Three years!

CO and I have been married three years already (sometimes it seems like more!).

I love him so much and am thankful that he puts up with me!

He surprised me with chocolate and flowers this morning and has been so supportive through our pregnancy.

I'm very blessed!

In need of some inspiration...

What are some of your favorite recipes lately? I'll take whatever I can get - appetizer, main, dessert - whatever!!

Please help a girl out, we're stuck in our same eating rut...

Things that annoy me...

- The people at golf tournaments who shout "Get in the hole!"

- The traffic lights that you can't see unless you're immediately underneath them, rendering them ineffective, particularly at speeds over 40mph.

- Weather maps that show random counties with severe weather warnings, particularly when you (I) have no idea which squiggly county is yours

the (other) good news

well, not THE good news, just our good news...

This is what we've got thus far.

I was 16 weeks yesterday. That, friends, makes the due date the 25th of December (as my dad said, "Wow, that's awfully close to Christmas"). And yes, we are already accepting donations to help pay for baby's therapy for getting combination presents (birthday + Christmas).

Will we find out the sex of the baby? I'd like to think I'm patient like my sister, and could wait for the surprise in the delivery room, but alas, I'm not very patient. I reserve patience in my life for things I have no control over, aka our military life. Though I cannot change the sex of our baby, I would very much like to be able to (semi-)plan as much as I can for the new addition to our family. CO kind of wanted the whole delivery-room-surprise thing, but I think I've convinced him that there's no way I could wait that long.

When will we find out the gender? I go to another appointment at the end of this month, and then they'll schedule the big ultrasound then. That's all I know.

As far as names go, we do think that we might keep our ideas a surprise. Plus, we want to make sure the name fits the baby. We are accepting suggestions as far as real names and names I can use for the baby while blogging.

I've been holding out....

Hapai - literally to carry, pregnant

I'm still learning...

Yesterday I went on base to go shopping at the commissary (still using the bags E got for me - thank you!). It was late afternoon, as I had actually gotten some things done!

I got in through the gate (as I got a new ID card after I left mine in Florida). I drove along the road to the commissary, listening to the music on the radio. Some kids were trying to cross the road ahead. I noticed the driver in the other lane had stopped, so I too, came to a stop and let the kids cross the road. The other driver remained paused, which I assumed meant they knew the kids or were picking them up or something.

I continued down the road, and other drivers were stopped at a light. Even after it was green. This is where I became confused. Of course, the light was less than 1/4 mile away from the commissary. So I pulled in, parked, and then realized they were playing the National Anthem. At 5:00 exactly. DUH! No wonder everyone had stopped what they were doing. I must have looked like a horribly inconsiderate person, trucking along to the grocery store for my orange juice. Not honoring the national anthem on a military base? Ooops. Someone should give me a manual on how to behave on a base. Is there anything else I should know before I completely embarass myself?

Yes, I'm still alive.

It's been a while.

We JUST got internet installed in our house TODAY. But really, there hasn't been much to report. We've moved into our house and are slowly unpacking. I'm hoping to have the kitchen table cleared off soon and maybe we can have guests over.

The move went pretty well - the movers delivered our stuff less than two weeks ago. The movers in Nashville didn't do that great of a job - some of our stuff arrived broken or stained (our couch!). AND they tried to insist that they didn't have to unpack our stuff. HELLO! It's in your contract. So the guys dropped off the stuff and left it in boxes. A few hours later, a bunch of ladies arrived and dumped our stuff out of boxes on the ground. Fabulous.

This house has a lot less storage than our other places, so last weekend we went to IKEA and bought a shelf system for pantry storage and a bookcase that holds most of our books! Yay! We also bought some cute fabric that I'm going to try to make into curtains... we'll see how that goes!