20 weeks and weddings

We had the pleasure of attending two weddings in the last two weekends. Here we are at Gary & Monica's gorgeous wedding reception:

Aren't my men handsome?! Then we headed out to College Station for my cousin Megan's wedding. She was generous enough to invite me to the pre-wedding bridesmaids hangout/bachelorette party so I headed down on Thursday. I had a blast being one of the girls again! Jacob and Curtis headed down on Friday night for the rehearsal dinner after picking up some of our cousins from the airport on the way. It has been three years since our entire family has been together and WOW there are a lot of us!!! We nearly filled the entire hotel and at our after wedding pool party you had to fight to find room in the pool. It was fantastic to see all of the beautiful children that had been born since we have all been together last and also to see the trend continuing as three of us are pregnant now (all due between Nov 20th and Dec. 15!). Megan and Michael are such a holy and fantastic couple. We were honored to be a part of their wedding preparation and special weekend. Can't wait for them to come home from Cabo so we can hear all about it!

We are officially past the halfway mark in our pregnancy with Nicholas. He has really begun to kick now and Jacob was able to feel it this week too. He is definitely going to be an active little guy! I love it! Here is a 20 week pregnancy pose... growing very quickly now!!Curtis is TOTALLY potty trained now. I still can not believe it! He decided he wanted to try less than three weeks ago and has had very few accidents since! For the past week has been nearly accident free including night time! I still refuse to believe my little guy is growing up but this kind of forces it on me! He got new Thomas the train sheets and tons of big boy undies to celebrate and he loves to show them both off!

Chick-Fil-A Cow Appreciation Day!

Shirley, Jessica, & I have been planning on this for way too long now! Shirley sewed the kids costumes and the mommies made our own skirts. I know what you are thinking...a prego in a cow suit...it was a sight! It was really a blast and we all learned a lot about sewing along the way. We all got free lunch and the workers at our local Chick-Fil-A asked us to go back tonight so they could use us in a promotional photo. They are competing against other stores in the region in a "best herd" competition. We are also in the running for free food for a year because of the pictures. Either way it was a blast and the kids just couldn't have had more fun dressing up! More on this later but check out these adorable cows!

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!