Baby Showers

Before Josh and I moved my friends and family threw me a baby shower! I had one in Chico with mostly family, and some close friends and leaders from church. This is a baby blanket that my grandma made for me in high school. She is an incredible knitter, but suffers from Psoriasis and Muscular Dystrophy. She has been able to make my sisters one when they had a baby but she knew she probably wouldn't be able to by the time I had kids so she got a head start. Being as I was in high school, I wanted a pink blanket and I told my grandma even if I had a boy I would still use the blanket at home. As luck would have it, I'm having a girl and she will look so precious wrapped in this blanket. Thanks grandma!Here is Mikayla and I with a doll that she picked out for the baby! I love it, it's so soft!

The next weekend a few of my girlfriends had a shower for me in Sacramento! I had so much fun and am so thankful for everyone that came and for all the nice gifts! Our little girl will be well dressed and accessorized! (is that a word?) Here is the cute cake Amber made! She's so talented!

Thanks everyone!

Butterfly House

Last Saturday Josh and I were looking for something to do, we actually didn't have anything to work on around the house. At least nothing that was pressing, we wanted to get out and see something new. So we talked to my sister and they weren't doing anything either and asked if we wanted to go to the Butterfly House. As you guessed, its a butterfly exhibit. The also have a bunch of different bugs behind glass, and we watched a short movie on the "life and behaivor of butterflies". My favorite part was when they showed 2 butterflies mating, and my nephew Jack, who is 3 said "He's on his buddy!" LOL we were cracking up!
Then we went to the actual butterfly exhibit. It was this huge room, kind of like a greenhouse that was really hot with all these green, tropical plants and butterflies flying around everywhere! It was really cool! I do like butterflies, but I'm not a fan of anything flying around me. I know, I'm weird. Anyways, Josh was like the butterfly whisperer. You weren't allowed to catch them, but you could hold your finger out and let them land on you and Josh always had one on his finger!

Josh and I, with no butterflies!

Hallelujah!

I found my camera this morning!!!
I don't care that it was in a place I had already looked or that it had been right in our bedroom the whole time, I'm just glad we have it and don't have to go buy a new one!
So I will post some pictures of the house, of whats put together and some new pics of the belly!

Of all times...

Of all the times in our life that we have wanted to take so many pictures, our camera is no where to be found!!!
Josh had his first day of work at a real career, and wore a suit the first day and looked so sharp...no camera
We signed the papers to our very first home, got the keys and moved in...no camera
I'm 5 months pregnant and of course wanting to take pictures for my scrapbook and to send home to family...no camera
So sorry for the lame, pictureless posts.
Hopefully it turns up soon...

And we're off....

So we haven't posted in a while, we've been a little busy as most of you know...
Friday morning we left Sacramento and stayed a couple days in Pocatello, Idaho with Josh's brother. Then Sunday morning we left and drove till it got dark, and ended in Kearney, Nebraska. Monday we only had a 5 hour drive to Waukee, Iowa where my sister lives and we will be staying with her till Saturday. We're enjoying the nice break off, hanging out with family and not being in a car!!
We're scheduled to close on the house Monday at 3:30!! We hope everything goes as planned.
Also this morning I felt the baby kick and even Josh can feel it! It's so crazy how first I only felt her every now and then and it was just a flutter and now it's a full on kick!
We'll keep you all updated on when we move into the house!

Carr Family Score: Boys 1, Girls 2

On Friday, Chloe and I finally reached a long-awaited deadline. The day seemed to crawl, we were both looking at the clock constantly waiting for our 2:30 ultrasound appointment. Chloe ended up getting home late from work and we drove like the devil was at our heels all the way to Roseville only to find that Google Maps has some improvements to be made to their directions software. Finally arriving at 3:00 we had to wait for what seemed like forever (actually it was 10 minutes) and I was fine, I passed the time making jokes about other people and Chloe sat there growing ever impatient with the world and me especially, love ya hun ;). What are husbands good for? If not to lighten the mood and annoy their spouses, but I digress. We were finally called in by the doctor, who apparently wishes he wrote screenplays for Hollywood, I swear he built up the most suspenseful gender determination ultrasound I could imagine! Talking about the baby, how healthy "it" was, listening to the heartbeat, yada, yada, yada... I'm just sitting there screaming in my mind "C'mon already! What is it?!?!?" And finally he rotated around to our little babys rump to say "See those two lines?" Which from what I understand is highly technical medical terminology for letting someone know they're having a GIRL. (For those of you who don't understand, ask your parents or google). To my surprise I took this news quite well, Chloe on the other hand began crying. Afterwards I was able to talk to her and cheer her up with a few "it's not that bad" and a couple "well there's always next time" (I'm such a comforting husband).

Time

Events tend to be measured in time. Our life seems to revolve around events and the time since the last event or the time until the next.

3 Months ago I graduated from college (Whew)
2 Months ago I learned I would be having a baby
1 Month ago the DOD began scrutinizing every detail of my life
1 Week ago I received my start date with the NGA, 26 April 2010
Today we put an offer on a home
1 Month from now I'll learn the gender of our child
2 Months from now I'll begin a new career
6 Months from now I'll hold our baby for the first time.
2 years from now that little baby will begin to walk and talk
18 years from now that little baby will be grown up and graduating High School (hopefully)

It's all just a matter of time...



Update on our prenatal competition:

Chloe's 12 weeks along, which means we've known of her pregnancy for 8 weeks now. In that time, Chloe has failed to gain even one pound and I have managed to somehow sweat off 12 pounds. I've put my size 33 jeans into storage and blew the dust off my 32's (which I now have to wear a belt). I'm glad to see the hard work finally paying off, and hope that Chloe will soon begin to catch up to me. She sure tries though, and it's been awesome to see her finally eating a whole subway footlong (I never thought I'd see the day).