Baseball and a Flower Garden

So, Matt and I have been in our rental house for almost a year now. It has taken me that long to figure out that we really need some color! After an O.K. from our landlord we decided to plant a flower garden! Well, it just so happened to fall right at the same time Mom and Dad were coming to visit. Ha Ha! Daddy had fun, he had to keep telling himself that he was having fun, but he was! I hooked up the computer to play the State game so he was happy! To the right is our before picture...Before this black area had some old bark and mainly leaves in it. These other two pics our the rewards of our hard work! We planted Hydrangeas that will hopefully grow and cover the lower part of the house and that window to the basement. We also planted Gerber daises, and I think the total count of lost flowers was only 4 or 5. Matt and Daddy have a hard time remembering who broke which flowers. I do believe the day was a success! I feel much better with my new flower garden giving my little house some color!

After a day of planting we rewarded ourselves with going to a baseball game. The Royals were in town playing the Phillies. When going to a Kansas City Royals game you have to just go for the atmosphere because you may not see a good game, those are rare with the Royals. So, we went for the fun atmosphere of baseball on a Sunday afternoon. We had wonderful weather, a great breeze to keep us cool and a pretty mild summer temp. But to top it all off, the Royals won! It was actually a good game, 4 home-runs, 3 from the Royals! It was a good end to a wonderful weekend with my parents!

Mattie Anne's Debut

This past weekend mom and dad came up and we were able to see Mattie Anne up close with a 3d ultrasound. It was a pretty neat experience. They definitely confirmed that Mattie Anne is indeed a girl! So I think I'll believe them, and start thinking pink and getting the nursery ready!

She looks a little cramped up in there, but I guess that is something she'll have to get used to over the next 2 1/2 months! Her feet were in her face the whole time! At one point she took this huge yawn and it was so amazing. She already has the Goldman cheeks! And I'm thinking Matt's nose...Ya'll will have to give your opinion!

This is Mattie Anne with her feet straight up, her fist right in front of her nose, and face facing to the left

This is Mattie Anne, again facing the left, she has her hand by her mouth.

Look at those cheeks!

This is Mattie Anne facing more toward us this time. Her hands and feet are still in front of her.

This is one of my favorite pics. Mattie Anne's legs!

This is a close up of Mattie Anne's face (facing the left). I think she has Matt's nose!

We have a ton more pics but I thought these were probably the best. The DVD is really neat to watch also! It will be really neat to compare these pictures to her fist baby pictures. My anticipation is definitely building! Only 11 1/2 weeks left!

Kansas City Events

So I am 27 weeks now. Almost to my 3rd trimester! Time really has flown...hopefully these last 3 months will also! Well, I have definitely grown! Getting bigger and bigger!

We went on vacation with Matt's family back in the middle of I May and it was wonderful! If any of you read Brandi's swimsuit story...I completely ditto it! But it was totally worth it to lay completely flat in the water! We went to Destin and had a relaxing weekend of sun and good food.

Memorial Day weekend was a lot of fun. We went to a free outside Bebo Norman concert, got a little wet at first but ended up being a beautiful day and wonderful concert. On Sunday evening Kansas City has Celebration at the Station which is a free out door event at the Liberty Memorial in down town Kansas City. The Kansas City symphony plays and there is a large firework show. Our Sunday school class and it was a great time of fellowship and fun!

I guess the family's biggest news is that Jon is in India. So far he seems to be doing great! He is very excited and spirits are up and everything sounds good He says that the food has been really good and is really cheap...which he was excited about. He starts hiking this week so we won't be able to hear as much from him.

Momma and Daddy are coming to see us! I'm very excited. They come up Thursday night and Friday I'm taking off and we are going to get a 3d-4d ultrasound. I am very excited about seeing Mattie Anne. The place we are going to lets you watch the ultrasound on a big screen TV and serve refreshments! We will get 4 4x4 sonogram photos in color and 2 5x7 photos on real photo paper. We also will get a DVD of the full sonogram and a CD with all the still shots. So I promise I'll be better about updating and get those pictures on here soon. For the Goldman's I'll be sure to bring everything to the reunion! That, I'm sure, will be the highlight of all of our weekend, but we also have a Kansas City Royal's game, Sunday School BBQ, Dragon boat races, and landscaping all lined up. Even though the landscaping sounds like the dull point Nancy Goldman is very excited about it, and my house desperately needs it!

Well since most of my news is for the future, I'll try to do my best to be better about updating and getting more pictures on here!