the best part

well, first of all, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! we had a great day, and i'm sitting here enjoying the smell of the 3 dozen roses my matt got for me. i love valentine's day. we enjoyed going to a monster truck show with some friends, thanks again beth, and our kids. G loved it more than J! she kept cheering on "grave digger" and "martial law"! it was too funny. also, we got to go on our first date in 5 months last night {we normally are pretty good about date night, but with having the yuckies for so long, date nights went out the window}. we went to Sakura, a hibachi place, the shrimp was to die for! our chef was fun too, he cooked the food right in front of us and even popped shrimp up in the air and into matt's mouth. we had a 14-year-old boy and his little sister from church bbsit the kids, which worked out PERFECT b/c both my kids had a "friend". J & G keep talking about how they can't wait for them to come again. when matt went to go pick up our bbsitter, he had just returned from a JV basketball game and did so well that his coach asked him to stay and play on the varsity team. he told his coach that he couldn't b/c he was bbsitting. his coach told him that he could get out of it, but he told the coach that he couldn't stay b/c he already committed to us. what a great kid. i'm so glad we know their family.

i love my husband and children more than i can say. i also love my extended family and friends. i am truly blessed with all the relationships i have in my life. isn't that what life is really all about - relationships, people...and my people make my life a wonderful one.

also, today i started looking for fabric for baby boy's room, and this is what i'm going to do...sock monkeys...i LOVE this fabric.

really, there are two things i like about being pregnant...of course, (1)the end result: a beautiful baby, and (2)getting ready for baby to come. i love crafting and making all kinds of baby paraphernalia for my sweet child-to-be. since finding out this baby is a boy, i've already made bibs, burp cloths, and i've started on blankets. i even got out my box of baby boy things to see what i had that would work for this little guy, and to try to figure out what i need {which i'm sorry to say is quite a lot.} i gave most of my things away before we moved out here to family and friends... any hoo - i love washing and folding all the baby clothes and i am constantly looking at them, imagining my sweet baby in those tiny onsies. do i really have 124 days to go? and let's be honest...my baby is way fatter than that widget on the side over there!