switch it, change it, a-rearrange it!

what a clever cheerleading title! hehe.

i was looking for rugs online at ikea the other day and was inspired by some of their design pictures.  it made me realize that our couch doesn't have to be mounted against a wall.  you can switch things up to make it look more updated.  so that's what we did!

after a little room re-arrange we also decided to paint the doors in the great room.  not the whole door, but just parts of it so that the depth and details are more appreciated.

here is what our great room looked like "before":

 

and here's what it looks like "after":

and no, it wasn't nighttime in the "before" picture... look at the light outside the windows!  it was just THAT dark in there.  i think the white paint on the doors really brightened it up a bit.  what do you think?

dinner on the cheap- the final volume!

day five- friday

toddler food night?

hahaha okay, i admit it, i ran out of supplies and creativity tonight. 
if you look back at my original shopping list, you'll see i blew through everything except for... drum roll please.... that trusty can of tomato soup! 
so for tonight's dinner we had grilled cheese and tomato soup! 

and, get this, i found some frozen chicken nuggets in the freezer that i had bought for when my cousin was up visiting with her young kids, and they never ate them, so billy had chicken nuggets too!  oh my gosh i made dinner for kindergartners! hey, who cares, our bellies are full and i MADE it! five days of dinners for two on $25 bucks!  *curtsy* *curtsy*

so, this week was a great little challenge and i'm definitely going to try to stick to a budget for groceries and be creative with what i have instead of looking in the fridge, going "blah!" and ordering a pizza.  i realize that some weeks i'm going to need more groceries than others, like when i run out of my staples, but i honestly think i can do it for under $50 even on those weeks!

i'll keep from boring you with on the cheap blogs everyday about baked potatoes and grilled cheese sandwiches, but when i come up with something clever like chinese take out night i'll be sure and post it.

also, billy and i rearranged the great room tonight and it had a huge effect so i'm going to post a blog probably sunday night about it.  there MIGHT be a little painting happening in there sunday afternoon as well!  eeep!  just a little, but hey it's a step!  wait til you see!

dinner on the cheap- volume four

only one day left to go on my $25 food budget for the week! :)

thursday night- pasta night!

i think it's pretty widely known that spaghetti is one of the all time cheapest meals you can make.  it costs almost nothing!  i always have at least one box of pasta on hand and one jar of sauce, because it is the easiest and tastiest go-to dinner!

i'm no italian pasta pro, but there are a couple of tricks up my sleeve that i pull out for spaghetti night that i think sets it apart.  as soon as i drain the cooked pasta, i ALWAYS toss the noodles in olive oil and garlic powder.  it keeps the pasta from sticking and gives it extra flavor.  my second trick is to add a little spoonful of sugar to my jar of pasta sauce while it's heating on the stove.  i think it cuts the acidity a bit and balances the flavor.  :) now you know!

so tonight i used the rest of my bag of salad and the cucumber from my grocery trip, plus a spare tomato i found lurking in the fridge to make a delicious salad to pair with the pasta.  i also threw some regular old wheat bread in the broiler with butter, garlic, and italian seasoning to make delicious garlic toast points.  that plus my trusty pantry staples of pasta and sauce allowed for a great dinner!

(we ate in the family room tonight so we could watch charlie brown's the great pumpkin on tv! :))

tonight's dinner was super tasty, and i promise i DO have a plan for tomorrow night!  i knew it was possible!  stay tuned!

dinner on the cheap- volume three

wednesday- fall harvest night!

tonight i decided to take advantage of the flavors of fall! we have always tried to eat "in season" and it's especially easy to eat in season on the cheap! 

i started with a simple and delicious fall salad with the bag of lettuce i bought for the week (my favorite is butter crunch) and some red apple that we had in the fridge leftover from our trip to the orchard.  apples are great in salad this time of year! it adds an awesome sweet crunch!  i made a dressing with some balsamic vinegar and honey and tada!

a simple and beautiful fall salad! if you have already carved your pumpkins, this salad would be great with some roasted pumpkin seeds tossed in it! 

next i had billy chop our acorn squash in half, and he did such a great job that i let him prepare the whole thing!  he stuck a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of brown sugar in the "well" of the acorn squash and then sprinkled the rest with salt, pepper, and cinnamon. 

