Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all our moms (we have 4 between the two of us!)...and to all of my soon-to-be-mom friends (we also have 15+ of these!!!). It's been a beautiful day in Indy...75 and sunny. The weekend was spent in the yard and at the racetrack (time trials for the Indy 500 have been all weekend). Mike surprised me with a new laptop for Mother's Day/our anniversary. It'll be hard to drag me off of this thing..I just love it!

We have spent the last 10 days in the yard....and we are finally done! A little over a week ago, Mike rented a dumpster & proceeded to pull out 18 shrubs with his HUMMER! I'm sure the neighbors were thrilled with the big red dumpster & Mike tearing through our lawn yanking out landscaping. This dumpster holds up to 2 tons...and Mike has successfully filled it! (See the pic...)

We have now filled the front and back yard with 25+ shrubs, plants & flowers that took us the entire weekend to plant, feed, water & mulch. Mid-way through planting the flowers, I walked around back to Mike and told him to remind me next year this time that I actually ENJOY doing this! Who knew?! We've even planted a garden for cherry & roma tomatoes & some green peppers! I can't believe it, either!

The backyard is still not complete..we bought some adirondak chairs that we still need to put together & we would like to put some pavers down on the soon-to-be-gone putting green so Kelly can continue to lay in the sun on her hammock! Until then, we are exhausted and ready for an exciting week ahead of us!

We find out the sex of our baby on Tuesday 5/15...and more importantly, we'll find out if baby's bones and brain are developing adequately. This past week was also marked by the first movements of baby being felt by Kelly!!! LOTS of moving and kicking, which is very reassuring to us both! It's also very exciting and makes it very real. Mike and I put the crib together this past week...it looks great in the nursery. Now all we have to do is PAINT! We can't wait...and be sure to check back here to find out what we're having!