Baby Boy!

We welcomed our baby boy on Monday, January 19! Everything went perfectly with the labor and delivery. He is a sweet little baby and we love him! For more details of the delivery, visit our baby blog (email us for an invitation).

Decorating Help!

I freely admit that I am clueless when it comes to interior decorating. My husband has a much better eye for color and style than I do! We've been rearranging the furniture in our home to make a little more room for baby, and as we're doing so, we have some decorating to do. I'm appealing to all you in the blogosphere for tips and ideas! I've posted a short video of our living room. It is a challenging space to decorate as you will see. (note, the pictures on the walls are only temporary until we figure out what we're really doing!)

One of the biggest challenges is one wall has a huge (8'x12') mirror permanent as far as our landlord is concerned. Should we try to cover some of it up? How do we incorporate that into a bigger scheme?

Also, the walls are a very light shade of pink. We think they must have meant to be a nice trendy tan, but picked the wrong color! :P

So with that preamble -- HELP!!

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!

I'm sorry we have been so blogger-absent recently. Both Doug and I got swamped at work just as the holidays were ramping up, and it's been a race to the finish line ever since!

Thanksgiving we spent with both our extended families, eating two turkey dinners in a week. Yum!

We enjoyed a very happy Christmas and New Year's quietly in our own home with just the two of us. Christmas Eve we were invited to the home of some friends where we shared a tasty meal, read the Christmas story from Luke, sang some carols and even opened a present. So fun! Thanks Lance and Kristi! Christmas morning we slept late, took our time opening some presents and visited with family on the phone.

New Year's Eve I actually made it all the way to midnight! We watched a movie, ate treats and toasted with sparkling cider. New Year's Day we spent rearranging the furniture in our house to make room for baby stuff. It was actually really fun! It's like we have a new house to go with the new year.

And so, we start 2009 in great anticipation of the arrival of our little boy and whatever else may come!

We hope all of you are well and enjoyed a happy holiday season. Happy New Year!


Our tree. I didn't get stockings done, and we didn't put up many other Christmas decorations, but we like our tree :)

Day after Christmas meal - Turkey Dinner. Yum!! We were too tired on Christmas day to try to do the turkey we planned, but we sure enjoyed it the day after (and the week after).


Happy Birthday, Doug! He insisted I make gluten-free birthday cake for him so that I could eat it too. What a sweetheart! The cupcakes turned out great--Doug even said so.