Can you see it in our eyes?

When I went browsing through my 2010 photo album on facebook looking for our Christmas pic from last year most of my memories related to where we were in our baby making journey.

Some of you know that Hubs and I dated for 6 years before he proposed. The funny thing was he was ready for kids before he was ready to get married. I didn't want my father to shoot him so we compromised by saying we would not wait too long after we got married to start trying to have a baby. We got married October 2009 and on our honeymoon discussed when we would start trying. I had just been hired by Hubby's company at the end of August 2009 so we wanted to wait a little while.

I am trying to remember now why my friend T and I were emailing about when we would start trying, but I can't. She was getting married the summer of 2010 and we were also emailing about dresses. I forwarded an email to my mom so she could see the pictures of the dress. Well sneaky mom read the whole email history and found out Curtis and I were talking about trying.

This is a picture from her visit to San Diego in February 2010. She told me on this trip that she had read those emails and I think she was going to tell us to wait awhile but I told her I had already stopped taking birth control.

Hubs and I had planned not to tell anyone that we were trying. I didn't want people calling every month to find out if we were pregnant or not. Even though my mom was sneaky I am so glad she knew we were trying. She helped me out a lot through the next few months.

This is a picture from a trip we made to LA in April. I didn't drink on this trip because I thought I might be pregnant. I wasn't.

This picture is from my brother-in-law's graduation from SF state. Again I didn't drink on this trip because I thought I might be pregnant. My mother-in-law made some comments about us making a grandchild for her but she was telling people I was due in June before we got married. She did the math if we got pregnant on our honeymoon. I wasn't due in June and I wasn't pregnant on this trip.

This picture is from this little guy's birthday in July. I will never forget the conversation I had with a friend at this party. No one knew we were trying but it came up that it had taken my friend 6 months to get pregnant. Since we were going on 5 or 6 months at this point I just remember thinking maybe there wasn't something wrong with me.



This is a picture from our anniversary trip in October. I didn't drink this trip because I was PREGNANT! Do we look different? I think I tried to hide my tiny bump under the table but I can't remember. When I look at this picture I feel like we have this amazing and wonderful secret!

Another picture from our anniversary trip. Am I glowing? Do my boobs look bigger? This night when we went back to our hotel after going to the melting pot the elevator lady said something about me being pregnant. She was the first person to comment on my bump. I think it was a food bump from the melting pot, but still.

This post was fun! I love looking back on 2010 and I'm sure I'll always look back on 2011 very fondly since it is the year my baby arrived!

Lots of pretty pictures from this weekend!

On Saturday, we did some yardwork in the backyard.

Got the fountain working.Then on Sunday we went to the lake and took maternity pictures!

Such a beautiful weekend!

Then I played on picnik.com for way too long!

More birthday presents for Neely

If you didn't know, Neely's bday is tomorrow. For her birthday we had a phone date. We ended up talking for over an hour about all of you and everything under the sun! She requested that I do another collage showing the progression of the belly.

You all have been so sweet with all your comments. I promise I will try to get back to you tonight. I love hearing that I am a cute pregnant lady. I honestly don't think of myself as a skinny person but now that I look at that picture from when I took the pregnancy test to the picture from yesterday I think maybe I was skinny! My stomach area was always an area I was self concious of. I think I'm sucking in my stomach in that picture because I wanted to look skinny in my 1 month belly pictures. I'm enjoying all the compliments I am getting now because I didn't get a lot of compliments before and don't know what my body will look like after. I promise my next post will be tv or celeb related and not have any belly pics!

The 2nd picture is at about 3 months and I don't think I look pregnant there and didn't at the time either.

I can't believe I thought I was big at Christmas!

Ready for a big belly?

Tuesday- 35 weeks 6 days
Wednesday- 36 weeks Thursday- 36 weeks 1 day Yes, I have been taking pictures of myself like every day. Do you like my downstairs bathroom? It's the only place in our house that has a picture on the wall!

So there are, as I like to think optimistically, 2-4 weeks left until we meet our little guy! I'm still feeling pretty good. Tuesday after work I had a mini breakdown because I was so uncomfortable and tired. I tried laying down on the couch in my pjs and was getting kicked in the ribs and then he got the hiccups! I think Monday I was getting dressed and I made a comment about how huge I am and Hubby looked at me and goes, "I didn't realize how big your belly had gotten!" Then the other night I was lotioning the belly and he was brushing his teeth and the belly scared him out of the corner of his eye. I said, "What, did you think you saw a hippo?"

