DDH.

I have this wonderful piece of sweetness, who makes me smile daily:

Cute heart website.

pumpkin.

Here is a little sweetness to brighten your day.

I circled the baby, at this point it looks more like a blob - less like a baby. The next sono will likely be a little more telling.

1/21: 7wks 5days, due date of September 4th. During the sono I could see little pumpkin's heart flickering!! It was most awesome. Everything looks good (minus my weight trend).

*Now your up to speed on why I've been lagging in the blog updation department.

8 weeks: Webbed fingers and toes appear, baby's eyelids practically cover their eyes, breathing tubes extend from baby's throat to the branches of their developing lungs, and interestingly baby's "tail" is just about gone.

forgot.

You all are in wonder ..
What the heck is going on at the Heintz house? ..

Well not much.
Unless you consider work projects a good time.
I am flying to San An. in the AM to see the greatest of family members (especially Jack & Garner).

I will post some pics on my return.
Yay!

stick-er shock.

The most wonderful of experiences started 12/31/08

with a dip-stick of sorts, continued with a "+", and then a very ecstatic set of DHs. No joking.

Other-half and I are going to be gracious parents.
.. This is the part where you hide your concern for our parenting woos.

I know, we are in for a ride.
{although, i am assured that having a pediatrician hubby will be very helpful.}

Only 7ish months to go until we see the

little pumpkin all grown up.

*I heard that I might experience a little nausea, little headaches, little potty breaks, little fatigue, and little less sleep at night. Little-lotta.

block.

Today I thought I would update the blog. Then I realized that there wasn't anything in particular that I could think of. I resorted to a blog prompt generator [which I have never used] and this is what I got:
Inventory the contents of your pockets.

So very helpful.
back to The Devil Wears Prada.

{i did have a fun day with a bunch of girls and-a bridal shower, which i will post later.}

the whole fam-damily.

Xmas brought lots of wonderful family to the Heintz House!

I love 12/24 & 12/25 and all it brings including: loved ones, visitors, holidays, good food, robert redford dessert, peppermint bark.

{12/25: My mom and Garner came for a visit. We had a traditional Christmas dinner, including turkey, and gross jellied cranberries (Dyer's fav.). Garner stayed the weekend and we had lots of rest and relaxation (.. and a whole lotta of fun).}

{12/30: Dyer's mom Beth, dad Dennis, sister Amy, G'ma Lurah, and aunt Wynne came all the way from Brenham. We ate yum Jason's Deli and played approx. 5 rounds of white elephant gift exchange. Dyer was the big winner with an adorable "peace" angel stocking (see pic above) and $28 big ones! I got a very unique candle holder and an over the top cute feather pen. Score.}

dh & i opened gifts on xmas eve. i will enjoy some good smelling perfume with some other goodies in '09, and the other dh - a power screw driver!

carol.

A Heintz Christmas.

&.

I can only imagine the angst that has been happening since I posted this:

DH2 + D magazine + famous people

.. So maybe not famous at all, but I had to relish considering I love all things D (including the magazine and the husband).

{that is the Heintz there on the left, 2nd pic from the bottom.}

Imagine my astonishment when DH & I are on the couch .. I get my brand spanking new Jan. issue of D .. as always I briefly glance through it looking at the famous people at Dallas events .. then I realize we are in a picture! I was telling Dyer that there was a caption from a museum event that we went to before noticing the pic included us.

Ok, enough with the bragging. I get it. We're not famous-famous.

{fyi: once i was quoted in the Baylor Magazine, it was something about being a student worker working at the library. amazing, i know.}
{fyii: jan. '09 is in a short few weeks. double-weird.}

candy.

Want to see something that makes my heart sing? Here you go:

Rudolph Rowdy & Dyer circa. Xmas '04

{now on to something over-the-top awesome which is inclusive of 3 things I especially love. hint: DH2 + D magazine + famous people. not going to post yet .. i have to keep people coming back!}

I finally posted this extravaganza.

'mas.

Heintz honeymoon, 6/08

(I plan to include some firstmas & xmas '08 photos soon. its on the list.)

insist.

St Croix. Yes, please.

{although i enJoy the cold weather, I could go for a hint of summer on an island.}

bask.

We had a good time with Garner this weekend! Have I mentioned how sweet and helpful G is?!

We did a little movie watching, x-box playing, shopping, eating, jogging, I-spying, cleaning, driving, running in the rain, and starbucksing.

I miss him already.

___________________
"Bless this highly nutritious microwavable macaroni and cheese dinner and the people who sold it on sale. Amen."
name it.

nooks.

Complete: Same kind of different as me.
Now: Swapping Lives, by Jane Green.

I pondered putting the blog on hiatus due to this:

.. then I thought, "D&D's blog is something that people look forward to reading, and some people don't like books and this may be their only reading (mainly MR)." I felt obligated, so I forge on.

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

-H. Longfellow

sibling.

i love this guy.
:)

dyner.

My brother, Garner, and his bro-in-law.

