Baby Bouquet

I decided to try to be crafty this weekend and made a baby gift. I found an idea online for a "bouquet" of onesies. Here's a link, if you're interested: http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/04/08/onesie-bouquet-for-a-boy/

Anyway, I got a little bucket and filled it with 5 onesies rolled to look like flower buds and then I filled in the empty space with plastic flowers. Benj seemed to think it was okay. He almost had to ask where the onesies were. I guess it's a good thing if he thought that they were really flowers. Let me know what you all think....cute or questionable?

24 weeks

Well, we’ve made it to 6 months. I can’t believe how fast this pregnancy has gone. Of course, I might change my mind about that in a couple of months! I've been feeling the baby more and more all the time. Ben was able to feel him move for the first time a week or so ago, too. I think feeling him move around has been one of the most exciting things for me! I had a doctor’s appointment today and everything looks just fine. Here I am getting bigger all the time…My parents came up over the weekend to bring us a crib and then they took us out to get a mattress, too. The crib is mine from when I was a baby. My Dad got it all fixed up and it looks good as new! It’s fun to have the baby’s bed in the room now. Funny story about the crib—when we were setting it all up, I accidently broke one of the metal pieces and it needed to be re-welded together. My Dad took the piece off and went to go to my local auto mechanic shop to see if he would be able to do it for us. About 5 minutes later he showed back up with the piece all fixed. He happened to drive by someone in our neighborhood (about two blocks from my house) welding in their front yard! So, he hopped out, paid him three dollars, and had him fix my crib! I bet that man was thinking my Dad was crazy, but what good timing for us!

Just Call Me Grace

Here's my funny/embarrassing story for the week. Each morning I go running--well, really it's more of a slow jog at this point. Anyway, I was going along just fine when I tripped over a curb and down I went, right into the street. Fortunately, there aren't many people out at 6:00am to witness my clumsiness. I fell straight onto my knees and caught myself with my hands. So, no worries--I stayed off of my belly. I got up really quickly and didn't even check over myself until I got home. Even though no one was around to see me (at least I hope not!), I still felt pretty embarrassed. So, now I have really bruised up knees and one of them is all scraped up, like I'm a little kid again! Yeah, I'm pretty graceful!

My Husband, the Model

Yeah, so Ben's decided to become a model. I know...hard to believe, right? Well, actually we have a friend who works for the admissions office at school and he volunteered for a photo shoot several months ago. I'm a little short on blog-worthy news this week, so I thought I would show off my cute hubby.

I don't know if he'll end up on any promotional material or not, but here's his debut!

Diaper Cake

Yesterday Ben and I got the cutest baby gift from our friends Andrea and Jason! They brought over the most adorable diaper cake! I've seen these before, but never one this elaborate. She should seriously start a little business. We were both so impressed! There's three layers of diapers and all sorts of baby goodies mixed in, including washcloths, powder, lotion, diaper cream, pacifiers, teething toys, and lots of other fun things. I want to open it up and explore everything, but it's wrapped up so pretty. I think we'll just display it for awhile!

Labor Day Weekend

Ben and I decided to go to Kansas City for the weekend. It was nice to get out of town for the weekend and fun to spend time with Danny and Vicki. We were even able to go to both Wal-Mart and Target to get registered. That was hard work....I don't know what I'm going to need! Oh, and that lady better have been right about the gender of our baby! Otherwise, we'll have a lot of stuff to return!

We came back home on Sunday and decided to stop by a little place near Macon. We saw signs for a West Winery and wanted to go check it out. They have a little wine set up and an orchard. It was really neat and the people were so nice. They let us look all around and ask questions. Ben got to taste their wines--I, of course, did not. But it was still really fun. Plus, we got to go pick our own apples, which I absolutely loved. I get apples every week, so it was great to go pick my own. I decided to pick a half peck which was more than enough for me, but with that purchase you get another half peck for free. So now we have apples running out of our ears! Here we are apple pickin'. Ben had a picker that he could use to reach the apples at the top of the tree.

Then, yesterday, Ben called up a guy he met the other day to see if we could come over to buy some of his fresh herbs. He has a great garden in his backyard and gave us a ton of herbs for super cheap. We got rosemary, thyme, basil, and oregano. I've never even seen fresh oregano. He also gave Ben a couple of hot peppers to try out. Everything looks so good--it's so much better than we can get in the stores. Oh, and in the background of the picture you can even see the apple crisp that I made yesterday with all of my apples. We enjoyed that last night with Ben's homemade vanilla ice cream. What a great ending to a fun weekend!