Second Wedding Anniversary Gifts

Jillian and I recently celebrated our second anniversary. I'm not really familiar with the materials associated with years of marriage, but apparently year two is cotton. Being extremely limited in options and imagination, We both ended up getting each other similar gifts.

The tree Jillian purchased came with a ziplock bag full of leaves. Apparently, we're supposed to add a leaf every year. Great in concept, but I have a hard time believing that we're going to keep up with it. The "portrait" was not purchased. It took me a little over a week's worth of lunch breaks to stitch. It was worth it though. I think it came out really well. So did Jillian's wrapping job. Her fabric wrapping pretty much owned my bag from Walmart.

It's a Girl!

We're having a baby and this post is long overdue. As of this past Thursday, Jillian is at the 21 week mark and our baby is "half-bake", as she has joked. We wanted to know the sex as early as possible so we could start planning accordingly. We did the early term blood test that's pretty accurate and it was confirmed with our second ultrasound. I've included the video below.

Like most parents of our generation, it was important to have some kind of special reveal party for family, friends and coworkers so we decided to make cookies. Oreo was making a strawberry filling so we thought they would be perfect to cover with white chocolate and have people bite into them to find out.

After we found out ourselves, it didn't take Jillian very long to get into the spirit of buying girl clothes and baby furniture. We've already cleared out a room in our house, filled the closet and assembled the patchwork furniture. Jillian even spent this morning painting drawer knobs to make them match the walls I painted last weekend.

Certainly more to come on this subject later.