Bumps ahead

For some reason I have been horrible at taking good pictures of the growing girl. Jeffrey always asks me if I want him to take one and I usually give him an excuse like, "No, I'll wait till I'm having a better hair day." or "Eh. let's wait until next week." Well here is it week 23 and no official baby bump pictures. I felt even more guilty when my sister got on to me today wanting to see the "bump" I guess we could call it. So of course on a night when Jeffrey is out of town for work I decided to just take a dang picture. So here is the best self taken bathroom pic I could get. Haha Ahh I need to get more organized before baby girl gets here!

23 Weeks down! feels like a million more to go! ;)

It's a.......

So it turns out that I am a  little behind on my blogging about Baby. Exhaustion, work and eating has been taking over my life. but in that time we found out that we are in fact have a little GIRL!!!!!

We actually had found out pretty early, (around 13 weeks, clearly I have NO patience) :) but I found a place that would give us a 99% on whether we were to expect a little surfer boy or girly girl as long as baby was measuring 13 weeks! Now before this whenever Jeffrey and I would talk about when we would have our kids we had agreed that we would both like to have a boy first. (as if we got to decide, haha) and when we finally got pregnant we could only think of boy names and kinda just thought ok well it's a boy. So when we were sitting there in that room and those ladies told us 99% girl you could have heard a pin drop. I just started laughing and Jeff was unsure of what to think. I think it came as a bigger shock to him. After a few hours the shock wore off and I started thinking about my little girl. We are both so happy Jeff is going to be such an amazing dad and I know she will have him wrapped around her little finger. And when I think about how close I am to my mom and the relationship we have together I cannot wait to have that with my daughter.

So at my 20 week appointment when the ultrasound tech asked me if we knew what were were having I smiled and said, "Kind of, I went to a place at 13 weeks and they told me." She laughed and said that they are always wrong. But turns out they were right! Here's baby girl at 20 weeks smiling at me and the ultrasound tech and showing us her lady parts to prove she is a she!

Oh Baby!

It's about time that I update the blog about our news that we have! And so it is that we are having a BABY! Jeffrey and I are both so excited but even now, me being 4 months along, it still doesn't feel 100% real! We have waited a long time for this little one and cannot wait until he or she is here in May 2013.

We found out about our little one right before our 2 year wedding anniversary. It was such a great gift (and I think we were still processing it) that we decided not to do anything big or exchange gifts and just relax all weekend and of course eat. :) We really wanted to surprise our families and knew they would be so excited and shocked so we got everyone together for a BBQ at our place, called it a "house warming" party and then boom smacked them in the face with the news right before prayer! It was great!

The first few months were pretty rough. I was very sick and thought that there was no end in sight. Then right around 14 weeks I saw the light. Now I am able to actually eat real food (no more soup for me please!) and have energy to actually go to the store to get things we need. I am still working on the energy to clean my house. :) Anyway, I am 17 weeks along and I sometimes feel little things here and there but nothing too big. Maybe in the next week or so I will feel more movement! We can't wait to find out what it is with in the next few weeks! I'll try and be better about updates! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Profile Shot (the best they could get)

 Alien baby looking at us. But a cute one! :)

This is the poster I brought out right before dinner to tell our families! Surprise! 

We are going to be PARENTS!!!! weird! :)

Karly and TJ's Wedding!

In July Karly and TJ tied the not! It was a beautiful day which made it a perfect day for a wedding. They were sealed in LA and then we went back to Chino to party our booties off! Karly looked beautiful and we are so happy for them!

Congrats Kurls and TJ!!!!!!!

I think it's about time...

It's been awhile and LOTS has happened since I've last blogged! 

First up!

Ryan turned NINE! I cannot believe that my baby nephew is 9! Where has the time gone? I feel like it was just yesterday that I was babysitting him all summer when he was a newborn! :( but you are such an awesome boy Ry and I love you!

Candy Bar!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RY!

Next was Miss Kurly Kin's bridal shower! we had lots of fun having girl time and embarrassing Karly! :)

Karly and Kelli! 

Woot Woot!

So excited for Karly!

Then Blake, Amber and the kids came into town for Karly's wedding! Oh how I love when they visit! We all do! They need to move back to California ASAP! Until they do we can just look through the pics of when they were here.

First they came down and visited me and we took a trip to the beach. We moved to Dana Point and there is a great beach here for the kids to boogie board to perfect size waves for them! and Jade did her own thing... which is be really cute! Duh! :)

Then we had our annual 4th of July car races over at our Grandma and Grandpa Rhoads'! I am so thankful that we were all together this 4th of July as it was the last one the we got to spend with my Grandpa Rhoads. He left us on July 11th and although I am grate ful that he is no longer in any pain I miss him and love him and I know that I will see him again one day! 

The Winners! Noah took 1st!

Lukey and his Dad

Love you Grandpa!