Our Marathon Weekend

This weekend was one long marathon for both Shane and I starting on Friday night. Despite being completely exhausted by the time Sunday night rolled around, we had a great weekend.

Friday evening, we both volunteered at the NEST shelter at church along with my 3rd and 4th Grade students. NEST stands for Norfolk Emergency Shelter Team and is a program that involves churches rotating weeks from December to early March that they open their doors to our less fortunate neighbors and providing them with dinner, a warm place to sleep and breakfast the next morning. It was a wonderful sight to see my young students serve in the shelter and interacting with our visitors. They really are wonderful kids. Saturday morning Shane and I got up early and headed to the Naval Hospital for our "Prepared Childbirth" class. We learned a lot and now are both a lot less scared of Trevor's actual arrival. We got to tour the labor & delivery decks as well as the mother/baby unit there at the hospital--after seeing all of that we realized how lucky we are to be delivering there at Portsmouth Naval. The facility is amazing and everyone working on the deck seemed really friendly, helpful and caring. Saturday night, Shane helped serve at the shelter again with our 5th grade and Middle School students while I worked up in my office getting ready for Sunday's big events. Sunday morning, I was up early to get to work for 8am, after to Masses, religious education and children's church I was able to take a quick breath before the big event for the day. To help raise money for our new building, I have spent the past few months putting together a tile fundraising event for the parish....Sunday was the actual tile painting day from 4-7. It went amazingly well and everyone had a great time. I can't wait to see all the tiles once they are glazed and fired and ready to go up on the wall in our new building!

just some of the 140+ tiles that were painted Sunday afternoon!

By the time we got home on Sunday night, I had clocked in a 12 hour day at work and was completely exhausted. By 9:30 I was passed out in bed.......a long weekend, but a great weekend.

only a little while longer....

It's been 12 weeks, so I figured I would add a new picture of Trevor's "progress." I am now 32 weeks along, only 8 more hopefully....
Speaking of photos--this one was taken with our Sony point-and-shoot....yesterday, my friend Dana from college, came over to take some maternity photos for us. The photo shoot was a blast--Dana is so creative and had tons of ideas for the pictures. We are so excited to see how everything turned out! She should have a sneak peek of them up on her blog in a few days...so stay tuned for the link.

Happy Birthday Shelby!!

Today our baby Shelby turns two! For her birthday she got a new pink polka dot collar and a moo-cow "baby" for her to carry around.

Shelby when we brought her home at 8 weeks.

Shelby now, with her sidekick Katie-dog.

Baby Shower and Big Weekend

This past weekend was a verybusy and exciting weekend for us. Saturday was my baby shower. Michelle and Mandy were so kind to put it together, and it was absolutley perfect. (thanks again girls) A bunch of my friends were there to share the day with me and it was a great way to celebrate little Trevor's upcoming arrival! My mom came down for the day too and Heather and Ben even came down from Maryland! Everyone was so generous--Trevor is definitley a very lucky little boy! We can't thank everyone enough!

Makenzie was such a big helper!
My mom and Heather

Izabel fit right in the big bag...and then wanted to get right out!

Michelle, baby Blair and I

Sunday morning I had to get up and be at work very early. The children in my program were having their winter concert (its a Catholic thing, we celebrate Christmas forEVER) so I needed to be there to set up. They did a wonderful job--so proud! Can't wait for next year. After church Shane, along with my parents, brother, Ben and Heather all went out to lunch to celebrate my brother's 17th birthday.

It was a very long weekend, and once everyone headed back home Shane and I were completely exhausted. The weekend was wonderful though, so it was completely worth it.