Happy Friday

I'm so glad it's Friday! Not only is it Friday but we are about to start a vacation! yay! We only have one more November wedding left on Saturday. Sunday we'll see Alex's family and Monday I'll run errands and pack and then we head off to NC for Thanksgiving.

My mom's side of the family gets together each year for Thanksgiving at the Red Rocker Inn. I guess at some point a few years ago, they decided that no one really wanted to cook for that many people and have to house all of the out of town guests. My parents have gone several times, but I and my brothers have never gone. This year we are all headed up along with our spouses! It should be really cool.

Here is a photo of me beginning to look pregnant. Remember that part of the belly that you see was there before Caleb was. Also, this is taken while we were working a wedding - so I'm looking a little rough. :)

Good ole' November

November is the craziest month - that is my excuse for being behind on blogging. It is wedding season and my work is crazy-busy as well. I think my work is so busy b/c during the holiday season it is impossible to schedule meetings or get a lot of group work done - so everyone tries to get their meetings in before Thanksgiving. So things are just crazy.

This past weekend we shot a wedding in Captiva Island over on Florida's west coast. We went up a day early just to spend some time there. It was SO nice. It really was relaxing and almost felt like a vacation even though we really only had one 'free' day.

Today is veteran's day and I didn't have to work. My wonderful friend, Jenny, came over this morning and went with me to Babies R Us to register. She has a 2-year old and an 8-month old. Seriously, I don't know how anyone does their first baby registry w/out a friend with a baby. I was SO clueless - especially in the whole infant care section of bathing, bottling, cleaning, etc. We were there for about 3 hours - it was pretty hardcore and I was very tired afterward.

The Baby's Room

I'm super excited because I finally found the theme for the baby's room! It happened by accident that last week, I literally stumbled upon an AMAZING kids-room boutique in a little art/design district. I was floored. I have been highly frustrated by the boy-room things at babies r us, they just don't do it for me. This store is like a children's room wonderland.

So I found something that I liked and wanted to show Alex so I took a flyer of the theme home, and when the clerk gave me the paper she stapled their palm card to it. Well, there on their card, was a little room theme of little, modern drawn baby animals in blue, lime green and orange with white as the core color. I loved it - Alex loved it. I took my mom there yesterday and we discovered that the 8-piece bedding set was half off! So I put a deposit on it so that someone can buy it off my registry at that price. I also picked out awesome little accessories that are super unique like this little paper mache puppy dog lamp. I tried searching to find the bedroom set online somewhere, but I couldn't - sorry!

Then my mom and I went to Home Depot and picked up paint samples to start thinking about the walls. I'm SO excited now about this room - it's going to be SO happy and cool!

By the way, we have a name - Caleb, no middle name. Alex thinks they are useless - I disagree but I figure I can pick that battle in the hospital - not now with 4.5 months to go!