15 Weeks!

This is my "is she pregnant?" shirt :)

We're planning on not finding out the gender of this little guy or gal until we see him/her in person so feel free to enter your bets by July to see if you win anything based on gender, weight, height... I know I'll have a guess or two.

Joe and I went to a Valentine's brunch at Church with our Covenant of Love group. It was really nice and we got to sit with Ryanne, Nathan, Maureen and Mike. We're blessed to have such great friends! We'll have our customary pizza and beer this evening... this year though it's root beer :)

Belly Pics

This blog is going from home improvements to family additions! Baby Tigue is due Aug. 4th of this year which puts us at 14 weeks and a 5 days today. We've tried to take a few pictures now that I'm actually starting to show. A couple of websites and books have compared fetal growth each week with a different size of fruit, so we thought it would be fun to show the progression. Each piece of produce you see in the pics are an example of the baby's height at the time. Just keep in mind that although the height may be 4-4.5in the weight is only 2oz so he/she's still pretty fragile. I is amazing to think that in 3 months we've gone from 1 cell big to 4 inches tall!


I know there's a few people living far away from us that have been wondering about my growth so here's a few pics with more to come, weekly I hope.

December 2009

Christmas at the Tigue House looked a little like this:

Christmas Eve gifts to each other... there was a baby theme :)

the House prepared for our dinner party with the Tigue family

in honor of papa... some snow pics so you can see what it looked like. i love snow.

No more Wallpaper in the half bath! There's nothing like the good old fashioned bonding experience of spending an entire weekend scraping wallpaper off the wall, spackling, sanding, priming and painting... This was our bathroom remodel finished product. Old pics on picasa.

Updating things

Hello friends! It's been awhile :) I just thought I'd share what's been going on at the Tigue residence since August... now that it's early November. Where does the time go? I guess it does the proverbial flying while we're having fun, eh.

Pics of some updates to the house...
http://picasaweb.google.com/rachel.tigue

ONE YEAR

Can it be!? One year already?!

Last Sunday Joe and I headed up to Chicago for two days and one night in celebration of being married for one year! We did Michigan Ave for the afternoon, went out to a nice dinner, drinks near the top of the Hancock building. Then breakfast in the morning (very good, thanks to Steve and Margaret's suggestion of West Egg) off to Ikea and the new Harry Potter in the Imax. It was a great time to get away just before the craziness of my job hits me again tomorrow :)

<- view from our hotel room

HOUSE PICTURES

This is a link to my picasa page where you'll find the album of original realtor pics of the house and then the album made today.

You'll also find some fun pics of the kitchen wallpaper/paint renovation and moving.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rachel.tigue

House front

To make this easier, I'll post our before/after and during moving house pictures on Picasa. Blogger isn't so good with big blocks of pictures...


Today:

February:

Weddings!

<- at Paul and Alexa's wedding in South Bend

Joe and I have been blessed to attend a couple weddings lately and are really looking forward to Eric's this upcoming Valentine's weekend. It's so amazing to see these couple's making such profound vows to one another and to see the beauty in two people participating in a sacrament. God surely blesses each couple and it will be exciting to see them live out their love throughout their lives. We can't help but hold hands as we hear brides and grooms profess their vows remember when we looked into each other's eyes and said the very same words. I know... sappy, but true.

Yay marriage. (speaking of which, our 6 month anniversary is tomorrow :) I can't believe it's been that long already! Time FLIES when you're having fun I guess! )

Christmas is upon us

So is snow and ice! St. Vincent's had a snow day yesterday! Sometimes I wonder if I want snow days as much as the kids do... I had no idea that could have been the case when I was a kid. I really thought my teachers wanted nothing more than to be at school each and every day.

Joe and I are headed to his parents for this afternoon to trim the tree and hang out with Pete and his parents. Tomorrow after Mass we drive to Lafayette to celebrate Eric's graduation and have dinner with Jill's family. We'll be in Noblesville for Christmas, yay! Then it's back to Peoria to celebrate with Joe's family. Being married means so many more people to love and celebrate with... we are so blessed.

Tigue side Christmas '08 family picture:

We had so much fun being together, playing games and eating!