A little contest...

For those of you who haven't heard yet, we're going to have a baby! We are planning on finding out the gender whenever we can - we both like to plan ahead and be organized...

In the meantime, I'd like to see what our friends and family have to say?? Do you think we'll have a boy or a girl? I'll also make this your one and only opportunity to make suggestions or comments about naming this child... Leave a comment to enter.

You are free to ask any questions about my pregnancy so far if you believe in one of those old wives tales and want to use that as a measure, I'd love to hear it!

When we believe we know the gender, I'll close the contest and do a random drawing from those who guessed correctly for a little prize...

More Craftiness

This is the gift I created for my sister-in-law for her baby shower this past weekend. The "roses" are baby socks, hats, and onesies planted with kabob skewers into a piece of styrofoam in a little tin pail. The yellow wrap around the base is a sling for holding the baby - close and cozy for baby, hands free for mom!

I did a little stamping on the onesies. These monogrammed outfits will help the volunteers in the church nursery know who "baby A" is!

Ski Season Wrap-up

We've started the bike season now, so I thought I would post the final pictures from our fantastic ski season. In March, we skiied in northern MN twice. The first time was with the church young married couples group at Giants Ridge. The weather was great, the trails were nicely groomed. It was fun to ski with others for a change. Brian was pretty excited to be cruising around on his new "fast" skis.

Easter weekend, we rented a little cabin in the woods at Tettegouche camp. It was fun to keep the fire burning in the woodstove. The challenge with these cabins is that you have to hike in everything you need for the time you are there. We skiied in, but would plan in the future to hike or snowshoe instead. We hiked out... By this late in the season, the trails were groomed, but the snow was very icy and fast. Not the best conditions to get used to new "fast" skis!

Crafting

Some of you know that I'm a bit of a crafter. Since I left Stampin' Up! I've found that my new favorite stamping company is Papertrey Ink. Nicole (the genius behind the stamps) posted the suggestion yesterday of using patterned paper and a square punch for a card layout. I had a little time last night and found her suggestion to work perfectly for this card. It is made with some retired(?) Stampin' Up! designer paper, pretty-in-pink, and old olive cardstock and an old sell-a-bration set "So Very". The inside has some other various sentiments to complete my thought...

Sorry about the photo quality. I'm working on that...

Thanks for stopping by. I'll probably have more vacation photos next week after our ski weekend at Giants Ridge.

Black River Skiing

I am a wildcat...

We had a great time skiing this past weekend at some of the best trails we've ever skiied. Black River State Forest, WI was perfectly groomed and has really fun hills! We skiied about 2 hours each day, completing almost all of the "intermediate" trails in the system.