It's Here!!

Yesterday afternoon,
our house showed up in 4 pieces.

It was an incredible feeling
to peek in the windows
and see all the things we had only seen on paper.

The crane showed up this morning
and parked next to the foundation.

After eating lunch with some wonderful ladies
I took a walk out to see the progress.
This is what I found!

We have a house, ladies and gentlemen!!!

We should get to do a walk through
this afternoon to make sure everything looks right!

1. cooperating weather
2. technology
3. home sweet home

No day can be a Bad day...

When you wake up to This:

1. bed head
2. Linda's chocolate chip cookies
3. Not having to cook dinner

Fancy Pants Saturday

eating these little bites of loveliness...

with these beautiful ladies...

and washing it all down with a cup of this.

Mary, my best friend from college, was celebrating her
25th birthday last weekend,
and I got a lucky invite to the classy event.
She booked us for tea and cupcakes at the Ritz in Boston!
We all had a great time.

We each got to pick our own pot of tea
(I chose a lovely herbal blend)
and got our own plate of the 5 cupcakes above.
We then spent 2 lovely hours
sipping, nibbling, and chatting.
I did not leave a crumb on my plate or a drop in my pot.

One of my favorite parts of the whole experience
was the live piano player they had in the lobby
playing beautiful Christmas music the whole time.
There were also lots of little girls on cupcake dates
with their moms--so adorable!
It made me excited for when Dorothy is older
and we can do some fun things together.

Thanks for the wonderful day, Mary!

1. a break from the norm
2. our first snowfall
3. morning walks--in lots of layers

The Rest of November

Well, here we are. The last day of the month. And what a month it has been! I am so grateful that with as crazy as things get sometimes, we still make time to laugh and enjoy time together as a family. I love Dorothy's hair and the look on her face in this shot. Dorothy's new favorite thing to do is point. She loves to wake up in the morning and point at the window with the new light coming in. She points to people she knows and new people she meets. She points at the ceramic animals her grandma has in her living room. It is just adorable. Here she is pointing at her daddy.
We were able to make a weekend getaway to Pennsylvania in the middle of the month. Look at this face! She was so excited to have big cousins to play with her and plenty of room to crawl around without getting hurt.
Dorothy has also been eating more solid foods this month. Her new favorite thing is her Auntie Eva's homemade applesauce. Being the wonderful auntie that she is, she sent us home with an entire jar for the Dot to enjoy.
And on the house front, things are still moving along. The foundation is done, sealed, and has actually been backfilled. This picture is missing the final step. The house delivery date is officially December 14th! We are almost to the next phase!
Thanksgiving was a little bit stressful this year. Dorothy came down with a flu bug at the beginning of the week and ran a fever up until the afternoon of Thanksgiving. Because we are living here and all her little cousins were around, we pretty much had to quarantine ourselves down in the basement. But it was still nice to have the family around. We ate more than we should have and watched lots of fun movies while Dorothy recovered. Luckily we're just down to a cough and hoarse voice left on her sickness.

Whew! I am so excited to begin a new month. This month will be another busy one, full of holiday parties, a wedding, my brother coming home from his mission, and another trip to Pennsylvania for Christmas. Bring it, December! We're ready!

1. quiet after a crazy weekend
2. healthy kids
3. muppet Christmas carol

IT HAS BEGUN!!!!

der Hole.

der Footings.

If all goes well,
foundation walls go in tomorrow!

1. progress
2. green machine juice
3. days off from work (thanks to our Vets!)

3 in a row...again:)

I think we all remember when this lovely lady

came into the world on March 18th, 2009.

11 Days later, cousin Zoey joined in the Vieira family fun.

And just a few more weeks after that, cousin Joey arrived.

It was one marathon year of babies.

Well...

We just found out that next year after we have our
2nd baby, around May 6th,
Zoey will be getting a sibling 3 weeks later.
AND
About 2 weeks after that, Joey will also be a big brother.

Can you believe it?

It will be quite the parade of babies AGAIN next year.
Nothing like new little ones in the spring time!

1. babies--and lots of them

2. visits from family

3. surprise announcements over Sunday dinner

"Oh, hushed October morning mild"

Oh, how I love October. The weather has been so beautiful, and the leaves are incredible. Almost every afternoon, as soon as Marty gets home from school, our little family throws on sweaters and goes outside for a walk. I wanted to put up a picture of the bundled Dot with her papa, but our laptop won't cooperate. So, just imagine the cutest Dot ever grinning a bit goofy grin all wrapped up for the fall wind.

Yesterday, we finally had our production meeting for the house! We were able to pick out all the colors for our siding, bathrooms, countertops, shingles, cabinets, carpets, etc. Tomorrow I drop off some paperwork, and as soon as our permits come through the foundation will go in! If all goes well, the house will be delivered before Christmas and local work will begin! It was such a feeling of relief when we got into our apartment--just being able to have all our stuff out and being in our own space--I can't imagine how wonderful the house will be!

In baby news, everything has been looking good at the doctor's. They just told me I need to start putting on weight--ha! I told them I will try as soon as all my food stays down. Fair enough. Can't wait to hear the little heartbeat again in a few weeks and to (hopefully) find out the sex in December!

1. surprise daisies from the handsome husband
2. a napping baby girl and papa man
3. playing the piano--and all the teachers who put up with me!