February

It seems that I'm lacking some pictures for February. Today is the 23rd and some how I don't have any pics! weird! My camera's battery was dead for a while, apparently, its been a lazy month-well, for me anyway!

Mark, on the other hand, has been painting up a storm!!!! First, he painted Chase's room, then the jack-n-jill bathroom....then onto Chloe's room and now, as I type, he's painting the kitchen. Who's nesting?

Chase's room above

Chloe's room. I took with my camera and didn't have settings right, but you get the idea! Still waiting on dresser and more 'wall art'!

His/Her bathroom! :)

I've had a little travel this month too. I think I did some at the end of Jan, but again...too long ago, I can't remember....I did go to San Francisco in early Feb for basically 24hrs. I went to Atlanta (drove) last Friday roundtrip in one day....8hrs of driving for 2hrs of meeting-yuck! I think (hope) that was my last travel trip for work till after Chloe joins our family!

Chloe and I are doing fine. We're now on our 'every two week' appointments. All seems well as far as the doc can tell. That is good! I'm definitely ready to have her, but not really since she's only 31 weeks in gestation. March is going to be ONE LONG MONTH!!!! We went and got a 3D/4D ultrasound today. I'm going to do a separate post for that one. We got some really good cute pictures of her little face! We also got some video, but I haven't looked at it yet, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to post it here or not...will try!

OK, 2 posts down and 1 to go....if the ultrasound one will work!

love to all......again!

Carrie

January 2009

Wow, its almost March and I'm just now posting January! Yikes. I might make a couple of entries to make this easier to follow....we'll see how it all pans out!


In January, over MLK weekend, Mark, Chase and I ventured to Little Rock. I had a 3-day weekend and it happened to be the anniversary of Cameron Bobbitt's 'Heaven Day', so I wanted to get to LR and celebrate her life with Susan and family. They weren't able to get to LR till Saturday afternoon, so we spent Friday at mom's house and Saturday we did a little 'shopping' and then went to dinner with some of my friends from college. It turned out that they gave me a nice surprise baby shower! Wow, what a treat. Below are a few pictures...of course, I had to include Chase in on the 'girl fun'!

Chase and Maddy McGinnis Chase and cake-his fav food Mady, Stacy McGinnis, Tanya Ford and Me

MB Benafield, Kelly Thomas, Laura Mansfield...yummy cake!

The next day was a beautiful day and Susan's dad delivered a wonderful memorial ceremony message about Hope. I've attached a picture of Cameron's gravesite as well as a picture of Susan, Derrick and their 3 kids....Carington, Kennedy and Brooklyn. Su's dad is included also. At the end of the ceremony, we let 36 baloons go into the sky to find their way to heaven. It was really a beautiful sight...as sad as it was!



That evening they had a party at Darren and Jennifer's and it was a nice showing of people sharing their condolences as well as celebrating time together with friends and family. On Monday, I was able to go with them to their first stop to deliver books to the Allergy clinic. I believe they made 2-3 more stops after that, but we had to get back to Franklin. All in all is was a great weekend and it was nice to connect with everyone!

Because its been so long, I can't remember what else we did in January! Obviously nothing significant compared to these events! I'll end this for now, then create a post for February!

Love to all.....thanks for reading!

Carrie

Its 2009!!!!

2008 was a Fine year, but I think 2009 will be even better since our family will be growing!!!!

I've talked with many of you already and you've either received an email, a Christmas card or seen posts on Facebook. Therefore, there probably isn't too much to share that you don't already know! I'll try to keep it brief (my specialty of course).

For Christmas, we drove down to FL for about 8 days. Well, I got to fly since I had to work in S. FLA, but Mark and Chase drove and I met them in Orlando the Saturday before Christmas (after visiting Michelle in Jupiter and Paige in Cocoa Beach-ha!). We stayed there till Tuesday. As Memaw and Papa were packing up to go to Homosassa, Chase had such a pitiful look on his face that they felt obligated to take him then instead of have him come with us! So...he went on Monday. That left Mark and me with an entire day of nothing planned and no child-WOW! Unfortunately, our friends were working, so we decided to do some shopping and site seeing. We went and visited our old houses and went to the new shopping mall by our house in Winter Garden. It was nice. We also went to eat lunch at Tijuana Flats (YUMMY), went to Ikea-cool and then decided dinner and a movie sounded good for the evening. We ate at Brio Tuscan Grill and saw the James Bond movie. Dinner was delicious and the movie was pretty good.

Tuesday we drove to Homosassa. Cindy and the family got there LATE (3:30am Wed) and we were all there for the rest of the week. It was great to get the cousins to play together. Hannah and Jacob are so big, it is simply unbelievable! They had a great time with Chase and he DEFINITELY had a great time with them. Hopefully we'll get to spend some time with them again this Spring and/or summer too.

We drove back on Saturday, it was a long, uneventful drive. Every 15-30 minutes Chase asked if we were in TN. We tried to convince him that if he went to sleep it would get there quicker. He finally obliged about 3hrs from home, so once he woke up, we were literally in Franklin...strange how that works!

Mom, Aunt Janet, Aunt Mimi and Grandma all came to visit on Sunday and all but Mimi stayed till Tuesday. We spent some time with Adam and Andrea each evening and had a nice time visiting. Unfortunately, I had to work, but I think they all had a good time visiting.

Wednesday was New Year's Eve and we didn't do a thing! We were actually in bed before midnight. We did, however, host a yummy New Year's Day lunch for some friends. We had all of the 'good luck' southern food, sat around and chatted and watched football. I think it was a great success. The kids got to play for about 7hrs straight with no naps, so I imagine everyone slept quite well that night.

This past weekend we've been adjusting to getting back into the 'routine' of things. Chase will go back to school tomorrow and I'll have a 5 day work week-ouch! We only have 4 more months till our newest addition, so we have lots of 'decorating' that we need to do between now and then. Mark has totally stripped Chases' room as he's getting a new paint job. Once that is finished, we'll start on Chloe's.

Yes, in case you're not aware...the winning name is Chloe Grace Wingert!!!

Sorry for posting the random pictures at the top, but since I wrote a longer post than I intended, I really don't feel like messing with the real 'editing' of the blog!

Love to all and here is my wish for a happy, healthy and FUN 2009!

Carrie