Out of Town Guest Book 2009

January was a busy month, littered with the lovely house guests that are my family. The weekend directly after the New Year, my eldest sister and her bf paid us a visit where we all nestled in our cozy home. Two couples, a cat, and a dog and the hottest and most persistent wood stove ever! Just call us giddy! We did get out to several events (dinner out, elk rib roast at dad's, bumming around town, hiking, etc.) and had a nice time of it.
Just two weeks later, I had the honor of attending THE BEST 80'S PROM EVER, hosted by the same sister for her 35th birthday. I'll let the picture do the talking.

Later that week, my middle sister and mama came to town from Austin and Tacoma, respectively. We did a little of bit of outside the house stuff but mainly stayed rooted to the living room where we talked. And talked. And talked. Well into the night and picking up right where we left off in the morning. It was both of their first visits to our house so we filled them in on all of the changes so far and ideas for the future. Expand this wall here, put a closet there, our room, the baby's room, blah, blah... wha?
THAT'S RIGHT, PEOPLE. DUSTIN AND I ARE PREGNANT!!!
(That's our new band name).

There. It's out! We are at 17 weeks (second trimester, 4 month) and cookin' right along. Remember when we stayed up all night getting ready for the house appraisal back in November? That was Dustin's very excited and motivated response to my announcing that, yes, we are capable of having a kid!
We've been planning this lil' surprise for about 2 years now but made the final choice to start trying in October sometime back in July. We like to take our sweet time making decisions so we were amazed that we got our wish so quickly. Things are looking good in the womb (finally, a room that I have complete say on how it is built, paint color, lighting, ambiance)!