February

After our vacation, it was back to reality. We flew in on Friday, the 6th, dropped off our things at the house and headed to Forney to pick up our dogs. Colt's parents had went out of town, but we made plans to meet the rest of the family, Blake, Victoria, Nicci and Davallen at Christina's in Forney to grab dinner and celebrate Victoria's 21st. Once we finished dinner, it was pretty late so we just stayed the night at his parents house that night and headed back home on Saturday morning. Saturday night, we had a get together to go to at one of the surgery residents house. 

Then on Monday, it was back to work for both of us. It was pretty much the start of spring busy season and overtime for me. Colt was on ortho the month of February, and luckily, he got off around lunch that Monday because that's the afternoon we found out we were having a baby girl!

Later in the week, we had our emergency medicine intern dinner at Brandon and Tina's house. Tina got us this gift for our little girl! 

On Valentine's Day, Colt had to work a lunch to 2am shift so before he went in, we made a trip to Killeen to Hallmark to exchange a gender neutral baby book that my mom had gotten us for Christmas for this one. By the time we made it back to town, Meg's and Cracker Barrell were packed so we grabbed something at Jack in the Box real quick before he had to go in. We're romantic like that!

And we kept getting more gifts from everyone excited about our girl... I think this was Dede's first purchase after we found out.  

Colt's grandparents, Tooter and Linda, sent us this in the mail. 

The following week, we went to dinner at Corona's in Belton to celebrate Whitney's birthday. 

Colt had testing the next week on February 25th. February also consited of a lot of bad weather in Dallas. It got so bad the office actually closed one day and that never happens. The thing about working remotely though is that when the office closes, you still work. Even though Dallas got hit hard, 

this was pretty much the extent of our conditions. We had one day where it snowed pretty hard and one day where their were warnings about icy roads, but everything melted immediately.

My parents had planned on coming to see us that last weekend of February since Colt was going to be off but because of all the weather their direction, they weren't sure if they were going to be able to. However, they did. They came on Friday, February 27th, and got here around lunch. We grabbed lunch and my mom helped clean out the back bedroom to get it ready for baby. After we all ate lunch together on Saturday, they headed back home. It was the first time we had seen them since Christmas.  That Satruday night, we ended up going to Matt's birthday dinner at Chili's with everyone but cut out early since Colt had to be at work at 4am. 

In February, I also got invisalign. We had talked about it last year but waited until I got on Colt's dental insurance since they covered a big portion of it. My teeth weren't too bad, but my top teeth had definitely gotten pretty crooked from not wearing my retainer. Actually, my top teeth were never really straight when I got my braces off, and we shouldn't have let them take them off to begin with. However, they had gotten worse. It should be a 10 tray process that lasts about 5 months, and I should be done about the time the baby is due.

Here are a couple more random pics from February… 

The dogs enjoying my pregnancy pillow

And I stole this from Colt's phone. He ended up installing lighting in the bed of his truck on one of his few days off.