4 months!

So we went to the doctor again yesterday and all is well. It was another fast appointment - weight check and listen to baby's heartbeat. 17 weeks now and the baby's heart is still going strong. Hopefully at our next appointment we will find out the sex! Here is me at 4 months - the magic is starting to happen in the belly area (at least I think it is).

almost time for Charlotte...

We wanted to keep everyone up to date on our plans to move back to Charlotte. The movers are picking up our stuff in Nashville on Friday, June 22nd (a week from this Friday!). Adam is moving back to Charlotte on Sunday June 24th (for good!) and I will move back after work on Thursday June 28th. Our time in Nashville is almost over - it is bittersweet in several ways and the Lord has really blessed us since we have been here with friends and in our relationship and with the baby on the way! We can't believe it has almost been a whole year!

More St. Maarten! (Finally, I know)

So here are the pictures from our trip that you have been anxiously awaiting!

One day we went to this little deserted island called Ilet Pinel where we snorkeled and laid out. We also ate a great lunch there (I know, deserted but still with 2 restaurants).

Here is the beach camp that we set up for the day... In order to get to Ilet Pinel you have to take a little dingy boat back and forth so here we are enjoying the ride...

Our favorite event of the whole thing was Loterie Farms - it is this awesome ropes course/ zip line course that was suspended in several mango trees in the mountains of St. Maarten. It was a really long obstacle course (took us like 2 hours!). We got to go independently through all the obstacles which included rope swings and rope bridges that were suspended about 20-40 feet in the air at different points. We also hooked ourselves on to the zip lines throughout the 2 hour long course. Here are some fun pictures...

After it was all over (harnesses and all)...

Adam up in the trees...

Me in action on one of the shorter zip lines...

Adam navigating one of the bridges...

Me navigating a similar bridge (look at how focused I am)...

We also went to several awesome restaurants, here are some pictures of us enjoying those... We have to find good Tex-Mex wherever we go, so Jimbo's was the place in St. Maarten. And it was SO sad because they had $3 margaritas and I couldn't have any.To enjoy some of these great sights we rented the fabulous all-American car ever... the Kia Picante. The Kia and it's 10 inch tires did not fair so well on the St. Maarten roads. We navigated several potholes that were much bigger than the tires themselves. And as you can see - at St. Maarten we also encountered other obstacles while driving around the island... COWS...

So all in all it was an excellent vacation for our (early) three year anniversary - very fun and very relaxing!

St. Maarten

So we have just returned from a very relaxing trip to St. Maarten! We were gone for the past week - Saturday to Saturday. St. Maarten is a little island in the Caribbean; it's part of the British Virgin Islands. We stayed at the Westin Dawn Beach which was probably one of the nicest hotels we have ever stayed in. We spent our time doing TONS of fun and relaxing things - but we will have to fill you in later this week. Here are some beach pictures to wet your appetite.

The island of St. Maarten...

Here is the hotel (view of our room)...

And the pool and ocean... (I know it... it was very relaxing!)

And us on the beach...

We have lots more pix and will update the blog with these shortly!

Residency party, round #1

Also before heading to St. Maarten, we had our first of many parties to celebrate the end of residency (I think from now on we have about 1 per week). Philip Stewart had us over to his lovely house for some snacks and drinks (water for me - boo...). Here are some pix.

Jen, Nikki, Alan, me, Christina, and Mindy...And here are Nikki, Mindy, and I... And this is us trying to lift Alan - I know it's blurry, but hey, it's an action shot!

Heartbeat!

Before we headed off to St. Maarten for the week, we went to the doctor for our 12 week check-up. Pretty much all they did was weigh me and then listen for the heartbeat. The doctor preceeded the Doppler by saying that sometimes the heartbeat was hard to find, but then he was interrupted because the second he put the Doppler on my belly we heard the heartbeat! We are so blessed and completely in awe of the way God gives abundant life. Praise God for our healthy bean (actually now it's bigger than an apple!). Oh - and here is the 3 month update on my belly (it feels a little bigger).

no more black thumb...

After a long weekend working I was determined to enjoy the beautiful weather by planting some flowers. Some of you may know about my black thumb. An example: after we moved to Nashville last summer I brought our pretty flowers that had just been planted in pots with us. When we got here I sat the pots on the back porch and proceeded not to water them through the hottest months of July and August. By September they appeared dead and I was tired of the evidence of my failure so I dumped the plants out over the side of our balcony. Some dirt remained in one of the buckets and I was (embrassingly - is that a word?) too lazy to clean it out. But there is hope! Alas, come this spring there was green life springing out of the one pot with remaining dirt. My lilies (I assure you they can't be killed - so fellow black thumbers, lilies are the way to go!)! So after seeing this new green life I decided it was time to retry my luck at flowers. Here is the fruit of mine (and Adam's! - he was good at going to get the rocks for the bottom of the pots) labor. We will see how long it lasts. I have to actually remember to water them this time...

baby!

In case you haven't heard, we are having a baby! We are currently about 10 weeks! We hope that the blog will be a good way to keep up with my belly progress and the little bean when he or she makes an entrance. We are due at the end of November (11/30) which is right in between mine and Adam's birthday! We are so excited... here is the little bean at 8 weeks...

And my current belly at 2 months - no progress yet (probably due to the nausea/vomiting that is finally getting better!)

And a picture of the oh so mature Adam enjoying our 1st baby gift (thanks Grandpa and Grandma Dyer!)

a date with carrie & maggie

Another fun thing about our trip to Charlotte - we got to see Maggie Dirks! She is almost 7 weeks and growing fast. Here is us enjoying some bfast at the OPH (that's Original Pancake House in Uptown for those not hip to the Charlotte lingo). Me, Carrie, and Mags :)

goodbye riley

Last weekend we headed to Charlotte and had a great time, but it was a sad weekend too as we gave our cat Riley away. She is now at her new home with Chris Yost and we are excited for this new phase of her life :) but sad to end our 2 years with her. She was a great kitty - here are some farewell pictures.

athens weekend!

Before Charlotte I was in Athens, GA - the home of the Georgia Bulldogs for a residency conference. These are my fellow pharmacy residents at Vandy! We were celebrating after presenting our research projects at this regional residency meeting. So glad to have that over with... only 2 months to go! (from left: Nikki, Mindy, Alan, me, Kanan)

april showers

We spent the weekend hanging out with the Bails as yet another rainy weekend was in the forecast. Here are some pics of us hanging out around the house.

Easter!

A cold Easter 2007 in TN this year. We enjoyed a lovely Easter dinner of ham and all the fixins' with some Nashvillian friends. Much different than the warm Easter of 2006 in Charlotte...

Skiing in CO

We hit the slopes March 9-12th out in Keystone, CO and we skiied Adam - style aka nonstop every day. The 11,000 ft elevation didn't seem to affect us and we even skiied some blacks. Our first black was an interesting experience of mogules, about 5x longer than the double shay's on the back mountain at Snowshoe. Needless to say, Adam wasn't to thrilled that I dragged him on the black. There was about 8 to 10 inches of powder on this run, so much that our skies would completely disappear beneath our feet. And the mogules were hard packed, easily 3-4 feet high. All in all it was great fun and no accidents to speak of. My 2 falls came while I was standing still, though I can't say the same for Adam - the mogules don't agree with him. We can't wait to go back!

NC skiing

Some pictures from our weekend ski trip in February with the Adams' family to NC.

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