Christmas Tree

Our first official tree is up and BeaUtiful :) If I do say so myself. Tristan was a big helper putting all the ornaments on...

Pics from the Sidebottom Rehearsal - Thanksgiving week

We went to Austin for Thanksgiving to celebrate our friends Lainey and Brett getting MARRIED :) WhooHoo! Here are a couple of pictures of Mickey and me after the rehearsal dinner :)

The Blogiverse

This whole thing about blogs is an enigma to me. I currently have a "blog", but really it's more of a journal. The simple truth is, its really convenient to journal on a blog because it is searchable, and accessible from anywhere, and frankly I type faster thanI write these days. The thing about journals though, it just isn't possible for me to be completely honest with God when I have an audience. The depth of the expression is constantly tempered by asking, who is reading this, what will they think of what I've written, will they hear it as I mean it, is this theologically sound? In my private journal my thoughts are only seen by God and me. There is no fear of discovery, or judgement. I am free to be totally unfettered. So, Journal = PrivateBlog.

Then "we" have this blog, but I don't see any of the fellas posting on the blogs maintained by their wives. Most of them have their own blog available for public consumption, and lets be honest, it's better that way. Girls like to talk about things girls like. Boys like to talk about things that are cool. I mean the ultrasound pictures of our wildly anticipated baby girl just aren't as poignant when I follow them up with the picture of a jet engine, or 16" inch deck guns. No guy in his right mind can continue to focus on baby pictures when there is a jet engine diagram to study. (Secretly, I think the girls care more about the jet engine than the baby too, but I can't prove that.) So, Lesko Chronicles = PublicGirlBlog.

Which leaves me with the option of posting my thoughts to the world on the PublicGirlBlog or starting a 3rd blog. In my mind starting a third blog is kinda like buying a 3rd cell phone. It's just a little excessive.

This ironclad logic has convinced me that I should be posting semiregularly on the PublicGirlBlog. Y'all tell me how this works out.

34 weeks and then some....

I went to the dr. yesterday and I am growing on track. I gained 1 lb this week. Little miss Lesko's heart rate was good, her head is down and her but is in my left rib :). I had to have an ultrasound last week to check my gall bladder because I have been having some pain on my right side, but all is well. No surgery to remove it no sign of gall stones or inflamation. So we are trying pepcid AC everyday for the next week to see if it is just acid reflux presenting "weird". I think she is starting to drop a little lower so her little feet aren't kicking the "bad spot" as we call it at the house as easily so that is helpful.

Stay tuned for some family photos, we have a wonderful friend Paul who took some pictures for us and I will put some up as soon as we get them.

I am now on a weekly dr. visit schedule. So more updates I am sure will come.

Until then...

Husband of the Year...again

Some of you know we have been working on a little bathroom project lately...and it is finally done! Thanks to my sweet husband who surprised me on Monday with a tile floor! They finished putting it in on Saturday...YAY!!!

It Has Begun

Do you know what you're looking at?  

That's a jet engine.

It's also the engine Brad and I are going to use in our soccer mom suburban assault vehicle. Think the Batmobile, but with room for 8.

I'll show you the artillery later.

I am more than a mom...

So I have realized recently that I talk a lot about kids, pregnancy, and preparing for little miss Lesko. So I thought I would try to blog about something different...probably no pictures to post for this one.

We recently started a home group (I am thinking about this today because we go tonight :)) with some friends of ours Byron & Heather Moore. It has only been 5 weeks now but it is so much fun! I have forgotten how great home group can be, I have not been attending one for about 9 months or so and was a home group leader before that. There are so many things that make home group great, one is that we get to hang out with our friends, the other is I feel like we have found a group where I feel safe, I can talk to them, look stupid, eat lots of food, and feel at home. I guess I just realized that this is something I have been missing for a while. There are many ways that God teaches me, being around other Christians, and feeling safe enough to be honest, is for sure one of those ways.