Baby Shower Invitations

Auntie Tree (Joey's sister) did an amazing job on my baby shower invites. She hand made all of them, and they came out sooo unbelievably cute! Hope to see everyone there...

31 1/2 weeks

Childbirth 101

Last Tuesday, Joey and I started our Childbirth classes at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo (where we will be delivering). WOW. It's so much more than we expected.. we were definitely the youngest couple in the class, but everyone else was really nice and social. The teacher is great- funny and excited.. definitely kept the dads entertained which was great. It is a 3 session class, each class is 2 1/2 hours long. We already learned about signs of labor, actual labor and saw a video on childbirth in just our first class. We also got to bring pillows, and relax while the daddies gave us massages to help release any tension.. it was amazing!

Haven't really updated any belly pics lately, I need to. Since Joey and his sister have their own photography company we decided to go ahead and do some maternity pics within the next few weeks.. hopefully I'll be posting those soon! 8 weeks and counting..

Baby Uggs

So adorable! .. you have to check em out if you have a little one on the way..

http://www.uggaustralia.com

If only you'd known you were going to trade...

Saw this and thought it was funny- :)


If only you'd known you were going to trade...
• Monthly PMS for nine months of weeping
• Lacy thongs for cotton tents
• Sex for gas
• Zinfandel for Ovaltine
• Birth control for laxatives
• Going to the gym for getting up to pee
• Your waist for a hot-air balloon
• Kickboxing for kick counts
• Your innie for an outie — a way-outie
• Sleeping for groaning
• Freedom for the most intense love you've ever known

Cindy's Baby Shower

Today was Cindy's baby shower that was held at my Dad's house. It was a lot of fun..it seems like not too long ago I was at my cousin Courtney's baby shower! It was freezing outside.. so it was a little hard to enjoy the festivities- Courtney had her baby boy Nathan a few days before Thanksgiving, so I finally got to meet him today. What a cutie! He definitely looks just like his Daddy. I just held onto him as long as I could all day (for extra practice, lol!)

Baby Nathan

I couldn't put him down...

Guessing the size of her belly game.. I actually won this game (although my belly was a bit of an unfair advantage..LOL)

My Dad and Stepmom practicing too.. haha.

The same exact picture from Courtney's Baby Shower, except 2 months, a lot bigger, and a baby later...haha

Me (7mos.) Courtney & Nathan (2weeks) & Cindy (9mos.)

Visit with Traci & Tamlyn

I had a Dr.'s appt in San Clemente last Wednesday, so I decided to stop by my sister Traci's house on the way home to visit her and my niece Tamlyn. I haven't seen them in a while, and babies grow so fast! She had learned so many new things since I had last seen her.. she can now smile when you ask her to, she can say "mama"..and she's even learning how to walk already!!

My sister was so awesome and packed me a few essentials for the baby...my savior, as usual, in case she came earlier than expected. Thanks again Traci for everything!!

Tamlyn by her 1st Christmas Tree

Tamlyn doing her little smile...

23 Week Ultrasound

It's kind of backwards, but I finally had a chance to download this... it was amazing how active she happened to be on the day of the ultrasound..

I can't wait to meet her...

Happy Thanksgiving!

25 weeks!

And I'm getting bigger and bigger everyday! I swear, it's not just my Thanksgiving dinner in there! LOL.













How your baby's growing
Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but she's beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she'll start to look more and more like a newborn. She's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture

6 months!

I'll finally be 6 months tomorrow. I can't believe it. I'm finally here. It's been crazy so far, and I'm sure will only get crazier! It is unbelievable how much she has grown in even just the past month. I recently started to feel her kick (distinctively at least) around 5 1/2 months. Now she doesn't stop! She really is a feisty one.. she kicks me all night when I'm trying to sleep, and all day while I'm at work. She kicks me when she's hungry, thirsty, everything it seems like. LOL. I never imagined how amazing this feeling could be. Everyone keeps telling me I'm really small for 6 months, but oh well.. better for me, right? haha. Joey and I have still been throwing names around, we really liked and thought for sure we were going to go with "Leah", but after a while it just didn't seem right. I think we're leaning towards Riley. I think that's my final answer? haha.


