A grand adventure is about to begin!

The news is out! Baby Liles will be arriving near April 11, 2012! We are overjoyed that we get to finally share the news with everyone. It was so hard to keep it a secret for the first 8 weeks! Chris recently got a new car and at every dealership we told the salesman we were pregnant just so we could tell someone!

So far everything is going great with the pregnancy. As far as symptoms, I have been fairly lucky in that I haven't had much nausea, only a little aversion to certain foods every once in awhile. Ofcourse I have been very tired this first trimester and as Chris told the OB "a bit moody." We have had a couple ultrasounds throughout the first trimester but the most recent one at 11 weeks, 6 days was the best! When the sonographer started, the baby was asleep so it took some coercing but once he/she finally woke, poor thing had the hiccups! It was surreal to see actual movement and to hear the heartbeat. That is when it became real for us!

I have included a few pictures below of the journey so far from when we first found out to the first sonogram as well as my growing belly. I will be starting a pregnancy/baby website on http://www.babyjellybeans.com/ in a few weeks once we find out the gender, which by the way will be November 10! Until then, here are a few to tide you over. Love you all!

Exactly 4 weeks pregnant!



Announcing the news to daddy to be

First time cousins!



Sonogram at 11wks 6 days

Bump at 12 weeks - baby is size of a lime!

Recent and new happenings

Wow, the last couple months have flown by! We have had ice/snow storms out the wazoo in DFW this year, but thankfully those have ceased for 2011 and we are on to spring time! During the month of February we had several family visits but unfortunately didn't get any pictures. Here's a recap.

We had the Smoker family in town the first weekend of February and since we had just had an ice storm, we didn't get to do much exploring. We are hoping their next visit to Dallas we will be able to show them the Fire Safety Town since Ella and Henry were really looking forward to that. While we didn't get to go out much, we definitely had a lot of fun with the kids playing games, coloring, and watching movies. The kids are growing up so fast and we cherish every minute we get to spend with them. Shortly after the Smokers left, Chip and Cami came in town for a very short visit. We had some great dinners, did a little shopping and watched the All-Star festivities and our favorite movie, Inception. Since it was a short visit, we are hoping to see them again sometime this summer. This past week Grandpa Kent and MaryLou were in town so we had them and their friends over for dinner. It was great to see them and catch up on what has been happening with them. That is the close of our family visits for now, but we look forward to seeing everyone again soon.

On a side note:
I have started a new blog for family and friends to share their favorite recipes so check it out if you are interested! It is called The Flavor Connection and can be found at TheFlavorConnection.blogspot.com. If you would like to become an author on the blog, please click on Email Us link and we would be happy to get you setup to contribute your works of culinary genious!

Love you all and more to come from Loving Liles soon!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

It is now officially winter in Texas! We have had our first snow and wanted to take a few pictures of our house and neighborhood in all of its winter glory.