Last weeks pre-Laurel!

I can't believe how fast time is flying!!! Only 25 days left until baby Laurel's due date. Will and I have been having a wonderful time getting ready for her arrival as well as spending time together just the two of us (although we miss the Kittrell's who are gone on vacation). Over the past 2 weeks we have painted her room, purchased and set-up her crib/dresser, and gotten most of her things in order awaiting her arrival home. Here are some pictures to document....

This is the color of Laurel's new room! Of course it looks a little different in real life, but this is basically it. Also, this chair was my first spray painting project ever. I have decided to love spray paint!! It really is amazing. I think I may have been a little over-enthusiastic about it, because my finger that pressed the "sprayer part" was numb for days afterwards!

Will wanted his efforts to put together the crib to be well documented! We had a hilarious time!

VICTORY!!!

I am planning on posting pictures of Laurel's completed room, but I wanted to wait until it actually is completed. I have some pictures and stuff to put up on the walls and I will post the results when that is done!

Going even farther back here are some pictures from the Connolly Family Vacation to Oak Island, NC in mid-June. It was so wonderful to get to spend a whole week with my family! The Lord really blessed our trip and we had a wonderful time.

One day Anne and Dave (my sis and brother in law) and Will and I took a little trip about 1 hour away to a town called Southport. It was sort of like an extremely miniature Charleston.

Yum! We ate ice cream at a delicious place called Spike's Dairy Bar. I can skip the "pickles" part, but pregnancy had greatly increased my love of ice cream! I would like to eat it pretty much every day, especially now that it is Summer. Thankfully the closest ice cream to our house is TCBY, so I don't feel as bad about it because it is frozen yogurt :)



One of my special vacation memories is going pier fishing with Dad and Will early one morning! I used to go fishing with Dad a lot when I was younger and it was a great memory to go with Dad AND Will! Here were are on the pier.

This was a great moment! I really wanted to catch one of these tiny sharks during the trip and I did!! You can see the pride in my face :)

I really like this picture of Will.

A self-portrait of my brother, Michael, who just had a very successful open heart surgery 2 weeks ago. Praise God for all those answers to prayer!

Relaxing at the Leaky Tiki Ice Cream Parlor after a great game of putt-putt golf!

Dad being gored by a wild elephant while Mom looks on in horror.

That is a little preview from our vacation! Of course, we did a lot more then that, but I just didn't get as many pictures as I should have!

I know that I am a horrible blogger, but I fully intent on posting pictures of baby Laurel when she is born! I will probably appoint someone to post them for me, which will probably insure that they will be put up a lot faster!