they roast in the oven for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. the butter and sugar melt into delicious nearly dessert-worthy yumminess!  but secretly, acorn squash is SO good for you!  (and if you want to be even healthier you can use smart balance instead of butter ;))

next i grabbed the remaining chicken breasts out of the fridge.  they had been marinating in italian dressing for the past couple days so were sure to be extra yummy.  to give them a special autumn twist i seared them in apple cider!  mmm!

this dinner has been my favorite dinner on the cheap meal this week so far! the flavors were really great together... the balsamic vinegar and honey in the salad mixed with the sweet earthiness of the squash mixed with the apple cider kick in the chicken breast all went really well together.

and if you look back to my grocery list from earlier this week, you'll see that this half of my chicken for the week was $3.25, the acorn squash was $1.50 and i used half of my bag of salad at $1.75... that's $3.25 a piece for our delicious and healthy meal tonight! woot woot!

this is fun!

dinner on the cheap- volume two

poor irishman night!

so last night billy had a work function and didn't get home until 9:15!  since he had appetizers at his work function and wouldn't be coming home super hungry, i thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make one of our favorite dinners... a loaded baked potato!

we take our potatoes pretty seriously around here.  a few years ago i did some internet research on how to make the best baked potato, and i've been doing it this way ever since.  i will share my tricks with you and maybe you will become just as passionate about the baked potato as i am!

doing a baked potato right requires very little, but most importantly it takes time. at least an hour for a smaller potato and up to an hour and a half for a larger one, at 400 degrees in the oven.  this is why i decided to make them last night when i had the extra time to cook them since billy was going to be late.

after scrubbing, the first step to a perfect baked potato is "forking" it.  stab the potato to death with a fork! all over!  this helps it cook evenly and throughout.

next, brush the potato with some olive oil.  once it's covered, sprinkle it on both sides with some garlic salt.  if you're not a "skin" eater, then you don't have to do this, but i guarantee if you try it you will become a skin eater, because it is DELISH!  the olive oil makes the skin crispy and crunchy and the garlic salt gives it a delicious kick.

that's it! then i pop them in the oven... last night's potatoes took 1 hour and 20 minutes.  we normally load them with whatever we have on hand... last night it was butter, sour cream, cheese, salt, pepper, and some mushrooms sauteed in butter and white wine.  normally i like to add some chopped green onions or chives, but we did without last night and it was just fine!

i know a potato doesn't sound like much for dinner, but it is really filling especially if you eat the skin!  you can also do the same thing with a sweet potato. 

dinner number two was a success!  what will i do tonight?

bump watch

bonk! 23 weeks.

 

he is now un-hideable.

and boy is he moving! although much to my mom's dismay this weekend, he would not move for her. he is a little shy.  right now he's only comfortable kicking for daddy.  but he moves so much for me that sometimes i feel like i have motion sickness. i'm kind of worried he's going to have seventeen knots in his umbilical cord the way he does backflips in there. but it's nice to know he's active and having a good time!  he still remains nameless, but we've got some ideas!

my next midwife appointment is on the tenth, and then billy and i start childbirth classes on nov. 17th. we're really looking forward to it (i think it's going to be hysterical). the class runs for four weeks but doesn't meet the week of thanksgiving, so we'll be learning all the way up until christmas time!  i'm pretty postive that billy is going to be horrified for most of the class, which will be highly entertaining for me. so excited! :)

dinner on the cheap- volume one

Monday- Chinese Food Night!

Tonight's dinner was a huge success.  I made fried rice as planned.  Here's what I used:
1 large carrot
1 small yellow onion
1 cup mushrooms
2 stalks celery
2 eggs
1 bag uncle ben's brown ready rice
(the last three things i already had at home)
i sauteed the veggies in some olive oil and white wine. here they are looking all yummy:

while they cooked i fried up two eggs with the rice. i had a bag of uncle ben's ready rice that i had gotten at target a few weeks ago on sale for $1. then i combined everything in the big pan and added some soy sauce and let it fry! mmm.

i also grilled up three of the thin breast tenderloins after marinating them in some salad dressing for the afternoon.  i like to marinate chicken in italian dressing because it's really versatile and gives it flavor without fencing you in.  here they are looking all delish:

billy really likes different sauces, and i, like most people, have a refrigerator door full of various condiments.  i used some soy sauce, garlic chili sauce (sriracha), and some sweet chili sauce (basically the same as that sweet orange sauce they give you packets of when you get take out chinese) that i had to make a sweet and sour sauce to compliment the chicken and rice.

