Showers

Sheila along with my wonderful hostesses, threw me a beautiful shower.  It was perfect, I feel so blessed to have such amazing friends.

Whitney and Coley came for my special day, thank you!

My mom, she was dressed appropriately in zebra.

Everything was decorated with much love and attention to detail.

My sweet friend Libby, who drove in from Dallas.

My sweet mother-in-law, Margaret and Guy twin sister Mara, who drove in from Austin.

My amazing hostesses:  Shelley, Lisa, Alissa, Erin, Whitney, Katie, Melissa, Libby and Sheila

Katie and Alissa gave me sweet blessings, they meant so much to me.

My good friend Gale Peterson

Family pic

The table was amazing, notice the naked pictures Guy and I.

Alissa and Payton

DeAndria and Kyleigh

My sweet husband.

Lisa made the cake, it matched my bedding.  It was awesome!

My dear team threw me my school shower.  I was wonderful, I know they worked hard to make sure it was special for me, and it was!  Thank you!

Michelle, Susan, Nancy, Mary and Cathy

He is a boy, just without a name!

Camping

The first two picture are obviously not camping, but the rest are.  We went camping in Sommerville with some friends, Andy and Stephanie.  The weather was wonderful, we had our own trail down to the water from our campsite.  It was a perfect relaxing weekend, I'm thankful that I still feel well enough to stay active.

Here is the baby's room and bedding, we are so excited!  Still waiting on furniture hopefully it will be here soon.

I am at 31 weeks, my blood pressure is a little high.  I was admitted to the hospital for a few hours today and bedrest might be in the near future, but I feel great and will keep going until I hear otherwise!

Andy cooked us a wonderful beef stew the first night.  We were all off for Fort Bend County Fair Day so we celebrated by going camping.

Here is our setup, notice the lake view in the background.

We spent our evenings by the lake as the sun set and the weather became cooler, very relaxing.

We loaded Edge into a canoe and headed for a bit of an adventure.

When we arrived at the canoes these geese came running out of the water and directly towards us, not sure what they were thinking.

We arrived at the canoes to find them locked up, hmm?

Need I say more?

Group shot...Andy, Stephanie, Edge, Guy and I.

Edge was extremely dirty, so he got a bath as we headed out Sunday morning.

The flies were a bit annoying, but a least they didn't bite.

Fun, but stressful.  Every time Edge moved the canoe tilted rather dangerously.  

After the canoe trip....

Andy and Stephanie in the canoe.

IKE

We survived our first hurricane that actually landed where it was projected to land, which we happen to be in the way of.  It was a pretty scary experience and needless to say we didn't get much sleep Friday night.  We are very blessed to have no damage to our house, just a few planks from the fence came off, but more importantly we are safe and dry.  We lost power Friday night around 6:00 pm and got it back today around 3:30 pm.  It has been a great chance to get to know our neighbors and spend some time unplugged from the world.  Here are some pictures form our IKE experience.  

Our neighbors love Edge...this was Friday after we lost power, all the neighbors came out of their houses.

The morning after we drove around the neighborhood.  This is the fence in front of the railroad tracks.

Our only damage, the planks from the fence.  The neighbor's ply wood came over and knock them down.

This was Friday night as we waited for the storm to come.

More damage our town...

These guys are really popular!!

Saturday night after IKE.

Guy and Edge making screens so we could sleep with the windows open.

Our next door neighbor's tree.

Summer has come to an end...

We went to Austin to visit Margaret, Mara and Larry (the dog).  We spent Friday night at Mara's new apartment and then met up with Margaret and Larry at a dog park called The Island.  The dog park was awesome, it was on Lake Austin and full of trails.  The dogs had a great time, then we took them to Dirty Dog to get baths.

Edge and I have enjoyed our time together, since I finished my summer schools courses we took advantaged and relaxed.  Of course this is what he does everyday, but for me it was a treat.

My parents were kind enough to travel down to help my paint the baby's room.  We got it all done in one day.  My dad was great about getting all the high parts and did all the touch ups.  It came out just as I had imagined it would.  Guy will put the chair rail up and then all we will need is the furniture, which has been ordered.  I knew if I didn't get it done before I went back to school the baby might have had white walls!!

Mom and I getting started, very glamorous!

This is my crazy dad, he can't help but be silly.

This is the room almost finished.

Final product, next comes the chair rail.

Dad and Edge 

Guy and I traveled to Abilene to visit my roommates and my family.  We had a great time, Bicky and Lance cooked us a wonderful breakfast, we met up for dinner at the Bee Hive and played a bit of Rock Band.  It was wonderful to see my dear

 friends.

Glen, Me and Lance

Bicky, Lance & Tahj (Glen on the couch)