Football Season is Upon Us

Okay, so I used to think that Spring was my favorite time of the year. It was the end to my busy season and there was new life all around me. Well now I have a new favorite time of the year...Fall! As you can tell by the title of this thread, one of the reason is because of it being football season. Another reason is because I love cool, crisp days spending time with my husband grilling out on the deck. Its the one time of the year we spend almost all of our weekend together. It truly makes me happy! It also marks the start of holidays and lots of love around us. Well this year, as you know, we have something additional to be excited about and that is our little Kate entering this world. 13 weeks left! I have a feeling I am about to start exploding. In the meantime, I have ALOT to do around the house. Like, finishing getting her room ready which involves, getting the nursery furniture in, setting it up, getting the crib bedding (Oct. 8th expected finish date), having curtains made, decorating the walls, possible purchase of a chandelier and rug, among other things. I also want to make sure my floors are really clean so we might have someone come out and professionally clean them, especially since we have a dog in the house. Also on my list is all my Christmas shopping and to have the Christmas decorations up by the beginning of November. Its so funny but I really want to decorate for Fall this year, like by having pumpkins sitting around and all Fall like decorations. I guess this is just the start of me really getting into Holidays. I think my mom told me once that children will do that to you. My brother is coming home from Colorado on November 23rd and is suppose to stay through the 29th. I hope Kate is here by then (mom kinda put the pressure on me, like I can decide when she arrives). We also love to have our Wadey home with us. It should be interesting to see how he is with the baby. She will love him one day...probably will want to live with him. Okay, enough rattling for now. Our weekend plans include going to my parents house on Friday and spending the night then getting up Saturday morning and heading to Atlanta for the Clemson/Bama game at the Georgia Dome. We are going to spend the night and head back to Birmingham on Sunday after church. Not sure on Monday's plans yet...

Finally, crib bedding chosen & Finalization of her NAME

So I have been very frustrated for a few weeks because I knew there was cute crib bedding out there but I was having trouble finding it for the price I wanted to pay. I had looked on several websites to get ideas, http://www.javisdavis.com/ and http://www.polkatotdesigns.com/ but I really wasn't ready to shell out the big bucks. I heard about a lady on Hwy 119 that made custom baby bedding for $150 a set. I thought I would definitely give her a try. Mom and I went out there 2 weeks ago and saw all the fabric that she had. She did have alot but nothing really hit the spot with me. I wanted a soft, sweet look and she had alot of bold fabrics. We asked her about getting some I had seen in a store and she thought she could do that and then send me the swatches for the companion prints. I waited as 2 weeks rolled by and then I had to take action. The whole nursery depended on the fabrics in the bedding so I decided to go back by the ladies house and see a similar toile fabric that she was currently working on for a little boy. It looked really good so I decided to get it for our little Kate. By the way, Don and I have officially agreed, that is her name, Katherine Elizabeth Farmer, in short, Kate! Here is what the toile fabric looks like...
I am going to get the lady to pull the soft pinks out in a minky dot pink fabric so that one side of the bumper will be the toile above and one side will be a pink minky dot fabric that looks like this, . She is also doing Kate a blanket that has the pink minky dot and a chocolate minky dot that looks like this, . I am going to get her to monogram the bumper on the pink minky dot side with Kate initials, KEF. The lady also does a small pillow and a fitted crib set which is included in the price above. I think I am going to get the pillow in a off white minky dot with a brown & white polkadot ribbon to go around with a bow at the top. The brown and white polkadot ribbon is also used at the top of the bumper where the toile meets the pink minky dot and to tie the sides of the bumper onto the crib. I will probably get a chocolate brown fitted crib sheet but the pink is also an option. I am very excited about seeing the finished product. She should have it to me by October 8th. Our furniture should come in sometime in the month of September. Yay! Now I just got to get started on the curtains, chair, and accessories.

Smith Lake and Watermelon

Petey and I took off to the lake this past weekend while Don stayed home and worked on his favorite hobby, golf. We had a great time. The weather was perfect and there were not too many boats on the lake. Mom and dad got up there before we did and freshened up. They always make it so nice for us. We went on a sunset cruise Saturday night. The dogs loved it. We borrowed my uncle's pontoon boat and it was perfect. I truly love the lake and believe I might be part fish. :)

We did have one scare at the lake though. Petey is just getting used to the water and he is still real skiddish. Mom brought a float done that was canvas and kept the dogs pretty much out of the water. Petey started jumping off the pier onto the float as I held it steady. Then when I would get close to the the pier, he would jump off and onto the pier. He misjudged his leap one time and hit the side of the pier and fell into the water. He was under the water for like 2 seconds. I jumped off my float to save him and mom jumped off hers to save me. He popped right up and we placed him on the pier. I thought it would have really shaken him up. Not one bit! I think he actually liked it and was ready to get back in.

Mom also cut up a huge watermelon. There is nothing like a warm summer day eating ice cold watermelon in the deep South. Good memories!

I will start adding pictures with my blogs in the future. I promise!

16 more weeks!

Today marks the start of my 24th week. Time is flying now. So much to do in so little time. Don and I visited with some family members this weekend who recently had a little boy and they pretty much scared us to death of our lack of free time and lack of sleep. Their little boy is 3 months old and precious but they said sleep is like an afterthought. Not good for a gal that gets very ill without her precious sleep. Don's sister is expected to go into labor any day now. Her due date is August 17th but she has already dilated 4 centimeters. We are so excited for Reid Alexander to enter the world! Our little munckin is sitting tight these days....chewing on cud :). I think she might be like Don because she wakes up late and goes to bed late. She moves around a decent amount but she isn't kicking strong enough for Don to feel yet. And she is so quick with her movements. I love feeling her move though because it lets me know everything is alright. The thought has finally entered my mind that baby is coming out one way or another and there is not a no pain route. :) Guess I will have to suck it up! I am giving Don a week to finalize the name. He does not know this yet but I have told everyone our strongest potential choice of Katherine Elizabeth, and call her Kate. Katherine was Don's dad's mom's name and Elizabeth is my mom's middle name, Don's mom's middle name, and my grandmother Keith's middle name.

On this week's agenda is tonight going to see the Dark Knight for the second time with some girls from church, tomorrow I am going with my mom to talk to a lady about making custom bedding for the baby girl, Wednesday night we have church, nothing Thursday night and Friday night is a promotion party and Casino night at work. Don and I hope to win a sweet gift card at Casino night. Saturday I am leaving for the lake with Petey while Don stays in town and golfs on Saturday and potentially works on a project Sunday. (all of this pending Tab does not have her baby)