One Month Later....

We are finally posting pictures of our fabulous Hilton Head getaway. Tyler and I had an absolutely wonderfully fantastic week in Hilton Head. We stayed in an area of Hilton Head called Sea Pines and that made all the difference. It was quite secluded from the rest of the hustle and bustle--full of walking trails, bike paths, small cute shops and restaurants, and of course, the beach. We were right on the beach and enjoyed a beach walk almost everyday. We rented bikes for the week and rode almost everywhere-- as well as just leisurely bike rides. We spent a perfect day in Savannah as well and loved walking around and taking it all in--- as well as enjoying a southern style lunch family style (more food than Thanksgiving dinner). It was a perfect week (minus the intense sun-burn my foot received on our last day, that left me bed-ridden for the following three days with swelling). We absolutely can't wait to go back one day.

March Was A Good Month

March was a good and busy month for us.

We visited friends, Doug and Christine and cute kids Scott and Tommy, from school-days at Duke, in Charlotte, NC for a fun St. Patrick's weekend complete with a parade and a corned-beef dinner.

We found out we are having a baby girl and felt her kick (pictured below is her foot).

We saw the Hawk's win at Philips Arena with our friends Brian and April.

And we had a chance to visit with a colleague and good friend, Jo, from my days at Farmington Woods when she came to Georgia for the weekend. (This is the first "belly" shot of the pregnancy).

A Baby Girl Is On Her Way-

After much pushing, proding, and moving the monitor all around my belly the nurse announced that there was no way we were going to find out what the gender was--and sent me out to do jumping jacks. One hour and many jumping jacks later, our little one had moved enough so we could see, or rather, the nurse could see, that our little baby is going to be a girl. All is healthy and well--from heart to tiny fingers and toes. Pictured below is her cute little profile.

Blue Skies, Nothing But Blue Skies

We made this scrumptious strawberry pie to celebrate a whole week of feeling good. For while being pregnant is great--I haven't been feeling so great up until just about a week ago. The doctors said maybe at 12 weeks I'd start feeling better, then maybe at 13 weeks, but the magic number was 16 weeks. So--here's to feeling great once again and blue skies up ahead.
The strawberry pie was absolutely delicious--so here's to Costco delivering yummy strawberries across the world.

"One and One and One Make Three"

So one of those "ones" in the above title is actually inside of me, but come August 11th, give or take, a little baby will be joining our family. We are absolutely delighted, excited, thrilled, humbled, and grateful for this blessing and for knowing that a precious baby will soon be apart of our family.

Let It Snow

And snow it did.....well, for a few hours on Wednesday night anyways. We got a good inch or so--enough to cancel school, call it a snow day, and stay inside. Come Saturday we were blanketed in snow again, this time, enough to cancel church. The snow is gone now, but it was beautiful while it lasted.

Thanksgiving Visitors

My brother Chad, his wife Christy, and their two darling boys, Brent and Davis, drove down from St. Louis to join us for Thanksgiving.

Brent ready to take-out any approaching "bad-guys".

Thanksgiving Day.
Tyler making gravy.

Ready to eat!

Davis providing accompaniment as we played around in Olympic Park.

Brent playing in the leaves outside of the "Swan" house.

The happy family, outside of a farm house at the Atlanta History Center.

Tyler and I on the walk behind to the old farm house.

We had a great time with Chad, Christy and family here. We are very thankful for our many blessings, especially our family.