SO much love.

(this is DYer + GarNER, hence the post title. just in case you were wondering.)

grateful.

So much to be grateful for everyday this year. If given the task of naming 12 things I am thankful for:
{fyi: this list is not in any particular order nor it is completely inclusive .. there is lots i am thankful for.}

1. Ability to spent time with my truelove
2. My entire caring & supportive family
3. The most adorable babies born in '08, and their patient & awesome mom's
4. My health, my friend's and family's health {this could count for all 12}
5. A job that I love to do, including the cute children I see everyday at work & wonderful girls I work with
6. The over-the-top sweet friends that have and their kind words
7. My very calm, loving, hard working, smart, sweet other half
8. The perseverance of Keara C., along with the Twilight books
9. The fact that I have made somewhat of a dent in my school loans [not so much the dent the economy has made in my 401K]
10. My beautiful home
11. Ability to be creative
12. My cell phone, which includes text messaging. HGTV and reality shows .. I know

pup.

Rowdy

: definitely the sweetest pup ever .. except if you are another dog.

The second Rowdy hears clothes come out of the dryer, no matter how hot they are, he comes running and will wait for us to dump them out so that he can lay in them! It is too funny!!

Five years ago during grad school I was anxious to get a dog. Either a 'Rowdy' or a 'Pumpkin' depending on the gender. DH went to several Humane Societies in Houston to find the best dog for my birthday (while driving around Dyer got a ticket!).

We took a trip out to the shelter and loved little 'Creamy' (Rowdy's original name). Dyer likes to tell how I gripped b/c the dog had fleas!!

Firstiversary.

I was thinking .. I started this blog-thing a little too late to post about the first of many anniversaries, so I thought I would briefly reflect back on the biggest and best of them all.

The Mr. & Mrs.

The bride and the maids: Erin (Grace's mom), Keara (Dylan & Dawson's mom), Michelle (Jackson's mom), Elizabeth (the roomie that introduced DH2), and Amy (Dyer's sister)

My mom, Garner, Dyer, and my Uncle Henry

Dyer's dad and mom

The giggly-bride

October 19th, 2008 could not have been any more perfect. So many super memories of that day, I could reflect on what each person brought to our big day .. Mostly I would just like to thank them ALL. I love my family and all that they do!

One year later and I am still giggling.

{goodness. i love that hubby-wubby of mine.}

Stay Diego.

There is this wonderful place where the temperature hovers around the 70-80s year around. This place, San Diego, is awesome.

Dyer and I were able to attend the NASPGHAN conference in San Diego thanks to UT Southwestern and CMC's Clinical Nutrition department.



This conference had LOTS of nutritional topics {which you can only imagine made me very excited!}, as well as lots of people that Dyer was able to network with.


Provided our trip to the West Coast was purely scientific and educational we had a great time. We did have an opportunity to head to the SD Zoo, where we still were able to get our aforementioned learn on. I read that it was thee top zoo in the US, it was definitely more than we hoped. The zoo almost didn't happen after we did some research (thanks to David, Dyer's friend from residency) and realized that the zoo was a hefty $34/person +taxi ride. However come to find out it was so worth it.

The days were very long and our brains were very saturated with a lotta information (don't ask me to recite anything I learned for at least a few days).

meeting place.

We met here, at this wonderful place in Waco, Baylor University. I was studying Nutrition and Dyer was learning all about some Biology, Chemistry, and English. Little did I know I would meet the guy. You know, the one that makes me happy. :)

Well technically we met twice. Once at a get together with my roommate Elizabeth, were I thought, "goodness that guy is cute and sweet." Then more officially at the Moody Library where we were reintroduced by Elizabeth. I was working at the library & Dyer, well he was there studying the above mentioned multitude of degrees. He would be in the library lobby area studying .. those of you from BU know, it was open 24hrs per day.

After providing him with my number, I invited him to some group get together .. he declined because he was hanging out with his roomies. (Who wouldn't want to hang out with there roommates in place of a girl?! Come to find out later, he wanted to hang out with this girl on a date.)

March 22, 2003 : First date to Chili's and to see the movie Phone Booth.

Things I remember about the initial dating phase was Dyer's birthday! (Gosh, that was a long time ago!) He was 22 years old. It came about 3 weeks after our first date, and as you can imagine the gift made for some serious over analyzing on my part! Well, I made him chocolate chip cookies .. come to find out he does not even like cookies! (Weird, I know.) The same day was Diadeloso, which is BUs day to celebrate, we celebrated.

Another funny story .. I was working in the library lobby and Dyer was working as a tutor. There was an older guy that came looking for his "tutor." Apparently when I was directing the guy I said, "Dyer, my boyfriend, is your tutor. "

I DEFINITELY don't think that I was the first to define our dating to a stranger! Dyer just thinks that is how it went. Really, the BF/GF came up when we were at Bush's Chicken. Dyer, while telling a story, says, "blah, blah your boyfriend, blah."

Then he left for med school.
more to come...