30 Weeks and counting

Well, I'm now officially in my third trimester. I'm now 30 weeks prego. Whew!!! It's flying by so fast. I can't believe that I have only about 2 more months before I'm a mom! Jeff and I have been dragging our feet a little on the important things like picking a name, decorating the nursery, and registering. We realized that it's now time to get serious and start some of these daunting tasks. We went to Babies R Us last week to start the registering process and it was pretty overwhelming! There are so many things that you feel like you need. It's hard registering because there are so many options - like the "wall of bottles" and the "pacifier wall". Good thing we have the Internet these days because I spent a lot of time researching the different products and choices.

In regards to the baby room, we live in a three bedroom house so we are having to combine the current office and guest room to make space for Baby Sherman. This weekend we started to consolidate the office and guest room and we were amazed at how much stuff we have collected in the past few years. Stay tuned for pictures of the nursery progress.

Here are a few pics that Jeff took this past weekend. I can't believe how big my belly is right now. I don't know how it can continue to grow for another 2 months.

30 weeks pregnant!

Until next time...

Michelle's Wedding Weekend

This past weekend, my sweet friend Michelle Nix got married. Michelle lived on my hall freshman year at Baylor and then we lived together in an apartment for the rest of our college years. After moving to Dallas for Physical Therapy School, she started attending Northwest Bible Church. Michelle volunteered to work with the youth group and while working with the youth group she met Charlie. He was in the praise band. They hit it off - and a short time later - they were planning a wedding.

The wedding weekend was so fun because it got all of our college friend together again. We began on Thursday night with a yummy dinner at Chuy's and then dessert at Pokey O's. If you live in Dallas, and haven't discovered Pokey O's yet - you are really missing out!!

After dinner on Thursday night, we all went back to Sarah's house and attempted to make Michelle's bouquet for the rehearsal. She had saved all of the bows from gifts from all of her showers. This was the BEFORE.

This was the AFTER! We definitely didn't need all of the bows for the bouquet.
On Friday morning, we had a luncheon for Michelle at Breadwinners. After the luncheon, I headed to Paris for my sisters high school graduation (previous post). The graduation was at 8pm on Friday. Jeff and I then left bright and early on Saturday morning to drive back to Dallas for the wedding. Here's a few pics from the wedding!

Michelle and her dad just before walking down the aisle!

The entire wedding party!

Can't hide this bump now.

Beautiful Bridesmaids.

Mr. and Mrs. Roch!

These girls are dancing machines!

I managed to drag Jeff onto the dance floor for at least one song. Baby Sherman got in the way a little bit - but it was fun!

All of the girls!

Congrats Michelle and Charlie!!!

My beautiful sister - Rebekah

This past weekend Jeff and I went home to Paris to watch my BABY sister graduate from Paris High School. I can't believe that Rebekah is already graduating from high school. It seems like just yesterday that I was walking across that stage getting my diploma. It was actually 8 years ago for me.
I'm so proud of Rebekah because she was ranked 4th in her Senior Class! She is headed to University of Texas at Austin this Fall. My mom and I tried to convince her to go to Baylor - but she decided to follow in Dad's footsteps!


The graduation was scheduled to be at the football stadium but due to the threat of rain, they moved the graduation ceremony into the auditorium at the last minute. When they moved the ceremony inside, they limited each graduate to only 6 tickets. We had many family members come up for the ceremony, but they ended up not being able to come. Here's the six "lucky" ticket holders after the ceremony. It didn't start until 8:00 PM, so I look a little exhausted.
After the graduation on Friday night, Jeff and I got up early on Saturday morning to drive back to Dallas. My college roommate Michelle got married at 11:30am on Saturday morning. Pictures of that in the next post. Also, I just had to post these beautiful pics of Rebekah at her Senior Prom this spring.

Doesn't she look beautiful?Dad and Rebekah

Memorial Day Weekend

Jeff and I packed up and headed down to Austin for the long Memorial Day Weekend. The past 4 years over this weekend, I've worked the Capital of Texas Triathlon in Austin for Team In training. This was the first time that I've been to the race and not had to work it. Jeff raced in the Cap Tex Sprint Triathlon on Sunday while I cheered him on.

Once baseball season ended in early May, Jeff decided that it was time to start training for triathlon again. He got in a few open water swims and a few bike rides before the race. He did great considering that he had really only trained for about 3 weeks for the race. The weather in Austin on race day was very HOT and HUMID!! It was tough spectating so I know that it was tough to race in. Here's Jeff and I before the race started.

The swim portion of the race was in Town Lake which is just south of Downtown. Jeff is somewhere in this mass of swimmers.

