Our Christmas

This year on Christmas Eve we had dinner at my Aunt Lisa's house. It was nice for us because we are only 5 minutes away! Lisa prepared an amazing roast beef and green beans. My mom brought her famous twice baked potatoes and rasberry pretzel jello salad. Dinner was delicious! I couldn't eat as much as I normally would because when I do I get really bad stomach aches. I guess being pregnant this Christmas season actually helped me from pigging out to much.

Below is Lisa's mom Pat (visiting from WI), Aunt Lisa and my mom

My dad decided to take a nap before all the fun started

Cousins on the couch watching some exciting show on the Discovery chanel

(Shane, Parker, Christie, Reed and me)

After dinner we headed out to Riverside to spend Christmas with my family. It took us 1 1/2 hrs to go 30 miles on Christmas Eve. Jeremy and I "enjoyed" the ride and listened to Christmas music the whole way. When we got to the parents house we played games and watched A Christmas story. It was classic.

We actually slept in until about 10am! What a record! My brother's demanded that my mom put on the Celine Dion Christmas CD before they would open any gifts. How funny! I guess we grew up listening to her Christmas CD and it wouldn't be the same without hearing her. They are pathetic.

This is my mom and brother Reed.

Gramps enjoying his new gift, a cell phone! How much do you want to bet he takes it back. We love you gramps but know you like your things the way they are.

My brother Shane and I enjoying some quality time together.

We also spend some time with the Murdock's before Christmas. Here is the whole gang.

It was so much fun to watch Travis open his gifts this year. He actually got into ripping all the paper.

This was one of Travis' favorite gifts! His aunt Lacey made him a ball blanket. Travis loves everything that has to do with basketballs. He can say it so good now.

This was by far Jeremy's favorite gift of the year. Sheri got our baby girl a USC warm up outfit! It is so cute!

Butterflies

Today I am 17 weeks and 2 days! I guess that is about 4 months. I can't believe how fast time is flying. I know it may be a little early but I think I have felt the baby move inside me. It is a feeling that is hard to explain but it sort of feels like butterflies. I have only felt her move a couple of times and it is the coolest thing in the world. I can't wait until I can feel her kick and have Jeremy feel it as well.

Jeremy has finals this week and I will be so happy when school is over!!!! I can't believe he will be graduating! The day has finally come. He has been so busy with group projects, presentations and job interviews that I hardly ever see him. I am so proud of how hard he is working and look forward to Dec. 18th when we can celebrate together!!!!

Here is an updated belly pic. I feel like I am finally starting to show a little bit.

4 months and growing...

17 weeks

Leavin’ on a jet plane….

Jeremy flew out this morning to interview for a job in PA! I miss him already. I don’t know how I will do if he ends up having to travel a lot for business. Thinking of moving all the way to PA is kind of scary, but exciting at the same time! I have lived in the same two towns my entire life and a change would be nice. Don’t worry; it would take a pretty amazing offer for us to move across the country. Today the weather in PA is cloudy and 40 degrees!! Yikes! I wish him luck and can’t wait to hear about his trip!

Heartbeat

Today I was able to hear our sweet little baby’s heartbeat! It was so exciting! I have seen the heartbeat in many ultrasounds but this was the first time I was able to hear it. The Dr was able to find it right away. It sounded like it was beating really fast and strong. Is it bad that I already forgot how many beats per minute she said it was beating? Next time I will write it down. Other than that this appt. was pretty boring. I had to wait 40 min just to spend 5 min with the Dr. But it was worth it. She said I should be popping out in about 10 more weeks! Other people can’t tell that I’m showing but I feel a little something sticking out. I will continue to post my progression shots and you can decide for yourself.



Oh ya, and did I mention that we are having a GIRL!!!!? Yep, that’s right. We were able to find out at 14 ½ weeks! Jeremy got what he wanted. At least that is what they think it is. I went to this Ultrasound Medical Center in Costa Mesa that some friends recommended to me. The lady who does the ultrasound has a 99% accuracy rate. She has predicted the sex of 3 of my friend’s babies and she was right on. So I guess we will have to wait a little longer to be 100% sure. But this is the exciting news for now. Now we can start to seriously talk baby names and pick out bedding! That is unless I decide to try and make it myself. We’ll see.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This year we spent Thanksgiving with Jeremy's family. We are so lucky to live close to one another right now. We had a delicious ham and turkey dinner with all the fixin's.



Travis is into feeding himself now. It was so cute watching him try and feed himself with a fork.

After dinner we played Cranium and the GIRLS won!!!! This was exciting because the whole time we were playing Jeremy would say, "I have NEVER lost at Cranium." I guess he met his match. It was awesome. On Friday we ate leftovers and helped get ready for Christmas!!!! I was crazy enough to wake up at 5:00 am to stand in line with my friends at JoAnn Fabrics. We got so much cute fabric! I think we were there a total of 5 hours. Now I have tons of fabric for projects that should last me a while. It was so much fun and I will most likely be back next year!

Happy Birthday Jeremy!!!!

November 19th was Jeremy's 25th birthday! This is a pic of him in the kindergarten! Isn't he SO cute!!!??

For breakfast I made Jeremy scrambled eggs and potatoes with red and green bell peppers - his favorite. I also surprised him with a cinnamon roll from Cinnabun! That was a special treat. For dinner I made Jeremy one of his favorite meals, chicken parmesan. He also got his homemade chocolate chip brownies as requested for his cake. He has been very busy with school ending soon so we didn't get to do anything during the week. On Friday night we were able to go to one of his favorite bbq restaurant's, Stone Fire Grill. It was ofcourse, DELISH! We went with our friends the Neville's and Shelton's. Look at Eva waving to the camera. She is so cute!

After dinner we went back to the Shelton's to play games, but not before Paul could show Jeremy his cool eye thingy that Optomitrists use to examine the eye. He thought it was pretty cool. In the pic below he doesn't seem very confident and comfortable, which is why I am glad he majored in business.

Below is a pic of Jeremy with USC football coach Pete Caroll. He LOVES college football, especially the USC Trojan's. I'm so glad he was able to go to a practice and meet the coach and some players. I am so lucky to be married to Jeremy. He is so sweet and thoughtful and makes me feel so loved. He loves to surprise me and always makes me feel special. He is so funny and is my most favorite person to be with! I am so proud of how hard he has been working this semester. We will both be happy when this semester is over! It is so cute how excited he gets when we talk about our baby. I know he will be a great dad! I can't wait!!!

Cambria's Day

My sweet cousin Cambria was baptized on her birthday, November 2nd. We are so happy we were able to celebrate this special day with her. She looked so cute in her white baptism dress. Camie, Annie, Mckenn and I all wore the same dress on our baptism day. I made her the bag she is holding in almost all the pics. She loved it! Thanks to the help from my good friend Erin.Cute girls.

Cambria asked Jeremy to talk at her baptism. He did a great job.

The whole William's family