Germany Post Numero Uno...

Well, I was a little nervous about boredom and discomfort when I thought about being stuck on a plane in the same seat for 10 straight hours. It really turned out to not be so bad though. I flew on Lufthansa which is a huge German airline that had a super-big plane with lots of space in it. I got lucky and landed an aisle seat both on the way there and the way back (they must have known I was pregnant and would need out quite a bit :)). That made trips to the potty room and the galley for stretching an easy thing to do. Each seatback had it's own 9 inch tv screen for guests to watch any of 12 movies, 15 tv shows, or to listen to music from about 20 different genres, so the entertainment factor wasn't an issue at all. When I wasn't watching movies, I was eating or sleeping...and we all know I'm good at doing both of those! :) So, the trips there and back were quite uneventful and more comfortable than I had expected, which is always a good thing.


When I first arrived to Frankfurt, I was greeted by our friend Erin who picked me up and drove me to her house in Sembach for a day of napping (since Chad was still on mission) and then she took me out to dinner at a cute German restaurant called Alt Landstuhl. I had a delicious steak there with roasted potatoes and a yummy salad. Then, we were off to the base where hubby was soon-to-be waiting for me. We pulled up right about the time his crew arrived in their silly blue van. After big hugs and unloading my luggage, we headed up to the room and I was given a tour of the bedroom and the base. :) The boys (and me) all went into town to eat around midnight at a place called New York's Doner Kebaps...it was a little place where they shave the meat right off of this huge slab that is hanging on a rod under a heat lamp. And by shaving, I mean with a meat razor. It was one of the weirdest things I've seen, but they all said they were delicious. Had I not been so full from my dinner, I would have tried one too.

The next day was pretty slow-moving. We had decided we would take the day to catch up on some sleep and to start planning some trips. With Erin's help, we ended up spending a day in Frankfurt at the Palmengarten botanical gardens. This place was HUGE! There was no way, even if we had all day, that we could have seen everything there was to see in this place. It was acres and acres of beautiful plants, water, ducklings, flowers, and fountains. We ate lunch & had a dessert at a sweet little restaurant within the park and continued our walk through the jungly parts. We found a cute pond that rented out row boats and decided we had to take advantage of them, so we rowed around for about 30 minutes, dipping and dodging all of the other crazy and untrained rowers. It was therapeutic and stressful at the same time. Turns out I'm a good rower, but we probably already all knew that ;). We got back in the car to drive home right as the rain started coming down. It was a lot of fun & a beautiful day. Here is a silly video of prego doing her 'row thang' :).

We are obviously not professional videographers, but you get what you get. :) And my gum chewing is sooo extremely annoying, I apologize. I think I will work on that from now on. Ha.

The next day we decided to catch a train to a little town about 2 hours away called Heidelberg. Chad had been there before with his crew for a day and saw how many shops and fun things they had to do there, so we knew it would be a good time for wifey. One thing that caught me a little offguard there was that you have to pay 50 Euro cents to use their bathrooms in most public places...like in the train station, for example. It would be so funny because I would walk away from Chad to go in and then come right back out because I didn't have any coin money in my pockets, haha. He'd have to give me some and then I'd have to go in for round 2. I guess they do that to keep hobo's out and the place clean. It was rather annoying though.

We spent the whole day walking through this cute little town and finally came upon their downtown area known as Alstadt. We grabbed some lunch at a super cute little bistro in the center of the shops and then continued on to enjoy some browsing and a little bit of buying. We later came upon a beautiful cathedral that was right in the middle of a courtyard nearby, took some pictures, & got a Starbucks. Ha. Then, we came upon the Schloss Castle up on the hill. Being that my feet were already on fire from walking so much, I didn't have it in me to make the uphill hike to see the castle up close, so we took pictures from afar. That was good enough for me at that point. :) We ended up stopping by to admire a pretty river and a few waterfront properties before getting back on the train to go home.

In the middle of our journey home, Chad freaked out all of a sudden and quickly realized that both of us were without his iPhone. HOLY CRAP. Talk about putting a damper on the day. We couldn't find it anywhere and the last place we remembered having it was at the Starbucks where he was checking the stocks. So many things ran through our minds about where it might be, who it might end up with, and how we were never going to see it again. FRUSTRATING!!! But, a short couple days later we got a call from a German guy who had found it and Chad & him worked everything out to get it back to us. Thankfully, that gentleman and his brother were very upstanding citizens and honest individuals. It makes you realize there really are some pretty great and caring people out there. We (especially Chad) were so happy about how it all worked out. It might have helped touch their softy bone that Chad had Kenady's ultrasound picture as his background on the phone, haha. But, whatever works! Either way, a reward was given and all parties were left happy. :)

If you haven't seen them yet, here is a link to our pictures that we posted of Germany on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2041191&id=54100340&l=456ea56e16

That's all I have for the Germany part pretty much. Left to come...our journey through France to Paris and through Switzerland to Lucerne & Interlauken. It was all so beautiful.

