Announcing...

Colin Arthur Grady

Born 12.17.10

8:08AM

7lbs 10 oz

19 3/4in

Our first family photo

Proud daddy

Moving from recovery to room 212

Awake time

Colin in his "going home" outfit

Signing Off...

This is Kevin and I officially signing off from life without kids...

We celebrated the end of our "singlehood" with a fun night at the Stars hockey game with the Hansens.

Wish us luck TOMORROW!!

The Baby's Room

It's finally done! Everything is bought, washed, painted, and all we need is a baby to complete the picture.

In August, my mom flew out to help decorate the baby's room. We painted the top half of the room a sky blue and left the bottom half of the room a sandy color.

Then on two of the walls, my mom taped adorable stripes on the wall and got painting.

She painted every other stripe...

Then she taped over it and painted the stripes in between.

And it turned out AMAZING!

But we didn't stop there...we added a chair rail to clean it up a bit.

Then Kevin and I finally got around to buying everything and are so proud of how much money we saved by collecting a million coupons, waiting for the right sale, and then combining that with some other discounts we were able to negotiate. Yay for saving money!

And finally, the furniture came in and our brother-in-law Mike was nice enough to help Kevin pick it all up and put it together while Karen, Kate and I went to see "Tangled."

Lots of big boxes!

Little Miss Kate enjoying my new glider

And now, I proudly introduce the finished baby's room!

See the cute Build-A-Bears? They represent some of Daddy's hobbies, etc. We have little lawyer bear, scuba bear (Kevin was certified last year and cannot WAIT to dive again!), and beach-bum bear (Kevin loves the beach)

Such a comfortable chair!

I love the bedding. While my mom was here, we shopped for the right fabric and she designed and sewed the most beautiful bedding. We have one lucky baby!

Can't wait to put a baby in that cute crib!

But Baby It's Cold Outside!

Or rather, inside! Last week we ventured over to the Gaylord Hotel in Grapevine to visit their ICE exhibit and it was freaking AWESOME! The Gaylord Hotel is a massive resort and ever year they deck it out in holiday lights, decorations, garlands, and exhibits, one of them being the amazing ICE exhibit of sculpted and colored ice crafted by artisans flown in from China. The theme this year? A Charlie Brown Christmas...one of the best Christmas specials ever! Of course, as you would imagine, ice is COLD and to keep it that way they keep the exhibit at just above 0 degrees. Thankfully, they provide every patron with a warm winter parka to stay toasty warm (or realistically, just warm enough that you can make it through the exhibit without freezing to death!!).

Steve and Cody getting their parkas on...Cody is not a fan!

Waiting to go inside

Mike and baby Dylan (isn't he just so adorable in his little parka?)

Just the girls...

Cody has still not "warmed" up to this whole ice thing...

But he really liked the ice slide

As did Kevin!

At the end of the exhibit was a beautiful Nativity scene

Kevin getting in some last minute baby-holding practice with our nephew Dylan

Inside the exhibit they had a cute mini train town...this picture is just for my father-in-law, Lionel

Us Texans love our star!

In front of their little River Walk

In the Atrium was another "Tiny Town" (how I miss Arrested Development!)

Cody was not so thrilled at first to take this picture...

But he quickly got over it!

If you are going to be in the DFW area around Christmas, I would HIGHLY recommend the exhibit!

Another Reason to be Thankful

It's been five years since I was married to this guy:

And I love him more and more every day!

Happy 5 years!

11-25-2005 - FOREVER!!

Turkey Day 2010

We had the best Thanksgiving this year! Not only were Karen, Mike, Kate and Dylan with us, but my brother Steve and his wife Tracy and their son Cody drove all the way from the Florida panhandle to celebrate one of my favorite holidays with us. Of course I forgot to take lots of pictures, so here's what I got!

Cody helping Dad carve the turkey and Tracy stirring the gravy.

Steve is a much better cook than I am so I turned the turkey duties over to him...plus, I've never mastered the art of gravy making, so I left that to his care as well. They turned out great!

Cody and Kate didn't really get along that well...I think Cody had a crush on the much older and wiser Kate and she was none too thrilled with the attention of a younger man (or maybe just THIS younger man)! It was really cute to watch him chase after her (literally!)

Cody and his favorite pregnant aunt!