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Maranda was chatting with someone in our downstairs office today and was wondering who it was - so she clicked on our handy-dandy camera link.  Who expected to catch this shot?  hahahaaha

Derby-it-up

Matt's work hosted their first annual fishing derby 2 weeks ago at Strawberry Reservoir. Although we didn't end up fishing any, we had a lot of fun! Matt got to cook more sausage in one night than he will the rest of his life and we both got some awesome (weird) tan lines! (I still look like I am wearing a shirt.) The weather turned out perfect for the event - blue, sunny skies - things were just wrapping up as a storm blew in. Here are some pictures from the event...

Preggo update!

29.5 weeks...

Well, my picture was over a week late being taken (shoulda been at 28), but hey, at least we got one!  Yeap, that bump is definitely growing!  I really cannot believe how active he is... it is SO comical to watch my stomach flip, flop, roll, tumble, etc.  I guess I'm easily entertained, but I can sit and watch the show for a long time and not get bored :)  

I had a check up this past Friday and everything is still looking perfect - measuring right on, his heartbeat was 144, my blood pressure was good, etc.  So, my next appointment is in 4 weeks - and after that it'll be every 2!  I cannot believe how quickly time is going!

As far as the room comes... it's... coming! Although I was planning on painting some stripes, I am starting to re-think my plan.  Either way, I hope to be done with it by next weekend at the latest - in anticipation of getting our dresser and crib set up!  I love feeling like we're getting our ducks in a row!  I even ordered our stroller the other day and we'll be ordering the car seat in the next week or so.  Hooray!

Other news... I had my first dreadful experience with my ankles swelling... ugh!  However, it was circumstantial, short lived, and nothing to worry about.  When we boarded our plane in Chicago coming home from Tennessee (lay over) I happened to notice my ankles and gasped!  I had CANKLES!  Needless to say, I learned why they recommend flying in your second trimester rather than your third - the flight home was miserable.  My ankles had me worrying, my tailbone was killing me, and my back was a nightmare.  So much for sleeping on the way home!  But, thankfully, with a good nights rest the next night I haven't had another episode since.  

Even bigger news, we're about 99.9% sure we've got our name picked out!  Mason Thomas Spann!   Unfortunately, we don't have some cool story attached to his first name (it was a Jordyn: "Matt!  what about Mason?"  Matt: "hey, I think I like that!"  kind of moment), although the second name carries significance for both sides of our family - my maiden name and the middle name of Matt's Grandfather.  So, unless he comes out looking like a 'Bob' (as Matt says), we'll be holding our little Mason in October :) 

Tennessee-erific!

Flight vouchers that were expiring, a baby on the way, and a love for home = a trip to TN!

Our week in Tennessee brought lots of family, friends, fun, and food! As always, we were running from one place to the next most of the time, but really enjoyed getting to see so many people and share with them our joy of the soon-to-arrive bundle! Matt got his fill of southern food (and white cheese dip) and we even got to have two baby showers while we were home! How fun is that! Even cooler yet, Jared (my brother), his wife Melissa, and two kiddos - Kailyn and Connor - were able to drive up from Orlando while we were there!! It was so much fun to see everyone but it also really made me miss my family... someone needs to rearrange the U.S. and make FL closer to UT :) Can someone work on that? We love and miss you all!

Our wee garden - in all its glory!

Our back patio has been transformed a few times since we've lived in our condo, and this year it took on a new task! Growing some vegetables! Mind you, our patio is tiny... and the planting area is even smaller, so we had to limit our farming ambitions. However, you will quickly see that the squash are 'winning' the territory battle - in fact, I'm not sure if our peppers are even going to produce at this point! However, the satisfaction seen in Matt's face as he picked our first yellow squash and cherry tomatoes is worth the jungle we're currently dealing with!

Where to start?

I am rather behind on blogging, when you get right down to it.  So, hang with me while I try to catch up and keep it in some kind of order!

In the last month, Matt and I tried to compete in the category of  'worse thumb injury' -- he started the event by cutting cheese (yes, cutting cheese, not cutting the cheese).  That's right, cutting cheese!  His knife blade came out of its handle and neatly sliced (deep) into the end of his thumb (weird, I know)!  He possibly should have gotten stitches, but a little over three weeks later he is almost completely mended (yay!).  Eight days later I took my own stab at the event (hardy har har) and decided to dice my thumb with the onions... yikes!  While I waited for Matt to fly home from school to rescue me from myself I laughed like a maniac in my kitchen (can we say shock?)... and ended up unloading/loading the dishwasher and wiping down the counters to distract myself... weirdo?  If thats how I react to trauma, I think it'd be pretty great if I laughed while giving birth.  Yeah, right! :)  I ended up at InstaCare, but managed to escape stitches (hooray for a clean cut with a chef's knife).  About 2 weeks later now, my thumb is looking less mutant and is starting to regain some sort of feeling.   So, the moral of the story: take care of your thumbs (especially when around the Spanns!).  

When the doctors are away...

the Pokemon deck comes out?

Can't say I was ever into Pokemon (still not), but here is our office living it up over lunch the other day... people have come a long way from 'just playing a game', we do our research now! I was just there to bake the cookies :)