Babies are Popular

Tons of people that are close to us are having kids or are pregnant. Three people on both sides of our family are expecting making the count to 7 immediate relatives. What a hoot. Everybody is doing it I guess. To get ready we have been working on a few projects. The first project was growing the baby.

This is Ba and a good friend Lina at Christmas time which was just starting Ba's third trimester. It took us forever to convince them to allow us to take this picture.

This is Ba just within the last weeks aka 9 months pregnant. Doesn't she just look so cute with that little Blueberry bump. (Blueberry is what we are currently naming the child, but that is likely to change for her birthday!)

Over Christmas Ry worked on building Blueberry's crib. It is super sturdy, so I guess he learned something in all of those engineering classes. He designed and built it on his own. If you are wondering, the stain color is Ipswitch which we have never heard of before.

Ry liked working on a mill to make the corners. It was like an etch-a-sketch with a drill attached. As you turned 5 different knobs the wood could move up/down, right/left, forward/backward get clamped down and rotate on the axis. What a dream come true.

Sweet Ride

The above is our car named Kelly the Pecan because of different license plate letters. We racked up the miles (203,000) and took it places where people were afraid to drive their trucks. It has been really good to us.

Obviously we aren't too torn up about it because we traded it in for this 2008 Elantra that only had 10,000 miles on it. Happy Birthday to ME. It feels like it is brand new. It is a stick shift so you can drive conservatively or pretend like you are on the Autobahn, and rumble right along. It is a little smaller than our Camry, but we don't have to use it as a closet, so it should work out nicely.
Doesn't it look rugged with all the snow. The only downfall to the car is that with Kelly we had an automatic oil changing system. All we had to do was fill it up every 3 months. I am sure our landlords will like not having oil in the driveway.