Crazy Busy!~

It has been a crazy busy couple of weeks! First of all, I want to say CONGRATULATIONS to my friend Michelle and her husband Aaron!! They had their first baby boy on Monday the 8th! Lars Aaron was born 7lbs 15.5 oz and 21 inches long, very healthy little man!! The pictures are adorable; I can not wait to meet him in person! Congrats Michelle and Aaron!!

Pat’s parents were here Valentine’s weekend. Brad and Pat worked hard in the nursery all weekend…the sheetrock is up, the mudding and taping is done and most of the sanding is complete! Pat has been up there every night this week with the final touches and plans to prime and texture the walls this weekend! It is a process but I see progress!! While the boys were working on the nursery, Cheri and I went fabric shopping! It was a lot of fun, we saw a lot of boy or girl fabric, the neutral fabric was a lot harder to find! We did end up finding some adorable fabric at JoAnn Fabrics…we are going with the animal theme. It is really cute, little lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants….just adorable. If the little one comes out a girl, we will just have to add pink bows on the animal’s heads! :)



Sunday was Valentine’s Day…we all went and saw the movie Valentine’s Day, it was a very cute movie with a lot of big names in it. It was a “feel good” movie!!~ The boys even liked it!! Sunday night we had awesome steaks and baked potatoes for dinner…it was a great Valentine’s Day!! Hope everyone had a great day also; did you kiss your sweetie?

Monday I had my 30 week (YEAH! 30 week!! WOW- 10 weeks to go!!!!) appointment. Pat’s parents stayed in town Sunday night so Cheri could attend the appointment with me! The heartbeat is still in the 150’s (which is good) and this time she thought the butt was down….last time she thought the head was down…but the baby still has plenty of time to roll around in there!! The baby is approx 3 lbs this week and 15 ½ inches long! WOW! Cheri loved hearing the heartbeat, it is pretty cool!! My next appointment is March 3rd !

It will be an exciting weekend for us, my god-daughter Bella will be in town with JoDee and Brad! I can not wait to see Bella…she is almost walking!! YAY! We will see how Bob reacts to a 1 year old all over him~ oh geez. I see the jealously starting already….have a great weekend and remember only 66 days left!!!

2/3 Down, 1/3 To Go!!!

Wow, time sure flies these days! Only 83 days to go….and I will be a mommy!! Geez, I can not believe that I am already in my 3rd trimester…I feel like I was just posting my 1st blog a couple weeks ago! I am still feeling great! I have not had any issues to date. Besides the fact that I don’t sleep -- Oh well, it is just preparing me for baby! I had my 28 week appointment yesterday and everything looks good! She was feeling around my belly and she thinks that the baby’s head is already down. She was not 100%, but she thinks that is where it is. The heartbeat was still in the 150’s which is perfect! Over the last couple weeks I have been feeling A LOT of movement. It is crazy; it is like the baby is ready to come out…just kick, kick, punch, kick. That is all our little person is doing lately! Anytime I sit down to relax or when I am at my desk I just start giggling…cus the little bugger is so active! It is a good feeling for me, because I can feel him/her all the time!!! :)

Here are a couple pics of me…I tend to wear a lot of black….just to hid my ever so growing belly…so you can barley see it…but this is all you get for now ~



Can you tell how excited Bob is?!? Yeah, right!



Pat has been working hard on the nursery the last few weekends…I know it does not look like much at the moment…but I see a lot of progress! His 1st big project was to work on the closet, he had to take the shelves out that were already in there and put up brand new sheetrock. He also had to re-do the window, so it was a legal bedroom. I am so ready for him to be done with this part so, a. not so much dust around the WHOLE house and b. so I can start my decorating (or lack there of) process!!! So the next step for me is to find a fabric that I like and is easy to work with! If anyone sees an older rocking chair, please let me know….I‘m on the search for one!

Nursery Before



Nursery Closet Before



Hopefully the after pictures will be up sooner than later :)

My next appointment is only 2 weeks away….I am will be going to the MD every two weeks for awhile, then I start my one week appointments!!!! Like I said before...time is sure going by FAST!

Welcome 2010!~

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

Hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year!! We sure did! It is a crazy busy time of year and we always manage to fit everything in!! Even with the not so good weather, we did just fine. Spent Christmas Eve with Pat’s family and Christmas Day with mine! It was great to see everyone! My aunt and uncle were here from New Mexico…it is always fun to see them every couple years~



This week I had my 24 week appointment!! I can not believe that I am 6 months pregnant!! Holy man, time flies!! My good friend Connie and her daughter Hailey came with me to this appointment. The appointment went very well. I am measuring “normal” (whatever normal is now :) ) the baby’s heartbeat is in the 140s, and I still feel great! No issues at all!!! It was very interesting for Hailey to be there! She just did not know what to think. She is 6 years old and this whole baby in the belly thing is amazing to her. She asked many questions before coming to the appointment, for example “will the baby talk to me?” The best part of my whole appointment was when I was making my next appointment, she stood next to me and asked…. “if the baby wants a piece of gum, do you just swallow some?” Connie and I just looked at each other with without laughing I said, “hmmm, I don’t really know, we should have asked the doctor!” It was so adorable to see how her little brain thinks. She just has so many questions and she is trying to put it all together. Hailey will be so good with this baby…she loves it already!!!

Here is a picture of Hailey and me from our wedding...


I have scheduled my next appointment for the 1st week in February, after this appointment I will be on my every 2 week appointment plan. This week I also scheduled our baby classes, we go every Monday for 4 weeks. Then the last week in March we go to the breastfeeding class…I am sure Pat is thrilled about that one! Another accomplishment this week is that we are finally registered!! This was a process for both of us! We don’t quite know where everything is going to fit! You just don’t realize how much a baby needs!! Wow!! 1st we went to BabiesRUs in Minnesota Pat and his mom were definitely handy with the scanner!! Then yesterday we went to Target to finish up the registry…Pat was scanning everything in site, I came home and updated it online!! Haha.

