"Look at me from the side, do I look different to you?"

So, can you tell a difference? Well, I don't really look like that yet, but I will in give or take a month or so (I just stuck it out as far as possible to emphasize the point...). Yes, that's right, Josh and I have decided to add to the Little clan. So surprise, surprise when said we would try this May during a friend's wedding in Mexico we didn't have to wait that long cause I was preggars by June. We are goal oriented people!! I guess you'd like the details? Well, I'll be 14 weeks on this Wednesday (Aug 27th) and we are due February 25th. I'm already loving the idea of stretchy waistbands though. When they say you pop out sooner with the 2nd one, they were kidding. So, I'm sure there will be lots more pictures of my fatty pregnant self to come in the next few months.

Here is what I really look like right now:

Quite honestly, not that different, right? Oh boy. Who wants to take bets on what kind its going to be? Pink or blue? My guess is another little lady, but we'll find out in about 6 weeks!

The Kids trip to Missour-ah

My niece, Natalie and three of my cousins, Jeff, Elyse and Oscar came out to visit us for a week from California and try out Pepere's new pool and spend some vacation time before heading back to school. I'm so glad they decided to come, because it was really great to see them. One day, we took them to Six Flags for the day to ride rides, eat lots of junk and lounge around at the water park. I decided to take Emaline with us for the day while Nana watched Kaya. I thought I was going to be in for a real eye opener, but she was great the whole day! I was surprised at how well she did, not to mention she even got a little nap while we walked around. I can't wait to take her again! The kids got to ride all the big ones with Adham and Kayleigh and it looked to me like they liked it.

The rest of the days were spent lounging at poolside, playing the Wii, shopping, eating, etc. Stephani and Adham took them to the Loop for some Fitz's rootbeer floats and shopping. We really didn't know what else to do since they've been to everything in St. Louis now! I guess its our turn to visit CA next summer and have them take us out! I love spending time with family and I'm glad that Emaline got to meet all of them! Here are more pictures of our fun days:

Annual Girls Weekend-2008

Another successful trip with my ladies this year! We ended up going the way of the frugal and decided on Chicago this year. It really helps that Carrie's parents have a condo up there for us to take advantage of. Thanks to the Noonans again for letting us tear up the joint, it was a pleasure. We mainly did low-key things since the only days/nights all of us were there were Friday and Saturday. It was nice mornings lounging at the pool, taking in a nice brisk walk at the lake (at least me and Sarah), eating and drinking out, lots of boobery playing Apples to Apples for cosmetics, Noonan getting surly during Win, Lose or Draw, etc...you know the usual stuff. Again, thank you to my wonderful friends for finding the time to make this happen every year. I don't know what I would do without you all!!

P.S. Meghan and Noonan are going to hate me for this, but oh well...enjoy.

New Porch!

It's actually really hard to tell from these too pictures, but the one on the left is the before where the porch on the left side started to drop down. Now, we don't have a slab moving away from the house any more!! Hooray! We finally decided after all pointless work done on it--trying to mudjack and then having the company tell us it was going to be another $4500 to put in ONE pier--to go ahead and redo the whole thing. So....we contacted a friend of Josh's family, who works in concrete and asked him what he would do. He recommended someone and we went with him. They raised up the roof over the porch to where it should be and then tore out all the concrete and formed it up again and poured new stuff. Then our carpenter repaired our posts, where needed, and added new bases at the bottom. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be money wise and it took a couple weeks, but it was definitely worth it! Now you all have to stop by and have a sit with us on it....

Unfortunately, I did not think to get pictures of the demolition, but I did get one picture of the poured stuff (oh and its flush with the house like its supposed to be!):