Heartbeat

Yesterday Chris and I got to hear the baby's heartbeat, but only after waiting an hour for the doctor. I finally decided to cross some things off my to-do list and register us for childbirth classes and in she walks. She put the doppler thing on my tummy and found the heartbeat right away! 146 bpm. Pretty normal, I hear. I was starting to have some of those crazy "am I still pregnant?" type thoughts because 1) I'm not really showing and well, mostly number 1 I guess. Anyway, still pregnant. Of course, we are still happy about that! I'm 16 weeks now--that's 4 months people (that is people who don't think in weeks, but months like normal people)! We are slowly but surely cleaning out what will be the baby's room. If you've been to our house, it's also called the mango room. Pretty sure we'll paint it as we don't want the child to wish it had never been born. Does anyone out there have some color suggestions? We won't find out the sex until our next appt. on Oct. 14. So, you can look forward to that announcement--hopefully! Hopefully, as in hopefully it won't be crossing it's legs and we can get a good look at the parts :) Today my engagement ring was tough to get on and off so I left it off...did I mention that I'm not really even showing yet!?

Civic

These are pictures from camping about a month ago. We found a great campsite not far from us (south Asheville!) that has some nice trails and a lake. We had a lot of fun just packing up and getting out of our routine for 24 hours! The homestead.
The alarm.
The heat.

The fridge, storage, and wonderful transportation.

By the way, we inherited a "new" car this summer that we LOVE! It gets incredible gas mileage and does everything we need it to--we can fit the whole family in it. It ain't pretty, but it suits us just fine for this time in our lives. We often see it a reminder of God's good provision for us.