the result was a really yummy, healthy, and filling dinner that tasted exactly like chinese take out! it was kind of uncanny actually. we were both pleasantly surprised!

billy is always a happy camper when i save money on food! :)

and the good news is, i have this leftover for lunch tomorrow:

score!

i even had two mini clementines in the fridge that we ate for dessert, just like the orange slices they give you when you go out for chinese! so sweet!

hmm what will i come up with for tomorrow night? :)

you are what you eat.

if the saying is true, billy and i are not much! 

the truth is, the two of us don't consume a whole lot of food... but that doesn't stop us from spending WAY too much money on it.  i've realized lately that most of our perishable grocery items end up in the compost pile or in tucker's bowl. 
 
we like to go out to eat every once in a while, and while i think we are very thrifty when it comes to eating out (we always share a meal or have an appetizer as our meal), we can still easily drop 40 or 50 bucks on a single dinner after tip.

another bad habit of ours is our love of cheese. and cheese is expensive.
last week billy and i wandered into the grocery store to pick up some hors d'oeurves to bring to his sister's house and it was like a spotlight shone upon the fancy cheese section, and we wandered around it like zombies for ten minutes.  after we got in the car i realized we spent $75 on a variety of cheesey deliciousness.  seriously.  it's easy to do when a little block of gouda or a container of marinated mozzarella is $15 a pop.

so, after paying the rest of this month's bills this morning, i decided to embark on a little experiment.  i went to the grocery store and spent $25 on food.  and my plan is to make it last for dinners the entire week! i'll blog about what a make and how we do.  i really think it's possible, and i think just by paying a little bit more attention i'll be able to make delicious dinners with my meagerly allotted food budget.

here's what i bought:
2 baking potatoes (1.25)
1 acorn squash (1.50)
1 cucumber (.88)
1 bag yellow onions (1.00)
1 lb bag of carrots (1.00)
1 bag mixed green salad (3.50)
1 lb mushrooms (3.00)
3 pears (2.00)
1 package chicken breast (6.50)
orange juice (3.00)
1 can organic tomato soup (1.00)

the orange juice and the pears were pure pregnancy cravings and have nothing to do with meal plans. but hey i'm allowed a treat or two!  i have a fair amount of regular pantry items at home that i'm going to use to help with the meal making, such as rice, pasta and bread.  i'm excited to post my dinners this week!  if all goes well, we have a $50 gift certificate to bonefish that billy's parents gave us as an anniversary present, so maybe we will go out to eat on saturday night to celebrate our thriftiness :)

tonight i plan to make fried rice with the pantry rice i have, some carrots, onions, mushrooms, and i think i may have an egg or two lurking in the fridge to throw in to the frying pan.  i plan to pair it with chicken breast (i got the thin sliced chicken breast tenderloins because we don't eat a whole lot of chicken and that way it can be split up easier throughout the week.)  i'm excited about the fried rice because a big batch of it will last me for some leftover lunches throughout the week! :)  wish me luck and stay tuned.

uterine update.

i had another appointment today at the bryn mawr birth center to check in on my pregnancy and baby boy murphy, or as we lovingly call him, The Fetus. (it sounds so badass! come on!)

there are somewhere around 7 or 8 midwives at the birth center, and you never know who's going to be on call when you go into labor.  you can make your appointments with whoever you like, but i've been trying to make each appointment with a new midwife so i get to meet everyone.  that way the fetus will have a better chance of being caught by a familiar face.  or familiar hands, i mean. face catching would be uncomfortable.  so far i've met four of the midwives and i like every one of them! :)

the birth center is very interactive and encourages its patients to be a member of their own team and help out with the appointments! that means every time i go into the office, i first get my own chart.  i love this, because i get to review all of my own test results and progress and see what notes the midwives have made about me and my pregnancy.  today i got to read the results the ultrasound tech sent.  looks like baby murphy was in the breech position at my ultrasound and is in the 50th percentile for size (hey, let's be honest, we know this kid's not gonna be a linebacker).  next, before every appointment i weigh myself, pee in a cup, and test my own urine with litmus paper.  i record the protein and glucose levels and my weight in my chart.  some people might be grossed out by this, but i love it! i love feeling like i have some level of control over my own health and feeling like i'm playing an active role.  and of course, this brings me to my next point...

