6 months down, 3 to go!

So here we are, about to enter into the third trimester, and we're finally getting around to documenting this whole beautiful thing called pregnancy. Better late than never, right!? So for now, we'll try to fill you in on all the crucial (and not so crucial) details of the last six months...Here goes...

• In October, Lindsey took a pregnancy test alone…which, by the way, she promised she would never do, but she couldn’t possibly wait two more hours until Tim got home…and what was the big deal…it was going to be negative anyway, right! Wrong! Not one, but two pink lines showed up!!! OMG, yes, she was pregnant!!! After pacing around the bathroom in disbelief and excitement for a few minutes (and wondering just how she was going to explain to Tim why she took a test by herself) she called Tim on his cell phone and told him the exciting news (yea, yea, yea, she told him over the phone!). He rushed home, but not before stopping by the grocery store to purchase 3 packs of pregnancy tests, just to be sure, and a bottle of sparkling grape juice for celebration!

All signs point to "YES"!!!

We're PREGNANT!!!

• We completely shocked our parents in November when we told them they were going to be Grandparents! It was probably one of the most exciting and memorable moments of our lives!!

• We are pumped beyond words about becoming parents!

• Lindsey pretty much worked, ate and slept her way through the first trimester! Who knew being pregnant could be so tiring!

• We're due July 3, 2008, but hoping to have a late June baby...we're talking about being 8-9 months pregnant during the dog days of summer in the south...Yikes!

• We're having a little girl and Lindsey is trying real hard not to buy pink EVERYTHING...which is hard for her since her favorite color is HOT pink!!!!...That doesn't go for friends and family though...check out Katelyn's closet! How adorable are all those clothes?!!

Katelyn will be the best dressed kid on the block!

• We chose the name Katelyn (middle name TBD)

Lindsey, her mom (Nana) and her mother-in-law (Grandma) painted these to match her room!

• We've got most of the nursery put together

You see the comfiest rocker in the world! It rocks...har, har, har!


Tallie and Tucker have a hard time understanding why those toys hanging from the crib aren't for them!


We have two mobiles!!! One that's matchy-matchy and one that will sing Katelyn the Auburn fight song to sleep...peaceful, eh?! War Eagle!

And just so things aren't too perfect...enter, The Ugly Doll!! Isn't it great!!

• Lindsey got out of some major re-painting in the kitchen, because sadly, she couldn’t paint during her first trimester…what a shame!!!

We got a wild hair (before we got pregnant) that we wanted an ORANGE kitchen...bad idea!


Ohhh, it was so bad...so, so bad!!


Thankfully, Tim and Nana got it back to looking normal! Phew!

• Lindsey also got out of laying tile in the kitchen and master bathroom AND laying hardwood floors! Bad timing for home improvement projects, if you ask Tim! But, we decided that we wanted hard floors before Katelyn came so messes would be easier to clean up...we learned a lot from our little Angel dogs, Tallie and Tucker :)

We chose the far left dark wood. See all the carpet that's going to be replaced?!


And, after! Tim, with some help from Grandma (Tim's mom), did a great job!!


It looks so good! Well done!

• We've already had our two ultrasounds, which were amazing! Katelyn was ahead of the growing game when we had our 20 week ultrasound, so all is well! Let’s just hope for her momma’s sake she isn’t on her way to being a 10 pound newborn, like her daddy was!!

Here is Katelyn looking like a mushroom at 7 weeks...Lindsey was convinced she was a boy at this point!

And here she is at 20 weeks! She actually looks like a baby, not a mushroom!

• We registered a few weeks ago and Lindsey had a really embarrassing come-apart (crying uncontrollably for an hour!) in the biggest and most intimidating baby store in the entire world (Baby's R Us)...but her very supportive and understanding husband took control and made everything better!

• Lindsey's had a few come-aparts over the last several months about the whole weight gain thing that comes along with having a child! But she is learning to deal with it :)

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• We signed up for Childbirth, Parenting and Breastfeeding classes, which begin on April 12th.

• We are learning that Tim is a very heavy sleeper and he has about three months to learn to NOT sleep through phone calls, whining dogs, thunderstorms, radio alarms, etc. in preparation of parenthood. Rest assured, Lindsey will “help” him wake if he needs the extra push!

• That about gets you up-to-date! We'll try our best to keep you informed of the latest and greatest!!