Pardon the Mess!

We are under major construction here. It seems fit
right, get pregnant, rip your house apart? Well
that is exactly what we have done. Here is the wall before. We had a wall seperating the kitchen and the living room. We wanted it out. It made the house feel so much smaller. I know the pictures were real crooked, but I was about to take them down anyway. It seemed like a daily chore straightening them.

So we enlisted some trusty to friends who had some anger issues and they kicked holes in our wall and punched the wall. Sorry I did not take pictures of the blood!! Yes I am serious, blood. Boys will be boys.








Rainy wanted to apart of all this action too. What a good dog!













So Worth and I worked on cleaning up the mess that the boys made. Worth took off the sheet rock and I vaccummed (how do you spell that word again Katie?).






Worth's dad came the next day and helped to take out the studs. We are getting there, but when you come to visit please pardon the mess. It has to look bad before it gets better right? We picked out our hardwood floors. They are beautiful. I can't wait for them to go in, but first we move the washer and dryer to the garage. That is Worth's project today, and then we must paint, and then the floors!!! Yeah! I will continue to update you on our progress. We have three months and counting before Bella Rose will grace us with her presence. We will be in overdrive getting it all done.

Another try

Okay so that last picture was terrible and I can't figure out how to delete it. This is a better one that Worth took. I think that you can see the belly better. As you can see he added some decoration behind me, his new lever action 22 rifle. He got it for his birthday, but not from me. I got him skateboards. Did I mention that he turned 32? Just checking. Well this picture is still me at 24 weeks, just a little later in the day :).

24 weeks

We did some nursery work this weekend. I hate that Worth has to do most of the work b/c he knows what he is do and I do not. I know that I can paint so that was my mission for the weekend. I painted and it wore me out. Who knew that growing a baby could be so tiresome. Now you have to have a vision when you look at the nursery. It is going to have a white chair rail seperating the pink from the brown, and Worth is going to put arts and crafts trim up around the doors and the windows. All the furniture will be white, and that is at the level of the brown, so essential the brown is an accent color. Do you see it? Also that green light will not be there. These pictures are the after and before. Not in the proper order, but figuring out pictures on this thing is really hard (i just previews this page and the pictures did come out before and after, but not how i had them arranged. i just don't get this thing). As you can see the deer heads are gone!!!! Score one for Sunday and Bella Rose.

This is me today, 24 weeks. I am in my last week of my 6th month, or on the last week of my 2nd trimester. In one of my books she is considered "viable" now if she were born. How scary is that. There is so much more to do here. I hope that she likes her home for right now b/c we are not ready. I will have house pictures to show you soon of the progress and the mayhem. Also sorry the picture is not so good, I have not figured out how to take tummy pictures yet.

Beauty

I know that we have already seen this image, but i want you to look really close. you see little Bella Rose's hand right? do you see below her hand and a little to the right? it looks like two fingers. they are really looking like worth's fingers. it took me awhile to see it as well. you have to look closely at it. worth picked this out as soon as he got the picture. it looks like a hand is holding Bella Rose. the hand of God? we would like to think so.

Joy

So prayer was answered for us and we could not be more joyful. My placenta has moved and our sweet Bella Rose has 4 chambers in her heart. Her heart beat is 177 b/c she was moving around so much, but she still managed to stay pretty curled up. We love the picture of her hand. Isn't that just so sweet. All other parts of the doctors appointment went really well. I have to do the sugar thing next month and we are going to sign up for a birth class for when I am into 30 weeks, so things are moving along quite nicely. Thank you all so much for loving us and Bella Rose and praying for us and with us. We love you!

Movement

So Worth felt Bella Rose move last night. He was so excited!!! I sort of cried, just a little, maybe just a little tear, I have been feeling her move for quite sometime and I know he was feeling left out. He also felt her this morning. We have an appointment tomorrow morning. We are going for another ultrasound and to hopefully get a better measurement of her heart. She was balled up pretty good last time so it was hard for them to see. Please pray that they can see everything and that she is doing well. She is moving like she is doing well :)

The snow coming down

so it is snowing here in Black Mountain, NC. I love it. this is what January is supposed to be. Needless to say that it was almost 70 this weekend and that this weekend maybe very much the same, but I will enjoy this while I can. Speaking of snow, it reminds me of my beach cruiser. I love this bike, and i love riding it. worth and i have not ridden our bikes in awhile, but we will be back on it soon. Maybe you will see me over the summer pulling Bella Rose along, now how fun will that be! Cheers on this wonderfully snowy day.

21 weeks

So this is the belly shot for 21 weeks. i am not really wearing the greatest shirt to show you, but i am showing a little bit. she is kicking right now, so she is there. It just feels like butterflies still and i love feeling her! i get so worried when i don't. we saw "pursuit of happyness" last night and she was moving the whole movie. i guess she liked it, which i did as well. i would highly recommend it!!!! so sweet!