umm, like i said, I GET TO WEIGH MYSELF! in a bathroom BY MYSELF!  so you know what that means! as soon as i shut that bathroom door i strip down to my skivvies!  without any sympathetic gazes from the nurse!  you're darn right i'm taking off my sweater before i get on that thing!  so, i started out at a whopping 95 pounds and am now, at 21 weeks, weighing in at 108.  13 pounds!  even though my midwife says this is exactly where i should be (a minimum of a ten pound weight gain is recommended by 20 weeks), i still don't like it!  i remember at my first appointment my midwife told me i should be gaining 45 to 50 pounds with my pregnancy because of how small i was.  she looked at me like i should be rejoicing, like she gave me a free pass to krispy kreme! but really i felt completely overwhelmed.  i've never been comfortable gaining weight and i've always been small.  the first two months were really hard for me.  i could tell i was gaining and it made me nervous and panicky.  thankfully now i feel a lot more relaxed.  even though gaining weight is psychologically hard for me, i know that i'm doing the right thing for my baby, and i know i'll be able to get back to my little self again after he arrives!

anyways, enough about me, baby looks and sounds great, and even kicked a little "hello" to my midwife (hey! it surprised us! her hands were cold!) his heart sounds great and he's growing right on track.

i also decided this week not to get a flu shot, even though it was recommended.  i've never had a flu shot, and i'm kind of superstitious about them.  i'd rather pass.  hopefully i'll have a healthy winter! :)  you know, sometimes you'd think these midwives would be more hippie-tastic and give you a pat on the back for saying no to immunizations, but really they're not.  they still preach the same statistics and risks that doctors do.  but i think that's because they have to, legally.  i bet they don't get flu shots either.

billy and i also have to sign up for a five week childbirth and breastfeeding class that will probably start the end of next month.  i'm not quite sure why billy has to come to the breastfeeding class, but i'm hoping it's because they're going to tell all the husbands that they're in charge of all diapers since their lovely wives' chesticles are in charge of all feeding.  i've got the incoming you've got the outgoing! right? no? here's hoping!
the class form also recommends wearing loose clothing and bringing a pillow.  does this mean billy has to wear loose clothing too?  does he have to get in that awkward straddle position on that big bouncy ball as well?  or are the comfy clothes and pillow recommended for him so he can take a nap while the childbirth educators make me walk over hot coals to build up my pain tolerance?  who knows!  but i'm getting a shot of billy on that birthing ball. you betta believe it!

the family seal

ever since we bought our house i have been dying to order a return address stamp!

i found a designer on etsy a while back that i loved, but i loved so many that i couldn't decide!
the etsy store is called note trunk.

well i found a stamp i sort of liked, finally, but still needed a little tweaking...

let's just say i'm not really a moose person.

so i emailed the lovely peeps at note trunk and they came up with a custom design just for our little family! and i love it!

the little birdies are much more "us" than the little mooses. meeses. moose. ehh whatever.

now it's time to start looking for christmas cards! or baby announcements! or anything i can put in the mail and stamp our family seal on! oh, but hey, does anyone out there know how i'm supposed to clean the stamp?

i promise i'll post a house post soon...

but in the meantime...

we told billy's parents they were going to have another grandson! that's number 11 for them!
we thought for sure they would be bummed because they wanted a girl.
we were wrong.

skippop is trying to make a "B" for boy with his fingers :)

they were super adorable and excited.  it was pretty precious.

we also went out to dinner tonight at our favorite funky little kitchen to celebrate our one year anniversary.  we took some pictures to show off our bellies before we left.

whose do you think is bigger?

it's a tie for now i think.  but i have a feeling i'm going to beat him :)

 

things i'm diggin' on for fall.

a little smorgasbord of all things that make this my favorite season:

things that sound good:

what do you get when you take george harrison's son (dhani), ben harper, and indy rocker joseph arthur?
yumminess. musical yumminess.

well, they call themselves fistful of mercy. which is exceedingly more appealing as a band name than musical yumminess, but still. their whole album will make you feel nice. real nice.










things that smell good:

what my hands smell like:

creamy pumpkin from bath and body works.
i keep the room spray in the bathrooms too.
"creamy" pumpkin sounds disgusting and like a weird type of soup, not soap, but i assure you, it smells like a mystical fall fairy came in to your bathroom and washed your hands with autumn and magic.












