...And We Add One More!

We like to add on to our family of us and 2 dogs so much that we're now going to add....a baby!!!

We're so excited to announce that we will be welcoming Baby Dickens (A.K.A "Pot Roast") on August 18th, 2011 (or whenever he/she decides to come!)

We found out the week before Christmas that I was pregnant and decided to tell my parents in person when we went home for Christmas by wearing these t-shirts. (Sorry...just took a shower and decided to take pics, so just ignore me!)

There are LOTS of babies at my school, so I thought this was appropriate!

We told Jeff's family and my sisters by phone, and the entire Blackwell side of the family at my aunt's house a few days before Christmas. August 18th is the same b-day as my aunt AND her granddaughter (as well as a family member from long ago), so it's a cool anticipated b-day, but since both of my sisters AND I are all born in August, I would love our baby to have a date all to their own!

We've had 2 ultrasounds so far. At both of our latest dr. visits the heartbeat couldn't be heard with the microphone, so we got pics instead! (Nerve-wracking since we couldn't hear, but glad we have pics)

Here is baby at 9 Weeks 6 Days (January 19th, 2011):

Here is baby at 13 Weeks 4 Days (February 14th, 2011): He/she was REALLY moving around and it was absolutely amazing to see the head, arms, and legs just a movin' and gettin' their groove on!

Here is me at 12 weeks---first time to wear maternity pants. These things are GREAT! (Cell phone pic--ignore the blurriness!)

Here is me at 13 weeks and Amber at 17 (with baby girl Dunagan!). It's so fun to be going through this time with a friend!

Here's the proud mom and dad (week 14 for me) on our trip to New Orleans for Jeff's birthday last weekend. (Yes, totally aware this pic was on the blog before, but now you're supposed to focus on the belly instead of New Orleans!)

Our blog has always been to update friends and family on what's going on in our life and apparently we will now have quite a few things to update! We're already excited to see how our little Pot Roast grows (we didn't like the phrase "bun in the oven" and this name came about because I wanted roast one week!)

Jeff's Bday Trip

We've been trying to plan a trip to New Orleans since, oh.....the year we met! Sad to say, it's taken us this long to actually do anything about it! I'm not the biggest fan of New Orleans because I remember Bourbon Street from a New Year's trip years ago and I don't like drunken crowds shoving me around everywhere. However, we had a great time this year and I'm so glad we did it--especially with everything coming up this year with our family! Jeff's dad and step-mom met us down there, so we had their guidance to help us "skip" a few tourist traps!

We started off our foggy Saturday with delicious beignets from Cafe du Monde. Jeff's been bragging about this place since I met him and I now see why! I never knew it was so famous, and I'm so glad we made this our first stop!

Mmmmmmm.......delish!!!

This is how we "eat"--we could use a few bibs! I wasn't happy that Jeff "sprinkled" powdered sugar all over my dark jeans, so I got him back by flicking his beignet (which resulted in the powdered sugar mess that is now his left arm--he held on to the beignet!)

We walked through the French Quarter, taking in the French Market (where we both bought stuff!), checking out the art/street performers, and even randomly running in to a Nash cousin at the Katrina Museum! Sorry Jeremy--didn't mean to ambush you!

We also happened to run into a funeral celebration, which was really interesting to see! Happy Jazz music, dancing, ashes thrown into the mighty Mississippi (1st pic--lady in white is the wife)--it was all there!

We took a trolley down to the Garden District, where we had lunch, and then headed back for a quick nap before heading out to dinner with Jeff's old Coast Guard roomie Tony and his wife Connie. We ate at Smitty's near their house and boy...was it tasty!

To make sure you understand that this trip was all about the food, you must know that we ended our trip to ONE more trip to Cafe du Monde on Sunday for another order of beignets and coffee!

Happy 37th b-day Jeff! I hope you had a great time with your family and friends--I know I did!