Living a Blessed Life

Darek and I are the proud new owners of a LG, he, energy star, *coldwash washing machine! YAY! It will be delivered and hooked up on Tuesday and I am actually excited to use it. (It even has a 'baby wash' setting so it will be perfect for our growing family. I can't help but wonder, however, if that makes me 'old'!! When I was little, I was always so excited to grow up and have a home and family of my own. Now I sometimes wish I could just go back a few years in age and stay there for a while (but still have my family). :-) Darek and I were out with a large group of his high school friends last night (and their wives) and the topics of conversation consisted of home repairs. Haha! We were all laughing, because those are now the exciting things to discuss in life. I suppose that's better than some un-intelligent conversation that probably take place by people our age who still haven't moved beyond their high school 'glory days'. Still, it was eye-op...

This weekend, much like every weekend, Darek and I went shopping and browsing through the baby aisles and stores. We were at Target and scored a GREAT deal on a Pack - n- Play that we know we will get a lot of use out of. We quickly did a google search and found the reviews on that particular model to make sure it was going to be a worthwhile purchase. Of course it was! (I really should have taken a picture to post here. Maybe next time.) When we got home we proceeded to set it up and make sure all of the pieces worked. Everything was great, and it looked really cute! I'm excited to have this for traveling as well. We can easily collapse it and haul it down to Waseca or check it on the airplane. Look out, Arizona, we are getting prepared for baby/airline travel! :-) We also took a couple of trips to Babies R Us to check out a few more necessities and make sure we knew what we wanted to register for. There is a whole lot of learning to be done regarding baby supplies! Darek is soa...

Well, The title of this post should be an obvious give-away. Darek and I are expecting our little miracle on July 18th 2011!! We are very excited, to say the least! We have an appointment on Feb. 24th to have our '20 week' ultrasound. It is at that appointment that we can find out the gender of the baby. We are planning to find out, but not sure yet if we will share the news with anyone when we do find out. I really like surprises!! :-) The name game has been an interesting one. We are fairly set on a few names that we like, but I am still not keen on the idea of Darek Jr. We still have some time, so it will be interesting to see what happens from here. :-) Also, probably not sharing until the baby is born. There is a lot in a name, and it might just help to see the baby before naming him/her. Short post, but that's all for now. Happy Day!