after a while...

Sorry for the long hiatus, life has been crazy and when I'm not busy, I'm usually sleeping :). I want the 2nd trimester back where I had energy and wasn't so sleepy all the time. But alas, it's all for her:). So, yes, it is a girl. For her name right now we're on Makenzie Joanne Hecht. What do you think? Spellings might change, who knows, they're just theories anyway until she's born. We started decorating the nursery this past weekend. As much fun as painting a room can be, we had a HORRIBLE time trying to get lines straight when the walls are textured. Every special tool they had at WalMart or Home Depot that we tried didn't work :(. Taping didn't work too well either. Then combining the two worked okay, but there still wasn't too much success. Lots of touch up work will have to be done. Oh well, and I can't do most of it since it's up high and I'm not supposed to get on ladders or high chairs or anything tall anymore. (Guess I'm too front-heavy and will tip or something :)) We had a chair rail (the wooden divider that's about 1/3 of the way up the wall (looks like moulding usually) that was already up so we decided to do a chocolate brown on the bottom and a medium pink on top (and Matt decided pink belonged on the ceiling too). Then we will sponge paint teddy bears about every foot or so alternating pink/brown on the opposite colored wall. Does that make sense? Oh well, if it doesn't when we are done I'll post a picture of it. It's going to be cute! I'm excited.

In other news, Matt and I celebrated our one year anniversary on Sunday. Holy cow, I can't believe it's already been a year. Things have gone by so fast. If you would have asked me 18 months ago where I thought I would be now, in no way would I have ever said in Arizona, married, and in my 7th month of my first pregnancy. CRAZY!!! Life changes so fast, sometimes so unexpectedly. I am so glad that I have had Matt to support me and keep me crazy through it all! :) (coz you know Matt, he doesn't keep anyone sane- hehe)
I cannot believe how lucky I am to be married to him. Every single day I am reminded of more reasons why he is absolutely amazing. I made a list of 50 of my top reasons for loving him and gave it to him for his anniversary present. I thought it was pretty clever. There were more in my head, but I decided that I'd stop at 50 because well, that's the number I picked :). He is looking into getting me a massage (if we can find someone in town that can do pregnancy massages) for his gift to me. But I agree with what he said-getting the nursery ready for our family was probably the best way to spend our anniversary, together and excited. I truly do feel blessed and so dang-narbin lucky to be married to him!!

Well, that's about all from here lately. Tomorrow I have another OB appointment, they're every 2 weeks now, so we'll see how things are going. They feel good. She is moving like crazy, but not as much the past 2 days since Matt's been in Tuscon and she just loves her daddy already :). But I'm going to go finish painting the letters so here's hoping all you are doing well!!