Family Shower

Here are a few overdue pics from our family shower a few weeks ago...

Since Grandma Cathy couldn't be there she sent us some flowers. The pink rose signifies baby "Gertrude"!
Great Grandma Tuten made us some booties. They are so cute and completely remind me of the ones my Grandma Dorothy used to make!


Diaper cake made by Auntie Rachel and Grandma Susie
Nana got her this beautiful music box, it has a lot of really pretty detail and matches great with her room!!!

I only have 6 days of work left, not including weekends. Then again whose counting? ;)
I am so excited for that day. I always hear "Oh, you have plenty of time" and "Oh just wait til the last month" so we will be down to the end by the time I am done with work, and no one can say that anymore. I am also waiting til that point to get certain things done, it seems close enough then that I am not jumping the gun. I need to finish the room and pack the diaper bag, get all the last minute stuff, wash all the sheets, bedding, clothes and stuff. Those kinds of things. I also have projects in my head to keep me nice and busy. You know important things like....afternoon nap. ;) Just kidding, there actually is a lot of stuff I keep thinking, "I can get to that when I am home". Plus I think Mario has a running list in his head also. I'm gonna be one busy girl! :) Which will hopefully make October speed by...

Gertrude's Room

We aren't 100% percent sure on a name yet so for now I'll call her Gertrude. ;)

We've been working on her room and have alot done so far, I am going to get all the details and finishing touches done in the next few weeks so I'll post more then but for now here's a few work in progress pics!

We started with a yellow...

Then added green stripes.

I still have a bunch to do but I will also be able to get a lot done when I am home. My last day of work is October 9th so I'll finish it up soon after I'm sure. We still need to get the Rocker/Glider, the curtains, I'm waiting for the crib skirt and bumper to be finished, we need to do wall stuff....those kinds of things. Mario's step sister and family threw us a shower last weekend so I'll post some pics from that before the weekend is over!

Baby Girl!!!

As most of you know we are having a baby girl soon! We can't wait and are so excited for her to get here! We got the great news soon after we got back from the honeymoon, we were going to officially start "trying" right after the wedding but said if it happens it happens. Luckily it happened way sooner then later! We did one of those 4D ultrasounds which was SO cool because from everyone that had done them I had heard how much the baby ended up looking like the picture! Well we had some technical difficulties! The technician got some great pics and printed out over 20 for us but when she went to move them to disk she lost them. Grrrr...so they let us come back the next week to try to get some more. Well, this technician wasn't so eager. While she was hamming it up a little more for the camera we saw some great live shots BUT she never seemed to capture them! SO frustrating. Needless to say we don't have all that great of ones digitally unless I want to go scan some in. Here's a ok one out of the few I have on the computer. She SO has Mario's nose. Oh and of course they guaranteed us that she had my green eyes. Haha, just kidding the pics aren't THAT good!

More wedding pics...

My sister just sent my a bunch of her pictures from the wedding and week at the beach house. There are 250 so it may take me a few days to go through them. I'll post more soon but thought this was a cute one!

Some family pics...

My sister just sent me some pictures from the camping trip her and Craig took with my bro, Monica and the boys. I had to add some pics on here cuz they are SO cute!

My Nephews

My bro and Monica

Sophia

How can anyone resist that face???

My mom was on her way back from the lavender festival so she stopped to say "Hi"!

My sis and Craig

They love their cousin!

Home sweet home...

They had to take a ferry to get to the campground. Seattle skyline.

Mario's Birthday!

It was Mario's birthday a few weeks ago and we took a weekend trip to Panama City and Destin. The weather was beautiful! There's this new outdoor mall in Panama City called Pier Park. They have all these cool stores and restaurants. We had lunch at Jimmy Buffets' Margaritaville. It's definitely got the beach feel, we'd been to the one in Key West before but this one has whole light show with smoke and a disco ball that comes out of this plane hanging from the ceiling. Very touristy, but fun. They actually have good hamburgers! They also have a Tootsie's, which is a famous honky tonk in Nashville where I used to hang out. The beaches in Destin were gorgeous! I definitely want to go back there soon! We'd like to go and take the boat but the summer is flying by so we'll see!

Margaritaville

Happy Fourth!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! We sure did, just hung out around the house. It was nice to relax. Mondays sure come fast!