Well, the Packers play today….good luck to them! Happy Playoff weekend!! Hope we can watch them next weekend too!! Hope everyone has a great week!!

Baby Fever!~

This week has made me have the worst baby fever ever!!! My best friend Jacci had her little girl on December 17th. Joslyn Michelle arrived in this world…7lbs 4oz and 20 inches long! I was lucky enough to be able to go to the hospital to meet her when she was only 24hrs old!!! I held her and was ready to take her home with me. What a bundle of joy!! Jordan (Jacci’s son) was so excited to show her off to me…he was full of kisses for her. She is so lucky to have a great big brother! I am so happy for Jacci and Jake and it is amazing that our babies will be 4 months apart! I hope they grow up to be the best of friends, just like Jacci and I.





Christmas is almost here!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!! I love this time of year~ family, friends and food and oh yea presents too!! :) We are always pretty busy this time of year! We got our tree up and stockings too!! (mine already has something in it….I just cant look yet) We both are working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and ½ a day on Thursday, we will both come home from work, pack the car and Bob too- then hit the road. We go to Pat’s parents house Christmas Eve and spend time with the whole family. This year is the WHOLE family! So, we get to see everyone. Then Christmas morning, we get up head back to Eau Claire then go to my parent’s house for the rest of the day. My Aunt and Uncle from New Mexico will be here this year, so I am really excited to see them! We have not seen them since the wedding! It will be a great Christmas with family! I can not wait!!!

I have been feeling really well! I am not sleeping the best, but I still feel good :)

Hope you all have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! I will post again next year! Hehe.

Oh Happy Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was the big day that I have been waiting 19 weeks and 1 day for :) ULTRASOUND DAY!!!!!

It was AMAZING! Our little person was moving around like crazy. It (no we did not find out!!) had it’s little hands by the face, so the face shots were hard to get. Pat, my mom, Betsy and Abby all came to the appointment. They were all also amazed at what you can actually see. We got to see the heart with all 4 chambers, (heartbeat was 153) the kidneys, the liver, the brain and what ever other organs we have!! When the technician had to look at the pelvic area, she made everyone close their eyes…I kept mine open and still did not know what I was looking at…she was so fast!~ It is amazing that they have the “regular” and now the 3D- there is nothing like it!! Here are a couple pics! The 1st one is my favorite. The profile! The 2nd one is a 3D shot, you can see baby Sax’s little arm and leg! The 3rd one is it's best side...BUTT SHOT!!:)







After the ultrasound, I had my appointment with the MD. She said everything in the ultrasound looks great and everything seems to be “normal and average” So that is a good sign! She pressed on my belly a little bit and said everything is good! She talked about pre-term labor….let’s hope I don’t have to worry about that!!!

All else is well here. Pat’s parents were over last weekend and finished the kitchen! I now have my hand painted torn wall paper up and it looks awesome!! After Pat gets the trim up and the cupboard stained…….then the NURSERY will be next!! YAY!! I can’t wait to get started on that!! It will be great!(few pics below of the kitchen)





Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day! I made sure to eat and eat…then get up at 4am Friday morning to shop and shop!!! Just my style! We shopped for a good 9 hrs and I loved it! Came home, relaxed and spent quality time with the in laws!! It was a really nice weekend!

Another day in Paradise

I figure I better update since I have not done it in a couple weeks :)
All is still great here! I feel good and can’t wait to start working on the baby’s room. Pat is finishing the kitchen, so we can start working upstairs on the nursery!!! I finally get to put together a nursery…I have been waiting to do that forever!!

A theme is what we are at right now. We plan to paint the room celery….and use some kind of animal theme…but nothing has been for sure. We have not found the right fabric for bedding! It is definitely hard when you don’t know the sex of the baby…but for me I like that challenge!

We have our ultrasound in a couple weeks. December 3rd. I am really excited to see our little person move! I can’t wait to see the fingers and the profile! Our doctor’s office does the usual u/s and also the 3D one!

One of the best things about my 1st pregnancy is that I have a couple really good friends going thru everything with me! They are all due before me….so they get to tell me what I can expect! It is great!! My friend Jacci is due in December with a little girl! So our babies will only be a couple months apart! So awesome! My friend Michelle is due in February, she is having a boy…she is fun to talk to about decorating! She is the master. Her little man will have a cowboy themed room! I can’t wait to see the pictures when she completes it! He is one lucky little guy! And 3rd, my friend Jacki is due exactly 4 weeks before me! It is great to hear what she did at her last appointment, so the next time I go, I know what to expect. They are also not finding out the sex of the baby….so we can relate on that level!! I am so excited for all of them!!! 2010 is going to be a great year for babies!! I am very thankful that my little person will have some awesome friends…just like me!!
I know things are crazy with the holidays….but this is a great time of year to be happy! I hope you all have an awesome Thanksgiving!! I know I will be eating all the good food!!! Yumm! If you see any good deals Black Friday for baby stuff, let me know…I am on a hunt this year!

I will make sure to update after our ultrasound appt. I will post pics too!!!

150's

Pat, Abby and I went to the MD today for my monthly checkup! Abby got to hear the heartbeat for the first time! It was definitely an experience for her!
Baby’s heartbeat was in the 150’s, which is good :)

I am still feeling great! So great that I found out that I actually LOST weight this appointment. (which is normal, the MD was not worried) It was a pretty easy appointment….only 20 min or so!!

Next appt is the 1st week in December….we get to see the baby for the 1st time!! Ultrasound time!! I am really excited even though we are not finding out the sex of the baby!!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!