We're Almost There!!!

So it's been way too long, again, since I put up a new post. I've got plenty of great pictures to share from the last month, but first let me update everyone a bit on our progress...

We're about 6 days away at this point. Kim's doctor is worried about the baby's size and that we might find ourselves in a forced C-section situation, so we're planning on inducing on Wednesday, May 5th (if you're planning on praying for us, we'll be in the hospital on Tuesday evening, and we'll also be just as happy with the baby coming early). Both of our parents are planning on coming down from San Antonio. At that point Kim will be 39 weeks-- but she's been ready for about a month now. She's uncomfortable all the time, she feels like a beached whale, she has a hard time getting up from couches and such. Plus, she gets very tired very quickly when out and around.

We see the end in sight, though, and very soon we'll be done beign pregnant and we'll start the journey of parenthood. I'm sure we'll have plenty of great pictures for this blog.

We've been having fun trying to do all of those fun things a married couple does before a baby comes in the mean time. A few weeks ago we went to Hermann Park for a picnic follwed by the painted potter where we painted an elephant and a panda for the baby's room. We installed shower doors in our bathroom and bought new dishwasher with the Texas appliance rebates... Also, we're planning on going to the Chili Cookoff at NASA this weekend.

In other stuff going on in our life, Kim's really been enjoying staying home from work. It's been a great blessing considering the kind of energy teaching was taking out of her, and it's going to make a very nice transition to her staying home for at least a year. We don't know yet how it will work out, and she may have to go back to teaching after a year, but at this point we're trying.

And, now for the pictures...

Baby Shower Part 2 and Late Pregnancy Pics

And now to the baby stuff...

It's getting late and I've stayed up way too late watching my first UT basketball game of the season-- their first round loss in the tourney. Stupid reasons to lose too (missed free throws!) I knew there was a reason I've always been annoyed by basketball compared to much better sports like football and baseball...

I promise I'll give more background, a few hand-picked feature photos, and funny stories in the near future. For now, check out some great pics of Kim and I unpacking loot from the school baby shower as well as pics from the work/sunday school baby shower.

Baby Shower Stuff, Part 1

Cute Cats

So it's not really directly in the topic of Eric, Kim and the baby-- but it's our other babies in the house that I've got alot of cute pictures of recently and wanted to show off.

Toby and Simba have really grown bigger, had their personalities form a bit more, and have enjoyed finding all of the great places to hide and nap around our house.

Here they are enjoying the skirt under the Christmas Tree:



Here they are hanging out on our dining room table, full stretch:



Toby in full living room rug ownership mode...



Simba cuddling up on Kim and the baby (one of Simba's "quirks" is his need to just cuddle up as close as possible to Kim and take a nap there...)



The two of them cuddling up with me on the love seat (if you look closely enough, you'll notice they're really not interested in me-- they're interested in the empty glass with ice that I'm holding)



And finally, the two of them being adorable laid out on the foot of our bed.



They're great cats-- always meowing at us in the morning to feed them, predictably coming to the same spots each time for more scratching (us scratching them, not them scratching us or the furniture), following us around from room to room, and always just being themselves.

For more pictures, go to our latest picasa album:

Toby and Simba being Cute

New Blog!

Welcome to our new blog!

Kim and I are expecting a baby (little girl, due May 11) and living decently far away from some of our family so we figured this would be a good way to keep in touch, share great photos, and such.

To start, we've been working hard on the house to get ready for our little girl, doing all sorts of things like buying new living room furniture (old furniture wasn't quite as comfortable for Kim's growing condition and tables had wobbly legs we had failed to fix), retro-fitting our house with an attic TV antenna so we could cut cable and save money in the future, bought a new TV for our bedroom to take advantage of the over the air HD, cleared out the back bedroom to turn into a nursery, and finally started working on the nursery.

Two weekends ago (the 9th and 10th) Uncle Steven, Aunt Pattie, Amanda, Justin, Maradee, and Brandi came and helped us paint the walls and the shelves.

Last weekend (the 16th and 17th), the soon-to-be grandparents came to Houston in order to help put up the border, install the shelves, and buy/assemble the crib.

Some of the best shots are in this blog, and the rest of our pictures are in the link below to my picasa web album. Once there you can see stuff like pictures from our wedding, snow in Deer Park in December of 2008, and other fun stuff.

From Nursery Pictures

Welcome To Our Blog

Kim and I are very happy to have all of your support in this new venture of ours, and appreciate all of your prayers and well wishes.

Kim's been happy because she got to go buy new clothes today-- both clothes that will fit her now, hopefully in the later stages of her pregnancy, and after birth.

We're both in San Antonio hanging with her parents for Easter. We'll likely be headed back to Houston earlier than later.

Take care until later!