The Word Is OUT!!

And we're back! Again sorry for the delay but I promise I have a good excuse this time. Tweedy and I are expecting a baby due Feb. 5th!! We weren't quite planning on babies this soon but it's such a welcome surprise and we're pretty excited. The bad news...I've been super sick from all this pregnant stuff. I haven't been able to do anything fun without getting sick...can't cook, take Jayber on walks and haven't felt like knitting or sewing in a while. All I want to do is take naps, drink milk shakes and go to work (don't always want to do the last one..but you gotta do what you gotta do). Smells are killing me...yesterday I got sick in the shower after smelling my shampoo while I was washing my hair. It doesn't help that I can smell every little thing now like a superhero or something with my super powerful smellers.

But the good news is that I'm almost finished with my first trimester now...so 12 weeks along and it's getting better slowly but surely. Supposedly it should end early into week 14. So how did this happen you say?!? Well....Tweedy's family took us on a trip to France and Italy for 2 weeks at the end of May and it was such a great vacation and just so damn romantic over there that....as Tweedy says "We went over there with two of us and came back with three of us." (That's what he said to his parents to tell them our news...so embarrassing!)

We all know where this picture was taken...


Notre Dame was one of my favorite things...


Lake Como, Italy - Where George Clooney and Brad Pitt have villas. I looked for them everywhere but unfortunately they came the week after we left. Boo.


So now that I'm finally feeling a little better I'm gearing up my crafting into overdrive. Especially the baby stuff as you can imagine. I've signed up for a smocking class and am into week two with it. It's pretty fun! Kind of like knitting in that it's county, portable and incredibly addicting. My first project is going to be a baby blue day gown with a geometric smocking pattern at the top. I'll put up some pictures one I finish it. On the knitting front...I've been working on a top secret project for one of my friends who's also having a baby but I can't talk about it until I give it to her since she reads Knit You Some...so more on that later.

We've also been super busy after moving into our new house doing yard stuff. Tweedy has made an amazing garden and now we have eggplants, tons of cantelope, tomatoes, basil and other fun veggies all over the place.

This is from a couple of weeks ago so now the plants are overflowing the raised beds..but Tweedy made these raised beds all by himself!


Also...my dad came to visit a couple of weeks ago with plans to put a storage house in our backyard for Tweedy's yard tools and stuff. So I'm thinking a tiny little 6 ft. tall house big enough for maybe a lawn mower and some shovels, but oh no...3 days later...it turns out this "storage shed" has a front porch and is looking more like a guest house with a greenhouse attached to the side of it. Errr I was tricked!! But Tweedy's pretty pumped about it and our backyard is big so oh well. His office may have to be moved out there now that there's a baby on the way.

What a proud helper...haha!


Almost finished product...