He has to be the cutest little baby I've ever seen :)

    So we had our 28 week appointment today. Good news is that I have not developed gestational diabetes....yeah ice cream!!!! The best part of this appointment was that we really got to meet our little man, and see what is doing all of the gymnastics in my tummy :)  We have conformation that we are still having a boy (had to double check, hahaha), 10 fingers, 10 toes, and currently weighing in at 2lbs 12ozs....

He is currently still breech and was not coopersting for his pictures. We had 2 hands, 2 feet, and an umbilical cord in front of his face to work around.  I think one of our favorite pictures is the one where Lucas has his big toe in his nose!!! :)  

The "All Star" Nursery

So, David and I spent last weekend starting and finishing the nursery. We still have some decorating and "stocking of supplies" to do. We wanted to ge the majority of the work done before the holiday season comes around, cause from November till January there seems to be not enough hours in a day. So here we go....

This is the "bubble gum pink" room that started as the nursery:

 We had 3 colors to paint and chair rail to hang...so it was going to be a long day:

And here is the finished product!!!!!

Still a little more decorating needed, but it looks a lot better than the pink!! It's pretty much mine and David's favorite room in the house now :)

The Official Introduction

Well, as i think everyone know we had our 19 1/2 week ultrasound on Tuesday and doc said everything looked great! So I would officially like to introduce everyone to Lucas Monnier Nonnenmacher!!! :)

 He currently weighs 10 ounces and the ultrasound tech said that he has some of the longest legs she has ever seen!  Looks like he is already taking after his daddy :)

  I can now feel him moving around in there...actually it's more like deliberate punches and kicks. Possibly the beginnings of a future athlete?? David has felt him kick 2 times now, and the look on his face is priceless....I love it!!

Reality Check Please!!!

    Many people have said to David and I, "If you wait to have kids until you think you can afford them, then you will never have kids".  Our response has always been a little humorous chuckle and  and a look of "sure".  Well, yesterday David and I spent from 9:30AM until noon meeting with our financial adviser and CPA to discuss our newly formed financial bond as husband and wife, and trying to get our act together before the little one comes along.
   To sum up the day and what we learned, David said it best.  As the clock is turning to 6PM and we are still hovering over our computer with our newly improved family budget and nothing but financial paperwork, insurance, student loans that are more than our mortgage, and bills thrown across the room, David turn to me (with our final numbers crunched) and says...."are babies returnable... cause there is no room in our budget!?".  AKA...babies are expensive :)
    After a few moments of panic, we hear that funny little saying in the back of our heads.... "If you wait to have kids until you think you can afford them, then you will never have kids", and realize...oh how true it is!!!
    After a fun filled night of tweaking, and planning I'm pretty sure were going to be just fine...except my whole plan of never working again kinda fell through the cracks...boo :)

Take a Sneak Peek :)

I'm not gonna lie, my job does have it's advantages (in the form of an ultrasound machine)....David and I frequently get sneak peeks in between my monthly appointments of the little Nonnenmacher :)  This is what we got a glimpse of at the clinic when I was around 13 weeks....

I'm still not feeling anything going on in there...but letme tell you, the little thing was sure kicking and punching up a storm!!!

We are super excited and cannot wait for September 13th to get here. The appointment we have been waiting for this whole time will finally be here....boy or girl????  We are soo impatient and cannot wait to find out. Our luck it that the little buggar is going to be stubborn and be in the only position where we can't tell!!  Well... y'all will find out when we do :)

Getting everyone on the same page

Just to get everyone up to date and on the same page, here is what you missed in the last 4 months....

  David and I got married and had the most perfect wedding April 9, 2011. Thanks to all who showed up it was the best weekend of our lives.  We went to Saint Lucia for our honeymoon, and had a blast. Even though it rained the first 4 days we were there, we managed to make the bast out of it and went SCUBA diving, learned to sail, traveled the island, got to take a mudbath in some hot volcanic springs, and oh yeah...did plenty of eating!! It was amazing, but we were ready to get back to reality.

 We had already bought a house so coming home and starting our lives together seemed seamless.  However...the clean house we thought we left, turns out was a disaster of wedding paraphernalia and destruction when we returned!  I guess I figured out where all the wedding stuff goes after the wedding...back to your house!!  After a few days of stepping over boxes and dead flowers, we eventually got cleaning and back on our way to being functional members of society :)

 The next 2 months flew by, David and I were back to work, hanging out with friends, and excited for our next weekend away "mini vacation".  I was goign to a veterinary conference in Destin, FL for the week and David was going to meet up with me to spend a weekend at the beach relaxing and drinking fruity drinks by the water...or so we thought.

  This first weekend in June is when our lives changed forever.  David was working on night shift with the MPD and I was home packing to leave for my trip in the morning.  I was bored, didn't wanna pack, nothing on TV...not a good combination. While going through by bathroom stuff I would need to bring, I came across a pregnancy test that a friend had purchased for me as a joke and I had just thrown in the back of my cabinet.  So, what dose a girl do who is bored on a Friday night....pee on a stick just for the fun of it!!! Hahaha, yeah...I don't know why I felt compelled to. I guess cause I knew the weekend ahead would be full of those fruity drinks we missed from the honeymoon, and I thought...Why not???!!

  As you all know for the reason I am now writing this blog... I saw 2 lines when I next looked at that little stick.  After 3 whirlwind back and fourth trips to wal-mart and 5 tests later, to my unbelieved amazement I was looking at 5 sticks that all told me the same thing.... SURPRISE, YOUR PREGNANT!!!  After my excitement and tears of joy were contained, the next question popped into my head.... "how do I tell David??"  Well, sadly no one wants to tell their husband that they are going to be a Dad for the first time over the phone. But when your husband is working on a night shift as a police officer, and you call him crying so hard that you can't get any words out of your mouth, and all he can understand is "please come home now"...they kinda freak out!  I had to break it to him over the phone, so he didn't think I was being held hostage with a gun to my head. :) Needless to say, he was happier than I had ever heard him (once he picked up the phone from dropping it) and we've been busily planning ever since!!!

So, that's what you've missed :) So far everything looks great and were expecting to have a new addition to our family February 4th, 2012!!!

Work In Progress

Hello everyone! I just wanted to get one post up here while I learn the ropes. I'll keep ya updated when were up and running :)