what my house smells like:




glade plug-ins limited edition "cashmere woods"
again, with the name thing, i'm not sure what cashmere is supposed to smell like in the woods. frankly cashmere just reminds me of the smell of moth balls, but this, on the contrary, smells very yummy. and it's not overpowering.  it smells like clean crisp fall.









what i smell like:

ok, you probably don't care about all of these smells. i'm very smell oriented! i can't help it.  classic burberry. it's a good fall/winter smell.  i actually think all burberry is.  spring and summer is a whole different story.

things that feel good (fall uniform):

these are mossimo supply co pants from target.

you can see more detail on them here. 

they are 20 bucks, and they are SO comfy.

and flattering.

and i can button a size one.  victory over the bump!

i have them in hunter green but i think i'm going back for the gray too.  they are so worth it.

madewell breton tee.  it's leftover from summer. but really, basically any madewell tee.  their v-necks too. think slouchy. 

 this is another target find. i would never button it up like that... this cheery model is doing it all wrong.  but i love to wear mine open with a scarf. 

thigh high socks. 

any thigh high socks.

these are from jcrew, but i got mine at urban.

i like to wear mine over my leggings and under my boots.  it makes it look like you tried a little harder.  i love it with a skirt too, but unfortunately skirts currently make me look like a bell. 

riding boots.

i scored this amazing pair of kenneth cole reaction (random) boots from my shop that have a great buckle on the sides, but i couldn't find them online.

i did find these, however, on piperlime.  they're by rocketdog, which means to all you savvy boot people that they're cheap.  only $70! love them.

things that taste good:

apple pie.

make your own.

it's easy, i swear. 

get yourself a copy of the bible (joy of cooking) and make your own crust, too.  you'll be proud of yourself.  it takes less time than going to the store, i promise.

chili tastes good.  real good. any chili. you can't mess that up.  you could even get lazy and go to the store and buy a can of amy's organic chili.  i can cook chili all day and it won't taste any better than hers. i think she puts magic in it.  

but you have GOT to make these to go with it:

these little beaut's are paula deen's vidalia onion cornbread muffins.  they are delish.  i make mine in a cast iron skillet instead of muffin tins, but to each his own. you could eat them forever. here's the recipe. you're welcome.

i will update this post soon with things to read.  i just finished the dragon tattoo trilogy, but i haven't picked up a new fall book yet.  so i'll keep you posted.  but until then, these are all the things that make fall feel fally to me :)  oh, and snuggling on the couch with my honey.  aww shucks.

the battle of the sock... my reflection on one year of marriage.

it's hard to believe that billy and i will have been married for a year this sunday!

our first year has been faced with personal challenges, family tragedies, and family illnesses.  and i am so proud that we can stand hand in hand and look over our shoulders at the past year and say "hey! we did it! we beat you challenging first year!"  and i am so happy that we can focus on the year ahead of us, and all of the amazing things we have to look forward to.  despite the first year challenges, we were blessed with an amazing wedding, i can now call myself a business OWNER, we were able to purchase and renovate our own beautiful home, we added a new truck to our little family, and now we're blessed with a little one on the way.  we have a lot to be thankful for.

there are lots of lovey dovey things i could say about billy and about our relationship, but i can sum up what being married is like with this simple little sock analogy:

you love your husband.
but he doesn't pick up his socks.
first you say "i'm not going to pick up these socks.  i'm going to let them sit there until he picks them up!"

....two weeks later, with steam coming out of your ears, you stare at the pile of dirty socks on, around, but not IN the hamper.  you angrily collect them and throw them in the hamper.

"i'm going to have a talk with husband about these socks." you say.

"husband, please pick up your socks."

"of course darling" husband replies.  he will make more of an effort to pick up his socks.

days pass. more socks on the ground.  "but you said you'd pick up your socks!" 

