The old is GONE and new has COME!

The painting is done and it looks great!!!! Here are some before and after shots.

Before: neon green master bedroom

After: beautiful paramount sage master bedroom!

Before: boring white baby's room

After: tropical themed bluefin bayou baby's room!

Baby's room is in progress...look for updates in the near future.

The old is going and the new is coming

This weekend our cousin Christina is going to paint two rooms in our home for us--the baby's room and our bedroom!! The one that I am most excited about is our bedroom! NO MORE NEON GREEN WALLS!!!!!! YAY!!! For my husbands sake I will take a couple minutes/seconds to mourn the change. (It is Tom's favorite room and color in the house) Look for pictures coming Saturday of the rooms with their new colors!

One Year Ago...

This happened :)








What a wonderful day that was!

22 weeks

Small Child is growing and I can feel him/her move a lot these days! It's so exciting and makes it more real. :) We started our birthing classes a week ago and are really liking them! We are doing the Bradley Method, which promotes natural birthing and the importance of the husband as the coach. We are learning a lot of information about nutrition, exercise, and just overall about pregnancy.

Here's a picture for those of you wanting a belly picture. :)

Celebrating our 1st Anniversary

It's been almost a year since Tom and I made our marriage covenant before God. It's been a wonderful year filled with learning a lot about each other, growing closer together in the Lord, getting used to 'married life', facing trials and sorrow, and for me learning how to be the help meet that God has created me to be for Tom.

To celebrate our one year we went for a night to a B&B in Northfield. We had a great time there and it was nice to just get away. The weather was beautiful and even a little hot! Here's a little recap of our time:

Our B&B the Magic Door

Dinner at Froggy Bottoms-- a fun Pub style place.

Tom looking at all the fish, suckers to be exact.

A walk on a beautiful morning.

Thanking God for the gift of marriage!

Half way there!

Today we got to see our baby for the first time and it was sooo amazing!! The little one was moving quite a bit which was fun to see. Saw the mouth moving (it must have been eating the Indian food I had for lunch). Seeing the baby just made me marvel at God's creation and how everything works together so perfectly. The fact that there is a little life inside of me is wow...incredible.

The foot

The little hand is so cute!


Small Child

18 weeks and Spring

Here is the baby bump at 18 weeks. Small child is growing slowly but surely :) I'm pretty sure I felt the baby move yesterday! It felt like something was popping inside of me, very weird feeling. I'm going to pay attention and see if it becomes consistent. We have our first ultrasound in a couple of weeks. We're not going to find out what the baby is for those of you wondering. Keeping it a surprise until the birth day. I'm excited to finally be able to see the baby!!


Spring is here in Minnesota so we have been doing a lot more things outside. Tom has golf fever so has been golfing a lot and is already tan! I'm still pale but hope to get some sun soon. We went out on the river (Mississippi) last week with some friends on Tom's parents pontoon boat. That was really nice and peaceful. The grass is green, the trees are getting leaves, flowers are blooming, the sun is out, and it's in the 60-70's!!! I love Spring.