Dress like a cow day!

So every July 9 Chic-fil-a has a special promo day and if you dress like a cow, you get all your food for free! Our friends Josh and Jessica called to see if we wanted to join them and this year we decided to try it. Last year I thought it was too silly and wouldn't dress up. We ended up going to Chic-fil-a anyway last year and then I felt really silly when we were the only non-cow people! :) Laura joined us on our adventure, sadly Daniel was already in AZ.

Nathan was the typical Chic-fil-a cow and I was an Oreo cow. We had to wear our sunglasses in all the pictures as our ears were taped to our them. :) (Baby Girl is poking out a bit here too! :))

All of us cows back at the Lewis' afterwards. :)

Birthday Bowling!

Emily, one of my youth group D-group girls turned 14 this week (as did Erica - Happy Birthday Emily and Erica!!). Emily's birthday party was at Williamsburg Lanes and she was kind enough to invite me as well. I was given some grief for not posting more on our blog so here are some pictures from bowling, compliments of Erica. :)

Jamie and I - since the bumpers were up by this point I probably got more than a 1 on this shot. ;)

Me with Lizzy, Jamie, Hannah and Erica...

Emily the birthday girl is in the back. Sadly I didn't get any pictures with her...

Here is their vision of what I will look like in a few months... :)

Summer Fun

Most of our summer has consisted of Nathan studying and studying... and studying for the bar and me entertaining myself with pilotes, working, reading about babies and hanging out with girl friends. However, it hasn't been all work and no play by any means. :) We've had several weddings (and more to come!), a camping trip, visits from friends, afternoon trips with friends, and spontaneous 4th of July parties.  Sadly we didn't get any pictures of of 4th of July party yesterday, but below are pictures of some our other summer highlights! (Warning: This is a very long post, but it's mostly pictures :))

Graduation started off our summer. I realized we only posted one picture below so here are a few more. 

Us with Nathan's mom - she flew down from Alaska to surprise him for graduation! It was a fun surprise. :)

Us with my parents and Emily, Caroline and Katie:

With our wonderful law school friends, Steve, Liz and Sam and Drew and Rachel - we miss them so much!!

Law school friends and other great friends, Goggins and Hargroves, who came to support the guys on their graduation.

Celebrating with the best cake ever!! :) (from the same bakery that did our wedding cake)

Amanda, One of my best friends from high school got married the same weekend as graduation. We were so glad that we were able to get up to her wedding as well! Amanda was one of my bridesmaids and it was so fun to be a part of her wedding too! It was a lovely wedding, she was a beauuutiful bride and we can't wait to visit her and Andrew in Maine!! :)

The bride arriving with her father in the pick up :)

Bride and bridesmaids

The wedding was in an old historic church.

Finally MARRIED!

Sisters!

In early June we went blueberry picking with our friends the McHenry's and their adorable baby, Margaret.  I was a bit more like Sal than mother and definitely ate more blueberries than I picked (what can I say? Baby Girl wanted them :)), but thanks to Nathan's dedication we ended up with quite a nice few to bring home. 

Ferry ride back from Surrey

Mid-June we met up with the VanStempvoorts for some camping in the Shenandoah Valley. The thought of saying goodbye at graduation was horrible, so we were glad to have this trip planned just a few weeks later! Plus, we had to get it in while baby and I could still sleep on the hard, lumpy ground. The weekend was wonderful - not too hot, relaxing, good food, good fellowship, hikes, games. 

Here's Nathan and I along the Appalachian Trail

Sam was pretty much delighted with the whole weekend from swinging in Nathan's hammock to drooling apple juice all over Steve's head for a majority of our AT hike. ;)

We had a huge camp ground that was big enough for both tents, Nathan's hammock, the picnic table and fire pit AND bocce ball. :)

This may have been what Liz, Sam and I did while the men packed up the tents and loaded the car. ;)

We ended the weekend trip with a beautiful (but very steep and hot :)) hike down to a waterfall. I may have limped the next 2 days but it was well worth it. :) It was a wonderful trip and we hope to do it again before they move even further away!! :)

We go for months without seeing Hillsdale friends and then get to see several all at once! Already this summer we've seen so many with more visits scheduled in the coming weeks! Laura Calderone and Hannah Mahan met me for a lunch a few weeks ago, Paul and Kathryn Mueller spent the night on their way through last week, and I got to spend the whole weekend with LeeAnne last weekend! Below is what happens when LeeAnne and I spend too much time together... trouble! ;) LeeAnne was able to bring her fellow camp counselor, Andy, with her as well. We had a great time with everyone.

Most recently our Williamsburg friends, Collin and Margaret, got married! The wedding was gorgeous - every little detail was thought of and there were so many little Margaret touches throughout. I don't think we've ever seen a smilier couple. :)

 

This is how Collin looked the whole time.  love this picture. :)

Margaret was about the same :)

Mr. and Mrs. McMillan!

Cutting the cake - I loved her flower choices :)

First dance... The reception was outside at the Alumni House. The weather cooperated perfectly and it wasn't too hot or too muggy. Also, rumor has it that all the fancy tissue balls hanging from the ceiling as decoration were made by Margaret and her mother!!

I loved the varied center pieces - all very whimsical, earthy, and lovely.

We were so happy that we could be there to celebrate with them!

Baby things!

On Friday after we found out that our baby is a girl I arrived at my desk to discover that someone had decorated it with baby girl party decorations and baby confetti (I wish I had my camera with me at the time) and my manager had a giant gift bag sitting on my chair!

Janice mentioned that if we had a girl she and her daughter, Carolyn, had picked up a small gift for me on their vacation, so I was quite surprised and excited to find inside a beautiful, very pink baby bag! The inside is green with little gold polk-a-dots and comes with a matching diaper changing mat. We'll see if Nathan will carry it. ;) He offered to carry the baby if I carried the bag. 

Another coworker also brought in some snuggly winter baby items from when her daughter, also a fall baby, was little. I love all the pink!! :)  

It's a GIRL!!!

Today we had our 20 week ultrasound and we found out that our little baby is a girl! It was one of the most exciting days ever. :) I'm wearing my pink shirt in honor of the occasion. Our little girl is 12 oz and about 10 inches long, but she's not taking up too much room yet as you can see from the picture below. I definitely feel bigger than I look right now. This is me at 20 weeks and 1 day.

Below are some pictures of our little girl. This time we thought the 3D pictures turned out a little better. The regular ultrasound pictures weren't as clear and harder to see. Our little girl was sound asleep during the ultrasound and did not want to be bothered. You can see she is trying to hide her eyes behind her little hands. Nathan was quite relieved to be able to count 5 fingers on each hand. ;) Because she was asleep and the position she was in the doctor was able to get great pictures of all her organs and brain except the heart. The heart beat was normal and the ultrasound and doctor have no concerns, but we'll have another ultrasound in a month or two so they can get pictures of the heart and just check that off their list as well. Hearing that everything looks good and normal was very reassuring and the most exciting part of the ultrasound. :)

Her arm looks so skinny here! We'll work on that. ;)

Since it's so exciting to finally know, we went on a our first baby shopping trip. :) We had so much fun picking out some cute outfits now that we finally know to get PINK and not just gender neutral. :) 

We of course had to get the super soft pink sleeper with the elephants embroidered all on it. :)

Nathan was going to get a football if we were having a boy, but since our baby is a girl he though a size 3 girly soccer ball would be more appropriate. ;) I think she will love it. ;) It's rather flat and I think we will leave it that way for a while. ;)