Best Baby Shower

I feel truly blessed...I have the best friends ever! Thank you for a wonderful baby shower - all the little details made it so special!! D.B. & I had the best time and LOVE all the gifts!

Hostesses

Family that came

The pregnant ladies...September, September, December & January ;)

The rivalry continues....

Beautiful Flowers

Fruit display in the shape of a carriage

The Whole Group

Who's in Africa???

It's out in the open...Dean went to Africa to assist with President Obama's publicity trip. Although the boat that trekked all the way across the Atlantic in record time for this mission received zero credit, I did find one picture of Dean flying over there.

32 week update

Baby and I had our 32 week check-up yesterday and we are doing great! We had our 3rd ultrasound to check on baby positioning. Baby is head down currently and I am praying that he stays that way until his birthday! He was a cute little dude in the ultrasound and wiggling all around. My Dr. was impressed to see that he was practicing breathing already (which is apparently hard to catch on camera) and a great sign that he is preparing for his entrance into this world. He must have his father's genes...always being prepared! ;) Definitely feeling contractions a couple times a day now, but for the most part feeling OK. I'll be glad to have Dean's mom and my mom up for a visit later this month! Below is a belly update! Enjoy...and thanks for checking in!

Blue Paint & Funny Story

Baby D.B.'s room is officially blue! The painter finished up today and it looks great! Now we just need the bedding to come!

Funny Story about a bird's nest:

Dean's Email: "a/c 44 got a bird’s nest so it is down for SAR"

Bonnie's Email: "Did birds build a nest in the helo? Are there baby birds in there or eggs? Kind of interesting...guess its a good thing your boat was floating out there b/c otherwise the birds would have died, right?"

Dean's Email: "Sorry sweetie a bird’s nest is when the rescue hoist cable is tangled inside the hoist, rendering the hoist unusable. No actual birds."

Of course it is a knot in the rope not an actually birds nest...I knew that!! ;) Dean's mom & I were in the process of worrying what they were going to feed the birds when I got his response! haha

Tour of the Southest

Dean, Gabby & I traveled for 2 weeks to see friends & family all over the southeast. This is basically a picture post of trip! Enjoy!

We started off at the cabin with Dean's parents in NC. We are standing in front of the garden where we planted corn, squash, onions, fennel & potatoes. It was so much fun and we had wonderful weather!Fresh asparagus & strawberries from the gardens!

Gabby loves visiting her cousin Zoey! They have so much fun playing together...above is a rare moment of them not chasing each other!

We ate lunch with a high school friend of Dean's and her fiance!

Eating dinner at Uncle Chuck's house...had to get a picture with their Great Dane!

Here we are in B'ham hanging out...Gabby was glad to get a break from riding in the truck!

My college friends surprised us with a little baby shower for D.B.! The yummy cake!

College friends: Ammie, Katie, Lisa & Brooke! It was a SUPER surprise to see all of them and they were so sweet to plan it! Some of their husbands came too so Dean wasn't the only man there! ;)

Brooke & I outside after the shower with a frontal belly shot! Brooke is due in July with a little boy too!

We made it to Pensacola and got to see our niece in action at her t-ball game!! Go Marlins!

At P'cola beach for a family picnic and some photos! It truly is prettiest beach...not that I'm partial or anything! ;)

The picnic site.

Our cute little nephew!

The men building sand castles...which turned into see who could dig the deepest hole.

Mom, me & my sister

Dean's finished masterpiece! You are a true artist sweetie!!!

Our next stop was Opelika, AL for a family wedding. My cousin Wheeler married one of my sorority sisters!! I wish I had taken more pictures...it was a beautiful wedding and so much fun!

The wedding party walking up the driveway to the reception!

Ammie & I posing in front of the beautiful "C" flower arrangements @ the bride's house!

Mom & Dad @ the reception under the tent!

Brantlee & Matt

Dean, baby D.B. & me

Alpha Chi photo with the beautiful bride!!

A visit with brother Scott on his b-day in Atlanta!!

Belly Update

Baby Farmer and I have been pushing the on up the growth chart. Here are a couple of pictures:

Gabby & I ready for church 21weeks+5 days

24 weeks + 5 days - Gabby & I are in the purple baby's room...don't worry its going to be blue very soon!

Spirited Soiree' 2009

One of my job responsibilities at Virginia Stage Company is planning all the special event fundraisers for the theater. Special Event planning is fun, but our spring annual fundraiser turned out to be a bit more than I had anticipated this year...taking most of the fun out of planning this event. ;( After our managing director made some rather poor financial decisions for the Company the expectations for "my" event went through the roof...aka net profit. Well, in case no was in tune with the economy corporate sponsorships were down, as were ticket sales for the event...no surprise there....so how am I supposed to raise all this money exactly?? I was slightly stressed for a good month...OK really stressed, but through lots of prayer the event was a success. It was a total God miracle!

I've included some pictures below of the event with captions. And to all those fundraising junkies out there we surpassed our net profit from last year!! YAY!!

(the pictures are in backwards order??!!)

We entertained our guest with a mini vaudeville show before the live auction and our talented resident artists created the coolest/ghostly atmosphere in the theater! The theme of the event is based around the ghost that haunt the Wells Theater.

Since we are limited to space in our lobbies we chose to close down the street in front of the theater, put up a tent and provide a place for people eat, drink & be merry! We were also able to sell corporate tables for the event that brought in more $$. Getting all the permits for the street closure was a difficult task to say the least. It even resulted in me turning on my 'southern charm' 3 days before the event at the permit office. It was either that or crying?? hehe

Above, our lovely ODU intern Katie showing off our lovely silent auction items. She got about half of our items donated for the event and was a huge help! Dean and I were able to purchase 2 photography auction items to use after baby D.B. arrives!

Our lovely ice sculpture that was donated :)

Dean, me (as the Ghost of Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady) and Patrick (ghost of Jake Wells) Patrick & I both have on white make-up, but it was so hot at the event both of our masks sweated off after about 30 minutes ;)

Dean was a huge help during the event! Since I am not supposed to lift anything heavy and do much manual labor Dean was by my side helping with everything he could. He also got to drive 3 new cars that were displayed at the event - including the new mustang (it was a standard - yikes - glad i didn't have to drive that one) Thanks honey!!!

Since I worked so much overtime this past month I have plenty of comp time to use so the Farmer's will be taking a nice vacation in June to see family and friends!