It's a BOY!!!

We are so excited to announce that our baby is a sweet little boy!!!  It has been so fun to find out and get to share it with everyone.  I had my ultrasound yesterday at almost 19 weeks and baby boy looked healthy and happy.  :)  He was moving around like crazy, but I still can't feel anything.  We're both excited about having a boy and it was fun to get to go to lunch with Matt after the ultrasound to celebrate.

I highly recommend "finding out".  The first half of pregnancy is far from glamorous and doesn't always feel very rewarding, so having a reward half-way through is so much fun!

We took cupcakes with blue sprinkles to our church community group last night to share the news.  :)

Now we have the daunting task of deciding on a name... I hope we can decide soon!

big news!!!

Although this might be old news to some by now, I feel the need to officially document on the blog that        

WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!

Matt and I are so so so excited for the arrival of our little one in June.  What a blessing from God!

Baby seems to be doing great so far, and pregnancy hasn't been too bad. :)  I was only nauseous for about a month and now I feel pretty normal (17 weeks in!).

This is how we told my family at Thanksgiving ... (did you see the idea for "thankfulness rolls" on Pinterest?)

And this is how we told Matt's parents a couple weeks before Christmas.

Apparently I like to use yummy carbohydrates when sharing about life-changing events.  :)

Here is Baby Whinery at 9 weeks: 

And now, what you've all been waiting for...  belly shots.  

13 weeks (nada enchilada)

14 weeks with curious puppies (Jake & his bff Drake)

15 weeks in Vail for New Year's!

                (not really a belly photo, but we didn't coax Jake to sit and look at the camera, so I love how this turned out)  ;)

17 weeks (visiting my new nephew in Dallas!)

Hopefully I'll be back to the blog now that I have something so exciting to blog about!!   We should find out in about 1.5 weeks if it's a boy or a girl!!

research and life lately...

For the last four months, Matt has been on his "research" rotation.  This is a four-month block of time where he pretty much worked regular-people-hours in a basic science lab at the University.  He was doing research on the development of tumor-markers for head and neck squamous cell cancer screening.... if you were wondering. ;)  Anyway, research was AMAZING. Matt was usually still home when I left for work in the morning and then was home when I got back in the evening.  He took care of Jake. He ran errands. He made dinner. He got to do normal things like read books and watch tv.  We could meet up for lunch together. We were able to take random trips on the weekends! We both LOVED it.  But, alas, all good things must come to an end. (not sure if I really believe that... but it's true in this case.)

He went back to the real world today.  And we are both so very sad.  :(

Last wednesday, during our first snow storm of the year, I was off so we went to Chick-fil-A one last time.  in the middle of the day.  here we are enjoying the amazingness. 

{I'm sure you can ignore the fact that his mouth is full of chicken sandwich.}

Anyway, we have been enjoying the Colorado autumn.  It's been a beautiful, long, mild fall until last week when we had six inches of snow.  They're expecting another 5-10 inches tonight!

another recent highlight was that I got to see my sister this last weekend! she is very pregnant and only has about 7.5ish weeks till her due date! so exciting.  and such a cute preggo lady. :)

North Carolina!

We finally got the chance to go to North Carolina to visit our sweet friends, Josh and Melanie, over labor day weekend.

We enjoyed exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway which is a beautiful, mountainous area just a couple hours from where they live in the Chapel Hill area.  We went hiking and stayed one night in a cute mountain town.  We also got to see the UNC campus and the Duke campus - both are so pretty!

 Thankfully, Melanie was able to pull Josh from certain danger on one of our hikes.  :)

We had such a fun weekend and it flew by way to fast.  My favorite part of the trip was just being able to see the Langston's, catch up, and enjoy being our usual, silly selves with them (as illustrated in the photo below).  We certainly miss them and wish we lived closer to them!!