The past month...or so!

I have had a few baby showers I just wanted to highlight. It has been so fun to be celebrated and to blessed with so many wonderful baby gifts!

Ft. Worth Shower
Here we are with "gigi" the hostess with the mostess. She not only had the shower at her house,

but also made homemade lasagna! Lots of Ben's family was there!
Here I am with "omee" and the wonderful, very cute chocolate cake she brought!

Here is a pic of my sweet friends who hosted a San Antonio Shower. They served fried pickles and ice cream! So fun! They are wearing the monogrammed aprons I gave them: Jill Altom, Lindsay Nahoum, Cat Hornberger, Caroline Sasser, & Kristin Stouffer.

Baby Carriage centerpiece made out of fruit!!
Neighborhood shower!

If you can believe there are 3 of us in my neighborhood all due in September.

Lisa is on the left, and we are both due with girls on the 13th. Kimberlely on the right, is having a boy and she is due late September. So our fun neighbors, Debbie, Joan and my Aunt Betsy threw us a dessert neighborhood shower!

Bible Study shower!

I have had the best bible study this past year! They were some of the first people I told I was pregnant back in January, which seems forever ago. They have walked through this season of life with me surrounding me with prayers as well as meals when I was really struggling with migraines in the middle of my pregnancy. I feel SO blessed to be a part of this group. And had the best time at the shower. They blessed me with some wonderful, very useful gifts!

I have to say this past month and half have been my favorite! Everything is becoming more real, as we prepare for sweet Annabelle. I love finding homes for all her goodies in her nursery. I can't wait for her to get to use, wear and play with all her shower gifts!!

I am huge!

Yes, I am feeling very big these days at 33 weeks, 7 to go!

Annabelle's Nursery

Miss Annabelle Katherine's Nursery!!!

This is the family baptism gown she will wear, and I wore as a baby! And the sweet pink dress is what she will coming home from the hospital. Her Halbach grandparents brought it back from Paris just for her!!!

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Her monogrammed lamp shade!

The glider thanks to her Devine Grandparents, and her book shelf.

Her crib,thanks to her great grandmother Yaya. I still need to sew the bed skirt, for now the fabric is draped on the mattress! On the wall are pearl letters of her name!

Here is a more full view of her room, with her changing table and pink Pottery Barn rug, thanks to her Timberlake Grandparents.

We have the best parents and Annabelle has the best grandparents. We can't wait for her to me you all! Thank you all for contributing to making her room so special!

Leakey

Ben and I just came back from the Timberlake Family reunion, in Leakey, TX.

I have so many fun childhood memories from Leakey, and as Ben and I swam in the Frio River we talked about how Annabelle will grow up with fun memories at Leakey too.

I wished I had taken more pictures, but I did get a great one of the 3 main men in my life, Ben, Dad and Henry fly fishing on the Frio. It is a great shot with the hills in the background! I sure do love you guys!!

We also enjoyed hearing highlights and lowlights of everyone's past year, playing a hilarious game of Onze, floating/walking down the river and of course a little girls shopping trip in town. Where I found this cool iron piece for my back yard!

It was a great reunion, and I can't wait until next year when Annabelle will get to experience Leakey all for herself!

28 weeks baby belly

Here I am in Annabelle's room!!! My belly grows each day. And she moves around all the time.

But she does not perform on command! Each time she is moving and Ben is around I tell him and he sticks his hand on my stomach, and 9 times out of 10 she stops moving! She is a little stinker. Ben thinks she is just being stubborn...wonder where she gets that?

Her room is now my favorite place in the house! I will sometimes just go sit in the glider and rock. It is just so calm and peaceful in there. And it took an army to get it finished. Much thanks to Jim and Lisa who came down and put up a new fan and all the bead board. And then my mom, Betsy, Mark and Kellie all helped finish off the bead board touch ups and set up all the furniture! I still have to hang things on the wall and finish making her crib skirt, but you can see the fabric hanging in her crib!

At my 28week appt she is measuring right on track! And still very healthy. Despite my health during pregnancy there has never been any concern with Annabelle's health, we are so thankful! As the days pass on I am beginning to become more and more anxious to meet her! September will be here before I know it!

24 weeks pregnant!

Painting Annabelle's room Silver Sage by Restoration Hardware.

We are going to put up white bead board on the bottom half of the walls, that is why only half the room is painted. More to come on the finished product!
Annabelle's very girly Pottery Barn rug!
I love it, it takes up the entire room!


And here I am, this was take on May 21, our anniversary.

I also cut my hair about 6 inches. I was just too hot!

I am growing everyday! Just last week strangers are asking me when I am due! That is exciting because my tummy is finally rounded and popping out so I actually look pregnant and not just like all the Chick Fil A I have been eating is catching up to me!

We are getting Annabelle's room ready. In the past 2 weeks we have bought a rug and a dresser, painted her room, and cleared all Ben's clothes out of her closet.

Anniversary

Smithville & Bastrop, TX

6 mothns pregnant

2009

Eddie V's

Austin, TX
2008

Breckenridge, CO
2007

Eureka Springs, AK
2006

Last week we celebrated out 4 year anniversary last week! Each year we take a picture holding up the number of years we have been married. Fun to look at the years past!

Hard to believe we have been married 4 years. We always reflect on the last year listing highs and lows for us as well as major events. Some that topped the list for the past year:

• Leaving staff with Campus Crusade
• Ben starting a new job with Duff & Boynton
• Ben helping to start new company Laureate Wealth Management
• Sarah's migraines still a problem, but saw new Dr in Sept and started new medicines and for the first time relief from migraines
• Sarah started Monogram Me, her monogramming business
• we joined All Saints Church and love it
• we both have new bible studies that we feel very blessed by
• Ben and I were both in James in Clare's wedding
• Sarah was in Jill, Christina and Elizabeth's weddings
• And the biggest change, getting pregnant and preparing for baby Annabelle!

On Thursday Ben came home after lunch from work and we drove out to Smithville, a small town about an hr away, best known for the filming of Hope Floats! Ben had been there before and had talked about wanting to take me, we walked around the town and Ben let me look in every antique shop! I loved it! Then we drove into Bastrop and had dinner at a quaint cafe, where we took the picture. After dinner we headed back to Austin for dessert! It was a great day of leisure, shopping and good food!

We also discussed how this past year has been the best year yet for us in our marriage. We have grown as individuals as well as a couple in our love, communication and dedication to one another. I am so thankful that I am married to Ben. He loves and nurtures me so well. I can't wait to see what the rest of life will be like with him!