Empty Bag

I see it has been 13 days since we posted last. Bonnie has felt pretty good for the most part. She has not eaten or wanted to eat any vegetables, which is very different, but has been eating a lot of cottage cheese. Besides her residency, her and Bean have been hanging out the most in the kitchen; chocolate chip cookies, tomato/vegetable soup, 6 loaves of bread (yesterday with Vanessa), and blueberry muffins have been a few of the highlights. We also found out Bean does not like popcorn, we got some yesterday at the Dogwood festival and it didn't sit so well with Bon.

Bean is the size of a lime in the 11th week!

This was also the week the cat escaped. It was really fun skyping with the brothers, we told Jeff and Tiff Tuesday, Nate and Erica Wednesday, Adam and Casie Friday, and Ryan and Kristin today (Sunday). The reactions were great! We emailed a picture of the ultrasound while we were talking and had them open their email. We also skyped in to Hannah's birthday party today which was really fun.

We told small group on Wednesday night during prayer requests at the end, I said it pretty nonchalantly so a few of them thought we were joking, it was pretty funny. We need to work out the kinks in our delivery announcement when we see people. Example: Today at church as Bonnie was small talking with Amy (wife)  and I was small talking with Dave (husband) it was clear (to me) we weren't going to tell them AND that we couldn't remember Lilly's (baby) name. Just as I uttered the sentence to Dave "Golf season is over tomorrow and school is over in five weeks, other than that nothing new at all with us" Bonnie says "we are pregnant" to Amy. Haha! Lots of room for improvement in the delivery announcement category. 

Not much else to report. Bonnie had her second Doctors appointment and it went well. We went to a McNair baseball game to watch Mike and Coach Dunton was grilling ribs in left field during the entire game. To quote Mr. Jackson......."Gooooo Mustangs!"

Ultra Sound Spring Break

This past week has really fun and wild. Most importantly Bonnie feels pretty good overall and Bean is growing every day. Here is a quick play by play..

Monday-Mom and Dad got in late Sunday night, they left after Caleb's baby dedication. Dad and I played golf at the Frog which was really fun. The course was in awesome shape and we both played well. Mom graded essays all day, Bonnie worked. We had Mellow Mushrooms for dinner and watched Kentucky beat Kansas for the national championship. The highlight of the day was telling them about Bean,we decided on telling them during the prayer for dinner. Mom almost fainted into Bonnie when I said it

Tuesday- Bonnie worked in the morning and the three of us went to the Cyclorama at Grant Park. Bonnie and I went to the first doctor's appointment for Bean while my parents worked on killing all the bees in our backyard. It was so excited to meet our little friend!

The appointment went very well and we really liked Dr. Cook. She was very personal and answered a lot of our questions. It was a surreal feeling to look at the ultrasound and see Bean, needless to say a fair amount of angst quickly turned to joy. 7.4 weeks is about a week older than we thought, they gave us a November 16th due date and we were thinking it would be Thanksgiving. That little heart is beating 163 times a minute! I have been 50/50 on gender since the get go but once we saw the ultrasound I sure thought Bean looked like a boy, they seemed to lean toward girl b/c of the heartbeat. We'll see. So cool!

We got home and celebrated with my parents at Agave. It was really fun to have them here during these few days and they were helpful in lots of ways as always.

Wednesday- Dad and I dropped Bonnie off and played nine holes at North Fulton, then they took off around 10. I went to get my teeth cleaned, then to an eye exam, then back to get 3 cavities filled. Tommy Taylor got here just before I got home, we dropped Ruby off at the Arrowoods, then picked up Bonnie and headed south to the Beach! Besides the 13 miles a gallon in the Jeep it was a fun ride, we got to Coop's at about 2 in the morning after picking up Vanessa in Ocala.


Thursday- Before Bonnie and Vanessa left for the condo from Coop's she told her the news, here is the reaction...

Tommy and I fried ourselves by playing 2 and a half hours of tennis while we waited on Cooper to get home from school, fun but deadly. We got to the condo, got some bocce in while the girls laid out, and had a nice spaghetti dinner.

Thursday-Sunday- Lots of golf, gulf, beach, bocce ball, cornhole, IUopoly, Tiger, Masters, Kite Runner, pizza, frisbee, laying out, and football.

We had a great break but are absolutely wiped out. We got up at 4:30 this morning to drive so Tommy could get up north by a respectable time. Got home from Easter service tonight in time to see Bubba win the Masters. Time for bed. No doctors appointment until next Tuesday, Bean is the size of an Olive though how crazy !

