At 27 weeks we passed the third trimester mark, at 30 weeks we were 3/4 of the way there, we’ve had baby shower 1 of 2, and we recently passed the 31 weeks mark which means we have only single digits weeks to wait… 9 weeks to go!

We have made a lot of progress getting ready for our little girl. Our furniture came in and Tim painted the nursery. Kate has started washing some of the baby clothes and the reorganization of the house has begun. And Samson is slowly being taught that not all toys on the floor are going to be his.

We have moved on to having Dr appointments every other week and everything is looking good. Kate is feeling well and she is definitely getting bigger. We’ve also started interviewing pediatricians in the area.

At the beginning of October we took a BabyMoon to Niagara Falls. The drive was beautiful and very scenic as the trees were just turning. We spent Friday afternoon driving up the coast of Lake Erie and got there just in time to see fireworks over the falls at night. Saturday we got up and went to the falls, rode the Maid of the Mist, and walked around on the American side’s park. Saturday evening we went to dinner at Niagara on the Lake, a little district on the Canadian side with restaurants and shops. Earlier that day we heard about an art show that night in Toronto and so we decided to drive up after dinner. Tim did a wonderful job planning a leisurely drive home Sunday through the Allegheny Forest and scenic towns with Fall festivals.

Below are some pictures from our trip as well as a few maternity shots Tim took recently so you can see how Kate and Emma are growing.  We hope that this post finds everyone well and we will post pictures of the nursery once we have it finished.

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We’ve been fortunate to get to take a couple trips that have kept us busy this summer. In July we spent a long weekend in Chicago and then in August we spent another long weekend on Lake Erie in Marblehead, OH. We’ve been so blessed that Kate’s morning sickness is gone and her second trimester has been extremely smooth. It has allowed us to spend time at local fairs and festivals with friends as well travel and spend time with family.

We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and beginning of the school year. As the weather starts to turn to fall Tim will be officiating some high school football (an activity he took up last year) and Kate has quickly become an expert at garage saleing as she negotiates deals for baby items. We are looking forward to a fun fall and making the final arrangements for our little girl.

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We had a wonderful holiday season. Kate was very excited about decorating the house for Christmas and it made the house feel very homey. We did a lot of traveling to see family and really enjoyed getting to spend time with everyone. For New Years we had friends over and played games all night and followed that up by watching Ohio State win the Rose Bowl on New Years day!

After all the Christmas decorations went away the house felt a little empty so we have been hard at work at decorating. Our family room now has end tables, lamps, curtains, and decor. While we were at it, we got bedroom furniture! So we have been busy fixing up our bedroom and in the process helping the guest room look like a guest room.

We’ve finally gotten around to posting the majority of our wedding pictures online for your viewing pleasure. You can go check them out at our picasa site here or go to our wedding page here where we were also able to post a preview version of our wedding album. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully by our next post we’ll have pictures up from our summer trip to California.

Kate got her wisdom teeth removed during July, which hindered her enjoying all the wonderful July 4th foods, but she recovered quickly with no complications.

We were able to enjoy a lot of summer festivities such as: the Dayton Air Show that Tim went to with his Dad and brother, the Jazz and Ribs Festival  that we went to with Jenny and Gabe, and we started playing in a weekly sand volleyball league with our friends Mark and Michelle.

August  has already been an eventful month as we enjoyed our first Dublin Irish Festival this past weekend and Kate assisted in throwing a bridal shower for Jenny.  After celebrating another friend’s wedding this weekend, we will be heading out to spend our one year anniversary in beautiful San Francisco.  We’ll spend the rest of that week enjoying some relaxing time with family at Discovery Bay and Yosemite National Park.  The rest of August should fly by with a few more birthday celebrations, a bachelor party to throw, Tim taking high school football officiating classes, and just enjoying what’s left of the long summer nights.  We’re very much looking forward to the beginning of football season while being back in ol’ Columbus town and getting to spend time with visiting friends.

While Mom, Dad, and Mamaw explored Nashville, we packed up our little town house. We packed and packed and packed and packed some more. Then on Sunday, we finished throwing the last little bit in our truck and then made the drive to Ohio. We got into Columbus around 6 PM and then all of our amazing friends and Tim’s parents showed up to help unload. It was an amazing weekend. Between our parents and our friends we had so much help cleaning, packing, and unpacking. We can’t forget about the delicious food people brought too! We are so grateful for everyone’s time and energy.

So now we are mostly unpacked and have been making little additions here and there. (We’ve  been to home improvement stores more times in the last few weeks than ever before.) Our major additions thus far have been blinds, a storm door, and a king sized bed. Lately we have been looking for living and bedroom furniture and boy have we seen a lot of it. It’s been a lot of work but a lot of fun picking out what our home will look like.  Here’s a video tour of our house before we moved our stuff in.

We look forward to being able to seeing friends and family more now that we are back in Ohio.

Tim will be on here later to talk about our wonderful weekend in Atlanta.

We have been back and forth between Columbus and Nashville looking for houses so keep checking back for an update on that.