in a week or two

last sunday some of the our church friends threw us a baby shower. i must have gained 10 lbs with all the food from the babyshowers! thanks everyone for putting the showers together and your prayers & gifts. we are blessed to have so many friends that care about us and taylor's arrival. see link for more pictures.

last monday nancy's dr said that the baby may be ready to pop out in a week or two. wow we didn't expect that. please continue to pray for nancy and baby's health and delivery. on the bright side, the crib is finally here. we just need to go pick it up and put it together this weekend. sorry taylor, at least a few more days please..

nancy bday & 35 weeks

it was nancy bday last Wed. small group of ppl came out to tasty china on two sats ago to celebrate. the main chef left so the lion's head meatball wasn't as tasty.. it was good times and ppl came back to our place and hung out. nancy made a cake for her own bday. haha.

last wed i took nancy out to rathbun's in inman park. my coworker Matthew highly recommended the place for awhile. it won all kinds of awards.. lots of items on the menu. we started out with two "small plates" with bone marrow and chicken livers. my first time eating bone marrow - interesting to say the least. nancy got the halibut as her "big plate" and I got the buffalo strip steak as my "second mortgage". charred corn with cheese is not bad. for desserts, nancy likes the idea of picking 4 items for $11. she likes variety. nancy rated this restaurant: "going back: maybe" rating. she rated that the food were well prepared but nothing exciting.

here's another pic of 35 weeks:

more cake

my work threw us a babyshower - here's a pic of the cake made by marilyn.

babyshower

big ups to chris and athena who threw us a babyshower last saturday. also thanks to all who helped with the shower for baby taylor. thanks for all the wonderful gifts, food, and most importantly, your friendships. here's the link for the pictures taken by jeffrey.

whoa.. too much pink!!

our friends tell us that there are cuter stuff for baby girls than buying for boys, but i think it's just too much pink!! every time nancy comes back from baby shopping, everything is pink!

well nancy and i finally set up the baby registries for baby TAYLOR at babiesrus and target for the past few weeks. it was definitely stressful in choosing all these baby and toddler products, but thanks to advices from our friends as it was definitely easier than doing it ourselves clueless. we even splurged on a crib set. wow, do i feel old.

please continue to pray for nancy's pregnancy as she's in her last trimester.

babymoon

above are a couple of pictures of nancy's 23rd week. in Feb we took our last real vacation (or mary calls it the 'babymoon') before our newborn. we went to italy for 8 nights! see below for some of our favorite pics. Venice is our favorite as we are amazed at how the city is built around water. of course Rome is incredible with all the history and monuments there. by the end of the trip we were ready to come back home as we were both tired of eating spaghetti and pizza everyday!


baby or not.. no problem for jeff. thank God the timer was only 10 seconds.



we spent our first 3 nights in Rome. we did a ton of sightseeing, trying all kinds of italian food and gelato, and walking! we went all over Rome sightseeing the colosseum, paletine hill, forum, spanish steps, trevi fountain, vatican museum, st. peters, borghese gallery, pantheon, campo di fiori, jewish ghetto..



we made one quick stop at Pisa on our way to Florence. rick steve's guide book calls Pisa a touristy quickie! did you know the other 2 buildings next to pisa tower lean as well, just not as much.



while we only spent one night in Florence, we did both Uffizi Gallery and Academia (David). and a big florentine t-bone steak.



venice was celebrating the carnivale (similar to mardi gras in new orleans) while we were there. it was real festive and lots of ppl dressed up! we spent 2 nights there. frommer's recommended to try the squid ink spaghetti - nancy didn't try it as we were afraid our baby will have purple skin!! haha.



our last stop in italy was Milan. pic on the left: check out the columns inside 'Duomo'. pic on the right: you thought phipps plaza was nice in Atlanta. other than the Duomo and the Last Supper, there are not much to do in Milan other than designer shopping.

check out the rest of the picture album. link on the right.

daddy's girl!

20 weeks! wow can't believe we are half way there. we've been waiting for this ultrasound appointment and found out the exciting news.. it's a GIRL!!! praise God that everything is normal and the baby is healthy so far. hopefully nancy won't go out and start buying too many little girl's stuff.

nancy's 18th week exercise

it's 70 degrees in the middle of january in atlanta. unbelievable. we have a tons of hardwoods around our house where leaves cover our entire yard during fall and winter (or spring if we don't rake!). someone please apply hands on atlanta for us. we may just qualify. nancy didn't look too happy with her exercise in the picture - probably didn't agree with the 'less work, more weekend' label on the rake.

see picture links on the right for new pictures. drop us an email or comment if you can.

boy or girl !?!

yup, we got some exciting news to share! a boy or girl we won't know until later in january. the picture above is taken at 8 weeks. please keep us in your prayers as we prepare to be parents and for nancy to have a healthy pregnancy.

the picture below is at 13 weeks. most of jeff's family seems to think it's going to be a boy. come back to our blog later and find out..