I went last week to the ultrasound clinic in Costa Mesa and had a DVD made of my ultrasound. It was adorable. She was so active, kicking, waving her arms around. When I have some extra time I'll upload the video.

I talked to my Dr. (who is still in OC) and let him know that I moved the the SFV but I didn't want to have to switch doctors (plus Joey and I had really had our hopes set on delivering at Mission Hospital, since it is a CHOC hospital) He told me it was fine, he would induce me when I'm close enough so I wouldn't have to try to rush to the hospital when I went into labor! That made me feel alot more comfortable for sure.

For now, I'm just trying to work work work my butt off until she comes, enjoy the holidays and Voila! She'll be here before we know it! (Hopefully, LOL)

Pumpkins!!

Well, Halloween is just about my favorite holiday, ever. So I was super excited when I got a day off to make a trip with Joey down to our local Pumpkin Patch to pick a pumpkin! We went to a cute little patch in Aliso Viejo, picked out the perfect pumpkins, fed some of the piggies and animals they had there and headed home to carve them!

I tried to pick one that was around the size of my tummy!

Joey got the big Daddy pumpkin

Carving

I had a cute Kitty pattern

We saved the seeds so we could bake them... yummmyy!

Our pumpkins!

Courtney's Baby Shower

Today was my cousin Courtney's baby shower for Nathan Alexander Horta. The shower was so adorable, my aunt did such an amazing job! She made all of the tableclothes, decorations and everything. It was gloomy, and rainy so they had it outside underneath a covered tent in the backyard.

Me (4 mos.) Courtney (8 mos.) & Cindy (6 mos)

4 months!!

Okay, so since I'm officially "showing" now, I decided that my 16 week mark would probably be a good time to start documenting my "bump progress". No really new updates, still feeling better than ever.. I am finding it harder to sleep at night- and I'm not even that big yet! RRRRRR....

I sleep on my side now, since sleeping on my tummy is just impossible now, as is sleeping on my back (I feel like someone is sitting on top of me when I sleep on my back!). The problem that I've been having is, all the weight on my side while I'm sleeping makes my big ass hips hurt.. LOL. I wake up and my hips are in some serious pain. I've tried sticking a pillow in between my legs while I sleep, under my tummy, everything. AHHH!!!!

Anyway, here's the bump progress! Seems like she popped out of nowhere.. haha.

Tattoo Progress LOL

It's a GIRL!

YAY! Joey and I confirmed yesterday at the Ultrasound Clinic that we are going to be parents to a little girl! We both were very excited to say the least, we texted and called everyone we knew to share the news.. but at the same time I had suspected and had a "hunch" that it was a girl the whole time. I told Joey that the only way I would be shocked and roll right off that table would be if she said, "It's a BOY!"... haha.

The Ultrasound Clinic we went to was in Costa Mesa, (www.ultrasoundme.com) and it was such a neat place! The room was huge, had two tv's (a 40" Plasma!) and an extra one in front of a few couches, where you could bring guests and family with you to enjoy your ultrasound. I wanted to have a dvd of the ultrasound made, but the tech said she could only do it after the baby was 16 weeks. Oh well. Too bad we couldn't, she was so active that day! Jumping around all over, waving at us. It was adorable, and such an exciting sight. She was laying on her side, in the fetal position facing my belly button, so we couldn't get any profile shots. (I was curious to see if she had Joey's nose, lol)

Auntie Theresa and Uncle Bobby bought her her first gifts yesterday after we found out as well! Too adorable!! Thanks again!


I found this cool picture of a baby at 14 weeks.. I thought it was cool that it's in the same position she was in for our ultrasound! Weird!





Sleeping just like her Mommy does...




The cute gifts Auntie Tree got her!