Happy Father's Day and Cute Pictures of Annabelle

Annabelle and Daddy on Father's Day Weekend

Look who is holding their head up

This picture cracks me up you would think someone was coming after her

Cracking up!  Love her!!

So excited!

New Blog Coming Soon

Jerry and I love to find little restaurants in the area and we are big foodies (not always good for the waste line, lol).  We have talked about doing a blog together for some time now and we are finally going to do it.  We are going to blog about our experiences at local restaurants.  We already have several of our favorites we want to blog about and we will plan to try one new place a month (depending on our schedule with our #1 priority, Annabelle).

I know most of my readers are not from Raleigh NC but I will share the link with you once I have it up and running and if you plan to visit or know someone who is you can pass it along to them.

Both Jerry and I will be blogging on the new blog and we are the type of people when we have a good experience at a restaurant we want to tell everyone and the same goes for bad ones we want to warn people.  We could just go to Yelp and leave reviews (and we have) but the blog will allow us to express ourselves more and help those in the area or visiting the area to find new places to eat.

I will continue to post on this site on our updates on little Ms. Annabelle and my adventures in motherhood. With that being said I will leave you with a pictures of the sleeping peanut who has on her Strawberry Shirt after I made my home made strawberry jam (YUM)!

Picture of Me at 31 Weeks

So I finally remembered to take a picture of me today and I thought I would share it with you all.

Our house is starting to look like a home

This has been one very busy year and among getting married, remodeling a second home 8hrs away to sell, suffering the losses of our little ones and we bought a home in Feb., but we have not been able to afford to buy some of that "nice to have" furniture, it just wasn't a priority.  But now with our little one on her way here soon we decided that if we planned to drive the 3hrs to IKEA and 3hrs back to get some dining room furniture we better do it now, because we needed to take the truck. 

IKEA furniture isn't the best but we actually think it is just what we needed for now as this isn't our forever home.  We are having some friends over for dinner on Saturday so that will be our first true use of the table. 

We also purchases a buffet table for the dining room.  The color kind of blends in on this picture but the thought is we will paint this room at some point.

While at IKEA we saw a console table that would work well for our family room.  It gives us a place to put some of our many books and it kind of finishes out the room so we are not looking at the back of our couch.  As you can see we did find a mirror for above the fireplace (thank goodness it needed it badly).

Glucose Test:  So from what they tell me no news is good news and I have not heard anything from the Dr. and it's been over a week.  It's safe to say that all was good.  I have another Dr. apt on Friday but I am guessing that is just going to be the usual check in. 

I am thinking that my next post is going to be a brain dump of our "To Do" list of things to get done before Ms. Annabelle arrives...

Fun Picture - Ultrasound Progression & Compare Our Baby Pictures

Jerry and I think Annabelle looks like me most.  What do you think?

How time has gone by and this is how Annabelle has progressed!

Pictures from Our Vacation

I have already showed you but Annabelle received while on our recent trip to New England but I would like to share with you some pictures from our adventure.

These are 2 of my nieces the day we went apple picking in Maine

Jerry catching apples from my niece

Eating Lobster on the wharf in Bar Harbor Maine

My Dad and Step Mom on the wharf

This is my sister who lives in CT on our trip to Sturbridge Village

This is my mom at Sturbridge Village

Us down in Newport releasing butterflies to celebrate our
recent marriage and our little Annabelle who is coming soon

Look at them fly...

My sister Holly found a friend

And I had a friend too

This a butterfly that was a little sleepy to fly away

Jerry and I in Newport by the water

My Sister by the water

My hubby!