Jeff loves this bike course as he has done the race several times. It's a relatively flat and fast course that winds through Downtown Austin. Here's Jeff leaving out of T1 to the bike course:

During the bike portion of the race, I made myself comfortable in the Hyatt hotel lobby on a couch in the AC. I was miserably HOT and tired of standing up. I then made my way out to the course and saw him on the run before he finished. After I saw him on the run, I started to waddle my way over to the finish line. I thought that I could make it there before he did. But - I was about 1/4 mile away from the finish line and I hear "Sweetie - you better hurry up or you are not going to see me finish" I turn and look and Jeff is running past me on his way to finish. So - unfortunately I did not see him cross the finish line - but I have seen him cross many other finish lines before. We caught up with our friends Greg & Heather Diamond at the finish line for a quick pic.

After the race, we headed back over to my cousins house and relaxed the rest of the weekend. Besides the traffic on I35 to and from Austin, we had a great time visiting friends and family.

Animal Control and Pitbulls

Jeff and I have had a little problem with one of our neighbor's dogs. This just isn't any dog - it's 55 lb. pit bull!!! For those of you that know me, you know that I'm scared of dogs (big and small)! This issue started about 2 months ago when I woke up one Saturday morning to find a dog in our back yard. I couldn't figure out how it got into our back yard because the gate was closed and locked! After a few minutes, I watched it disappear under the fence through a hole that it had dug. Here's the whole that it dug and the fence that it broke to get into our yard.

Later that afternoon I went over to our behind the house neighbors and told them that their dog had dug a hole into our back yard. They then told me that it wasn't their dog - it was their next door neighbors. So basically this dog has been digging into several back yards. After that instance I didn't see the dog for a while.

But then, this past weekend we got a call from our behind the house neighbors saying that the pit bull had gotten into our yard again and now animal control & the police department were involved. The police told me that animal control would be by the next day to pick up the dog. At this time, the pit bull was issued a citation from the cops. I didn't know that dogs could get citations but apparently they can. Then on Tuesday morning, I was standing in the kitchen making breakfast and I heard a horrible noise. I looked outside and saw the pit bull BUSTING out of OUR back yard!!! It basically ran into our fence and broke a big enough hole to get out. Are you kidding me???

I then called animal control and asked that they come immediately and catch this dog. It is dangerous to have it loose in the neighborhood with all of the kids outside playing. Animal control came and after about an hour they found the dog across the neighborhood! They took it into custody because the owners can't keep it in their back yard and it tried to attack the animal control man.

Long story short, or short story longer, I got a call on Wednesday from animal control saying that they were taking the dog and its owners to court. He asked if Jeff and I can appear in court next Friday! Yikes! Animal control wants us there to say that we feel threatened by this pit bull that keeps busting into our back yard. I sure don't want to have my daughter outside playing in the future and be scared that the pit bull will come in any moment to OUR back yard. I'll let you know what happens after we go to court next Friday!

Happy Mother's Day - what a weekend!

Happy Mothers Day to all of the mom's out there! It's fun to think that I'm in the mothers-to-be club this year and next year I'll have a little one crawling around. This weekend Jeff and I went out to Cleburne to visit the Sherman family on Saturday and then today we headed to Paris to visit my family. This is Austin Montgomery, our little godson. His mom, Melissa, is Jeff's cousin. We had so much fun playing with Austin out at the "ranch". Notice the big "blue jeep" in the background. Austin and Jeff had fun riding around the property on that.

Here's the "adults" playing around on the "big blue jeep" as Austin calls it.

Jeff strapped Melissa and I into the "back seat". The ride was a little bumpy but fun!

Jeff's Grannie Sherman came to visit from Abilene. It was very nice to spend time with her as well as Jeff's cousin, Trinity.

After our time in Cleburne on Saturday we headed to Paris on Sunday to visit my family. My GREAT grandmother Jane lives in the guest house at my parents. She is 99 years old and so much fun to be around.
This picture is 4 generations - My great grandmother Jane, my grandfather Karl, my mom Debbi, and me. Technically my great grandmother said that we had 5 generations including baby Sherman. She said that she can't wait to hold her and take a five generation picture in the fall. She will turn 100 in December this year.

Jeff loves getting his "dog fix" in with my parents two golden retrievers Lacy & Chrissy. They love when Jeff comes to visit because he plays ball with them.

And last but not least, here's another belly picture. I'm 24 weeks now! I can't believe that it's already been 6 months! Time sure has flown by. Baby Sherman will be here before we know it.

New Blog Design

So - many of my friends have such cute blogs. I feel that mine is somewhat blah. I found a link to a person that does custom blog design: http://pinkarmchairdesigns.blogspot.com/ Check it out. I've entered her contest to win a free blog redesign. I hope to win.