Yard Sale

We joined some friends for a yard sale. so far we've made $6. Hopefully we sell a few more things, if not we'll try again later. It rained for awhile this morning which didn't help business. It's not quite noon yet but i'm already ready for a nap!

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Little Miracle

I think most everyone knows, but Lance wants me to make a few posts about our exciting news. Here's an ultrasound of our baby at 8 weeks (about a month ago). Yep, we are finally pregnant!! We've had a couple appointments the last few weeks and was able to hear the baby's heartbeat. Instead of having normal OB appointments I joined a Centering Program. The program consists of group appointments with a midwife and we're all due around the same time. Each appointment consists of a one on one with our midwife, a short educational presentation, group question and answer and some time to socialize with the other moms-to-be.

Yesterday was the first Centering appointment and I liked it, though we had a bit of a scare. The midwife was unable to find the baby's heartbeat with the doppler. I know that the baby could easily be hiding somewhere, but I was still trying not to panic. The nurse brought in a sonogram machine and they were finally able to find the baby, silly little thing wouldn't hold still to get a heartbeat rate. I wasn't able to see much of the screen, but I did catch a glimpse of baby jumping around. What a relief!!! Because of the sonogram I missed part of the meet and greet and I could tell that the other moms were trying to determine why I had been pulled out. At the end I was able to meet a couple of the other ladies and I'm very happy with the atmosphere of the appointment--much more personal and educational than a normal 10 min OB appointment.

Anyways, if anyone's wondering here's where we're at:

13 weeks along

Due date of 31 March 2012

Lance will be gone for the birth (most likely) but we'll skype and send him pictures!!

ultrasound at 8 weeks of our little blob

AIRBORNE

I did this today. Hooah!!! Airborne!!!. this was my best jump ever and i would do it again in a heartbeat. the video is not of my jump but shows exactly what we did (yes i also spit to get wind direction). Uh60 down, casa here i come

Ren Fest

We went to a small Ren Festtival on base today. It was cold and there's a lot going on so we didn't stay long. We got there just in time for their jousting show and watched some belly dancing too.

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Leave it to me to get stung by a bee at night. Pain went away relatively quickly but the swelling keeps going. Good thing I have Lance home to carry me around.

Happy Birthday Lafayette!

We finally had a grand adventure yesterday and we didn't have to drive for hours. The city had several festivals going on today. The first one we visited was a small "Festival of Yesteryear" at the historic arsenal park. We learned that the city had an arsenal that was used during the civil war. General Sherman marched through the city and destroyed the arsenal. It was kind of interesting to stand on a building that he destroyed. The festival was tiny but there were a few fun points. Lance was drawn to the ammunition maker. We watched him melt metal and mold it into musket balls.

After the Festival of Yesteryear we went to another park to celebrate the Marquis de Lafayette's birthday. The city of Fayetteville was named after him and was the only name sake city that the Marquis personally visited. Every year the city holds a birthday party for him. Again, the event was small but in a beautiful park and we were given free cake and ice cream! Yum!

Our last festival was the Greek Festival at the Greek Orthodox Church. We enjoyed a tasty gyro and listened to a band play traditional music. The city is hosting more festivals during the next few weekends so hopefully we'll have a few more adventures.

Here's what's left of the arsenal

Lance talking ammunition

At the Birthday Party we got free cake and ice cream! Notice the statue of Lafayette over Lance's left shoulder

The statue of Lafayette and Lance in the park

Not quite as planned

Well the beach didn't pan out as planned, mostly because Lance didn't want to sit in the car for 2.5 hours each way and I agreed that gas would be expensive for the day. Just to steer things in his favor Lance had signed up for a shooting competition. I didn't go with him, but he brought home a target to show me. The competition had different scenarios for the participants to react to. Some of the targets had a black gun painted on them for bad guy, some of them had black hands painted on them for civilians. On Lances first scenario he turned a corner, fired shots at a bad guy and then fired 3 perfect kill shots into this unfortunate civilian.

Poor target didn't stand a chance. Lance had lots of fun though. While he was out practicing, I spent some time with a friend thrift store shopping. There's really not any nice thrift stores around here, so we didn't find much but it was fun. We also went on a double date to the dollar theater to see Pirates of the Carribean in 3D. I wasn't expecting much from the movie since it's the fourth of the franchise, but it was a fun movie! Today we're looking into stopping by a few museums and maybe heading to the county fair. Rain is in the forecast so we'll see.