Isn't this always the way....

Isn't this always the way....people come to visit and you have the worst weather ever and the second they get back on the plane the weather is beautiful? Matt's parents and Miss Katie came and spent the weekend visiting with us at our new place. The weather had been beautiful leading up to their arrival and then it rained, snowed and turned back into rain the entire time that they were visiting. It figures...last time my poor Floridian friends came to Canada in March we had 6 foot high snowbanks. This was better than snow, however it would have been nice to have nicer weather. This picture is of Matt "grilling out" for the first time on our back deck after he got home from dropping his parents at the airport. I swear the second they got on the plane the sun came out. Hopefully we can provide nicer weather in June when they are back to help with Grandbaby Davis!!!! Regardless of the weather we had a wonderful time with them. It was super exciting for us to show them around our new place, show them the progress on the nursery (pictures coming soon) and show them some of the items we are still purchasing as we get closer to the due date.

As Matt and I spent time making dinner together tonight and reflecting on our time with our family we can't help but feel overwhelmed by how blessed we are to be part of two great families. We are so excited to have our baby and watch our own little family grow. We want our families to know that we are so grateful for the amazing Godly examples they have been for us and we hope that we are able to provide our child with the same loving environment we've grown up in. As we sat on our back deck and ate together (that's right we ate outside in March in Canada...it was awesome) we both felt so blessed for how far we have come this year. The move was tough and still has it's pros and cons but we are grateful for jobs, a beautiful home and the excitement of a new arrival. This by far has been one of the hardest and one of the most rewarding years of either of our lives and we are so blessed to have so much support from everyone who loves us. Thank you all for being part of our lives!

Friends came to join us for dinner!!!

How great is the view from our deck? We anticipate many more deck dinners!

Baby Update

I had another doctors appointment today with my OB. This was the last monthly check-up, as I am now 28 weeks pregnant and in my 3rd trimester. I now start going every two weeks until closer to the end where I visit him every week until delivery. Everything went really well. I have gained 14 pounds so far and the baby is exactly where it needs to be. We had a slow beat today (136/min), meaning boy, but Dr. Mayr loves girl babies so he's still hoping it's a girl! I was a little concerned as I have been having braxton hicks contractions but they said not to worry about them, the rate that I am experiencing them is normal. Apparently my body is just practicing...lovely. I am having a hard time sleeping due to being rather uncomfortable...I feel huge, but again this is normal and the books again say this is my body practicing. Personally I am sick of practicing and rather ready to have a reason for these uncomfortable feelings but that will come soon enough.

This weekend Matt and I went to the hospital to celebrate the birth of Tim and Jen's baby girl(friend's from Crestwicke). She is their second baby, they have a 2 year old Luke who Matt's best friends with, and were so shocked to have a baby girl. We were so excited to celebrate with them. We stopped to get coffees on our way to the hospital and Matt said this can be like our practice drive for when your in labour. I laughed but then got a little worried when I actually did have to tell him where to turn. Then when we got to the hospital Matt parked the car, hopped out and ran around to get the coffee from me so I could get out. As I opened the door for him he smirked and said can you turn the car off and hand me my keys. It was really funny, he was just too excited for Baby Charlotte and the anticipation of us having our baby. Luckily we will have at least one more practice to the hospital when Lindsay and Jared have their baby in April before we make our trip. Funny enough on our way back to the car Matt and I both commented on how relaxing our visit was with Tim and Jen. It was calming to be there with experienced parents to show us it wasn't that big of a deal. These practices are good for us.

It seems like I have been pregnant forever but I am sure its going to fly now. I remember Jen and Tim telling us they were pregnant and they are the first of 4 babies in a row before June (We are the last ones). Now that they have kicked us off it will fly, one baby after another until our little Goober is here.

Matt was super relaxed with Charlotte and he successfully stopped her from fussing a few times. He is going to be great!

Notice the slight look of terror in my eyes, realizing I am 10 ish weeks away from this!!! She doesn't look at all scared she was perfectly calm.

36-1155 Gordon Street

Here are the long awaited pictures of our new "adult" home. Matt and I feel so blessed and thankful everyday for this new place. It is so much bigger than any other place we have ever lived together. When we leave one room we can't see the room we just came from. It's so great! Here are a few highlights from the tour:

This is the Master Bedroom:

This is only half of it there is a whole empty half on the other side of the room. It also includes his and her closets. If there was ever a couple that needed these it's Matt and I. We LOVE them! Some colour needs to be added to this room. They painted the entire house beige.