Overwhelmed...:)

I am so totally overwhelmed by the idea of trying to catch you all up on the happenings of the past 3 or 4 weeks. Sorry I have been absent so long, but I have to admit that the past month or so has been one of the most fun months of my life. It was super-busy and full of traveling, but it was a great way to end my summer. I am also happy to say that I am officially home...for good. :) I have no other bigs trips planned until Chad returns in mid-September, so time to rest it is! :)

I guess I would have to start with the fabulous baby shower that some of my friends and family threw for mine and Chad's little one on the way. We have decided to officially name her Kenady Baye Sellers and are so excited about it. The shower was wonderful and we got so many really awesome and fun gifts for her. I can't wait for Daddy Chad to get to see it all when he gets home. I will post a couple pictures so it can be like you were there too :).

The wonderful hostesses that made this day possible:

Me after opening a special present known as a 'Humpy Dee' from a good family friend...I had one when I was little too:

Megan, me, & Courtney all expecting and due in October, November, & December, respectively:

And to catch you all up, here is a picture of my current belly bump at 25 weeks:

Little Kena is growing, growing, growing! Ya'll will have to be patient with me as I try to organize my thoughts and try to catch up on my posting! Gotta take it one day at a time, I guess! :) It's good to be back & I have had so much fun catching up on all you have been up to while I've been away! Keep up the fun posting everyone! :)

Germany Bound...

I'm off to see my hubby, the wonderful hubby I love... (said to the tune of the "Wizard of Oz") :)

I leave tomorrow morning to hit the road to Dallas where I will take off and arrive in Germany shortly thereafter. As you can imagine, Chad & I are sooooooo excited to see each other....not to mention BE IN GERMANY together...and for our 2nd anniversary too!!! This is my first trip abroad, so I know there is plenty there waiting for me to see & experience!

This deployment has been so much different than the previous 3. I would have never imagined ever getting to go visit him while he was mid-deployment. It's awesome the treasures God sets out for us. Please pray for my safe & comfortable travel. It will be so great to have my hubs in my arms again! Plus, he finally gets to rub a real baby belly! :) He is so excited he can barely contain himself. :)

I will be back to catch you up on all of the fabulous travel details in about 2 weeks (or a little less). Happy end of July to all of you! :)

A Phi Lamb Stroll...

I thought I would add to Shaunna's collection of fun and old pictures of our Phi Lamb group of 2004 & 2005. I had so much fun with you girls! Here are the pics to prove it! :)

Rush & Initiation 2004...I think.

The Officers in their spiffy black & white

Fall Retreat in Buffalo Gap, Texas

The coolest shoulder rub line ever...

Silly girls...those go UNDER your clothes... :)

Me & Cass at Cheddar's

Phi Lamb Stomp 2005
Homecoming 2005

Howard House Halloween Party 2005

Christmas Party @ Vanna Almond's house 2005

Well, that was fun! :)

Home again, home again...

Whew! What a weekend! My family from Alaska is still here so we have been keeping VERY busy! This past Saturday was my sister's 30th birthday party in which we thought it would be fun to make it another theme party....this time we went 80's style! We love the 80's...the music, the ridiculous outfits, the memories, & you can't forget the horrible hair-do's! Thank God for the straightening iron! haha. Anyways, we had a little pre-party dinner & dessert while we got ready for the karaoke shin-dig at Woofers & Tweeters. It's a fun little karaoke bar and we absolutely stole the show that night! If it wasn't our ridiculous outfits & hair-do's that brought the attention, it was our magnificent singing skills! Ha! It was a lot of fun! And Happy Belated Birthday again to you Sissy!

The next morning at the butt crack of dawn (a.k.a. 5:00am) we got up to get on the road for a day at Schlitterbahn! After VERY LITTLE sleep and with 3 cars in a convoy we made it to the park & had a great time in the sun that day. Amazingly enough there were no horrible sunburns and we somehow mustered up enough energy to still have a good time. Schlitterbahn is just so much fun! We have gone almost every year since I was about 5 years old. Pretty crazy! That night, we went to dinner at Mamacita's and the food was DELICIOUS! Needless to say, after 3 hours of sleep, 4 hours in the car, a full day at the park, & a belly-filling dinner, we all hit the sack at about 10 o'clock that night and slept for a good 11 hours. It was a beautiful & much-needed sleep.

The next morning, we got up and ate breakfast at Ihop next door to our hotel. Then, we headed down to the toob place and floated the Comal River. The water was crystal clear, perfectly cold, & the sun was shining. Minus a couple mishaps on the water and a scary incident with my 77-year-old grandma almost drowning (in which this 21 week along pregnant woman (ME) was luckily nearby to save her); it was a great day. I said a lot of prayers after that incident and everyone was just fine. I have to admit that was one of the scariest moments of my life though. That night, we went to dinner at the Grist Mill in Gruene & ate ourselves to misery. It was SOOO good. We then finished out the evening listening to a really good band play at Gruene Hall. It was a 5 piece band who all ranged in age from 15-21 or so & they could ROCK! We danced a bit and enjoyed the tunes & even the little lady in my belly got to dancing herself! Haha. I've been feeling her move around like crazy this past week! It's so neat!

