Beautifully Relaxing

We got to Charleston yesterday afternoon. Davis is an absolute CHAMP in the car. We stopped only once on the way over and that was for lunch. All the Neelys are here for the next couple of days, Kristin arrives via Kansas this evening.
Today is a beautiful cool day. Lots of reading, laughing, eating and relaxing.
So much to be thankful for.

Heart beat and babyfat

Katie went to the doctor yesterday and was able to hear the heartbeat for the first time. Everything sounds great and Katie continues to feel good. Her next appointment is Dec 18th and we will find out the sex! What a Christmas present.



I tried pretty hard this hard because I know next week will be killer with multiple Thanksgiving dinners and a couple of days away in Charleston with my family.
I went down 2 pounds this week bringing the total to 10.5 lbs.

Not to be forgotten

It would be easy to focus on Davis, new windows, life, etc... and breeze through this current pregnancy.
But I am trying to remind myself to be just as mindful and prayerful for our new child.
Here is what is happening this week with the new baby:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.

Please continue to pray for Katies health, the babys development, rest, etc...

One week till Thanksgiving- so exciting.

baby fat

so here we are, another week.
I was sick this week and wasn't sure how that would affect my body, but it seemed to do ok.
I was nasal sick, not stomach sick, so I ate pretty much normal.
I changed up the chart a little bit because i didn't want so many weeks, so now you will see the larger piece of the pie is previous weight loss, and the smaller piece is current, meaning "this weeks loss".
This week I went down 3.5lbs.
perhaps i should get sick more often.


If the "Biggest Loser" is any indicator, this coming week could be a tough one. Normally when they drop bigger weights the next week is tough.
We'll see.
Check out the post below if you didn't see the video of my sick day.

sick day

i stayed home from work today sick.
i thought i would let the laptop follow me around and see what that looks like.
it's amazing how when you are sick all you think about is being sick, yet when you are healthy you never think about it at all.

these are kind of weird and amazing.
i am participating in no shave november, you can tell i'm not used to it by the number of times i touch my face.

Let the fun begin

Our heating/cooling bill is HUGE.
We really like our house but the original windows are still in the walls. A piece of glass, 1, singular- between us and the elements. So we are getting new windows and today started the process.

Oh what fun, every room in the house.
Here we go.

Halloween and diaper time

Here are some photos of Davis in his halloween costume and time hanging out in his room in only his diaper.

Davis and Katie were supposed to go to North Carolina last weekend but ended up having to cancel the trip to the Smith Reunion (Katie's Grandparents) because Davis was sick for the first time. He had a runny nose, red eyes, and found out yesterday an ear infection.
But he is definitley getting better and returning to his old self.

November

Sorry about missing last week. It was a rough Friday going on a retreat and all and didn't even think about the challenge. I wish I had, because I lost one pound this week, but I wish I knew how much I put ON at a Halloween weekend retreat. Lets just say it is safe to say my fair share of candy, was eaten :( But now we are back in the red.
Happy November.

Been a while

Crazy week.  Katie and i were both out of town last weekend on retreats.  Katie took some girls from West High School to Young Life's Sharp Top and I was at Horns Creek Resort with the the college students from Fellowship. We both had great weekends and Davis spent the weekend with Grandmommy and Grandaddy (Archie and Susan). He has been a little under the weather this week, real runny nose and more sleepy than normal. 
We had some 9 month pics taken this week (on his sickest day of course). So hopefully we will put some up in the next couple of weeks. 
On our retreat we had a Halloween party.  Thanks to dad for an awesome costume. Everyone wanted to know what I was, i think the best guess was a Mexican game show host.