NASA

So, yeah, I'm a little obsessesed with the weather. For my birthday Chris and Betsy got me the coolest John Deere weather station. It tells you the indoor and outdoor temperature, the barometric pressure, the indoor and outdoor humidity, the rainfall, the forecast, and most importantly, the windspeed. It gets very, very windy out at our house, and we are always wanting to know what the windspeed is. And now we'll know!

We finally got around to setting the weather station up today. It looks a little like NASA has an installation in our front yard. But I'm quite excited about it.

Look! It's telling us the windspeed is 15.4 miles per hour coming out of the Southwest!

Baby stuff!

The stuff our parents got us for our baby shower is starting to come in the mail now. It's quite exciting! We put these two things together last night.

Here is the stroller my parents got us:

And here is the Norwegian high chair Kris's parents got us:

Baby Shower!

Kris's Aunt Delores and Uncle Art threw us a baby shower this weekend up in the Twin Cities. There were lots of folks there from both of our families and a few of our friends too. It was so nice to see everyone and get to catch up. We got lots of fabulous gifts. We're getting more and more ready all the time to bring Jolly home! Which is good since there are only 7 weeks left until my due date!

Here are a few pictures from the shower.

A really big bug

This gal is hanging out on the outside of our screened in porch. She's huge. I would guess at least 5 inches long. I'm glad she's outside and not inside. But she's pretty cool looking.

Nathaniel's Christening

We were up in Minnesota this weekend for a baby shower for us and for Nathaniel's Christening. I'll put up some pictures of the shower later, but thought I'd put up a few from the Christening.

Here's the happy family:

After getting soaked:

The newly Christened chilling on the sofa back at Wayne and Kelly's:



Kelly in the kitchen cooking up a storm for lunch:

Nursery Progress

Kris and I made an Ikea run yesterday to pick up a few things and to get some stuff for the nursery. We don't have too much in there just yet as we don't have the crib yet, and Kris is still working on building the changing table. But I thought you all might like to see what we picked out and how it looks in the room.

It goes surprisingly well with the colors we had painted the walls a couple years ago.

Kris is working on a pendant light to hang over the rocker, you can see the glass shade for it sitting on top of the bookshelves.

While I was washing and ironing and hanging drapes (and working on an exam for my students), Kris was making progress on the patio. I think it's looking great!

Funny t-shirt

Check out the silly t-shirt I got from Laura for my birthday. It totally cracks me up, and I get lots of comments from people when I wear it. I wore it out the other day when my folks were visiting and I couldn't figure out why people were staring at my belly - then I remembered I had this t-shirt on! :)

(just ignore how awful I look - the sun was really bright in my eyes)