Cash's debut!

We are sooooo proud to present to you our baby boy, Cash! check out that profile, he's just perfect!

more house pics!

from the top: this is the front of the house on the garage side...with partial brick! next is the fireplace in the living room, note the ceiling, pretty cool! next we have the back porch, the front of the house before brick started, and another view of the living room/front door taken from the dining area. our builder estimates we will be moving into the house in approx 4 weeks.

for those who didn't know or may have forgotten...my next dr. appointment is this friday--march 21st--at 1:30 for the sonogram to find out if we're having a boy or girl! keep your fingers crossed that it cooperates for it's big reveal :O)

updates!

Here are a few pictures of our home to be! well, the street sign, the barren lot, and then the start of the framing! i believe our address will be 144 star point ln. don't jot that down in your address book yet though, i'm not 100%! :O) we are soooooo excited about our upcoming home! i'm super excited (and sort of nervous) about picking out colors for paint and tile and countertops!

Also, for those who have not heard...here are the names we have chosen for a boy or girl!

Cash: yes, we like Johnny, but our boy will NOT be named 'after' the man in black. we think it sounds cool, plus it is the name of a city in Texas!

Dean: Jon's papa's first name

Remi: ok, Jon didn't like the girl name i picked out (Lena Sue....family names!) so here's how i got Remi. Jon has a Remington hat (it's a brand of ammunition) and I looked at it one day and saw the "remi" part and thought "hey, that could be a cute girl's name!". so that's where that came from.

Lee: my dad's/my middle name

at it again!

Five Fav Movies in random order:
1. talladega nights
2. blades of glory
3. anchorman
4. notebook
5. it's a wonderful life
those are the first to pop in my mind people! :O)

Five Fav TV shows:
1. american idol (i'm liking this season so far!)
2. hannah montana
3. csi---vegas (no more miami....can't do horatio ANYMORE!!!)
4. UMMM.....what have i rented on netflix...friday night lights? not MY fave, but i'm starting to like it more...i think that is Jon's fave tv show!
5. deal or no deal!

Five places I would like to be:
1. in playa del carmen for Cody and Lindsey's destination wedding! yay! we are going---"for sure"! we bought our vacation package! :O)
2. home, decorating our new home! it's being built as we speak!
3. with Jon doing anything!
4. camping with Robert and Amber
5. ummmm. can't think of anything? what a loser!

Five Fav foods:
1. mexican (pretty much all of it!) uncle julios is yummy!
2. pizza
3. movie nachos
4. olive garden salad, breadsticks, and dipping sauces!
5. chicken fried steak

Five Fav Songs/artists:
1. any high school musical/hannah montana song makes me happy!
2. i also like aly and aj's song "like whoa"(?) i think that's what it's called. saw the video on disney channel
3. i like that song..."i'm not gonna write you a love song"....don't know who sings
4. texas country stuff
5. too much to mention! my brain can't think!

Five Things I like to do:
1. eat
2. watch movies
3. listen to music
4. be with my friends and families
5. go camping

My Mom---"The Big LOSER!" :O)

All I had to do was be honest with myself and really take a note as to
what all I was eating on a daily basis. I stopped eating two pints of Blue
Bell Rocky Road ice cream every day for lunch and stopped eating the sunflower
seeds every day and all day long! I gave up sodas, cake, junk food and
started eating the correct way. Went back to my Weight Watchers and
watching my portion control. Stopped eating fast food and started eating
grilled chicken and salads with light dressing or fat free.

That is an excerpt from an email my mom sent me. She got motivated earlier this year from a group of people she works with to lose weight, and to do it the right way! Everyone that participated at her job put in some money to be a part of this contest. They kept track of everyone's weight loss, and in the end the results were based on your body fat percentage that was lost. I am so proud of my mom. She looked great at my wedding, no matter how bad she beat herself up about the pictures! As you can see from the picture above, she looks great! She won some cold hard cash from her efforts and got her some new fashionable jeans (some i haven't heard of....i meant to ask Jess...) and then put the rest in the baby J fund! :O) I love my mom very much and this story is another example of how true E=R is! I'm a fan of weight watchers myself, and i'm thankful to thier "points" system for my weight loss. Weight Watchers teaches you how to change your lifestyle habits, so your weight loss will be long term. It may be common sense to a lot of people that if you eat fast food 2-3 times a day, every day.....you won't be as skinny as you'd like. :O) Not until i tracked points did this "click" with me! anyway, i didn't mean to go into a weight watchers commercial. I really posted this blog to give my mom a big round of applause, a pat on the back, a standing O, balloons and confetti, and noisemakers! I really am proud of you mom, you did it!