Making Poems, Making Bread

Pretty fun Saturday evening going, Final Four games on (Louisville/Kentucky right now, Kansas/OSU later) and Bonnie is making some bread. Its sort of creepy, as I type, the towel over the bread keeps raising higher and higher to my left. Louisville within 3! Bonnie is cheering from the office. Silva 3...tie game!

What happened this week, you ask? Most notable was Bonnie spilling the beans about the news (spilling the news about the Bean??) to her parents on Friday. She wrote a really fun poem to both Mike and Mary, along with a Pizza to Mike and flowers to Mary. When they got their gift she had them text her and she sent them the following...

For Mary: Roses are Red, violets are blue, Steve and I have a big surprise for you.

This is such a big secret only a few people know, but soon my belly will begin to grow. 

So while you're sitting on the beach, working on your tan, think about what you would like to be called, Grandma, Granny, or Gran!

This is hush hush for now, I hope you'll remember,

Baby Clark will be arriving sometime in November! 

For Mike: Same, but substituted this line in for the beach one

So while you're hunting on the mountain tops, think about what you would like to be called, grandpa, Papaw, or Pops

Shelly and Laura heard the news too which was a little out of plan but certainly no big deal. We plan on telling my parents this weekend when they come down. Monday Dad and I are playing The Frog, pizza and championship game Monday, first doctors appointment on Tuesday, then down to Florida for a few days with the IU guys on Wednesday. Should be a great week! Kentucky wins, yuck.....

Camp Sanders

What a fun, exciting, and tiring weekend it was here in Atlanta. Paul, Pancake, and Brady came down with Adam for the Kentucky/IU sweet sixteen game, and Megan was here for work all week as well. It was a great game to watch despite the outcome, from the pep rally to the front row seats Tony Bo hooked us up with to the offensive explosions from both teams (90-102) it was all around a memorable experience. We golfed this morning coming off of 2.5 hours of sleep (due to a 1.5 hour mental recap of every play on our deck the 'night' before) and then went to Fox Brothers (burnt ends special!), it was quite the day. Bonnie and Megan met up Danielle for dinner while I slept the evening away.

Bonnie never ceases to impress me, she made it all week without telling Megan the big news. I still think females can tell though, like if it crossed Megan's mind "Why isn't Bonnie drinking Diet Coke?" (which I'm sure it did) and she doesn't ask that question that means she kind of knows. Right?  Regardless, Bonnie's self control is awesome, no DC for her in a week and a half. I did like her idea of breaking the news to people, had IU won, via a sign at the elite 8 game tomorrow. As for the pregnancy, Bonnie was not feeling so hot this week. It was exciting for her to say that little Bean is the size of an orange seed now. My strategy has been to alter the gender in every prayer, so in one I'll pray for her and the next I'll pray for him. Bonnie is thinking girl, I am split 60 boy/ 40 girl right now but am having a much harder time than usual figuring it out.

Small group get together tomorrow, the girls and going to see Hunger Games and the guys are playing tennis/watching basketball over here, one week till spring break...

Monday evening, looking like a pretty hectic week here. Megan is coming Wednesday night for a few days and it sounds like Adam and Paul are coming down (with Brady and Chad) for the IU game (IU beat VCU the other night to go to the sweet 16!). I've been trying to find some reasonably priced tickets, looks like I got some for a hundred a pop, which is much better than what TicketMaster is asking. We are hosting small group Wednesday and are opening up with Chapter one of Forgotten God, should be a pretty good study. Sounds like we are gonna go through out the old love seat, gotta go!

Thursday, March 15
          What a day! Bonnie has been pushing for us to start journaling for the longest, sort of like when you are trying to start a new workout, no time ever seems right. Well tonight seems to be pretty right as the Hoosiers won their first NCAA game in the Tom Crean era as Hulls went off for 22. It was really fun to watch a meaningful IU game in march as it has been a long time coming. If we take care of VCU on Saturday then the IU Kentucky rematch will be here in the ATL next week...unreal! 

She shocked me with THIS!

          Oh, and Bonnie is pregnant! How cool is that? She found out last night and let me know tonight by giving me a 'gift' of a pregnancy test with 'yes' written on it. I legitimately thought she got me a thermometer for 10 seconds and almost put it in my mouth to see if I had a fever before i realized what was going on. We feel so blessed and are pretty overwhelmed by God's timing, we have had a not-so-great stretch of feeling somewhat stuck in the monotony of our jobs and wondering what we should do in our near future. We pretty much agreed to be excited for a few days before we really think about what this all means, but an early December birth would likely put us in Atlanta for another year (jobs/insurance/not moving during a pregnancy) so that is exciting as well. Well that is all for now, hopefully this thing stays private b/c we are really looking forward to telling people when the time is right..