It's A Girl!!!

If you haven't figured it out yet we are having a girl. It was brought to my attention that during my absence from blogging I did not fill everyone in on what we are expecting. We are thrilled to be having a girl. I figured the nursery colors would give it away. I don't see Bryan allowing a little boy to sleep in a purple and green nursery.
Now that you know we are having a girl we need some help with a name. We have one so far, but it is not set in stone yet. If you have suggestions we would love to hear them. We like names with meaning. We have been looking at family and Japanese names, but haven't come up with anything.

Baby Update

Time for a Baby Update. I have made it to the third trimester and am I ever so glad. We only have ten weeks to go; crazy I know. I think Bryan and I have mixed emotions at times we are excited, but also nervous.
We went and took a birthing class that we both loved so much (I hope the sarcasm dripping from my remarks is apparent in my typing). Does it seriously have to be six hours long? Don't get me wrong, the information was great, just drawn out too long.
So we decided yesterday that we should start getting things ready for the baby. The nursery has been somewhat done, but needed furniture. Bryan was kind enough to spend his Thanksgiving weekend painting, putting up chair rail and crown molding in the room. Yes, he did give up his weekend, but he did get new tools for doing so.
Last week we picked out a crib and it came in yesterday so we picked it up along with a pack 'n play and mattress. Today we put together the crib, pack 'n play and the travel system my parents bought for us. We also picked out a crib bumper and a fitted sheet that goes along with the nursery colors and the quilt my Grandma Y made.
We have a few more furniture items to pick out and then hopefully the nursery will be complete. The next ten weeks are going to go by quickly.

Christmas 2008

Well, Christmas came and went. We had a really relaxing Christmas this past year. We didn't have to worry about being somewhere by a certain time. We were also able to start some of our own traditions.
Christmas started out by taking our good friends the Sullengers to the airport to catch their flight. When we returned home we decided to start breakfast. Our Christmas breakfast consists of Beignets and milk or hot chocolate in my case.
After breakfast we opened stocking with Miya Memphis (I their stockings had more than ours). Once we finished with stockings we dove right into gifts. As we were nearing the end there were still a few large presents left, which happened to be for me.
I have to tell you that I gave each of us a Christmas budget that we were to stick by. Leading up to Christmas Bryan kept teasing stating he had gone over the budget. When I saw the large gifts I knew he was not teasing.
I started with one package and realized Bryan had purchased the game Jamaica (which we had purchased back in October, but FedEx lost with the rest of our stuff when shipping from Utah to Mississippi). No big deal, but then I opened the next large item and it was the afghan given to us at our wedding.
You see Bryan kept it a secret from me that FedEx found our lost pallet of stuff the week before Christmas and he took it upon himself to wrap most of our lost items in Christmas wrap. I thought the pallet was long gone since it disappeared at the beginning of November. There were items that could not be replaced on the shipment.
Long story short, Bryan made me cry on Christmas.

Visit From Dad, Mom and Josh

I know I am a little behind, but Bryan and I were lucky enough to have my parents and my brother come and visit us the week before Christmas. We were unable to go home for Christmas this year due to us spending almost a whole month in Utah in October.
Unfortunately the weather was not too nice while they were visiting. We actually had freezing rain. We didn't let the weather stop us from seeing the sites around Memphis and also the surrounding area. We took them to some of our favorite restaurants such as Rendezvous, Neely's, Boiling Point, and Buffalo Wild Wings.


We actually hit some new sites. We went to the Pink Palace Museum and hit some Civil War sites in Franklin TN and Shiloh TN. We would love to go back to Shiloh when the weather is nicer and spend a whole day touring the grounds. It is amazing how close the Union and Confederate camps were.


It is always sad to see family and friends leave, but we are so grateful for the time we are able to spend with them and show them some of the things we enjoy by living in the South.

Memphis Juniors 16 Elite

From Memphis Juniors

Well, it has been a while and I thought I should let everyone know what we have been up to lately. As usual I couldn't stay away from coaching very long and this time I roped Bryan into helping. We are coaching a 16 Elite volleyball team for a local club.

We have 9 really sweet girls. We started practicing in December and they have made so much progress in such a short time. We played our first tournament on January 11 and placed second in the Gold Bracket. Last weekend we played the same team in the final and came out on top taking first in the Gold Bracket. We are enjoying seeing the girls improve as individual players as well as a whole team.

It is really nice coaching with Bryan. He is so calm and we are able to see things the other does not. Bryan is the offensive coach and I am the defensive coach. We will keep you posted as the season goes on.

BTW don't laugh too much at my pregnant belly. There is one good thing about being pregnant and coaching I can't get too excited because the baby starts kicking and I have to sit down on the bench. :0)