My tagged turn...

Since i don't yet have any photos from Cody day at the office...this will have to suffice as my most recent post! :O)

places i would like to go:
1. Germany
2. Scotland (after looking at Roslyn's vacation book, it looks so neat! castles and what not!)
3. back to DISNEYWORLD!!! for like, a week!
4. on another cruise!!!

things i like to eat:
i can only list 4 things? lol
1. thanks to baby j (i can blame stuff on the baby, right?), i love sweets more than ever! blizzards, girl scout cookies (yep, ate the whole box of peanut butter sandwiches all by myself!), snickers.....jon's birthday cake....haha!
2. mexican food! pretty much any and all of it. i can still have spicy stuff, it doesn't seem to upset baby j!
3. california pizza kitchen extra thin crust.....mmmmmm! margherita, chicken fajita, sicilian....they are dang good! again, i have to "make" myself stop eating and leave some for jon!!
4. multi-grain cheerios. i have been wanting cereal lately. i don't know if these are "true" cravings i have...but i got me some cereal and i like it!

my playlist:
1. on my ipod? well, i don't buy itunes, so it pretty much has what i own on mp3s. hannah montana (the first one) and hm2-meet miley cyrus
2. high school musical (1 and 2)
3. carrie underwood
4. sugarland
disclaimer: for some reason, even though i have like 22 gigs of music, i have continually listened to the same 6 cds over and over and over lately. carrie, sugarland, taylor swift....i just love to sing so i keep coming back to them in my car!

i buy clothes at:
wow it's been a long time since i bought any clothes!
1. ross
2. target
3. kohls
4. penny's

i don't know of anyone to "tag" right now so i'll leave it at that! :O)
i hope everyone has a great sat evening and happy superbowl sunday! will there be any "good" commercials this year?

Christmas and Birthdays

so, in case you are one of the many who have not heard yet....i am PREGNANT! as indicated by the proof from the top photo. :O) i am currently 9 weeks and 4 days according to the doctors. i had a sonogram on Dec. 26th, 2007, which was also my 33rd year of life! what a special birthday i have had the last two years. in 2006 i was proposed to! we got married on 9-8-07, and then pregnant a couple of months later. then birthday 2007....we got to hear our baby's heartbeat! this was amazing. that little baby in there, only 1.2 cm big at the time, has a heart going at 154 bpm (somewhere around there!)!!! to hear that sound is almost undescribable. i almost felt like i was having an out of body experience it was so UNREAL! then we got 3 little views of our baby. it was all i could do to hold it together and not break down sobbing all day long! by now my body is starting to grow a little! unfortunately, though i lost much poundage from my frame, i still had residual squishy tummy syndrome. now that the baby is making room in there....it now just looks like i'm getting fat! :O) i suppose unless you get lipo--or do 10,000 crunches a day--that squishy tummy is there to stay! we will be finding out what the baby "is" when that time comes. i could wait it out and be surprised but Jon cannot wait to find out! i said we didn't need "pink or blue, just tell everyone to buy green stuff!". well, it probably will have lots of green clothing....it probably doesn't have a chance there. i'm pretty sure it's bedroom will be greenies and browns of some sort! ok, enough baby talk for the moment. i'd like to point out that i did buy a tree (big 3 footer!) and lights for our apartment this year. i'm pretty sure it's a whopping 480 square feet (the apt we live in). anyway, i think it turned out cute! so there ya go, me and Jon, our first "married" Christmas! btw, Jon's birthday is tomorrow, Jan 12. He is going to be 27! we give thanks to our Lord for all His blessings, we cannot begin to imagine them all.