I've gained about 24.5 pounds according to the nice scale at home. We won't talk about the mean scale at the dr's office. My clothes and shoes must weigh like 4 pounds! I'm still substitute teaching a few days a week. I'm trying to encourage all involved in my life to think of it as something to keep me from getting bored now not really something to pay the bills.

We have been having fun talking and playing with little man. Hubs and him have little games they play. I usually just encourage him to kick Daddy. I swear the child now knows the sound of Hubby's alarm. It scares me a little how much the baby sleeps at night but as soon as Hubby's alarm goes off the kid starts dancing. I'm really hoping he will have the same habits once he arrives.

Hubs got the crib up this week which I wasn't expecting. The nursery is pretty much done except a few things we are waiting to get with our 10% offs from Babies R Us and Target. We also need to decorate the walls. I am going to be a featured mama pretty soon on Jen's blog. I will let you guys know so you can hop over there and see new nursery pics.

I had the quickest dr's appointment today I've ever had. She listened to baby's heartbeat said he was happy. Did the quick little strep b swab test and I was done. I'm hoping next week when I see her she'll tell me if I'm dialated and if his head is down. I'll probably ask if she doesn't say anything. This week I asked what number I'm supposed to call if I think I'm in labor.

Our son's name

We aren't telling!! Tricked ya!

My husband and I made the decision to keep our baby's name a secret until he arrives. We decided this for several reasons. Honestly, we have heard baby's names before the baby was born and thought "Oh, I don't like that name!". Why didn't want anyone thinking that about our baby name. We also didn't want to hear about the weird guy they knew in high school that had the same name or whoever they knew with the same name. We felt like once you see the baby you might think the name is better and might keep your stories about weird people with the same name to yourself. Now it is to the point that I want to week 5 or so more weeks because I think it makes it more special.

We picked two names on 12-24-10. One we are 99.9% sure is going to be our son's name. The 1% is if he arrives and doesn't look like that name we'll go with the back up. Recently we've been using the name more and telling random people the name. We were having so much fun! I think Friday night or another night earlier in the week as Hubby and I were falling asleep I double checked with him that he still liked the name and feels like it is our son's name. He said yes.

I hesitate to type this because I'm worried my mom might read this and figure out what our son's name is. Mom, like I said before, I think it makes it more special if no one knows his name until he arrives. So please don't use your detective skills to figure out his name. If you do figure it out don't tell me or anyone else! This weekend we found out an acquaintance named their son our son's name.

Our son's name is in the top 100 baby boy names for 2010 and we know other people have the same name but it just kind of took a little bit of that specialness away. Instead of the vision in my head of us introducing our baby boy to everyone and them saying, "oh how cute!" I am imagining them saying, "oh yeah so and so just named their baby that". I know he will be way cuter and they aren't that close of an acquaintance so it will be ok. Just know I will for sure be tweeting if I get some smartass comments. Neely knows this has been our son's name for months! Neely please don't accept bribes to tell the name. Our family is crazy that probably will offer you a lot of money to tell!

Part of me thinks if we had told people in December, this other baby boy's parents may have heard what we were naming our baby, and not picked the same name. But you can't go back in time. All you can do is blog about it and maybe someone else will be saved from the same experience. I asked Hubby if he wanted to pick a different name and he said no. I don't want to either. We aren't so good at picking baby names. We have our back up name and our girl name and we are sticking with those for #2 and if we are crazy enough for #3. We will be telling people the name next time.

We also discussed just telling people our son's name since it kind of feels like the surprise is ruined. I'm honestly worried some people may try to tell us reasons why we should change his name. I don't want to hear that! So we will keep it a secret for 5 more weeks and deal with whatever comes our way. You wouldn't believe how crazy people are about trying to figure out his name! I guess people don't like waiting for surprises!

Baby Shower

So, I wore the dress that wasn't the popular choice. I probably shouldn't have but I did.


My aunt makes these blankets for all the babies in the fam. We call them googas.

My cousin is 5 weeks behind me!

My family

These are all the pics of me from my camera. There were a couple of me opening presents but I had a double chin so those are deleted! Our son was spoiled rotten. Our family and friends are too generous. We are so blessed! Now its time to get his room organized!

Pregnancy announcement

I wanted to give fair warning since I know it can be difficult for people that are trying to read these announcements.

Hubby and I are thrilled to finally be able to announce we are expecting a handsome baby boy April 27th!

Now you know why I haven't been sharing much lately!

I also wanted to let you all know we put an offer on a house and we are supposed to hear back tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for us! I told you guys we had A LOT going on!!

Hope on over to the now public baby blog for all the details!!!