Welcome Ansel! 4:14pm January 5th, 2010

A Special Time

In October we had our amazingly talented, sweet-as-can-be, and not to mention GORGEOUS friend Kelli take photos for our 2009 Christmas cards. Her and her husband are dear friends to us, we are blessed to have them in our lives. Kelli simply took up photography for fun but as you can see here she was born for this!!
We were lucky to have my mom in town that weekend, so we brought both Grandma's and Grandpa John to capture this special time. Enjoy.

What a Merry Christmas

We are ready and waiting with great anticipation for the arrival of our little David Ansel. We have the nursery done, with some minor decorating accents to complete later next year. We LOVE how the wall decal turned out, it was designed by a local artist, you can view his incredible work here.

This Christmas our hearts are filled to the brim. We just cannot believe how blessed our lives are and to think we have our greatest blessing on the way. We are in awe of our awesome Lord and His love for His children. We celebrate the gift He gave us, Jesus Christ. Through Him we are so abundantly blessed.

Oh My!!

"Oh my!" is exactly what I think everytime I look in the mirror. These days it seems like everytime I take a glance I am a little bigger. T-minus 23 days and counting!!

Newest Addition

Tiger, was our unexpected, undesired, addition to our family this year. He came into our lives as a three week old stray, covered in fleas and dirt. Paul and I had promised each other, we would NOT keep him. The plan was to nurse him back to health, get him eating solid food, and vaccinated....then he would be adoptable. Well, you know how the story goes. This little guy purred right into our hearts and he has found his permanent home at the Hillenbrands.

He was just a little ball of fuzz when we found him, so tiny. He LOVES to play!!

Much bigger now, snuggling with Buttons. They play, fight, clean each other, and snuggle. Sometimes it seems like they were long lost siblings.

Georgie, our grumpy old man. He isn't real thrilled about Tiger. We tease that Georgie is Mr. Wilson and Tiger is Dennis the Mennis. That pretty much sums up their relationship.

Bump Update

Well....here we are at Week 24!!!

Stretchy Pants

I have broken down and purchased my first pair of maternity pants. It was really difficult for me to give in. What was my hesitation, you ask? Oh I don't know, was it the high waist or the elastic that was more...ummmm unsexy!! I told hubby that after wearing these we would never make babies again. I was afraid the image would be seared in his mind forever. To confirm my fears these are the words that came out of his mouth the first day I wore them,

"When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. It's for fun."

Never seeing Nacho Libre, I had no idea what he was talking about but I knew it had to be bad. Thank you google for providing this image from the movie so we all can be enlightened.
Needless to say, it's bad, it's unattractive, but oh so comfortable. I LOVE my maternity pants. I even went out and bought maternity jeans. I don't know what it is about that thick elastic waist band that feels so amazing. I may never go back!!