Mele Kalikimaka!

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a wonderful day with their families. Even though we weren't in Iowa, Randy and I had a great day together. We sleep in a little bit, opened presents, baked a few side dishes and then headed to Annie & Eric's for a late lunch. I made sure Noah got plenty to eat and then we spent the evening playing games. Overall, it was a great day!

Randy and I made our final trip to Babies R Us before Noah arrives~ or so we hope! We still needed to pick up a few things so we did that yesterday and then spent today working in his room. If anyone was worried about him having clothes have no fear he has plenty! I thought we'd have to do a load or two of laundry~ man was I wrong!

I created a list of those who are still in the running for the baby pool that we did at my shower in Iowa. Sorry to those of you who guessed girl and are already out~ Lindsay, Sam, Jill, Renee, Han-na, Rachel, Shannon, Grandma Deb & Patsy! Maybe next time :)

This week is another short work week for Randy and I with the holiday. We did a lot of running and cleaning this weekend in hopes that we could relax and just hang out this coming weekend. The only thing we're doing this week is on Wednesday and we go on a tour of the Labor & Delivery Unit at the hospital. I'm not sure if that will calm some nervous or only make them worse. I'm guessing worse, lol :)

Again, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with their families. We're so thankful for everything that we have and feel incredibly blessed to have all of you in our lives to share it with! Even though we were all the way in Hawaii we still felt plenty of love from Iowa!

new belly pics!

Dec. 20th, 2009
(anyone know why my dates are wrong all of the sudden?!)

I know it's been forever, but I'm finally updating with some belly pics! The link below is from the USMC Ball in late November. We had such a great time! I've never seen so many women who are pregnant in one location in all my life, lol. It was pretty funny to see how many people are having Homecoming babies :)

http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/Orderpage.aspx?pi=03OH00G4020072&po=72&pc=134

We also had a maternity session with my friend, Michelle. She was the one who took our Homecoming photos back in April. She wanted to try some new things so I happily volunteered us to do so. Randy was such a good sport and went along with everything we tried! Here are a few of my favorites from that day.








This is from last weekend when we went Hanauma Bay with Randy's mom and Susan. I can't snorkel anymore, but I was still able to walk around and see fish. The water was so clear! I was in water up to my chest and I could still see fish just by walking around! I'm incredibly jealous they got to swim with a turtle! I can float on my back and swim just fine, but for some reason I can't float on my tummy which makes snorkeling a little difficult at this point.



And just because I think this one is funny... :)



This weekend we finished our shopping, wrapped everything and shipped it all for a small fortune. Randy made some awesome chili for lunch and we plan to spend our evening baking, watching football and maybe a Christmas movie.

The little man and I are doing good. He's gotten so much stronger in the past week or so. I'm wanting to record my belly when he's really active, but I haven't had any luck yet. It's almost as if he knows I want to record it~ little stinker! He's wild and crazy when I'm at work, but never when I'm just sitting at home.

We have everything we need and I think we're officially ready for him! I have been having a ton of Braxton Hick contractions. I had 3-4 days were I had them non-stop around the clock. I don't think I'll have him anytime soon, but since Johna had Mason so early every little thing has me wondering now. I go back to the doctor on Jan 6 and I'll be 38 weeks at that time. She said she'd check to see if I've made any progress if I wanted her to. It's just crazy to think how close we are~ only one more month!