January / February 2013

Typing a recap of 2012 has proven to be harder than I had expected...and it taking much longer than I had expected (that post coming soon...I hope!).  So in an effort not to fall to far behind in 2013 here is a brief recap of the past month and half.  Time is moving s.l.o.w.l.y. because we haven't had a whole lot going on.  Which also means that waiting for that phone call is getting harder and harder for someone who is as impatient as I am.   I've got my fingers crossed that it will be soon...but we know that God has our baby already picked out and that His timing is perfect!

January 2013
We spent every weekend at home this month, which was really nice and a welcome change to our being gone almost every weekend in the fall.  We recuperated from the busy holiday season, did a little nesting, and just got to spend time hanging out with each other and hanging out with friends.  Thanks to Christmas giftcards we were able to get new floor put in the kitchen (which we LOVE ).  We also ordered the glider and put it together one Friday night (I know, we are exciting right?!?).  Then we picked out the paint color and painted the nursery, with some help from awesome friends.  Here's a sneak peek.

This is one of those colors that looks different in different lights...
anyone want to guess what color it actually is?!? 

Brightening up the dark brown/blue nursery with some white/yellow-

No this is not our nursery the glider hung out in the family room for a while! 

February 2013
I can't believe the month is more than half over already...as slowly as this year is going...its flying by at the same time!  We were in town for the first two weekends of the month and this past weekend went to Charlotte.  Mark turned 31 on the 8th and so we spent a week celebrating his birthday.  It started with breakfast at his favorite place (Chick Fil A) and ended with a beer tasting (March Madness Style) with several of our good friends.  I think Mark had a blast!  The girls tried to do a wine tasting, but it didn't work out quite as well as the beer brackets.  As you can see in the below pictures, our friends did use the evening as an opportunity to swap out the pictures in our family room frames using magazine articles.  Thanks guys...i get the hint that the pictures that came with the frames are starting to get boring!

Presents for the birthday boy

Notice the new pictures in the frames?  The one of the girl in a bikini has got to be my least favorite (and of course its the first one everyone sees).  The sad part is that I had no idea that the pictures were different until hours later when someone finally told me!

This past weekend we went to Charlotte to continue Mark's birthday celebration!  Despite some blizzard like conditions (okay that might be an exaggeration...but we did get to see snow!) we made it to Ikea to get the dresser for the nursery!  It may take us the next 6 months to put it together, but when we do the nursery will be almost complete!!!  Pictures to come...