I was wrong...or was I?

So I guess my motherly instinct hasn't quite kicked in! Apparently we are having a GIRL! :) Well I should technically say the doctor is leaning toward it being a girl. She was acting very lady like and kept her legs totally closed the entire time. More importantly, she is healthy. He couldn't see anything wrong on the ultrasound but I need to have a blood test just to make sure. I am so relieved, I can't tell you how stressed I've been imagining all the things that could go wrong. She was so cute wiggling around in there, kicking her legs! It was so fun to see! Nate is a little freaked out by the "skeletor" ultrasound pictures. I think he was expecting to see a sweet, pink, little baby. We bought him a girl Cabbage Patch Newborn so he can have a "baby" too! I was more excited about it then he was! I go back in 10 weeks for a follow up appointment, so hopefully by then we will be totally sure that its a girl! Thanks for voting on the poll too, looks like the majority of you thought it was a girl all along!

I listen to my friends....

So Keri just suggested that I post a poll on my blog to see what everyone thinks we are having...We find out Wednesday so we won't be left in suspense much longer! So if you care to exercise your right to vote, let us know what you think! You have a 50/50 chance of being right, pretty good odds I'd say!

Just for Amy....

So Amy says I need to update my blog....I've been meaning to but apparently reading about our home improvement success is no longer interesting! So here ya go Amy!

On Friday Eric called in "sick" and we spent a really fun day in Tahoe and Reno. Eric hardly ever takes time off work, in fact he has like 3 months of vacation time accrued. I guess that is one of the cons of enjoying your job so much, you never take your time off. So this was a treat for all of us. We headed up to Tahoe in the morning and went for a little hike up to Eagle Falls. We actually planned to hike up to Eagle Lake which is about a mile farther up, but we quickly canned that idea once we got started up there! Back in the good old days, Eric and I would run that hike (up hill the entire way there!) Makes me laugh how much has changed since then! So instead of hiking we decided to take a little dip! We hadn't planned on going swimming but Eric found a great little pool at the bottom of some smaller falls to put our feet in. No one was there, but once we got in and were having so much fun, other people found our little secret way to get in and before long all the other hikers (and their dogs!) were joining us for a impromptu swim!

The water was COLD!!!

Nate decided it would be much more fun without clothes! He tried taking the underwear off to, but we had to maintain a little modesty!
This pretty much sums up how much fun we had!

After we got dried off, we headed around the Lake and up to Reno. I had some work files to drop off and afterwards decided to go to dinner at Claim Jumper. By this time Nate was a little dehydrated so we took our dinner to go and enjoyed a nice quiet evening at home. I love days like this!

Home Improvement

I finally got a new faucet in the kitchen! Ours broke a few weeks ago and when we went to Home Depot to buy a new one, we were floored by the prices! We went on ebay and found the same faucet we wanted for more than $100 less! This is the second time we have had to replace the faucet since we moved here 4 years ago so I wanted to make sure we got a good one. It was worth waiting for it to ship because it looks and works wonderful!

Old Faucet.....


We are not disgusting I promise! I don't know how it gets so gross under there, but it does!
Nate and Eric hard at work! Nate must have thought watching Eric was really entertaining because he brought out some snacks and enjoyed the show!

New Faucet! Ahhhhhhhh.....

So a few weeks ago, Alison posted 5 things she couldn't live with out and asked everyone else to do the same, my fav things were pretty much the same as everyone else (Down East Tee's, Diet Coke, Paul Mitchell hairspray, etc) but I just need to post one of my own. I discovered it a few months ago and I am hooked! Bar Keepers Friend! It is the best cleaner I found and it's soooooo cheap! Everyone from Wal-mart to William Sonoma sells it but you have to search for it, it's on the bottom shelf most of the time! I swear this cleaner takes stains off your counter tops, removes scratches from your sink, polishes stainless steel like you wouldn't believe! It's the best! Notice the hard water stains when we took the faucet off, I just used a little Bar Keepers Friend and it took it right off! We bought a different style of faucet this time so we had to get those stains off or else they would show...not a problem for this cleaner!