Birthday weekend

Today we celebrated my 29th birthday with our parents. I am sporting all of my new birthday goods. I got a new coat from Brent, a sewing basket from Brent's parents and our first baby clothes from Mindy, Natalie and Jon. Thanks everyone. I even got some money from both parents to get me a new wardrobe.

We went to the movie Juno today with Brent's parents, it was awesome, we all loved it and totally recommend it. Then we went to Dino's pizza and then back home for cake and ice cream, it was a good weekend.

Ta Da- New Living Room

Tina checking out the new carpet.
The new couch and loveseat and ottoman.
Tina and Thor had to check out the new feature.
We are loving the new look in the living room. It's so much cozier and seems much larger without that sectional couch.
We also carpeted the future nursery. We were going to leave the hardwood, but once we tore up the carpet the floors were not the best. Now we just need to decide on a color for the walls, plum is just not going to work.

Old living room

Some pictures of our old couch and white carpet before we tore the carpet up.

Here are the beautiful hardwood floors that we have, too bad we covered it up with carpet. With a baby on the way we decided it would be nice to have carpet in the living room.

white trash?

We sort of felt like it with our carpet on the deck and our old chair in the yard and it started snowing, looks like it just belonged there. We remodeled our living room and spare bedroom this week with some new carpet and new furniture in the living room.

Yummy

This is what I made for dinner last night, chicken and dumplings, it was awesome. Thanks Heidi for the great recipe. I am trying to come up with some new ideas for cooking.

2nd Trimester

It's officially the first day of my second trimester and boy do I feel energized, not really, but everyone says I will soon. I'll be waiting. Here is the update from babycenter on what is happening with the baby:

Welcome to the second trimester! This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb. Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces.

My clothes are getting somewhat snug now, so it's time to start searching for some relief. The one thing I really need is a maternity suit for work, anybody know where I can find a great suit?

gym

Brent trying out his Chuck Norris total gym he got for Christmas, he is looking pretty buff lately. He said what he likes most about working out at home is he can dress like a dork.

Tina on Christmas looking at her new bogus ball she got, I guess the cats are just not fans of the catnip balls.
Brent on Christmas morning.

Thor checking out the exercise mat. Our basement has basically become a gym. We have the total gym and Brent's bike set up permanantly in the basement, he is in work out mode.