Bad Blogger

My intent when starting this blog was to routinely update it with cute pictures and stories about what our family has been up to. It has been 40 days & nights since my last blog... and since a lot has been happening in the Verrette household since the last post, I must just be bad, lazy blogger. My blogging card should be taken away...

Since the last post, Ireland has started 2nd grade (we're already over a month into the school year and she's doing great!), Blair's mother and sister came to visit over Labor Day weekend, we traveled to Amarillo for our first baby shower (I'll post pictures within the next few days, promise!), the official start of Autumn (my favorite season) arrived and with it at least a few cooler days, and the 2009 college football season has started!!! LSU, by the skin of their teeth, are 4-0. They do play at Georgia this Saturday and then the Florida Gators come to Death Valley on the 10th, so we're just keeping our fingers crossed for the next two weeks.

Landry will be here in less than 5 weeks, so we've also been very busy getting the nursery ready for his arrival (and by "we", I mean Blair). He's done an incredible job with all of the painting and he even installed crown molding and chair rails - the works! It looks great and once things are a little more put together, I'll post some pictures.

I'm still feeling great! At all of my doctor's appointments everything has been just perfect with both Landry and myself, including my weight and blood pressure. He is moving ALL of the time and I still get the biggest kick out of it (pun intended). I love being pregnant and try not to take any of it for granted!

Until next time... and if it does turn out to be another month from now, I'll take away my own card ;)

Date Night... at a Gas Station

Blair and I spent this past Saturday night with our good friends, Norm and Carol. Their good friend, Aaron, was visiting from L.A. so they invited us out to a gourmet dinner at "one of the best places we've eaten at out here" (meaning Dallas). Not sure what this says about DFW, but the gourmet restaurant they were taking us to was housed in a Conoco convenient store/gas station... and it was FABULOUS!!!

The brief story behind the Chef Point Cafe in Watuaga, TX (just outside Ft. Worth) is this: Chef Franson Nwaeze and his wife wanted to open a restaurant, but were unable to find financing due to their lack of experience. They were, however, able to obtain financing for a filling station... after adding a complete kitchen to a station they purchased, they opened for business in 2003. Their story has been featured in Paula Deen's magazine, as well as on various TV shows, etc., which is how Norm and Carol found out about it. The food is well worth the drive - no matter where in DFW you live!


Carol & Aaron sitting in front of the 5-Star restaurant/gas station/convenient store (notice it comes with bars on the windows and everything).



Blair in front of the "bright lights" of the gas pumps.



Norman getting bored waiting for us to be seated.



Carol & Norm seated in front of the beer cases.



Blair patiently awaiting his lobster bisque and crab stuffed chicken!

Landry in 3-D... no glasses required

We had our 3-D sonogram today! For the first 30 minutes, Landry wasn't cooperating so well, but neither was the placenta. Either his arms or hands were obstructing his little face or the placenta was in the way. Finally... towards the end of the session, he moved just enough that the technician was able to get some great shots of his entire face - chubby cheeks and all! He has his daddy's nose and his mommy's lips and really big feet, which I think takes after his sister :) To be able to put a face to our little guy is remarkable. I think Blair and I made one adorably cute little boy if I do say so myself... ;)

Verrette Baby Story

Blair and I decided on the baby's name... LANDRY DALE VERRETTE

Dale is in memory of Blair's father, who passed away 4 years ago this July. Blair is the last "Verrette", so that is one of the reasons we are so excited to be having a little boy, he'll be able to carry on the Verrette namesake.

This is the first entry about the baby and my pregnancy, so it's a little lengthy. Below is a summary of the first 27 weeks of our long awaited pregnancy.

As most of our family & friends are aware, we had to wait 1 year and 9 months to be blessed with this pregnancy. We found out in early March that I was pregnant and Blair and I couldn't have been more thrilled! The pregnancy has been a breeze so far, although I almost hate to put that in writing since I still have 12 weeks to go... no morning sickness, no sore boobs, no extra tiredness, etc. Until I started feeling Landry move inside of me, I was relieved at every doctor's appointment when we were able to see him on the sonogram or hear his heart beating - I needed proof I was pregnant!

The second trimester has been full of heartburn and a few leg cramps here and there, but I really can't complain. We waited so long for this little guy that I would have endured pretty much anything and if heartburn is it, I'm just all the more lucky!!!




First hint I was pregnant! I ended up taking about 10 home pregnancy tests.



6 Weeks Preggo (just finished working out = crazy hair and no make-up = lovely picture)



Landry's first sonogram at 7.5 weeks - what an adorable little peanut!



13 Weeks



17 Weeks (another crazy hair pic - I hope I had just finished working out...)



We found out at our 19 week sonogram that we were having a little boy!!! My doctor's exact words were "its got a wiener!" Blair and I were extremely excited and we wanted Ireland to be the first to know, so we picked her up after the appt and took her for ice cream. We gave her a bag full of blue jelly belly's to help give her the news.



26 Weeks



Me & Ireland before we left to meet Ben for my birthday dinner - I'm almost 27 weeks at time of pic

Girls' Trip!!!

Last Thursday I left my husband with a house full of painters and their radios blasting tejano music, two crazy dogs and a 7-year old to enjoy a long weekend in Phoenix with Sarah & Katie (I have such a wonderful husband).

Katie flew in from Amarillo and met me at DFW so that we could fly together to AZ. After what seemed like a 15 minute plane trip, we landed in the desert. Sarah eventually found us... and whisked us away to Pizzeria Bianco. For those of you that haven't ever heard of this little pizza joint, Oprah featured it on her show as one of the best 10 pizza places in the U.S. Needless to say, there is quite a wait for a table... our 2.5 hour wait was well worth it though and I have to say it really was some of the best pizza I have ever had!!!

We spent the weekend talking, eating, shopping, & lounging in the pool enjoying the cold front that came in (I don't think the temperature ever reached above 104 while we were there). It was a Perfect weekend with Perfect friends! It just makes me sad that we don't live closer and can only get together once or twice a year, if we're lucky.

Just Pitiful

I remember it well. My dad threatening to pull my loose tooth if I didn't muster up the courage to do it myself. I guess all dads are the same, because after 15 minutes of Blair trying to coax Ireland to pull her loose tooth (before he did it for her), she finally found her courage and yanked out her second top tooth! She made sure to let us know she wasn't happy about it though, at least until she remembered that the tooth fairy would be making an appearance later that night...

Inaugural Blog

Thanks to Shanna, we are up and running! We hope this blog helps keep family and friends updated on what is going on in our world. We will try not to be too boring, but don't hold it against us if we are at times. With baby on the way, we thought this would be a good time to join the blogging masses. More to come...