Boonie

On Sunday morning, we got word that Lucy's beloved cousin, Boone, had passed on the evening before. He lived a long and great life filled with countless hunting trips, smiling and dancing for cookies, chasing squirrels, long runs with his humans, stealing pizzas and steaks off counters, and being an overall awesome companion. Lucy will miss taunting him and seeing if he can catch her. We will miss his gentle nature and amazing ability to smile. His humans will miss him most of all and we mourn for them.

Fun Pics

Courtney (sister-in-law), me, Miss Piggy, Tracy (sister-in-law), Lucy

This is Lucy's favorite past-time. Her ball is not supposed to be in the house, so she rolls it through the dog door and across the floor and then awaits patiently for us to come and throw it for her. She's quite the smarty-pants.

Lucy basking in the morning sun with Super Chicken at her feet.

We've now been in our new house a little over 2 months. Time has flown by and we only have 9 weeks until my due date. Yikes. We're getting excited, but are also a bit overwhelmed with the impending timeline. I'm getting more and more uncomfortable- especially when it comes to sleeping, dressing (especially keeping balanced and putting on my socks), and sitting for long periods of time. Miss Piggy (baby's current name) loves to stick her feet up in my ribs and she is sitting really high, which has caused a good amount of heartburn. Neither of these is very enjoyable. I do continue to get massages every other week (a god send) and I'm trying to do as much yoga as possible. I tend to come up with good excuses why I can't go, so I haven't been as much as I should. We also hired a great doula last weekend, which I'm very excited about. The nursery is almost all put together and we're still trying to get all of our boxes unpacked. I'm amazed at how much we packed into our small little Shoreline house!

Life is good. We feel blessed and we hope to give this little girl the life every child should have. We're going to try and keep the blog up in order to chronicle life- more for us than anything.

Baby Names

While we won't be revealing the name of Baby Girl Brooks until we actually figure it out, here is an extensive list put together by our three nieces. While we were moving all our stuff into the house on New Year's weekend, they kept themselves very busy coming up with over 355 potential candidates for our little girl. Take a peek and let us know which ones you vote for. The one with the most votes, gets an extra 5 points on our grading system!