This is the sitting area off the dinning room, main floor.

Dinning Room. Between this and the sitting area there is a walk out deck. Our deck looks onto wet lands. It is so private and we are super excited to "grill out", or bbq if your Canadian, this summer.

This is the kitchen beside the dinning room with my island and pot rack....hahah I haven't lost my mind, the cardboard box represents where Matt and my brother-in-law Jared are going to build me an island with a pot rack above. I ran out of cupboard space, hence my pots and pans are still living in a box.

Front on view of the Kitchen.

That's all for now. Matt has started the nursery so I will post pictures very soon! We are running into paint colour issues. We loved the paint sample, we like the colour it looks on the paper towels we clean up with but on the walls it is so blue. We are trying to decide whether to try a second coat or to go get the colour tinted. Appearently gray is the hardest colour in the world. I will keep you posted on our/ Matt's progress!

Sexiest Man Alive!!!

Matt had a bet with his boss with regards to the Canada vs. USA hockey game. If the USA won Matt was allowed to hang a poster up in their office. Since he didn't have a poster when the USA beat Canada in the round robin game a week ago, Matt wore his team USA jacket to work. Unfortunately Brant was out of the office on vacation for this day. Today, following the GOLD medal game last night Brant was ready to make Matt sport his jersey as a result of the Americans losing! He looks pretty good looking to me in that jersey don't you think? I love my American!!!! He took his loss like a man!

VA last weekend, Moving this weekend!

Life in the Davis family is crazy as usual! We must bring it on ourselves. We spent last weekend visiting our friends in Lynchburg, VA. We flew out Friday night and returned Monday night. We ended up spending the night in Dulles on Friday night which was definitely not the plan but we had to learn patients and flexibility, skills that will come in handy in June I'm sure. It was the first time we have been back to Virginia since moving to Canada almost 10 months ago. Although our flights caused some stress, once we were there is was so fun to see our friends and celebrate Valentine's Day, the arrival of a new baby and the anticipation of many more babies yet to be born in 2010! It was wonderful to see our friends. Our trip confirmed for us that our friendships made in VA are invaluable and we are so grateful for the wonderful people God brought into our life during our first year of marriage.

This weekend we are moving. It is literally 5 minutes down the road from where we live but I have moved way too many times. You would think I would get better at it the more I do it, yet for some reason it is still such a pain. We are so excited about our new place and the room it will give us. We are moving from a one bedroom, one bathroom condo to a three bedroom, three bathroom town house. We took a load over last night and it seemed like a mansion to us. Matt's excited to have a basement for the first time in his life and I am excited to start the nursery and set up my office somewhere other then our dining room table. Matt's been calling it our adult home which makes me laugh. We have been rather transient for the past 7 years being students and living with other students. I don't think either of us have lived in one place for more than 10 months at a time. Our plan is to make this home...at least for now :) . It's a big move for us though as this is the home we will start our family. How exciting! I will post pictures once we get settled a little. I will also post pictures of the nursery transformation. This is Matt's big project for the next couple of weeks!

Baby Tiger

There is so much to update on right now but we are running out the door to fly to Lynchburg to visit all our friends. I wanted to take a second though to post this which Matt sent me yesterday. 2010 is the year of the Tiger according to the Chinese calender. The calender operates on a 12 year system therefore Matt was also a year of the Tiger 2 cycles ago. Check out the link below. For those of you who know Matt really well I am sure you will get a laugh. I am really in for it if Goober is a Tiger like Matt. http://www.yearofthetiger.net/

Goober Saying Hello!

I feel Goober move around a lot more and the kicking has become very strong (even as I am typing here someone is kicking my ribs). Christmas day was the first time Matt was able to feel movement but it was just little flutters. You had to push in to really feel it. A few nights ago we were sitting watching tv and I told Matt to pause the tv and look at my stomach. It was hilarious to watch the little thumps all over. The biggest kick is at about 10 seconds in the middle of the screen, followed by a few short ones that shake my stomach. I took this video myself, hence why my stomach looks so huge, it's not really THAT big. Matt says I am breathing too heavy...whatever! If you watch really carefully you can see our little friend saying hello to all of you!!!!