Cville love

Part of our time in Charlottesville was spent with some of our favorite friends that we miss so much. Most everyone had a little kid or two running around outside. Michael loved playing football and kickball with all the tots.

Sweet little Parks:
Caroline has a great arm for a 7 year old!
These little ones are so cute.
Me and Mal pregnant with the next little ones!
Highlights from the weekend included all of our time spent with the Andrews (it wasn't enough!), eating at some of our favorite hot spots, and being with all those folks. Jen and Jen, thank you for entertaining me with all of your labor and delivery advice. I can't wait....

Bought my own valentine

Ashleigh made me do it.

I bought myself a box of heart chocolates for my ride home today. Honestly, I only ate 2 of the 4 pieces and they weren't gourmet like the ones I'm hoping to get from Michael. So I really don't feel guilty. I will when our little neighbor delivers the 5 boxes of girl scout cookies that magically were ordered for us.

Wedding work is picking up. May is getting closer and so the count down begins! I still have plenty of room to book weddings this (early) summer and all next year. Send the brides my way ladies.

Things are pretty busy in our household lately. We are looking to move - yet again. This time it'll only be a local move. We are hoping to buy. We'll be here for a bit so might as well invest in the market. Plus, there's a lot more to think about with little baby. I can't be selfish anymore. Bye-bye trendy city life! We'd like yard space for outdoor play time and a space for a play room/rec room and a safe neighborhood to take walks in the stroller. (That's so weird to think about!)

Maybe we'll have a house update soon. For now, we are getting ready to spend some much anticipated time with some of our favorite friends, the Andrews! We are reuniting in Charlottesville for a weekend getaway and splurging on our most loved restaurants and hot spots in town. I'll have to get a picture of Marta and Le-a pregnant together!

10 Weeks

Into the double digits already! I'm feeling great for the most part. The ickiness has moved to nighttime and requires me to sacrifice watching my shows like the Bachelor, Glee, Modern Family, etc. Sleep solves a lot of problems. Michael also let me throw away everything in our fridge yesterday! It was so refreshing.

We have been so good about not buying things for the baby yet. However we did purchase one gift. Ever since our church started selling the Jesus Storybook Bible, I have been wanting to buy it for our child. But I waited and waited and waited - until I actually knew it was going to happen. And so here it is! Our first gift/purchase for our baby!

Lots of Love

Sharing the news on Tuesday was so much fun! Both Michael and I just couldn't wait to share our joy with friends and family. Watching comments post on facebook was too precious! I got over 100 messages/posts/comments about the baby. I feel so so loved knowing that so many of you care and are excited for us! Thank you. Seriously, it's just one of those things that really means a lot to me.

There are also some nicknames for baby floating around already - only one of which has been given to him/her by us...

- Megael

- Half & Half

- Blueberry

- Pog

- Gustavo

- Leslie diaper

- Dauberito

I know I'm forgetting others.

There's a baby coming!

We told our families this past Sunday evening. It was way more fun than I expected! I wanted to do a little something more than just blurt out the news so I purchased baby frames and filled them with a note. (Don't ask me why one has a baby on it and one doesn't......I couldn't tell ya.) The frames worked out so well because it took a few seconds for people to read them and make the connection of what we were telling them. We told each family separately and had a night filled with joy after joy!

Since we had to tell Heather and Matt from long-distance, I left her with a fake valentine's day present over the weekend and told her not to open it. Shortly after we left my parents house on Sunday I called her up and had her and Matt open the box to find this little note inside. Just wanted something fun and tangible to make it a bit more special for everyone!

Los Tres?

It's true! We are having a baby!!!!

I cannot even begin to tell you how much we've wanted this and been waiting for this to happen. God is good and here we are. Last night was our very first OB appointment - 9weeks! Everything was new and thrilling. Little Dauberito looks great. We heard the heartbeat, saw the baby wiggle and just looked at the babe for a long time. We love Doctor Wolf, she's a good fit for us. I cannot wait to elaborate more but social network breaking news is overwhelming. Here he/she is!

Picture at 5.5 weeks when we found out!

January Birthdays

Some of my favorite people have birthdays in January. We did a lot of celebrating. From David to Rebecca to Amanda to Heather to Cathleen there are so many fun people born in this cold month. Love you all!

Here's Heather opening a gift last weekend at her home in Delaware.
Here's Amanda's sweet little party as we celebrated her before she went back to Washington state to meet Cale! We stole the spotlight in this pick - what's new?