Then, yesterday we woke up and headed to the amazing San Marcos Tanger & Prime Outlets. It had been a couple years since I was there so I didn't even know they had added on another whole up-scale wing to the group! With stores like Gucci, Dooney & Bourke, Neiman-Marcus, & Pottery Barn...it was awesome! We got a few things and ate a good bbq lunch there & eventually headed home yesterday evening.

It was such a draining, but amazingly fun weekend! Summers in Texas are definitely the best! :)

And due to popular demand, I am FINALLY posting a picture of my little baby belly...it's definitely growing by the week! This was this morning, so you can't get much more recent than that! :) Me at 21 weeks...

That's all for now, folks!

It's a .....

We are so happy and excited to announce that our little baby on the way is a GIRL! The sonogram went so well today and my mom and I got to see her swimming, hitting, and kicking for almost a full 30 minutes. It was the best show I've even seen on a television screen! Haha. She is normal size weighing in at 9 ounces and has all of her parts so everything is looking happy and healthy thus far! We got a couple pictures so I have posted the link to them for you to see if you haven't already:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2039624&id=54100340&l=73776b8fd2

We are so glad that we can start saying 'she' and that we finally know that doing so is accurate. We are working on finalizing a name for her & so far it is going to be Kenady for the first name. I have yet to put a middle name to it just yet. But, all of you ladies out there know that there are a good 3 months still ahead of us so even Kenady is absolutely subject to change. Ha. I am open to middle name suggestions if you have any. Just fill in the blank: Kenady ____ Sellers

Everyone has been so happy and excited to hear it is a girl; not that it would have been any other way had it been a boy, but ya know. It's really fun to hear everyone's excitement. I can see it now...she's gonna have her daddy wrapped right around his finger the day she enters this world. It's going to be amazing and wonderful to watch.

We feel so blessed to hear good news, to see her pretty face, and to know that things are on the right track developmentally. Please continue (or begin) praying for the remainder of this pregnancy and for the continued healthy development of our little blessing. I can't wait until she's here to hold and love even more.

Whew...so much to post!

Sorry I have been absent, but I've been a busy girl!


I'll go ahead and start with the awesomeness of two weekends ago with the Robertson clan. We got to Lake LBJ on Thursday afternoon, spent the warmest part of the day playing in the water down on our 'sandy beach', ate a homemade lasagna for dinner (yummy) while Cars played in the background on the flat screen, & enjoyed the washer pits and porch for the rest of the evening. The house we stayed in had been recently renovated and had all new tile throughout with marble countertops, & super-soft bedding. It wasn't what I was expecting from the pictures I had seen, but was a great surprise to have when we got there!


Friday rolled around and we had a huge breakfast with omelettes, fruit, biscuits & gravy...& it was delicious. We again spent the majority of the day outside in the water playing with the kiddos. All 18 of us had showed up by this time so the house was happy and full. Dinner that night was fajitas and they were scrumptious! I was definitely a fat kid that night! :)


Saturday came about and the only thing we did differently was shoot off some fireworks that night. We knew the sprinkler system was going to turn on near 10:30 or 11:00 and we started doing the fireworks about 10:15 and were all spread out on chairs in the lawn....some would think that we would have hurried through it just in case 10:30 really was the case, but no. We got wet instead :). It was funny to hear the hissing sound of the sprinklers come on and then to watch everyone get up really fast and book it to the deck, lol. It was funny. The fireworks were really pretty & the kids got to play with some humongous sparklers. It was fun to watch them.


Unfortunately, Sunday came too quickly and we all said our goodbyes and left already excited about next year. It was a really good weekend and a lot of real, quality time was shared with the family. I can't wait for what we will come up with next year! :)


Oh yeah, my oldest brother Rodney and his wife Barbara took it upon themselves to get t-shirts made to represent the weekend. We thought that was pretty cool of them. We took a lot of pictures in them so here is one to share with you.



This past weekend I returned to Lake LBJ with Nicole & Kyla's for their annual family reunion. It was a good time. We rode in the pontoon boats, they wakeboarded behind the ski boat, we hung out with the peeps, and swam our little hearts out. I love being on the water.


In the meantime of all of this lake-fun, I've been working and trying to organize all of our baby registry stuff. It's kind of tough when you don't know the sex yet, but I figured I could scan anything and everything that isn't gender-specific right now, and then go back to scan the rest next Wednesday when we find out. Oh yeah, by the way...that's only 3 days from now!! Woo-hoo! :) Chad & I (and of course, the rest of our family and friends) are so excited!!


My Alaskan aunt Becky & two girl cousins Amanda & Ashley are coming into town on Tuesday this week! I am sooooo excited for them to be here. They will get to stay for 2 full weeks & we have all kinds of fun activities planned for while they're here. This coming weekend is my sister's 80's-style 30th birthday karaoke party, followed the next day by a trip to Schlitterbahn on Sunday, floating the Comal River in New Braunfels on Monday (with dinner at the Grist Mill & music at Gruene Hall...yay!), and then a shopping trip to the outlets in San Marcos on Tuesday before we hit the road on back home. It's going to be an awesome week!!! I will definitely try my best to keep you all posted on the goings-on as best I can!