tis the season

Yep, we've rapidly moved past Thanksgiving& from now on its full force holiday-ness until Christmas! This time of year is also very busy for my photography business. Everyone getting family portraits for those holiday cards! So I finally got ours finished!!! So here are a few of my fav's!

Speaking of holidays, our Thanksgiving was nice & relaxing. My mom made some delicious food. RJ & his friend deep fried a turkey which was fantastic! My favorite part was that my appetite is insane so I could eat a lot! hooray for being pregnant around the holidays! heehee...Oh & speaking of my pregnancy, this last week my stomach totally popped out! Its like hello baby! =)

Enjoy the pics!

cheers to the holidays.

here comes the pink

Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments! We are SO excited! I am so excited to see C as a big brother. Up until now people have been asking me what I was hoping for & to tell you the truth, I wasn't hoping for one or the other. I knew it was going to be great either way. But I did have a feeling from the very beginning it was a girl. I had the same intuition w/ C, I knew he was a boy. So when we were at the ultrasound I can't thinking, its a girl. Then the u/s tech got near the "area" I didn't see anything & then the tech goes...how about a girl! I got teary!! We are going to have a GIRL!!!! We will have one of each! yay! I was waiting to see RJ's reaction & he goes...."yes, now we can buy her a sweet doll house!!" hahaha!!! awww so cute.
I did some shopping already! hahaha...how could I not?!! ;) I did feel so weird being in the girl section! It was like uncharted territory for me! I know how to buy boys clothes!! hahaha! =)

So here she is!!! Our baby girl! We can't wait to meet her!

cheers.

boy? or girl?

Alright folks its finally here! The big reveal!!! Make sure your sound is turned on & up! We are totally thrilled and excited about the newest addition to our family! We are so thankful to God for this wonderful blessing! RJ stayed up way too late last night putting this thing together but I loved how it turned out! Hope you enjoy it! ;)

And if you leave a comment your name just might go in a drawing for the middle name! So leave us a comment!! haha! =)

It's...

family photo time! haha..tricked ya! I bet you thought that this blog was going to be about the revealing of the baby's gender! HA! nope. We are still trying to come up with something fun! but we do know!! heehee....
Anyways, over the weekend we did some family photos. Its that time of year again to get those holiday cards out! & I've been hard at work editing & designing cards for this year! While we had our cameras out C grabbed an extra & began taking his own. He told my parents to say "cheese"! hahaha!!!! What a little budding photographer! I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree!
So Here's just a couple from the shoot....I have tons to sift through still! =)

got the camera all set

luckily a professional was on hand!

one of my fav's so far!

but mommy i don't want to kiss your belly!
cheers!

big boy!

This week we got C a big boy bed! We got it at IKEA & he LOVES it!!!! He was so excited when we set it up. He hasn't slept in it yet. We are getting him used to it in his room first & let him discover it then we'll work on moving him over.
He gets so excited yells, "bed!" and runs in his room & climbs right up in his new bed! So cute!

cheers.

check up!

So today we had another prenatal check up! Everything went well! I only gained 1 lb this time! yay! We waited around a while to be seen & once we got in the appt was about 2 mins!!! Its so different this time around b/c we know what to expect so we don't have a lot of questions so it makes the appt's go fast! Which is kinda nice but at the same time not as exciting. haha. The baby's heart rate was 150. I never grow tired of hearing that. So amazing.

Ok so I have to confess a bit of frustration...at the dr.'s office, they have me down at 17 weeks 5 days as of today. But every counter I have says I am 17w3d. I know what you are thinking, oh please, its a 2 day difference! (this is what RJ says to me every time!!) But it bothers me! I know that I will probably not deliver on that exact day anyways. I just like knowing when the next week rolls over!!!I like counting down the days & reading whats next in my pregnancy books. Is that so hard to understand?!!! gosh! So just thought I'd vent for a second....

So next week on Wednesday is the big ultrasound day!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I can't wait! So we need to think of something fun & creative to tell everyone & well my usually creative brain is in a rut! help with some ideas! We thought about waiting till Thanksgiving but I am not sure if I can keep a secret that long! haha!!

I am going to put a poll to see what everyone thinks the gender will be! =)

cheers!

trick-or-treat!

Halloween was so much fun. Carter had a blast & I know I did too! My parents came over to experience C's first ever trick-or-treating! He was so excited to go. I think he was just excited to go outside...he didn't really understand what we were going to be doing! But he got the hang of it after 1 house! He kept trying to go in to the people's houses & he especially wanted in if they had a dog! haha! It was so cold out so we weren't out long. When we got back C helped hand out candy to the kids at the door & that was WAY more fun to him that actually going door to door! When the door bell rang he would scurry to the door in a frantic sort of way & would be so overly excited to get the candy basket & open the door! He loved to give each kid a piece of candy & the kids were patient with him too. It was soooo cute! He would wait in the window next to the door to see if any kids were coming & after they left he would try to follow them! hahaha!!! To see more of our night check out our Picasa album

Oh & my birthday was great! RJ treated me to a day of shopping! yay! It was so much fun. I didn't find anything for myself but we got stuff for C!!! hahaha!!!

yay lets GO!

daddy & C
mommy & C
handing out the candy
where are the kids??!!

cheers.