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I couldn't help it.

I was at the Maternity Resale Shop looking for some inexpensive solutions to my limited wardrobe of hand-me-downs and tank tops. I spotted these cute little clothes hung on teeny-tiny hangers and I couldn't resist.

One is an Adidas St. Louis Rams onesie and the other is a navy and gold Gymboree onesie.

He'll be ready to cheer on my favorite team. : )

And if he gets too excited when they score, he'll have a back-up outfit.

GO RAMS! : )

Hey, everyone! I'd like to introduce you to my little sister, Sara.

(Currently, we're stuck in major parking garage traffic following the Cardinal's game. So, we thought why not blog?)

Here's Sara: America... Happy Birthday. It was really hot at the ballgame today. We got free hats, though. Visit Caron's Moblog to see some fun photos from today's game. We're looking forward to tonight's fireworks. Stay tuned for photos! L, Sara

It's so much fun to stop by our new house on the way home from work. Every day we have the anticipation to see if they built anything new, and this week has been very rewarding to see!

At last night's visit, we found that we have walls! Not all of the walls, but about half of the first floor walls. : ) It's so exciting!!

Here are some photos from yesterday afternoon:
      

My parents and sister, Kristin, are in Australia right now. (Kristin is there for business and my parents decided to take advantage of the opportunity to visit Aussie country/continent.) They have been emailing us with daily updates and photos. It's fun to hear that they're having fun! (Meanwhile, it's super weird to know that they are officially emailing us from tomorrow, because of the time difference.)

Here are two of the photos that they've sent us, taken from my dad's pda:
   

I can't wait to see what else they send us. It looks like fun! : )

Tonight, I'm going to an art opening at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis with my little sister, Sara. One of my college professors from last semester, Adam Frelin, has an exhibit opening there tonight because he was one of the winners of the Great Rivers Biennial: A Visual Arts Award Program.

I am excited to see what he's prepared for the museum. His class was very challenging and rewarding for me and I'm happy to be able to support his artwork at St. Louis's premiere contemporary art venue.

On a geek's side note, I've officially installed FireFox on my computer at work. It's a new web browser that is open-source by the Mozilla Foundation. It's super sleek design and clean navigation is pleasing to use, it's pop-up blocker works wonders, and from what I've read, it's quite a bit more secure than Internet Explorer.

The feature that most people rave about with FireFox, though is the tab-based browsing. I have yet to make it my default browser, but I'm enjoying exploring the program. I will let you know if I decide to ditch IE for FireFox. : ) You should definitely check it out and see for yourself.

Baby update - he moves a lot. Yesterday I was able to see my belly jump when he kicked. I know I've said this before, but it's literally the weirdest and coolest thing I've ever experienced. : )

Well, I guess that's it on this Friday. I'm happy to see the weekend here, though it will involve a lot of packing. We officially close on our current house two weeks from today!

Have a good weekend! : )

Yep. Yesterday, Bryan and I found ourselves walking on the second floor of our new house! : )

It's especially exciting because we're moving out of our old house this weekend.

Here are some photos:

      

      

      

   

I can't wait to see if/what they do today! : )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!! Tomorrow marks the official 1 year anniversary of my blog!

Yay for that! : ) Click here to see my first few entries.

This week is rough. I don't care how well you know someone, when you have to move in with anyone into their house, it's going to be a little difficult.

Bryan and I are experiencing this right now. We close on our house on Friday and until our new house is built, we've moved in with Bryan's parents in Pevely, MO.

They moved to Pevely (which is about 10-15 minutes south of Arnold) almost two years ago into a big ranch. Big ranch means BIG basement! Our new living quarters are literally bigger than our old house and they are beautiful. I couldn't thank them enough for letting us live there.

As of Monday, the household went from 3 adults and a dog to 5 adults, one baby on the way, and 2 dogs. (Not to mention the parking situation... but, we'll figure out a routine, I'm sure.)

Last night, while Bryan and his brother Nick were picking up another load from our old house, I went to Festus to buy some groceries and have some keys copied. I didn't really know what to expect and it reminded me of the feeling I had on the first day of school every year. I knew that I was going to be fine and find everything I needed, but I could tell that my mind was slowing down my body, absorbing everything around me and getting used to my new environment.

What caught me by surprise was how much more inquisitive and talkative the people around me were. Everyone that I talked to asked me about my pregnancy, when I was due, if it was a boy or a girl, etc. This happens to me every day, everywhere I go, but not to this extreme. In Arnold, you could walk past the same person in every isle of the grocery store and not make eye contact or say one word, but everyone I passed in Festus said, "hello," and looked at me and smiled.

I passed one guy three times in the grocery store and every time, he had a different pleasantry to say to me. : )

The really funny part about all of this is that there's only about 15 miles between Festus and Arnold. Why this difference in friendliness occurs within such a small area, I have no idea, but it caught me off guard.

One lady at The Home Depot told me that I needed to bring my son by to see everyone there after he's born. I barely talked to the lady for 5 minutes and found out that she has two kids, a very bad she mullet, and felt sorry for me because she thought that I was very large to be due in early November. Oh, she also was surprised by the sex of her first baby, but not her second.

She was my checker at The Home Depot and, yes, she told me all of that while quickly tallying the price of 5 keys and two nightlights!

Crazy.

Each day seems to get a little better, though. I'll be much happier when I'm not searching through boxes to find what I need... hopefully, that'll be soon!