Ever have one of "those" weekends???

Ever have one of those weekends? You know the kind that are really productive, but you end up having no weekend at all? Well, that is how ours was this weekend. We got a ton of stuff done...but no rest at all! Since getting Buddy, we can forget sleeping late on Sat. mornings. He's up with the roosters, and so are we! Everyone says this is good training for when the baby arrives. So Sat. began at 6:30am in the Faris house. Praise the Lord for my sweet husband who got up and took Buddy for a walk so I could rest a little longer. Then around 10:00am, we headed over to Saginaw to see my brother, sis-n-law and the kids. They have 3 great kids, Cal (6), Cameryn (4) and Cannon (2...almost 3). We took Buddy with us so he wouldn't have to be in his crate all day. We had a fun visit, but we were ready for a nap when we got back to McKinney. No such luck! We had a blow out on 190 coming home, and had to change the flat tire in 100 degree heat. Fortunately, we were under a bridge. It helped a little bit! So off to the tire store we go! Of course, we were 1 month out of warranty on that particular tire (Mind you, this is the 2nd flat and third tire since March). So 45 min and $90 later, we were off to McKinney again. We left Saginaw around 3ish and finally were home around 6:30ish. Woo we were tired!

By the Lord's amazing timing and my sister's generosity, we now have a baby crib and changing table. My 3 year old niece has out-grown her crib and she sweetly wanted to give it to Aunt Gigi's baby. PRAISE JESUS!! Have you looked at the prices of baby furniture recently??? So we spent most of Sun afternoon moving the furniture from my sister's house to our house, and switching bedrooms around. So now we have a nursery room and we have a guest/office room. We haven't put the baby furniture together yet, but I think we have few months to it. It is BEAUTIFUL furniture, too. It's exactly what I would have picked out if we were buying it ourselves. Not to mention that she gave us all of the bedding and changing pad, mattress, mattress cover, 3 pack-n-plays, and SO much other stuff! It pays to be the youngest and the last to have babies in the family!

SO all of that to say, that it has been SUPER productive, but exhausting as well. I have tomorrow off, but poor Josh has to work. But he has the Mavs in the playoffs and the World Cup to help beat the exhaustion I guess.

Baby news:

Well, morning sickness happens around here at night. It starts about 6ish and continues until bedtime. I really can't complain, I have only "been sick" once. But the nausea is pretty constant. Nothing sounds appetizing in the evenings.

The baby, according to the internet, should be about the size of a kidney bean this week. That's grown from a raspberry last week. Over the next few weeks it will be the size of a grape, and kumquat (which I don't believe I have ever seen one of these before), a fig and an lime. I don't know how accurate all of that is, but it's fun to imagine. We go to the Dr. on Friday and we hope to hear the heartbeat for the first time. How fun!!