It's a Boy!!!!

Introducing Benjamin Roy Hawkins:

This picture is of his beautiful head.

This picture is of his...um...rocket. Our Arab doctor only referred to it as a "rocket" the entire visit. It was funny.

Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety. The High God
surrounds him all day long, and dwells between his shoulders."

Deuteronomy 33:12 ESV

We will call him "Ben".

(Benjamin's middle name is the middle name of his Great Grandfather James Roy Hawkins)

17 Weeks!

Here is the belly at 17 weeks. I really feel a WHOLE lot bigger than this pictures looks.

We find out Sunday if our little one is a boy or girl...stay posted to find out his or her name!!

Never thought I would long for the Desert!

So, I have longed for desserts before but never the desert! However, our life has been a little crazy the past month and a half. We have had too much on our plate but slowly things are beginning to slow down. So...Allen and I are going to go away this weekend. We are going to a new place out in the desert. It is a lodge that is run solely on solar panels and no lights at night, only candles! Oh, I am so excited to get out of the city! We can do lots of hiking and exploring along with resting of course. We will take lots of pictures and post when we get back. Our weekend her is Friday and Saturday, which is great because Sunday we get to find out what this little one is! I am so excited I can hardly believe it!

The Weekend Project!

I am really excited about my weekend project. A couple of weeks ago we bought this really cool chairs that were really old and yucky from some friends landlord. We looked into having them professionally recovered but it was going to be a little more money than we wanted to invest. So, after much encouragement from Allen, I decided to try and recover them myself. I was pretty excited that it actually came together and looks good. (Thanks mom for all those sewing lessons growing up!) This past summer we also bought some safari/directors chairs from some people who were leaving, except all of the fabric had dry rotted. So, I also made new seat cover and back for one of them. Allen even tried his hand at the sewing maching before the day was over. We had a great time!

Before...

And After!

Allen sewing!