Melanie & Tyler Brown

Alright… So I’m a little slow to update our blog, so here is a little update. At the beginning of August we found out some really good news. Tyler and I are going to have a boy! I’m really excited because he will have a cousin to play with.

That’s the other good news. My sister, Katie, had a baby boy at the beginning of September. She named him Brennan Lee Phelps. He is a cute sweet little baby and will only be three months older than my little boy.

So that is my good late news! Now I am 29 Weeks along and things are going really well. I’m getting a little uncomfortable, but feeling the baby is so much fun! I’m just excited to see this mini Tyler join our family.

On thurday night Tyler and I decided to do something I consider to be quite dumb.   We went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter.  Was it worth it?  Oh ya!  It was such a good end to Harry Potter, done excellently!  And we went with a bunch of people we love.  Nolan bought us tickets, so we went with a bunch of his friends and our friends.  It was so much fun and it was 3D and IMax!  Couldn’t be better.  We only get 3.5 hours of sleep that night before work came the next morning but it was totally worth it!  Thank you Nolan for an awesome night.

Nolan took this picture for us, but it is Bellatrix in the background… awesome!

Yesterday, Nat took me to her work (she works at an OBGYN office as a medical assistant).  We were curious to see if we could find out if my baby would let us know the gender… well sadly, it would not give us a clear look.  But we did get some fun pictures.  So Tyler, my mom, Nat, Nat’s mom and I all had fun trying to see what we could see and watched the baby wave, suck it’s thumb, blow us kisses and pretty much just move a lot!  It was so much fun and so amazing to watch.  Thank you Nat for such a fun experience! 

Here is Baby Brown waving.

On Saturday, Tyler and I wanted something tasty.  So we went to Texas Roadhouse for some ribs.  We always share a full rack of ribs and get some sides.  So that was the plan.  We got our ribs and they tasted great inside, but the edges were pretty burned.  We told the waitress that the meat inside was delicious, but we couldn’t eat the outside because it was burned.  She then looked worried and said that shouldn’t happen.  A little while later the manager came to our table, He told us he was sorry they weren’t good and we continued to tell him they really were tasty.  But he looked and said, but they are burned.  We are going to get you some more ribs to go.  And he walked away.  We both were quite full though and grabbed him before he got to far and said that’s alright.  He said we’ll make them to go then and make sure you are taken care of next time. 

So the manager came out with a half a rack of ribs to go and a voucher for $18 for another visit.  We were quite shocked… then when we got our bill they took off $10. 

Wow… We learned a very good lesson, if something is wrong with your food, be nice about it and they will take care of you.   Thank you Texas Roadhouse!  Lunch was excellent and we will be coming back!

Yesterday Tyler and I had an amazing experience.  We went to the doctor’s office and heard our baby’s heart beat.  Yes, you read correctly.  We are having a baby.  The baby is due in december.  We couldn’t be more excited.  As we talked with the doctor yesterday he told us that with how far along I am, the baby’s heart is about the size of the ball in a ball point pen.  We were just amazed that we could hear the little heart beat going 160 bpm even with it being that small.  I have been really lucky too and haven’t been super sick.  I get sick if I don’t eat or don’t get a lot of sleep, but other than that, things have been really good.  We are super excited for this new addition to our family to join us in a few months.  (This is the ultra sound picture from our 8 week appointment complete with captions thanks to Tyler.) 

A few days ago I (Hey it’s me, Tyler) decided to put a recent idea for a burger to work.  As you can probably see from the pictures instead of just slapping cheese on the burger, I decided to pan fry it (you know, like when you leave a quesadilla in the microwave too long and it gets hard…) it sounds gross but it’s actually quite good because pan frying it gives it good texture and what not.  I also made some onion rings that were really good too, and to top it off, some A-1 Mayo which ended up giving it a nice zip.  Feel free to give me some new burger ideas in the comments! Maybe I’ll make another round of burgers, and invite you over. =D

I have been meaning to take pictures of the house complete and moved in for a few weeks now.  Then the house got messy and it just didn’t happen… until now!  I finally decided this week that my goal was to clean the house and take pictures.  My little brother has wanted pictures of the house for a while and now he will get them.  So some of the rooms are pretty empty.  We haven’t moved our desk in and we haven’t filled the two bedrooms.  We will have stuff to fill the house one day.  For now.  We will just use the rooms we need.