The Name!

We've finally decided on a name: Owen Farmer Neri.
We'd been pretty settled on Owen for awhile now but had the hardest time coming up with a middle name we both liked. Farmer was originally put out as a joke but quickly grew on us the more we said it. There are a lot of things we both like about the name, so it's a win!

I'm days away from my third trimester and can't wait for this to be over. I'm still staying "slim" but I've gained over 15 lbs so I'm doing well with that. I've been nesting like mad the last 3 weeks and everyone here has been forced to go along for the ride. Consequently, our house looks amazing now.

One of the big things that had to get done in order for this top to bottom clean & rearrange of everything was to oust a guinea pig. That's right, Shredder had to go. Poor girl was being tormented by our older pig anyway so we found her a nice new home at a farm. An actual farm, not "the farm".

We spent a couple hours at Dawn's farm in SC and saw plenty of goats, 4 ponies, 4 horses, lots of chickens - the highlights of which were the "silkies" and the "Polish" rooster. Also an alpaca with snaggly teeth (he needed 'em filed down), ferrets, rabbits, sugar gliders, a black cat, a small red parrot, ducks, guinea fowl, and a yearling deer she had raised since just a day or two old when it's mother had been struck & killed by a car. At the end of our visit she helped Lianna up on one of her ponies and led her around bareback.

On the left is a Polish rooster and the right is an example of a silky. The silkies looked kind of like dinosaurs and even had shorter than average wings!

Other than that not much has happened. I'm trying to find some kids to watch in my home to make some extra money, maybe some pets to sit on my own too. We'll see what comes of my craigslist ads I suppose. I've been adding photos slowly but surely to our Photo Album, including weekly updates of my growing belly. I put these links up on the column to your left here too.

Oh - one of Damon's old girlfriends from high school found him on myspace recently so he's just discovered how cool it can really be to get back in touch with old friends on that site. I guess he's found some mutual friends from her page too. Yesterday he actually spent at least an hour on his myspace account. So let's everyone who has a myspace account go ahead and make fun of him over there now!

Week 26

~Arielle