7 Months Down!

I can't believe another month is gone! Only 8 more weeks. 8 MORE WEEKS!!! And that's if I go the full 40 weeks. At our last doctor's visit (last Monday) I asked the doc if he could tell how much baby girl Krenek was weighing in at and he said about 4 lbs. That's exactly what I weighed when I was born! Granted, we were two months premature so I suppose she is normal weight but yikes, how much weight is she gonna gain before it's go time?

I already feel so huge. And then I see pics of myself and think I don't look that big at all. It will be interesting to see what the next 8 weeks have in store! I look forward to every moment though - even if it means going over the undisclosed weight I hoped to never, ever, ever reach. (But am now dangerously close to reaching. And by dangerously close I mean two pounds!!!) Oh well!

I had another shower on Saturday and, again, was overwhelmed by everything! Can I just say, I have the best friends & family! I truly feel blessed to have so many people who love us and want to share in this with us! Thank you all so much for everything.

While I was showering, Michael and his dad we're busy painting the nursery. It looks great! I will post pictures of the completed nursery and it's progression when, well, it's completed!

On that note, I will leave you with some pics from the shower. Hope you all have a blessed week!

Here I am with two of the hosts, Laurie and Tanya:




Here's Granny - who traveled down from Houston for the occassion - entertaining Logan.

Here I am with mom and sisters, Laurie and Karrie:

April Showers...

Sunday was the first of two scheduled baby showers. This one was hosted by the girls at work. They did a fabulous job and I was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff. Thank you ladies for a wonderful time and for sharing in this special time with me! I feel so blessed to work with such great people! Here are some pics from the shower:

Here I am with the lovely hostesses. Good looking group, eh?


Just one of many precious outfits that Baby Girl Krenek will have the pleasure of donning...

Here's me with my sisters, Karrie and Laurie (Mom, why are you not in this picture???)

More showering resumes this weekend! Can't wait! Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Happy Good Friday!

So, for those of you curious about whether I actually stuck to my plan of getting the nursery-to-be cleared out last weekend the answer is a resounding YES! At about 5 p.m. last Sunday I decided that I could not let Monday come without at least making some progress. So, while Michael did yardwork, I started moving stuff out. (This actually worked out well because it meant that I was in total control of what to keep and what to toss out! Eureka! (Just kidding honey, you still have one last chance to go through "your" stuff!)) The end result is a now empty nursery-to-be and a newly designated "catch all" room. This weekend's project will be going through the boxes of stuff we moved out and (hopefully) throwing away a majority of the contents.

In other nursery-related news, we finally found a changing table/dresser to meet our expectaions and also purchased a rocker-glider. (This after much debate on whether we needed a rocker-glider when we have a "perfectly good" Lazy Boy recliner in the living room.) I can not tell you the sense of relief I now feel having all of this behind us. Now we just have to paint and wait for everything to come in!

Enough about the nursery (I can't help myself, I'm excited!)... Not sure if this is a sign or not, but when we bought the new Yukon last May to accomodate the future growth of our family (of course at that time we thought the future would be a little further off) we had four blissful months of driving a brand-new, blemish-free vehicle (sans the "garage-door incident of late-summer 2006" where someone (o.k., me) managed to back out of the garage before allowing the door to reach maximum clearance thereby introducing the first scratch to the Yuke while also managing to successfully (yet accidentaly) knock garage door off it's tracks at the same time.) Anyhoo, in the short almost 7 months since we found out we're having a baby we've had someone run into the back of the Yuke and cause damage, not once, but twice! The latest incident happening just this week. And, both times, said accidents appear to have occured while at scheduled doctor's appointments! What does this mean? Well, nothing, except that people who hit other peoples' cars and cause damage and leave without a trace stink (g-rated version for mom!)!

On that note, hope you all have a Happy Easter weekend.

6 Months Down!

Yep, 6 months down - only three short months to go! Time really is flying by! I feel like we finally have some things accomplished. We have purchased the crib and bedding and have registered for upcoming showers. Now if we could just get the nursery cleared out. I must admit the room stands pretty much as it did in the month 5 post, sans a file cabinet, which we did manage to move to another room. Seriously, why can't I get motivated to do this? I keep waiting for the so-called "nesting" to kick in. I do hope to make some progress in this area over the weekend...

Hope you are all having a great week!

To Vail and Back

We returned late Thursday from our mini-vacation to Vail. A great time was had by all. The guys - and most of the girls - skied most of the days we were there (including some night skiing in Keystone) while Jennny (the other pregger on the trip) and I filled our days with much-needed rest, some shopping and prenatal massages. Here are a few pics from the trip:

This was the view from the top of one of the ski lifts. I must admit that I never made it up to this altitude:


Here are the guys on the balcony of the house where we stayed:

And the girls:


On Saturday, we went to my nephew Collin's birthday party. Here is the Blue's Clues cake I made for the occassion:


Here's Collin awaitng the blowing out of the candles. You can see where he has already taken a fork to the cake! (He is so my nephew!)

Little brother Logan was tuckered out by the birthday festivities. Here, he and Michael spend some down time.

Hope you all have a great week!

We're Off to Vail!

We leave tomorrow for four, hopefully relaxing, days in Vail! I will post pictures upon our return...

Not a whole lot going on here this week. Michael's dad came last weekend and helped us do some much-needed things around the house (Thanks, Pat!). I know Michael appreciated the help as I have not been much help of late on any tasks requiring lifting of heavy objects and bending over!

We had a sonogram on Thursday and are happy to report that our precious little girl is looking great. She is almost up to 2 lbs which puts her in the 70th-something percentile for her size at this stage. (Those Nance genes at work already! Yikes!) I wish I could post a picture from the sono, but not having the technical tools to do so, you're just going to have to trust my word when I say that baby girl Krenek has the most precious profile you have ever seen. Seriously, I can already tell she is going to have the cutest little nose. (Of course, I could be a bit biased.)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Don't forget to set your clocks forward!

2 Years!

Today was Michael and I's two year anniversary! It's hard to believe we've been married two years already. I thank God every day for sending Michael to me. I really do feel blessed.

We had a doctor's appointment today and another sonogram. During the sono I had the technician do a double check on baby's sex and we're still having a girl! Now I feel like I can start buying stuff! I drug Michael out to look at baby beds and bedding on Saturday and I think we found something we both like. It's not the pink and super-girly stuff I thought I would be drawn to. But it's very whimsical and cute (see below). It almost makes me want to get in there and start cleaning the stuff out of the nursery-to-be! Almost.