I'll let you in on a little secret....................are you ready? IT'S A BOY! As a birthday present from Geoff we went and had a 2D/3D ultrasound done yesterday and learned that we're expecting another bouncing boy bundle of joy! Everything looked wonderful and he gave us quite the show, dancing and swimming about. Once we're setled in North Carolina I'll go in for the official NT scan and get all of the measurements and all, but as for now Baby Boy is happy and healthy!
As if I weren't excited enough about the closing and officially being a North Carolinian again, little Miss Lila Addison Hege made her way into the world, and more importantly North Carolina this morning!
So Army, lets hurry this thing along, we've got people to see and cheeks to kiss in good ole NC
Beautiful Lila was born at 12:38am, 7lbs and 11oz and everyone is doing well!
I FINALLY WON! After several years of blogging and following other peoples blogs I finally won a giveaway! For those of you who just read family/friends blogs, theres a whole world of blogs out there for crafters, home makers, decor blogs, mommy blogs, all sorts of good stuff. Well these women have "mad pull" and get sent stuff to give away on their blog as a marketing tool for various companies, artist or other blog sponsors. Well, imagine my surprise when I got an email from KIMBA herself at A Soft place to Land I won a gift certificate to mydesignguide.com, an online home decor design site that does all of their consulations virtually! Its like having your very own interior decorator! you'd better believe the timing was perfect with us closing on the house WEDNESDAY and I'm excited to get in, set up and see what doesn't work/ what could use some tweaking~ Thank you Kimba!
Since we won't be buying both I just have to show off the proofs for Grant's school pictures this spring. I can hardly believe them! How they got a bunny to be in the pictures with 100 little kids makes us think they must have drugged the little guy but clearly Grant was VERY excited. So I think we're leaning towards #2 but either way, Happy Spring, we can {almost} feel it!
wooowhoooo, it is finally MARCH and it is going to be a WONDERFUL month!
heres what we're looking at: Today- Mary Kate Taylor turns 20! Anyday now- Little Miss Lila Addison Hege should make her way into the world! March 5- celebrate 6 months of all things Dagny March 10- we close on the house! March 13- celebrate my birthday by having fun keys to the house made (I'm thinking Zebra or this) March 15- Brian's Birthday March 16- Grant's last day of school and Geoff's graduation from FACCC! March 17- packers pack our stuff into boxes March 18- loaders come to put everything onto the moving truck March 19- move out inspection, start the drive, drop the Jetta off in OKC to have it shipped the rest of the way That next week- Paint Paint Paint the house! (well Geoff and Patty will, I'll be taping off moldings in other rooms) March 23- first OB appointment in Fayetteville After that- wait on edge for our stuff to finally arrive and start unpacking March 27- Brian and Kate travel down to check out our new digs That week- hopefully recieve news that Nadia and Pat have welcomed Baby Dunn!
{whew} think I'm going to go take a nap and rest up for it all...
Ever wondered if something can truly be both amazing and awful at the same time?!? Well, here's proof that it can...
shamelessly stolen from Kevin's wall but if it doesn't make you crack a big smile and say "oh my gosh" all at the same time, something is wrong with you!
I love reading blogs! I love the inspiration you can get from other people and their craftiness. (you will certainly see this in our new house, I'm dying to do it.) Well last year I was reading the blog of Kim at SmallWords who painted our monogram canvases and she had posted a beautiful picture of her house as drawn by PVE:
and to say that I loved it was an understatement! I was immediately inspired but knew that I could never do an actual drawing that much justice, after all, there's a reason shes a professional artist. Well after dad passed away I knew that I wanted to have an extra special reminder of him and our beloved Heritage Point lake house wherever I was. So I contacted Ms. Patricia van Essche and she was sweet enough to offer a swap for me. I sent her the Platters& Splatters website for her to look around and she replied "a simple serving piece in fall colors" in exchange for a custom home illustration. I was OVER THE MOON with excitement! So in exchange for this (whose pattern/design I love):
We got this permanent reminder of Dad and the Heritage Point lake house!
A good friend of Geoff's asked me to paint a family plate for his Grandparents as a Chirstmas present but as our bad luck would have it, the plate cracked in shipping. They were able to give them a picture of the plate on Christmas day but I was super bummed. After a little delay we finally have gotten the second version ready for them to give the next time they are all together!
call it pregnancy hormones but I just heard this new country song and bawled my eyes out... its called "I Haven't Even Heard You Cry" by Aaron Lines (who sings "You Can't Hide Beautiful") Heres a YouTube video of them making the music video for the song...
Well I don't drive through the night these days It's just not a chance I'm willing to take And I don't spend my money foolishly Cause there's important things that you're gonna need You already got a hold on me And I haven't even heard you cry
I haven't even looked into your eyes I haven't held you one time but you've changed my life And I don't even know your name But I know I'll never be the same Oh I can't wait to show you you can fly And I haven't even heard you cry
You might look like your mom, you might look like me I don't really care as long as you're healthy And I'll make mistakes there's no doubt But loves one thing you won't live without Cause you own a place in my heart now And I haven't even heard you cry
I haven't even looked into your eyes I haven't held you one time but you've changed my life And I don't even know your name But I know I'll never be the same Oh I can't wait to show you you can fly And I haven't even heard you cry
Well I don't even know your name But I know I'll never be the same Oh I can't wait to show you you can fly I'm thinking about first steps and bike rides And I haven't even heard you cry
I just thought you all should know that Grant has a favorite commerical (well, he has a favorite commercial on big people TV, he has lots of favorites on NickJr and Disney) are you ready for this... his favorite commercial is MagicJack! He freakin' loves it! no joke as soon as he hears the voice he'll stop playing and run to the TV, bounce up and down and say "MagicJack Magic Jack". I don't know about you all but here it comes on and then another commercial will play and then the MagicJack one plays again so he knows this an will stay through the second showing and then turn to me and ask "where'd MagicJack go?" thats it. you can resume your day now... but I bet you'll laugh the next time you see MagicJack!
So here's the deal. We are blessed. BEYOND BLESSED. We have a happy healthy son and another baby who by all signs is healthy and happy on the way. I like so many other people have been drawn over the past couple years to the out pouring of blogger support for those people who are not so lucky. I am touched by NieNie's courage, laugh at Harper's funny faces and big bows and held my breath for days when Stellan was in the hospital.
JONAH: Almost a year ago a facebook friend from high school introduced me the the William's and their son Jonah in particular. He was born with a rare disorder called EB and his mom has blogged through the highs and lows.
EB: Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare genetic disease characterized by the presence of extremely fragile skin and recurrent blister formation, resulting from minor mechanical friction or trauma. They call is "butterfly syndrome" because the skin is as fragile as butterfly wings
An AUCTION: To celebrate Jonah's first birthday (a huge milestone for any baby but especially for this one) friends put together an auction to raise awareness and money for DebRA, an organization trying to find a cure. SO... Feb 23rd-27th you can go to this site and bid on fun things and help out all at the same time!
...Look closely come auction time, you might just see a personalized plate from Platters&Splatters on the auction block...
