Happy New Year!

Since about the age of five, losing weight has always been at the top of my list of resolutions...not this year!

As the new year rings in I hope for the happiest and healthiest babies in the world. I hope to be a wonderful, understanding, and patient mother and wife. I hope that God gives me all the energy that I need to keep up with two little munchkins! I intend to believe that there is no such thing as being super-mom, and if laundry needs to be put off for one day, or there are dishes left in the sink, it's nothing to beat myself up about. I have to let some of my OCDs go, and this will be the year to do it!

And of course after all of these things are said and done...I hope to lose the baby weight! : )

Happy 2009!

Let there be light!

After an evening of searching and searching, my designer at heart sister found this for us from Shades of Light. I haven't ordered it just yet, but I'm pretty sure that this is the light fixture that we're set on. I love it!

Thank you!

I would like to give a special thank you to my sister and brother-in-law for their artistic talents in painting! The pictures posted below show some of their amazing work! Love ya, guys! Also, thank you to my wonderful Hubby who is spending all of his free time in putting the Twinkies' room together. I have the best Hubby ever!

Before and During

Here's our work in progress!



These are the before shots. Good-bye butterflies!


So we're finally seeing some progress in the Twinkies' room! There's still a lot of trim work to be done, followed by a little more painting. Hubby promises to have it complete by our shower date!

Phinely Phinished (sort of)

The glider has been ordered! Woohoo! Now it's just the painting and the setting up that needs to get started. And the accessorizing, of course. There's still so much to do! Anybody bored??

Long ago

Growing up in the "Bible Belt" was never an easy task. Every morning of Christmas Eve I am taken back to a memory from long ago. When I was about 5ish, I remember getting out of bed after being tucked in. I would sit on this table that stood in front of my bedroom window and watch for Santa. I never saw him, and always woke up disappointed because I didn't get diddly squat!

I only hope that as a new mother I can help my twinkies understand who we are and where we come from, and why we don't celebrate Christmas. Gotta love the South!

phew...

Things looked much better at our ultrasound yesterday! The babies are still doing great and I am no longer showing signs of effacement. I'm telling you, I think that last week's ultrasound tech really screwed up. I'm still supposed to take it easy, and we should have the test results back on Monday. I must go for one more fetal fibronectin swab on January 2nd, just to make sure that everything is a-okay. I'm feeling so much more relieved!

Yesterday also marked the beginning of a two week vacation from work...I LOVE IT!