!

New Cornice

Jacob just finished installing this fantastic new cornice in our livingroom...

What a talented husband I have!

Oh and you should know that my mom threatened to disown me is I didn't remove the picture from the last post. It is an awful early morning picture of all of us but it was a special moment so I had to share! The pregnancy is going beautifully. The morning sickness is beginning to improve, hopefully in the next week or so it will be gone all together.

Here is a cute one of Curtis holding his sign for his favorite baseball team and one of us making the sign before the game.

I will make up for it...

I promise...this one is worth the wait. We are pregnant with a healthy baby!!!!!! I couldn't blog for weeks because I stink at keeping secrets and I have been sleeping a TON and trying to manage morning sickness...SO WORTH IT! We had a ten week ultrasound today which confirmed that we are officially out of the danger zone. We are thrilled to finally be able to share our awesome blessing! The precious little one was sucking his/her thumb in the ultrasound today and wiggling like crazy. God is SO good! Thank you to everyone for all of your prayers! More blogs to come once the morning sickness is officially over and I can actually stay awake during nap time :) Here is an awful early morning picture of us immediately after taking our pregnancy test