It’s January 01, 2012 at 12:00AM, Happy New Year everyone!!!
Third Trimester!!!
Christie just started her third trimester. We went to the doctors office today for a normal checkup and everything looks good. I finally finished painting the baby room and now we just have to buy things for it.
Moved to a new Server
I moved the site to a new server that is more powerful and has tons more storage. My new host also has 24/7 phone and chat support, not that I ever have much need for that, but its nice to have it there to fall back on. This new server is running Centos where as my old server was running Ubuntu, to be honest I prefer Ubuntu but most companies use Centos in their production environments so setting this server up is good practice. Set up was fairly simple, I did have to make some changes to Apache config as Centos isn’t configured for virtual hosts by default. I also modified it so each site has its own config file to make things neater and easier to manage. Once everything was setup I copied all the website files over and exported the databases and imported them into this new server.
Thanksgiving at our house this year
We decided that since this is our first year in our beautiful brand new house that we should host thanksgiving this year. Everything turned out great. Christie’s parents came as did her brother Brett and her aunt Liz and uncle Hector. We bought a new couch, the old one was too small and too low making it difficult for Christie to get out of it in her current condition (:P). As the man of the house the Turkey was my responsibly. This being my first thanksgiving as host and this being my first solo turkey I was a little nervous about the whole thing. In the end it turned out to be one of the best turkeys I had ever tasted thanks to the help and advice from mine and Christie’s dads. We also had green beans, asparagus, corn on the cobb, many different types of potatoes, stuffing and freash bread out of the bread maker. Brett brought down his new Miata and me and him went for a drive through Katy, the weather was amazing and it was great to get back into a manual and drive with the top off. All in all we had a great Thanksgiving, and i cant wait for Christmas.
Christie is Pregnant!!!
The good news is Christie is Pregnant. Our first ultra sound was really amazing, i didnt realize how just hearing the baby’s heart beat for the first time would affect me but wow there is nothing like it. Over the next few months we went in and got regular check ups and ultra sounds, its really cool how we can see him growing from visit to visit. Oh and we found out at around 22 weeks that we are having a healthy baby boy. Christie can feel him kicking from time to time, I havent felt onje yet but im sure i will soon. One of the pleasant side affects of this is that Christie is getting more and more beautiful as she gets more and more pregnant. She is staying active, she is still teaching and coaching Volleyball and now Basketball. We have been talking about names and have a few ideas but nothing is written in stone yet and we probably wont tell anyone his name until hes born. I can wait to see my son for the first time.
Renaissance Festival
Jeff, Wesley and his date, Charles, Crystal, Skylar, and I went to the Renaissance Festival this weekend. Christie was going to go but in her current condition she wasn’t up for walking around all day. We had a great time, I had a few beers and mead and was tipsy pretty much the whole day. There are pictures of the festivities in the photo gallery, take a look at some of the outrageous costumes.
Wings Over Houston
Christie got some free tickets for us to go to Wings Over Houston. She had to drive the bus there and ended up having to chaperon some kids. It was really hot and there was alot of walking involved. It was a fun day however I doubt i would go again with the school field trip. There are some cool pics in the photo gallery of some pf the planes, there is even some really cool shots of a “Near” super sonic fly by of an F-18.
Moved in (mostly)
The closing went pretty smoothly and went really well. we signed a bunch of papers and now we own a house. We moved most of our stuff in this past weekend. The house is starting to feel more an more like home. We went out Sunday and bought a bunch of stuff for the house, who knew buying a home would be so expensive. We bought 3 fans (bedroom, living room, and porch), a bad ass Grill (stainless steel char-broil), String Trimmer (decided to go with a 4-cycle so I don’t have to worry about mixing fuel), blinds for the windows on the rear doors, some sprinklers and hoses, I even bought a few L.E.D. light bulbs to try out. All and all it was a good weekend. Even Leo had a good time, he was very excited about having his very own backyard that he can run around and play in.
Home ownership starts tomorrow!!!
Well after almost 5 months of waiting our house will finally be finished and we will be closing tomorrow. I have been soooooo excited that I barely slept all week. There are some new pics in the gallery of the house being finished.
Took Leo to the park
It was such a nice morning we decided to take Leonidas to the park. he had such a good time he was even swiming around and playing with his ball in the water.