Wedding

Celebrating these two this weekend.

Wishing them all the happiness in the world.

And a marriage with as much fun as the one I have been blessed to have.

Lately...

Lately, we've been preparing for B's arrival.
Only 10 and a half weeks left!

Lately, we've made some tasty suppers with friends.
Specifically breakfast for supper - I made my grandma's chocolate gravy for the first time on my own and it was DELICIOUS!

 Lately, I've been goofing off with my nephew and teaching him how to take iPhone selfies.

Lately, I may have received this text during the week after our weekend visit where said nephew had taken some awesome shots all on his own - and immediately told his mom, "Ashley showed me" when he was asked about these photos. Way to throw me under the bus, buddy. Haha.

 Lately, my chihuahua has taken my Snoogle pregnancy pillow as his own.

 Lately, we've had fun hanging with family in town and Matt has enjoyed playing with his cousin, C.

 Lately, we (I) budgeted in a splurge item for baby B - a pink pettiskirt.

 Lately, I may have put said pettiskirt on Stevie. She may have gotten a little sassy.

Lately life has been pretty good.

Baby B

As you can tell from my elephant/peanut ticker on the blog, I am starting my third trimester this week! Less than 3 months until I can meet and hold my sweet baby girl!

This pregnancy has gone very well - for which I am very thankful. Any scares have ended up being minor. Everyday I can feel her kicking and dancing around in my belly and I love every second.

I've started a baby/pregnancy blog that I'm keeping private for B's sake. There's a link to it at the top of the page in the blog menu bar. If you'd like to subscribe, just leave a comment on this blog with your email address and I'll send you the invite. Don't be shy if you want to follow. I am not keeping it private because I don't like sharing her, I'm only keeping it private because I don't want photos of her or information about her to show up on Google search engines, etc. for strangers to see and use/copy my stuff.

Plus, with the eternal lifetime of things on the internet - I would hate for her to apply for a job someday and that employer pull up photos of her from when she was 6 mos old and her mom blogged about that time she put a rock up her nose. (I'll also start being very cautious about what I post of my nephews on this public blog, too. Protecting their privacy, present and future, is just as important to me as B's.)

So for her sake I feel better keeping her shenanigans (and those of her parents) limited to a small audience.

Here I am in my 27 week glory:

Don't forget to comment with your email if you'd like to follow the baby blog!

4th of July

Home for the 4th.

Awesome.

Tennessee River from Matt's parent's deck.

Hydrangea's in the yard.

Roses and fresh raindrops.

Present to Uncle Map from Gray - complete with drawings of Uncle Map and Gray.

Clothes for Baby B from Aunt Andrea and Uncle Rob.

Stevie begging for treats.

Charlie begging for treats.

Gray with a tiger tail.

Matt made this for Gray since he is so excited about Baby B - his new cousin.

Trains

The sweetest little guy I've had the privilege to rock and hold and love on since G.

Getting some love from Mom. He's got a tight grip on a tiger that Matt and I bought for G. So glad R has befriended him.

Uncle Map and Gray winding down with some Baby Einstein and twitter after a busy afternoon playing soccer and tag.

Wil on patrol protecting us and the ribs smoking on the grill.

The aforementioned ribs. DELISH.

He's not spoiled AT ALL.

Well said.

The Padgett's. Love 'em.

Wil is worn out.

My parent's backyard.

Charlie patrolling the deck on Sunday Morning.

Stevie and Wil.

Wil is ready for another trip. 

Bizcation - 2013

Matt had two work events a few weeks ago and we took full advantage of the nice hotels and big cities he traveled to.

The first was a conference in Orlando. We stayed at the Contemporary Resort just outside the Magic Kingdom. Super nice hotel.

The conference referred to their event as a "Bizcation" which Matt and I thought was an awesome concept.

After a night in Orlando (I didn't take many photos) - we headed down to Miami for another work event.

We stayed at the Fountainbleu Hotel on Miami Beach. The hotel was amazingly fancy. Matt dressed up in black tie for the work event and I headed to the beach to read and relax.

Handsome 

A friend snapped this photo of us together as I headed to the beach and they headed to the work gala.

Can't get this photo to rotate, but here's the above view of the baby belly at 19 weeks and 3 days.

Wearing the REM cuff links he got from Andrea and Robert at Christmas a few years ago.

My view while reading on the beach.

My view after I moved to the pool area.

Sunset outside our hotel window. We didn't have a beach view, but the sunset view was super pretty.

I ordered room service. Yum!

Room service and NBA playoffs. (I sent this to Matt to try to make him jealous of me since he was living it up downstairs at the fancy party...not sure it worked.)

It was a successful and realaxing "bizcation". Very glad I took the time off to hang with Matt and enjoy the nice hotels.

A Blessing.

February 28, 2013

So this February brought some exciting news: A baby Crockett, affectionately named "Peanut", is going to make her debut this fall.

This was a WONDERFUL surprise.

If you've seen my twitter on the sidebar or follow me on facebook this is not ground-breaking news.

Still, Matt and I have held this blessing close for Peanut's privacy, as well as our own. We didn't spread the news outside our parents until we had our 12 week doctor appointment.

I am just at the halfway mark this week.

This little blessing has already changed our lives and I cannot wait to meet her in person. I'm feeling little kicks inside my tummy and we listen to the heartbeat almost daily with our home doppler (A great purchase from Amazon. Probably the best $30 I ever spent.) These are things I was not sure I would be able to experience. The magnitude of how fortunate I am hits me daily. Even through the first trimester "sickies" I was thankful for them.

Every day I pray a prayer of thankfulness for this sweet blessing. I also pray that this blessing to our family grows, thrives and blesses everyone she comes in contact with. She is truly a gift. One that was long prayed for.

In fact, the name we have picked out for her means "she who brings happiness". Purely a coincidence as we had picked the name long before we knew what it meant, but the meaning is absolutely perfect for what she has already meant in our lives.

16 weeks

I will probably start a private baby blog for family/friends updates. When I do I'll ask for emails if anyone wants to follow along.

New Nephew Photoshoot

Another adorable addition to our family. My nephew Reid is already a month old! Hard to believe. 

When we were home in March I snapped a few photos of the sweet little guy. It seems like just last week that I snapped the same photos of his big brother.

Showing a sweet little smile. I'm sure it was from the "Knock-Knock" joke I had just told him.

Big Bro showing me how he gives the baby kisses.

Sleepy dude.

I love the way the processing on this photo turned out.

He's a cuddly little thing. Which of course I just LOVE.

Snuggles with Mimi. 

Same hat his brother wore. Made by Mimi.

Matt and I are incredibly blessed to have such sweet nephews. Their mom has always made sure Gray knows who me and Matt are. He's never been shy to see us and always acts like we've just been gone a few hours instead of a few months between visits. Can't wait to watch this guy's personality start to take shape.