First Posting

Hello!
We wanted to find a way to keep everyone up to date and figured this would be an excellent way to do just that. Especially since I check blogs of friends each morning along with my morning coffee (decaf, of course...), I figured some of you may come back and visit us to see what has been going on in the wilds of Goleta.
Here are a few recent photos that pretty much sum up what we have been doing:
Gardening and preparing for Baby Blabey.
(and work, but that's much less fun to write about here).


We are very excited for Tom's parents to visit two weeks from now - they will be impressed by Tom's gardening prowess and skillz. We promise to feed them plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit while... perhaps... putting them to work on some baby project =).
I will try and figure out how to upload shots from our last ultrasound 6 weeks ago but I make no promises. That and you'd probably be hard pressed to tell what was what - except she's very good about giving us clear views of her hands, feet, and ribs/spine! I am really looking forward to our next in 4 weeks or so when we'll hopefully get a good idea of what she'll look like. (tom is hoping she looks more like him than me...=) but we've got some strong Norwegian genes that I have a feeling will reign supreme...!)

Thanks for reading & we promise we'll update this with news and more importantly, photos of the nursery, garden, attic conversion into a guest room, and the requisite belly/ultrasound shots.