Happy Birthday Brian!

Brian's big 3-0 birthday was Monday, June 13!!!


Marj threw a surprise birthday party tonight for him and some close friends. We had fun celebrating!



I forgot I had this silly camera app on my phone, and Brian started playing with it and taking pictures. Well, I guess he forgot he had the pictures stored on my phone as evidence! Haha! This is a great cheesin' grin from the birthday boy!

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Summer is here!

Last weekend we took the boat out for it's maiden voyage of year 2011. There had been a little summer shower before we went out and the temp had cooled off. It was really nice. I will really miss not being able to wakeboard, kneeboard, or tube. But, it will still be fun to sit back and watch. One thing I didn't miss was waking up the next morning and being sore!


Lillian got to drive the boat while sitting in her "buddy's" lap. She calls Alan her "buddy!" Alan is also a little (well…very) partial to her.



Lillian and Lynley smiling while Logan was in the water learning to ski!

Many more trips planned to the lake this summer!

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I heart Cynthia East!

Today mom and I shopped our little hearts out trying to find baby bedding. Well, let me warn you: chocolate brown and yellow are not in abundance! No surprise if you know me well. I can't ever pick out or do anything easy. I have had my nursery envisioned in my head for years, and when you know what you want, you know what you want! We went to Hobby Lobby, Hancock's and Pickles and Ice Cream…no luck. We crossed our fingers and went to Cynthia East. These girls are genius!!!! It took a while, but after an hour or so, we had our fabrics, minky dots, cording, ribbon, etc coordinating. Now I'm just ready to see the end product! Aunt Marj (or whatever she decides for a name) met up with us and stamped the seal of approval! I highly suggest Cynthia East. They were so helpful and creative!



A few of the fabrics. I can't spoil the end result! This looks black, but really it's brown.




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Baby Bickford

We are FINALLY going to experience God's greatest blessing: a baby!!! We have prayed for this for a very long time, and God's perfect plan has been revealed to us. I originally created this blog to track our lives and our hope of having a child. But things didn't go as I had planned. So, I stopped blogging because I didn't have the real "reason" I began the blog. But now, no excuse!

Details:
* Due date: November 9
* Due date I had calculated: Nov. 24. Whoops!
* Dr. Amy Weidower at Central Clinic for Women, LR
* We are NOT finding out the gender!
* The nursery will be chocolate brown and yellow. And there is nothing with these colors for baby bedding!
* The heartbeat has been around the 150s.
* I haven't felt the first flutter…yet.
* Today I am 17 weeks 3 days.

Here are a few pics to get this started.


Our friends have encouraged us to buy diapers when we shop for groceries. Here is the proud daddy!




Aunt Marj (or Lola or maybe another name) saw this while shopping and had to buy it! So funny!



A nurse at the clinic (and also a good friend) saw this and had to buy it! I love it! I have continued to run while pregnant, but OMG it is so much harder! Baby bump or pudge? I can't decide yet! I can't wait to really fill this tank top out with a preggo belly, but I'm sure by that point, I will be unable to run!



Here I am 5, almost 6 wks pregnant after the Little Rock Half Marathon. I had no idea I was pregnant!

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