Belly and snow

Today - 27 weeks and 2 days.

On Wednesday it snowed in Houston! I was very excited as I have never seen snow here before. Of course, it did not stick and today it is 75 degrees, but exciting all the same.

Recent Gianna

Thanksgiving with cousin Wyatt.

Sometimes she ends up like this while sleeping. It is hard to believe she used to be dwarfed by her bed!

After paint... December 3rd.

After dry wall

Back side of laundry room.

The master closet.

Our future family/playroom.

Master bedroom.

I never realized how messy and dusty dry wall was until now. My Type A personality is having a hard time with this. Although my college roommates might not agree that I am kind of a neat-freak, this tendency has grown over time and this constant mess is driving me crazy!!

About a month ago...

The view from our bathroom into the laundry room (before dry-wall completion)

The bathroom after the plumber came to redo the pipes.

Our future master closet.

The dog/exercise room.

The master bedroom.

Baby Gender

So, for those of you who haven't yet heard, I am having a boy! I am a little nervous about it since I have 3 sisters and am much more comfortable with girl children, but it is exciting. This time the pregnancy is going really fast. Here is my belly today at 23 weeks and 3 days. It doesn't look so big in this picture, but I feel huge!

Home addition and repairs

Since Matt and I had some damage due to the tree through our house, we decided to change our renovation plans. We are adding a master bedroom, renovating the small bathroom and adding a exercise/sunroom/dogroom to the back of the house. Once that is done, we will focus on landscaping. Here is the progress so far. You can see the difference in the roof tiles, but we were just happy to have a non-leaking roof finally. There was a week or two where we had some minor flooding.

The outside with siding nearly complete.

Making progress.

The framing of the house addition

Our house - Oct 4 - 8

The outside of the house after the brick was taken off.

The new slab.

Right before concrete pouring.

Another shot of the concrete truck.

Our house - Oct 4th

The $500,000 concrete-pouring truck.


The concrete pipe (not sure of the official term..) over the top of our carport and house.



Wider view.

The backyard prior to the concrete slab being poured.

Kissing Daddy

Gianna sure is daddy's girl nowdays. Mommy gets a little jealous...

Happy Halloween!

She takes after her mother. She wants ALL the candy!