Hi! It's been a while since we've blogged on here; we traveled to Pittsburgh for Christmas and enjoyed a visit with Nate's parents mid December, so not only were we busy, but we got to see almost everyone for whom this blog exists. So, if we missed seeing you, Happy belated Christmas!

Things have been going well. Nate's sitting next to me and he wants to write this blog so his section will follow after mine. Excuse any double updates we both might accidentally share with you! Auden moves around regularly, and I guess she is around 15 or so inches long at this point. For a more accurate idea, think of an eggplant?
We finished our registries, too. We're registered at both Target and Babies R Us, mostly so everyone who wants to help us out will have more than just one place to go looking.
After getting some blood work done, we also found out that I've become very anemic, and so I'm taking iron, which is boring. That's all really, on my end. The shower in Pittsburgh is January 30th, I think, and my mom is sending out invites this week (I think). Love and miss all of you!
-Typh

So, first week of classes and I am still alive. I just got a job at the sandwich shop on campus and I am actually pretty excited about it. I haven't worked in a while, so I am pretty pumped to start doing something other than reading and writing papers. We'll see how it goes.
-Nate

sonogram (finally!) at 21 weeks

Meet Auden!

Nate and I traveled up to New Hampshire for Thanksgiving. Although we were only able to stay for about three days, we definetely got a lot crammed in - shopping, Christmas tree cutting down, good dinner, and Nate even played a show in Boston.

As of yesterday, we hit 23 weeks through our pregnancy. This means a couple things: we are more than halfway through, yay! I can feel baby moving around regularly. She feels like a fish swimming and flopping around, it is weird. Also, it means baby is around 10 or 11 inches long! plus, I just read on this website that her face if fully formed and now her nipples are starting to pop.

hope everyone is getting excited to meet Auden!

Wedding Photos!

Mark finished up with the editing and sent them our way. If you have facebook, feel free to browse the two albums on my profile. Otherwise, you'll have to let myself or my mom know if you'd like copies. We have them uploaded online so they can easily be ordered.

Anyway, I can't post all of them on here, but here's a preview! Hope you like them!

baby registry

Seeing as how we're approaching our 18th week of pregnancy, we thought it couldn't hurt to think about a baby registry.

For now, there's only a few items listed, but when we know the baby's gender I'm sure we'll be adding to it!

Just click here for the link!

**Please don't be alarmed that we're planning on using cloth diapers; we've looked into it and we see that we can save money in the long run this way, plus, I'd feel terrible throwing several diapers away a day just to be taking up earth space and landfills and such. We've got neutral colors for now, but we'll add some blues or pinks depending on the whatever the baby is! We will be needing disposable diapers for the first couple of months; we won't be able to afford to keep up with laundry while we are still in our apartment in Wayne as it costs nearly $4 to wash and dry one load.

Hopefully we'll get some photos up, soon!

We thought Fall was here but, oddly enough, we're enjoying warm evenings and afternoons in the 70's.

If you didn't know, we've been having a tough time with things here. To be brief, I'll suffice it to say that my hours were cut in half at my full time job and I was working almost every full weekend at my part time job. Although I was working every day, the hours didn't add up, and we were drained, financially.

For the past five weeks we'd been discussing what our possibilities could be, but it became obvious quickly that we'd have to figure out a new source of income - quickly!
The job market blows, but I think I've found a fit at Starbucks (a different locoation than last Winter!). My first day was on Wednesday and by Halloween I should be finished with the majority of my training there. The other partners I've met thus far seem nice enough and the store manager seems more than glad to have hired me.

Perhaps in a bout a months time we will apply for WIC and the food stamp program; we are having a difficult time getting by since we drained ourselves financially for the month I was working strictly part time.

Enough about that though!

We're around 16 weeks pregnant, and I am slowly getting excited about it. We can't wait to know the sex of the baby, and I expect my belly will start ballooning pretty soon. We'll post photos of our next ultrasound..!

Things are more uplifting; we have a sour if income, baby is healthy so far, I'm not barfing so much, and we're finally about to mail out our Thank you notes!

Nate and I plan on spending Thanksgiving in New England with his family, and Christmas in PGH with mine. We expect two visits from our moms in the months of November and December, and hopefully this will help me combat my heartache for family.

Enjoy the upcoming fall and winter!

Georgia

Hello! This last weekend Nate and I had the pleasure of taking the weekend off (something which rarely happens anymore) and heading to the South for Ali's wedding. Aside from the fact that it was obviously nice to get away for a couple days, it was also nice because we were able to see family members of Nate's side that not only I hadn't met yet, but also that Nate rarely gets to see himself!

Dave and Ali's wedding was a personal and cute affair and it's pleasing to see people who really want God to be a part of their life together.

While we split the drive up on the way down, we drove a grueling 12 hours yesterday. It was awesome being with family, but it also made coming home that much more painful; it's not easy living over five hours away from our families.

We look forward to the holidays when we will be able to again spend time with one another.

Missing all of you!