So this is Christmas...

So I know it has been awhile and I needed to share my final bits of Christmas Joy. I cannot believe how fast everything happened. Our poor tree now sits in the front yeard waiting for a final resting place, which by the way will NOT be in a landfill. I just wanted to show one last picture of our tree in all its glory. I loved this one so much. It was a favorite for sure. Once the presents were gone though I noticed that it was always leaning to the left. I guess it gave it some personality right?

Rainy wants to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you as well. She had a good one although there were no milkbones for her under the tree, that could be why she has a sad face.

This is where the nursery is going to be. As you can see it is in no condition for a tiny little girl to go in. As much as Worth thinks that the deer heads belong, they just don't. I have visions and plans for this room though. We are in the process of doing some cleaning and throwing out. We only have 4 more months. Can you believe it!!! Worth just took out his drum set yesterday. I told him he did not have to do that, but he did anyway. It was pretty sad watching him put them away. I guess we are really growing up!

This is my dreams sort of for the nursery. That is the bedding, and my sister gave us a gorgeous Italian bed that is antiqued looking that I think this will go wonderful with. Worth is going to build us a changing table that is white and I hope to have a white chair in there, but many people are saying a white chair is NOT the way to go. We will see if I listen. As I mentioned before the bottom half of the room will be chocolate brown. A chair rail will seperate the 2 colors and the top half will be "Tea Rose" which is like a real light baby pink. I know the chocolate seems a bit dark, but sun shines in the room all day and with all the white I think it will look fabulous!!! So what do you think ; ). PS- jessica i will work on a belly shot for you. There is starting to be a little bump there. It is pretty wild.

Rylie Jayne Carr

So I got a picture of Miss Rylie Jayne Carr via camera phone and I just had to post a picture of this baby. Look at those cheeks. She is SO cute!! Congratulations to Jessica and Myron. I can't wait to see more pictures of the little precious baby girl. She is going to have the good life. It seems that Colorado is about to be pounded by snow so we hope that they get home safe and sound from the hospital. We can't wait to hear more.

This is what 92 looks like

This is what a 92 year old woman looks like. This is Grandma and who Bella Rose is named after. Is she not the most gorgeous woman ever. I have a picture of the 2 of us from this weekend, but Worth has the camera so that will come later. I am pretty lucky to have this woman in my life. I love her so much!!!

I also want to give a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Jessica and Myron. Jessica just had her first Baby girl, Rylie Jayne. I can't wait to get some pictures of her!!!

Here she is pregnant with Rylie. Oh I can't wait to see her. I am sure that she is wonderful and beautiful!!!

This is our "Bundle of Joy" Christmas tree. He has been keeping all our presents nice and warm until they go to their rightful owner. Isn't he the most sweetest fat tree you have ever seen. We did well this year!

This is for our most precious "Bundle of Joy" Bella Rose. This was given to us by our dear sweet friends Matt and Margaret. It was waiting for us when we got home from work wrapped in pink polka dot fabric with a chocolate brown and pink polka dot ribbon. It has inspired me for the nursery. I think that I am going to paint the bottom half of the wall chocolate brown and have a white chair rail dividing the room. The top half will have the lightest shade of baby pink. I was not too into pink, but then I saw this onsie and I am now convinced! It is a onsie right? See I am learning. The bedding I want is white with scalloped edges and a chocolate brown trim. So sweet!! I have a vision people, you better watch out. My poor husband :)

This is now my new favorite ornament! I bought it at my sister's store in Greenville, SC (rush right there and buy your Christmas presents). When I saw it I just had to buy it. I knew it was my new ornament for the year. We will be able to pass it on to Bella Rose when she has her own Christmas tree one day.

Well I am off to ATL (hip-hop nation) for the weekend to celebrate Christmas with my Dad and Grandma. I hope to have pictures off that beautiful woman on Monday. Much love and Chritmas Joy to you all. I so appreciate you all and all your support.

Back to the drawing board.

It is back to the drawing board on the nursery because we are having a GIRL!!! Bella Rose will make her grand entrance into the world on May 14th, or there around. We are thrilled. The name is very sweet to me and so I am especially glad to have a girl. My dad called me Bella growing up, it is "Beautiful" in Italian. My grandma's name is Rose and she is a Beautiful Italian woman so I am thrilled by all this. Grandma is 92 and will be able to meet the little girl that is named after her. Everything went really well at the doctor. I am 18 weeks and 3 days. I have to go back in 4 weeks to get a better look at the heart. Bella Rose was balled up pretty good. They said that everything else is looking really good. Our sweet little girl. She has given her mom no troubles thus far, prayerfully this will continue :). We have had a lot of friends have boys so they better watch out for Papa Grant. Well thank you all for your love and support. I am putting up ultrasound pictures so hopefully you will be able to tell what is going on. If they did not label stuff for me then I would have no idea.