"oh yes" he remembers.  you stare at him. he does not move towards the socks. the socks laugh at you from the floor. "we are victorious!" cry the socks.  "you will not beat me!" you think as your eyes smolder back at them.  husband gets distracted and goes to get a snack.  you throw the socks in the hamper.

you try many tactics to get husband to pick up his socks.  you work very hard to get husband to change his attitude toward the socks.  you try bribes "i'll buy you NEW socks!". you try punishment "i refuse to continue washing your socks."  husband seems confused.  you conclude he must be fearful of the hamper.  you find socks hidden everywhere but there.

one day while you're making the bed and straightening up the bathroom, you lean down and pick up husband's dirty socks and throw them in the hamper.  you go make coffee and toast.  you watch a project runway rerun. 
you stop short.
you drop your toast peanut butter side down on your stomach. 
could it be?!
you didn't even think twice about picking up the socks!

and you realize, finally, after a year of trying to turn your dear husband into a sock picker upper, that the only thing you have succeeded in changing is your own attitude.  without even realizing it.  and you don't really mind picking up those dirty socks, do you?  it's actually kind of cute the way he tries to hide them under his bedside table.

now, the sweet good wife would have this attitude from the very beginning, most certainly.  but the stubborn and inexperienced wife must fight the sock battle the hard way.  only to realize that some battles aren't worth fighting. 
sometimes it's much easier just to pick up the socks. 
<3

oh, boy!

when i was a little girl, i LOVED playing with my baby dolls.
my very first baby doll i got when i was really little... but i remember him very well.
i named him matthew, and he was an anatomically correct african american life sized baby.
i thought he was real when i saw him in the store and i cried for him.
i loved dressing him up in real baby clothes. he looked like this:

he was my favorite baby.

my next baby doll's name was stephen.  he was one of those magic nursery babies... you didn't know if it was a boy or a girl when you got it, and you had to take the diaper off and put it in water for the big reveal! i remember wanting it to be a boy so bad! he looked just like this:

what a special 80's baby he was.

my next baby's name was zachary... are you sensing a trend here?  he was a porcelain doll and he looked like a real baby. his body was soft and felt like a real baby's too! i remember if i woke up in the middle of the night i would pretend feed him and rock him and put him back to sleep before i fell back asleep.  he looked just like this: (sorry it wouldn't let me save the picture)

i always wanted to be a mommy when i was little.  and ever since i can remember, i always wanted a little boy!

so when billy and i found out we were pregnant, we were absolutely positive that we were going to have a girl.  we both wanted a boy really bad, but we thought certainly we must be having a girl.  a boy would almost be too good to be true!  we were basically convinced we would be living in a world of pink and purple in four short months.

today was our big 20 week ultrasound day!  we got lots of compliments on our "very well behaved" and "very photogenic" baby.  it was crazy how much we could see! the baby was a perfect angel.  its little fists were positioned right under its chin in a perfect pose.  we could see its heart thump thump thumping, all of the bones in its spine, and even fluid in its little bladder!  everytime it would wiggle we couldn't help but giggling! we got lots of pictures of its little face:

hello forehead!

but when it came time to see the anatomy we were looking for, baby had its leg curled right over the sweet spot!  the sonogram tech said "move it!" and shook it around, resulting in baby folding its other leg matter-of-factly over its private parts as well! no access!

so the nice tech recommended i get up and go to the bathroom (i also jumped up and down a little) and before i got back on the table, billy gave my belly a little pep talk... "get moving!"  i laid back down on the table and voila!

IT'S A BOY!

"no way!" we said! "yes way!" the sonogram lady said.  "no mistaking that!  you should be proud!" :)

...and we are! :) we actually high fived.

the first thing we did after our appointment was drive to the john deere store.  not joking.  we had a plan that if it was a girl we were going to send my parents a little pink tractor in the mail, and if it was a boy we were going to send a little green tractor!  billy picked out just the right one, and then we headed to babies r us.  we wanted to find an "i love my grandma" or "i love my grandpa" outfit, but we had no luck.  so we got a sweet congratulations grandparents card, and billy picked out little baby boy murphy's very first outfit!

didn't he do a good job? :)

here's the little tractor we got for grandpa:

i promise i'm not that large, i'm literally wearing three jackets because it was FREEZING!

of course mom and dad couldn't wait to find out about whether they were having a grandson or a granddaughter, so we made plans to meet them for dinner tonight.  here's what happened:

 dad opened the present and saw the little tractor and immediately started crying! mom looks like her face is going to explode into a million rainbows.

 

a grandson!

 

let's call everyone!

we couldn't be happier about our little baby boy.  it's truly a dream come true! 

but as of right now, his name is still fetus.  we're accepting suggestions :)