28 Weeks

I have officially made it to the third trimester.

The Name

Chris and I have come to a FINAL decision on our baby boys name.
It will be:

Crew Christopher Paxman

My Mothers response to this was, "it's better than that Gaylord name you had chosen out." We did not actually have the name 'Gaylord' on our list. . . but I got the gist of what she must have thought of that other name. Glad she approves of Crew at least.

Chris actually gets the credit for finding the name. One Saturday morning he volunteered cleaning up around the temple grounds. He ended up working next to a guy who brought his little boy named Crew with him. Chris really liked that name and when he told me, I really loved it too. Seriously! He comes up with one name and I had a list of seventy. . . go figure.

We are happy to have a name chosen now but it is still a little surreal.

Telecommuting

A couple weeks ago Chris began telecommuting for work. He gets to roll out of bed and walk a few steps to our office and plug away on the computer.

After a few hours his eyes start to look like this:

Since I am also at home we have been seeing a whole LOT of each other. I couldn't wait for him to be able to telecommute for work. So far, I still think it's pretty awesome. Chris on the other hand is just looking for a good reason to go back to work at the office. I know when I'm bugging him too much when he starts asking if I'm tired and if I've had my nap yet today.

Being cooped up in the house all day can make you a little loony. The other day we took a field trip to see a movie at the Imax theater and Chris came home with these goofy 3D glasses that he wore for the next two days off and on.

Pinetop Weekend

Last weekend Chris had a wedding shoot up in Snowflake. We were glad to have a wedding that wasn't in Mesa so we could get out of the heat. We had fun golfing, helping Bradly with his back flips and eating at Darbie's.

Chris, Bradly and Sherrie.

Chris was excited to give the back flip belt a whirl. He tried it on. . . Well, tried to try it on. Sadly it didn't fit him so no back flips for him.


Chris and Bradly.

Two Years of Wedded Bliss

Chris and I met almost three years ago in singles ward. One Sunday we had a combined Relief Society/Priesthood lesson. I was sitting with my girls and about 3 rows ahead of us sat Chris all by himself. We all naturally began talking about this mysterious, lonely (so I thought), cute guy. I'll be honest, I had never noticed Chris before that Sunday, but after that I started paying attention. I discovered that Chris was paying a bit of attention to me too. He would never talk to me, but I caught him staring at me a number of times in church. I couldn't figure out why this handsome guy was sitting all by himself every Sunday. I felt sorry for him, he looked like he was in bad need of some friends. The next Sunday I decided I would sit next to him in church and ask him to come over to dinner with my room mates and I. I did and he gladly accepted. Later, I learned that Chris was in fact not lonely. He had TONS of friends, he was just apparently too cool for anyone in our singles ward. Lucky for him I didn't know that tidbit of information. . .

Chris before we met:

The rest is pretty much history. . .

We dated.

Fell in Love.

Got Married.

And thankfully now after two years of marriage we are expecting our first baby.

We feel so blessed!

Booties

The other day I found this cute pattern for baby booties. I've made a couple and boy are they EASY and FUN to make, not to mention CHEAP. Needless to say, I don't think our little guy will be going with out some sweet foot apparel when he gets here.

This is just how we roll....

Johnna ordered a baby stroller last week that required some minor assembly...which waited on the living room floor all week for my day off today. We are pretty sure that Skippy is pretty sure that all the new baby stuff is really for him so he was more than willing to try out once I put it together: