Elaina & Johan's Shower

Elaina & Johan are getting married on October 4th & Nicole & Ron & Ace & I hosted a shower for them this past Saturday. Johan's aunt's present was the best one - a huge gift bag stuffed with pink flowers & inside was 4 of the biggest bottles of Vodka you've ever seen...this classic gift was the product of his aunt sending her husband out to buy the shower present. We should all learn an important lesson from this... ha ha!

Julie, Ace, Lindsay & Paige hanging out on the patio

Home-made "Cornhole" was the hit of the night

Erika holding Kierna, Jacqueline & J.D.'s new sweet baby girl. We were introducing her to "in-the-womb" Baby Parker

Proud new Mommy Jacqueline with her beautiful baby Kierna - she was a hit with all the girls & she is the most well behaved baby! We can't wait, about 2 more months & we get one too!

Ace practicing with Kierna

29 Week Sonogram Pictures

We went to the Specialist (for the last time, yea!) on Wednesday & he said everything looked great! After taking a bunch of measurements of the baby's bones, head, etc, they told us he is 3lbs, 3oz. And if he gains a 1/2 lb. each week until he's born, which is normal from this point on, he'll most likely be over 8lbs., a big boy! Both the nurse & the Dr. (in with us at seperate times) laughed about how much hair they could see on the sonogram, they both said he had long strands of hair! I guess he may need a haircut when he comes out :) We thought that was so funny, we are taking bets on his hair color! Erika had blonde hair as a baby & Ace was born with dark hair but it fell out & came back blonde. Who knows... Here are a couple of pics of him, kind of hard to make them out...

This is a shot of his face (below), he's looking straight at you & his eyes are open, that is his umbelical cord above his right eye.

This is a picture of his hair (below), the bright strands are actual strands of hair. Don't worry, I don't know what I am looking at either, but the Dr. said it is really long hair! Will it be a Joe Dirt Mullett?? Joe Dirt is Ace's fav movie so he's fine with that - ha ha

The Nursery

We have been working on the nursery for about a month now, moving furniture out, then painting (thank you Lindsay!), then putting up chair rail & crown molding (Thank you Ace & Avery!), then moving the nursery furniture in. We still have a couple of more things to buy but it's almost there. Its too cute for words!

Crown Molding hung by Avery & Ace, quite the project!

The Crib

Some of Parker's Future Friends

28 Week Baby Bump (or 7 Months)

So I am officially in my 3rd Trimester today! Two-third's of the way there! I am feeling good, but this hot weather isn't going to be fun this summer. I am still wearing my wedding rings surprisingly though, we'll see how long that lasts with this water retention.


The butterfuly is now 2.75 inches across (originally 2.25), & believe it or not it doesn't really look too different, just wider :)


Everything is still going well, my Dr's appt. last week went fine & I passed the glucose test, which tests for gestational diabetes. I do go to the Specialist next Wednesday, the 18th, so we'll have some new pictures of Big Parker in the womb! And I'll find out exactly how big he is now, I'm guessing he's on the "big side of normal", I don't know why, just a guess...

So here's me at 28 weeks

And yes, there are supposedly 12 more weeks of this, I'm not sure where's he's going to go!

Ramdom - Flowers from our yard

Sorry it has been so long since I've posted, we've been busy working on the nursery almost every night after work! I'll post pics of that in a few days when I expect to have everything all set up.

I know this is ramdom for the blog, but how beautiful are these flowers in our yard?! Within the last week or so we've had the big heat wave of '08 (or should I say the beginning of our 3-4 month heat wave in Atlanta) so they look very sad during the day but these were taken in the morning when they are refreshed from the morning dew...

Ace does all the Landscaping in our yard, Thanks Ace for making everything so beautiful! I'm afraid of worms (& "my Parker" is starting to get in the way when I bend over :) One of my co-workers always says "I can see your Parker" when I walk by at work & it always startles me & I quickly look down to see if I tucked my skirt into my underware or something! Ha ha - he is talking about my ever-growing baby bump :)

Our 1st Baby Shower - May 31st

Fred & Kim, Carey & Andrew, & Sharon & Avery threw us a Couple's Baby Shower - I'm sure it was a new experience for many of the men there, hey, at least there was beer! Thank you for everything you did, it was fabulous!

Carey, Ace, Erika & Andrew

Carey, Sharon, Ace, Erika & Ruthie

Opening presents - Ace was the "card reader" -

Thank you Everyone for all the wonderful gifts!

Charleston - Memorial Day

We went to Charleston with Johan & Elaina for Memorial Day weekend. We stayed in Mt. Pleasant, in between the Isle of Palms Beach & Downtown, perfect place to stay! We had a great time with "The Falkmans"... (they are getting married on Oct.4th) :)

Erika & Ace (& baby Parker) outside the Hotel

Elaina & Johan at Banana Cabana on Isle of Palms Beach

Johan, Elaina, Erika & Ace outside the hotel