It's a girl.

getting more ready everyday

OK - I totally get that people are not that interested in the baby clothes that I am gathering for my baby. But being a first time parent is so exciting and the clothes make it so much more real that I love to share them. It's exciting to think that we will have a little one that will soon fit into these clothes.

Our friends Nate and Melissa gave this to us. It has cute little dogs up the right side of it and I love it.

It even has little dog feet:

Since we went to the Blazer game last Friday night, the baby started moving so I wanted to have something memorable about that night and got this cute baby sleeper. I love it! I guess he/she will be a Portland TrailBlazer fan.

quilt and a pair of new converse shoes

Here's my latest quilt I made and gave to Kristin. It's a flannel Christmas quilt. I'm making more flannel quilts! I loved it and it is so comfortable. Here's the print on the back of it.

Some of the front blocks had writing on them:

Lap quilt. Each individual block is 6 inches by 6 inches.

When I gave Kristin her quilt, so had brought me a baby gift!! I loved it. They are so cute. Black converse shoes.

rehearsal dinner for team jk

Last night we had the rehearsal dinner for Kyle and Jenny at the Venetian in downtown Hillsboro. My mom did a great job choosing a good, classy location and made sure we had wonderful, yummy food! It was great.

Stacey's cousin Sam and Uncle Bill.

Stacey's cousin Cam and girlfriend Stephanie.

Me and Michael.

The stars of the hour: Jenny and Kyle. They looked so happy.

Christmas at the Graves'

Michael worked hard at putting up the lights outside. I want lights on the top of our house but so far we haven't really figured out how to do that safely and Michael walking around the roof doesn't seem like a good idea to either of us.

Our beautiful wreath from the Festival of the Trees.

Michael cut our tree and then put all the ornaments and lights up. It looks great babe!

Yes, we already have enough stockings for 5 children.

We put garland around out stairwell and I love it! And here's this years' Christmas quilt.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

finding the perfect tree

Yesterday we headed out to Thorton's Treeland. It's a family operated Christmas Tree farm in Vancouver. They have three generations working there and it couldn't be a better place to take the family (even if your child is still inside you). We've gone there every year since we moved here and it's become a tradition.

A small part of the tree farm:

Michael standing next to our tree of choice. It was a very cold morning!

Getting the gloves on.

Last year, we picked a tree that had long branches at the bottom and was rather difficult for Michael to saw. This year we found this one that had no branches at the bottom and it was much easier and Michael stayed a lot cleaner!

In the car, ready to head home and decorate our house.

our first gift

It was really exciting to get a baby gift, although we totally don't expect any. I was surprised at work and given something fun.

The spoons each weigh a couple pounds, so they might just be for decoration but they are sooooo cute!! Thanks to Chris and Chris Dudley for our first baby gift!!