Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you

Yay!! We have finally set our wedding date for February 10!!

Our ceremony will be at the civil courthouse downtown (it's prettier) and the dinner reception is at Cafe Benedicte, (www.cafebenedicte.com), which Chris and I discovered recently and LOVE. We decided to limit the guest list to family only in order to keep things from getting out of control and will individually celebrate with our friends over the next few months. (I think our couples baby shower will also be an extended celebration of our wedding.) We have reserved the wine room; it's a decent sized room with wine bottles on all of the shelves with french doors closing off the room from the rest of the restaurant. We are leaving the menu open instead of creating our own so that everyone can choose what they like. We will have a photographer to capture the memories of the day so I will post those once we get them back. Chris and I have known for a very long time that when we got married we would do something small and very simple, something that required very little stress. This is exactly what we wanted!!! (Well, once we realized that the other option of flying off to Vegas wasn't the best when you're 6 months pregnant!)

After dinner we will head off to the hill country, to the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa, for a weekend of pampering. We will indulge in spa treatments on Saturday (I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am about my prenatal massage and pedicure--seriously, where did my feet go??) and then have dinner on the riverwalk in San Antonio. We will do the late check-out option and possibly head in to Austin or back to San Antonio on Sunday but we're pretty flexible and are looking forward to just being together as husband and wife. Maybe, if the weather is nice, we'll explore the hill country a little bit before heading back to Katy.

We have a doctor's appointment on the 1st to see little Emily again. She's growing quite a bit and I get the pleasure of feeling her move and kick on a daily basis now. I swear on some days it's like she's doing barrel rolls in my tummy! She loves car rides and kicks quite a bit while we're driving down the road...each time it cracks me up. Her latest trick is to bounce on my bladder, which is the weirdest feeling--"I need to pee! Oh no, nevermind. Ooops, need to pee! Hmmm...maybe not..." Chris got to feel her kick for the first time the other night. --Insert HUGE smile here!-- I've always try to give him the best description possible of how it feels because I know he's a little jealous that I get to feel her, so when he finally got the opportunity...well, it was just awesome! He is SO excited about his daughter and he is going to be THE MOST incredible father!