New Digs

Our "work-cation" mission was successful. We managed to — after many choice words, help and encouragement from friends and family and some major MacGyver skills — create a room with green walls and white bead board (which has been the plan for, eh hem, several years now). You will find few to no remnants of the pink paint and floral print wallpaper we worked very hard to cover. We think our little guy will enjoy his room.

Here's a peek at the finished product:

We must not forget how far we've come:
Check out this old blog post from when the work was just getting started.

The furniture is getting a re-do and will fill these empty quarters soon (and we do mean before the baby arrives!). We can't wait much longer to fill the closet and dresser drawers with the little man's growing wardrobe of tiny apparel.

Some Had Matching Tie-Dyed Shirts

...but Westside Theatre Foundation, commonly known as WTF, "has real hippies."

Olivia got to participate in the Mardi Gras Parade for the first time this year as WTF performed "Aquarius" from Hair for this year's "Peace, Love, and Mardi Gras" themed-extravaganza.

We're not sure what neighbor David Sharp, candidate for circuit clerk, and his dad, Harry, were doing, but Lauchlin snapped their photo on a golf cart during the festivities.

Here, ERDC was unofficially represented with a "Yellow Submarine."

Congratulations, WTF (no question mark) on your first parade and first place float!

No More Pink!!

We gave ourselves a head-start in readying the baby's room last weekend by painting the pink closet a more boy-friendly white...






See....Much better...



We are both off this week, and we have big plans to complete our little man's room, a task that's been a few years in the making (way before we had a little one on the way). Yes, we will finally tackle that bead board!

Needless to say, we'll have plenty to post along the way.

In the meantime, the cats are enjoying the temporary re-arrangement...





-- Post From My iPhone

Oh, Boy! Oh, Boy! Oh, Boy!

It was a slow snow day at our last doctor's appointment, which not only meant Olivia was able to go, but also that we were able to have an early sonogram.

So, a whole month early, we were able to find out that our little bean is a....BOY! The sonogram wasn't completely clear to us, but our technician assured us that she knows the difference between "boy parts" and "girl parts," and we are definitely having a boy. Here's the acrobatic, between the legs shot she took to get her evidence:

Even though we won't be buying any bows and tutus, we have jumped full-swing into the excitement of having a little man in the house. And, our friends and family are making sure this boy has a spectacular wardrobe...

He even has some cool new shoes courtesy of Gabriel Linares:

We return to the doctor in a couple of weeks for yet another sonogram. We both can't wait to see our little guy again!

Jimbo Sings the Blues

Lauchlin went on a photo shoot with H.C. Porter this past Monday to capture Jimbo Mathus on film for the Blues at Home project she is busy creating. Here are the two (and baby) hanging out in Como.

Making Way for Baby

On this beautiful Sunday, we took advantage of our together time and made some much needed closet space for the newest addition of our family. Our little one has been very fortunate thanks to many of our friends and family members' generosity, and it looks like our baby will be well-dressed for awhile.
Speaking of well-dressed, we assessed and minimized Olivia's wardrobe down from four closets and four dressers to two closets and two dressers - an amazing feat!
Now, she's down to only 51 dresses, about 15 black shirts, 10 pairs of jeans and at least five pairs of black pants. No, we're not kidding!


And, the River City Rescue Mission might need to take out an ad to alert the town of this huge clothing extravaganza headed their way. We seriously could clothe half of Vicksburg with this load. Out with the old, in with the tiny and adorable!

Family...

We've been a little slow blogging all the big news in our lives. We've had everything from a 30th birthday and a doctor's appointment to a wonderful performance of Mamma Mia! in Jackson last night. We promise to do back-posts to catch everyone up on all the excitement. For now, we wanted to share a video a friend sent us. With the super exciting journey we have ahead, it was very enlightening to see this:

In case you didn't know, we were legally married in Iowa last summer. So, we have a special place in our heart for that place. Now, we have a special place in our hearts for Zach Wahls. We have no doubt that our Baby Bean will be just as successful...and even cuter, of course!