the weekend that EVERYTHING happened

This was pretty much the weekend that everything happened. At least that's been our name for it. Thursday night was a bachelorette party for my friend Steph, then Friday night was the long awaited live tour of So You Think You Can Dance (which was A-MAZ-ING). Saturday was errands, then a wedding at 1pm, then a bonfire at our friends' house. Today we had church, then we tried to do stuff around the house for a couple hours, and then a pumpkin carving contest at our friends' house... you can see the fruits of our labor.  Grace's is the "POW!" pumpkin, and you can see Ben hard at work on his. 

The belly continues to grow... and grow :) and Peanut is kicking more and more. Apparently the baby has a taste for root beer. We had another doctor's appointment this week, and everything is going just as it should be. Here is Ben's latest obsession: artsy belly photos.

We continue to make slow progress on the baby's room... Moving our whole office/studio out of there and condensing it into a corner of the living room has been more of a project than either of us has much energy for after 10-hour work days, but it's on it's way. It's hard to believe that it's only about 2 weeks until our hospital classes start... Peanut will be here before we know it!!!

Here's one more photo for you to enjoy, complements of Ben.

peanut

We have been totally lame about updating our blog lately... Probably because we've been getting ready to welcome another little saunders into our house!!! yahoo!! Yep, we've got a bun in the oven! and, the baby belly has ARRIVED. check out this photo. Emigre seems to have noticed something is different :)
We are BESIDE OURSELVES excited about little "Peanut's" arrival. We're busy working on rearranging home to get Peanut's room ready. (that's our name for baby saunders, since we've decided to be surprised by the baby's gender once he or she is born. We get so few huge surprises in life, we're going to milk it for all it's worth) The due date is February 6th. We thought the doctor was joking when he said that was the due date, since that also happens to be Grace's 30th birthday. We'll see when the little one decides to ACTUALLY grace us with his or her presence :)

Right now we're right at the 6 month mark. Peanut is kicking lots, and wiggling around, some times it's enough for Ben to feel too, which he is PUMPED about. Below, Ben has decided that it is VERY important for PEanut to have exposure to Led Zeppelin as early as possible.


We got a new camera to be ready to snap all kinds of photos of every move the PEanut makes, and we've been taking turns playing the role of Annie Liebowitz around the house. So naturally the belly and the dog are favorite subjects :)