Growing by Two Feet

Our family is growing by two feet... Coming soon this April! 

Guess who the boots in the middle are going to belong to?! Yep, a future little Mayberry!

We are super excited!

The night before we found out we were having a baby, we were at our small group and I was talking with one of my friends who just got pregnant. I was telling her how I was, of course happy for her, but jealous that she was pregnant and that I would never get pregnant, lol. The next morning I decided to see if I was pregnant just for kicks and giggles, not expecting anything. And lo and behold, after months of hoping and praying we (well I) got pregnant! 

I was so excited that I rushed, got ready, and drove out to Danny's work to see tell him. There's no way I could wait 'til 4:00 when he got home to tell him and I didn't want to tell him over the phone. However, he didn't have his phone with him that day so I couldn't find where he was went I got there. I called his partner he worked with, his boss and I couldn't get a hold of anyone! I was so worried I wouldn't be able tell him, until I finally ran into his other boss who told me Danny should be back in 10 minutes. I was eventually able to talk to Danny and tell him the awesome news. I got the biggest, sweatiest hug ever... I've never seen him so excited. It was a great moment!

Later that night we went around to each of our parents', grandparents', and siblings' houses to share our exciting news! -It brought tears to my eyes (and my grandma's) to get to tell my grandma that at 88 (soon 89) she would finally get to be a great-grandma!- And conveniently, our last stop was my in-laws where we stayed and watched the Cowboys game. 

It was by far the best day of the summer! Just went I was starting to lose faith, God heard our prayer and answered it in HIS timing. 

Wall of Fame

Down the hall, in my grandma's house is a wall of family pictures. And from the time I was a little girl I always loved looking at those pictures. 

*I'm the little blond pigtail girl in the bottom left :)

I always thought it was so neat that my grandma had all of those pictures. Someday I wanted to have my own wall of family pictures. That someday finally happened this summer!

 *Please don't look at all the mess. This was when we still had no couches and everything was in the living room, including our bed.... but that's a blog of it's own!

Over time I started making copies of family pictures and finding various (cheap) wooden frames for all the pictures. Then I worked on arranging them so they all fit just right. Danny had the great idea of incorporating our Mayberry picture sign in. So using with that idea, I placed pictures of us with both our families in the middle. Then on the left, I have pictures from Danny's side of the family. And my side of the family is on the right.

After the pictures were arranged just like I liked them, Danny helped me square off the section of the wall so everything would be level and even! We did it with yarn...he's so smart!! My way would have been 10 times more complicated to level.

Tada!! Here it is!

I've still got some work to do on it. As you can see I still need to put in some more pictures from my family. And I want to put a light in the hallway so you can see the pictures better. But overall, I love it! It's one of my favorite things in the house... well among many others ha!