Baby Nursery

Over Christmas Break, Anthony and I are going to clean out the room that will soon be a nursery.. As of now, it is our study/office, which is translation for piles of books, scrapbook paper, our desks, and A LOT of books.

I am so excited to start planning the nursery. Back when I though the baby was a boy, I decided I wanted the colors Grey, Mustard Yellow, and Cream so it could be gender neutral. Now that is it a girl... I want it to be girly. Double standard I guess.

I started crochenit a blanket with a chevron pattern. I used the grey theme colors, and it is getting so cute. The pattern is here: http://www.caron.com/projects/ss/ss2_zigzag_baby_blanket.html

I am really excited, but I think I want the colors to bright and girlish.

We will see. I have a bunch of print outs so hopefully I will pick it soon.

Week 20... and feeling GREAT.

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I am almost 21 weeks (tomorrow) but I have been so sick that today was the first day since last week I actually put clothes on... I am glad that is OVER. I came home from work on Friday morning with a terrible cold. Being pregnant and sick is the WORST. I can only take Tylenol... What does Tylenol do for a cold?? Nothing. It got so bad, that on Sunday we went to InstaCare and they gave me some nasal spray and today... Voila.. I feel so much better! I am going to work tomorrow and I will be so thankful for my health.

Today, Anthony and I started picking out colors for the nursery. I am going to try my crafty hand and making everything. So here goes nothing. I will let you know my success and failure as it comes.

Updates on La la la LIFE

I can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone. I can't believe I have been teaching for almost 4 months already... and yet how slowly that has seemed to pass..

For Thanksgiving this year, Anthony chose to go to my Grandma Mary's house. (I have a monopoly on every Christmas Eve, so A gets to choose Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.) Dinner was divine. My grandma has some award winning apple pie... Anthony says I should learn how to make it, but there is no way to compare my cooking to her cooking.

My aunt Jill was in town with her 2 daughters and husband all the way from OREGON. We never see them. Last time I saw them was at my wedding, and I think it totaled 3 minutes.. so it was fun.

After my grandma's, we went and visited Anthony's Grandma Brown. She is an amazing cook as well. Anthony made all the rolls for their dinner the day before. I thought they were great, but his family is large connoisseurs of food, and apparently they weren't up to par. So he is going to make them for our Christmas Eve party... practice practice practice.

We set up our Christmas tree and I LOVE it.

Our house feels so cozy and warm.

and the BIG NEWS...

Anthony got accepted to Cornell for his MBA/MHA degree. We are super excited. We are still waiting for other acceptances, but this is my #1... besides the U of U for Medical School... the U doesn't send out their acceptances until March, so we might have to decide on Cornell before then. Tough decisions... I think New York would be so fun. It is about 2 hours away from Manhattan. It is in Ithaca, NY, which is BEAUTIFUL. Green and lush.

I only have 3 weeks until Christmas Break... yes, Thanksgiving break is over today, but I am ready for the next one! I think after Christmas, the baby is going to come soooo soon! I am READY.. mentally.. so far we only have JEGGINGS. yes, I got her jeggings. They are adorable.

Anthony's brother, Chris, and S.I.L., Ashley, had their baby girl on the 18th.

Evelyn "Evie" Mae Brown.

She is one of the cutest babies I have ever seen.

Full head of hair and her skin is the prettiest olive color.

It's a.....

We had our ultra sound appointment today. Everything is looking great. We saw the FEET, SPINE, BRAIN, HANDS, HEART, KIDNEY'S, LEGS, ARMS... and can I say... my baby has the cutest bum in the world?!

I am only 18.5 weeks right now so I was really nervous they wouldn't be able to tell what gender our little babe is... but they could and
it is a GIRL!

We were so sure it was a boy... at least I was. But we are very happy it is a girl. Her feet were tucked on her bum, like child's pose in yoga, so it took a good 20 minutes to find the right angle... sure enough there is nothing between the legs. hee hee.

We forgot to bring a c.d. so we can't upload the pictures. and I am not going to buy anything until my next doctor's appointment because I am still apprehensive that it could turn into a boy... but for now we call the lil babe a SHE.

We are so excited. My mom and grandma Pat came with us to the ultrasound so it was really fun. We have picked out a name, but will keep it a secret for a bit longer :)

16 Weeks

I feel like I should be documenting this pregnancy better since I am terrible at keeping my scrapbook up to date.

I have decided to keep a baby journal. I saw this idea on somebody's blog and thought it was cute. I will probably do it every 3-4 weeks.. unless I get bored and do it more often.

Happy HaLLoweeN

I hope you all had a very wonderful Halloween weekend. We sure had fun. We went to a few Halloween Parties, carved pumpkins, watched all of our scary/halloween movies, and Anthony ate yummy junk food since it makes me sick.

These are the costumes we made. They took FOREVER, but they were fun.
I have a baby in my belly and we put milk and cookies in Anthony's belly.

Ps.. I am now 16 weeks. We get to find out what the little babe is in 3 weeks! EEK!

Making room for the little babe

I have this habit of wanting new cars.

Some people say I trade my cars in like I traded boyfriends in... (before Anthony of course... silly.) Even if there is nothing wrong with them, I want something better... (Nothing is better than Anthony.)

I just get bored. I get it from my momma... The car thing, not the boyfriend thing.

Well, we bought my Toyota Yaris when we first got married in 2009 and I wrecked it about one month later (almost totaled)...

I LOVE that car. It gets about 36-42 miles per gallon. It is super attractive, reliable, and just great.

Isn't it so cute?!

Well, about a month ago somebody backed into me in a parking lot and it was damaged again. We figured that it would be really hard to ever get what we owe on it if we kept it for much longer. Trading it in was the best option and it is hard to trade in older cars.

Well, it is a good thing we decided to trade in because a carseat doesn't fit in the backseat... yes it is that small...

So we researched a lot of SUV/Crossover cars. We picked the Jeep Patriot. I love it, too. I feel MUCH safer in it and it is HUGE. Sometimes it looks like a lifted station wagon.. haha. It has less miles and will be big enough for our "oh, so growing family." Plus, it is all leather which makes for easier clean up with a little one.

Downside is the gas mileage. Boo...

Plus.. Anthony feel much more manly in this than the Yaris. haha.