She sort of looks like an Alien in this one or maybe of Asian descent :)

I still can't figure out how to put the pictures how I want them, but at least you get to see something right? I am also trying to get used to pink!!

Ode to Judith...

this is my ode to judith. she is our hairstylist here in asheville and she is wonderful. this is the updo she did for niki's wedding (the beautiful bride pictured above). she did 9 people's hair that wonderful day. i adored my hair. i did not want to take it down. i would still have my hair look like that if judith would do that for me everyday. you should have seen everyone else's hair. they were all gorgeous and different. the people who were with me can vouch for me for how much i talked about our hair. you may say i was a bit obsessive, but i tend to get that way when it is something i love. i want everyone to know about it. so this is why i share this post with you. if anyway needs a fabulous updo, or great color, or a terrific cut let me know and i will get you judith. people come from and near and far to see her!

Christmas Joy!!

Hello to all!! I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was filled with much Chrismtas joy. My sister came up on Saturday and we went to the parade in Black Mountain. The kids get more candy there then on Halloween. They love it!!! There are no hot air ballons or real big floats at this parade, but we love it none the less. On Sunday we (my sister, brother-n-law, mom, 3 nephews, 1niece, husband) went to Avery county and got our Christmas tree. The farm was amazing. The kids could roll down the hill (I wish that I could have joined them), the adults could walk up and down many times (not as fun as rolling). The wonderful tree we got is the one behind us. I have to say it is glorious. I told Worth this morning that I love it. Not as much as him or in the same way, but I am totally in love with our tree. We ran into a slight problem when we were decorating though, we ran out of lights. This has never happened to me before. The top of the tree is not decorated. We bought lights just for the tree, but as we were putting that strand up they started blinking. Well I thought this is not so bad I can figure out how to make them stop blinking. We my friends when the box says "Shimmering lights" on it you can't make them stop blinking I asure you. So at lunch I will be out shopping for Christmas lights to finish my part way glorious tree. I am going to try to upload a picture of it now. It may come before the picture of Worth and me at the farm. I have not figured out how to put the pictures in the correct order yet. Well Good tidings to you and yours. I hope you have as much fun I as I do with this time of year.

PS- okay i can't figure out how to put the pictures like i want them, but i will get there. As you can see the top of the tree is not done. There are lots of pretty ornaments on the rest of the tree, but it is hard to tell. Enjoy!!!

This is Dude

Dude is not from the Big Lebowski, but the horse I ride for this lady in Weverville. He has blue eyes, as all the men in my life do (Atticus and Worth). He is a thoroughbred/ quarter horse. He is about 16 hands 16.1. For those who don't know what that means, it means he is tall. He is a good horse and it allows me to ride which is nice, but I can't ride until June as being pregnant and horse back riding are not condusive. As snowboarding and pregnant don't go together either. Both make me sad since I won't be able to partake in it until next season/summer. It is worth it right? Of course it is, and then I will be able to teach the bambino both loves of mine!!! Have a great weekend. I will be back Monday with many pictures of joyful Christmas trees!

We live by Clark Griswold...

...and I love it. It makes me so happy to look across the street and see this house. Isn't it glorious!!! I am thankful that he does that because we don't have and bushes to hang lights on. He says he keeps blowing fuses but he has worked it out. Come and visit and you too can see this most wonderful display of Christmas Spirit!

okay so you asked for it

I had to show you this picture of our bedroom too. Worth did all this. Doesn't it look awesome. I spent many years not being able to find what I was looking for, but here it is. It has been found. It is so peaceful.

Here finally is a belly shot. Not a whole lot to show. You have to remember it is at the end of the day. The beginning looks a little different. I am at 16 weeks today. I thought that it was the beginning of my 4th month, but my book told me it was the end. I just don't get this whole weeks thing.

Okay I had to add more pictures

Here is Rainy. I could not leave her out. She is our other baby. Please tell her hello. She loves attention and will come to her name and pretty much anything that you call her. I like I am figuring out pictures. It makes me happy.

I don't really know how to arrange the pictures either but the other one is Worth and me at Lisser's wedding. Man that was a good time!

I had to add another picture of Rainy since the first one is so small.

I have no idea what I am doing

I have no idea how to do this blog. Some things are coming up in Spanish. Granted I took 6 years of Spanish and still don't know how to speak a lick of it. I have no idea how to show pictures, but I don't have a belly (that is the most requested picture) so I guess there is really nothing to show. I am sure that my good freinds Katie, Jessica, and Shanna will tell me how to do this. I guess I need to start now for when this little Babino comes in May I will be able to show pictures of the little one. I guess it is fitting that I have no idea how to do this, because I have no idea what to do with a baby either :). I think that I may have just added a picture. So maybe I will be able to figure this out after all. The picture is of my current baby. He is the sweetest. Atticus is what you can call him although I doubt he will listen. The men in my life are somewhat the same. please don't tell Worth.