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!

Three WONDERFUL years - Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to US!! Three years ago Dean & I said 'I do' in front of our friends & family at First Baptist Church Pensacola! The time has completely flown by and now that we have a baby on the way it seems like it is speeding up!

I love you Dean - I'm so blessed to have you as my hubby for life!

Photo from Scott's Cotillion this past weekend in Knoxville

New House

Hello!! A few quick updates since it has been a while. A lot has happened in April and we are now at our new house. (I'm actually home from work for a few minutes while our sink is being de-clogged by the plummer) Here is a picture of the outside of our new place. It's in a historic district of Norfolk and have a slight view of the river from our front lawn. Our neighbors are very friendly and welcomed us almost immediately! We have extra room for baby and family to visit. My personal favorite things about it is the sun porch, deck and huge master bedroom! We would love some visitors, so come up when you get a chance. We promise we won't ask you to help unload boxes! ;) And I'm actually going to give 2 shout outs to John & Craig for helping Dean move our heavy furniture over to the house! We owe them big time and appreciate their kindness and support!!

It's A Boy...

...it's official! Dean and I just got back from our ultrasound today and got to see our son do the coolest things! He yawned for us, wiggled all around, opened and closed his hands, and let us know that is he is indeed a BOY!! It was so cool! His heart rate was at 136 and they approximated his weight at 14 oz (which actually moves my due date to August 24th)...he is a big baby with big feet!!! We got some really cool pictures, but when I scanned them in they were so dark you couldn't see the baby...I'll have to play around to see if I can lighten them up for everyone!

House news...we have pretty much moved in our new house...thanks to Dean and a couple of our muscular friends! There are still many boxes and bags to unload plus tons of organizing to keep us busy for the next month! One project that is in our horizon is painting the baby's room. It is beautiful lavender purple right now, but now that we know a little boy is on the way the room will be painted a more appropriate color...blue maybe?

Hope everyone had a happy Easter and was able to spend time with friends & family!

Thanks for checking in!

March Madness...A month in review

March began with a wonderful trip down to Pensacola!! Warm, sunny weather and the chance to hang out with family...heaven! Mom cooked wonderful meals for us the whole time and we got to sleep in since our sweet dogchild wasn't with us. It was great to visit with everyone and we also got to see a few friends too! Can't wait to be down there this summer! Dean had to skip out a little early and head to the Bahamas for a 'training exercise.' All joking aside it was a really hard week for him. All of his flights were at night (sometimes until 3am) and he somehow managed to loose his voice in the process! I guess it was a good thing that he didn't have phone access! He was very happy to return home after a very long 10 days! Here are some pictures from FL:

My precious niece & nephew - i wish i could see them more


sweet parents after church

Dean & I on the porch...i hope i will some day have my parent's green thumbs

Somehow we managed to not get a full family picture w/ everyone so we will have to schedule one for later this year

Goodbye House:

March has brought some changes and with those changes Dean & I will say farewell to our first house. Although the move will be bittersweet we are looking forward and know that God has a plan and place for the future. Please pray for us this week as we decide on our next house and that we will trust in His will for our lives. It has been a somewhat difficult process for me to look for rental houses vice houses to buy...knowing that only slight changes can be made...paint color, etc. But the news of the Navy possibly taking us elsewhere next year came at perfect time and we are grateful that we know that it is not an ideal time for us to buy another house.

Baby Farmer Update and some pictures:
Baby Farmer is growing rapidly these days (and so is Mommy). At my 16 wk appointment I got to hear its heartbeat for the first time. I was so excited I started giggling (which made it really difficult to hear the heartbeat) and loved knowing that 'it' was really in my tummy! I also realized at that point how low the baby is at 16 wks. I was about to tell the nurse that the baby was up higher...aka where the 'belly' is, but luckily I held my tongue...turns out the medical staff knows more than me...shocking, huh? ;) So, any who the heart rate was at 150 and everything looks like it is on track. We find out the sex of Baby Farmer on April 13th and we are counting the days until that appointment! A few pictures that some of you have asked to see:

15 weeks - you can't really tell I'm pregnant, but what is my dog doing?

16 weeks

18 weeks

P.S.: Many people have asked me what I think I'm having and really I have no clue, no instinct, nothing. Well, last night I had a dream that we were having twin girls! Pretty crazy, huh? Still have no clue!