Baby shower

I just have to say that I have the best friends. They threw me the best baby shower and I didn't have to do anything! They even pre-labeled the thank-you card envelopes for me. I'm going to be even more spoiled...uho!. Thanks Cristina and Mandy! Anyways, here's some pics from my baby shower from December 6th. I've been sick since then so it's taken me awhile to post them, but here they are!

Belly pics

Okay my sister convinced me to post a belly pic.

I can't believe I'll be 32 weeks on Saturday! We'll see if I post anymore...since it's taken me almost 8 months to take this one.

Nursery

So the nursery is finally done and the baby finally has a name. Nicole. This was an eventful week. Yay!

BTW...that thing in the corner, to the right of the dresser covered up by a pink blanket is the co-sleeper that will go in our room after she gets here, so just pretend it's not there. It's messing up my picture!

Sonogram pics

I finally got some sonogram pics put on a cd. These pictures were taken on Halloween, when I was a little over 7 months along (about 29 weeks).

If you look carefully at the pic on the top, it looks like the baby (she still has no name) is smiling and waving at you.

The bottom one is a pic of her foot. I wonder if babies are like puppies and you can tell how big they will be in the future by the size of their foot as a baby...and if that carries over to babies in utero. Judging by this pic, we'll be getting some calls from the WNBA soon.

At this point in time, she is about 2 lbs. 10 oz. She has a ways to go.

Pregnant

Shannon...help! I don't know how to get my posts in order! Anyways...I'm five months pregnant as of Saturday. I wish I could say I have a belly pic and/or sonogram pic, however, I don't. You'll have to wait on that as I did not inherit the compulsive picture-taking gene my sister did. In fact, I'm quite lazy when it comes to pictures and blogging if you hadn't guessed yet...and I'm easily frustrated, especially with computer issues. I'm sure I'll manage to have some sort of picture of my belly before it becomes flat again! Stay tuned...

Our house

We finally moved into our house on April 26, 2008. It was a pain but well worth it. We still haven't totally settled in yet because just about as soon as we moved in I found out I was pregnant, and I felt very sick. I'll put more pictures up as soon as I take some because we actually do have grass now and a garage door. Yay!

Ashley's 5th Birthday party

I know it's kind of late (and out of order) to blog about Ashley's birthday party from April, but as I like to say...better late than never. The reason for the delayed posting was that we were packing to move into our house and I was trying to survive from a hectic last couple months of school, followed shortly by a non-stop bout of morning sickness, etc. More of that later. Ashley had her party this year at McDonald's. It was the easiest and not to mention most inexpensive birthday party she's ever had and she had a great time.

Ashley's first day of Kindergarten

Monday, August 25, 2008

Monday was Ashley's first day of Kindergarten! It was an exciting, yet tearful day. Even though she's gone to daycare since she was 4 months old, there was something different about sending her off to a "real" and public school. Of course, we video-taped many segments of this great adventure, but don't expect any videos anytime soon since the cord is lost somewhere in the abyss we like to refer to as a garage. Not to mention the fact that it would probably take me a day or two of Bert style head-into-computer smashing to figure out how to do that. I'm not quite the savvy blogger my sister is. Ha! Overall, it was a very good day though...even though her teacher said she was so excited that she was screaming in the classroom. Oh well....all of that was resolved the next day. We'll see if the improvement lasts. Now that I don't teach anymore, I plan on blogging more often...at least more than once a year like the current trend has been...especially since there's been a lot going on...with a new baby on the way...so stay tuned...

p.s. Ashley's hair started out looking much better than this. We forgot to bring a real camera in the morning so we had to settle for the after school, messed-up look.