Happy Fathers Day Shawn!

So, we are having a baby!!!! Hooray! I am in my 11th week now, and soon out of the first trimester (which will be so nice because I have been SO incredibly sick). My due date is January 11th, which seems like forever away.

The pictures you see are when I told shawn the day I found out. I had made a really nice dinner and told him that I had a present for him for being such a great husband. I bought those gator onsies just after our trip to florida a couple years ago and have had them ever since. When he pulled them out he was so excited! Our families are so excited too! we told my family last sunday and shawn's family yesterday.

Any advice you can give on how to combat the queasiness and every other pregnancy mishap I would love to hear them! Hope everyone is doing well!

Hooray! Shawn finally graduated! This is a little late but these are from shawn's graduation on May 9th. Don't look at my arms though cause they are totally chubby in that picture...yucky :). Anyway, for weeks I would ask shawn if he wanted to order announcements and invite his family and friends and he never would respond with anything so I decided to throw him a surprise graduation party.

The announcements are there. I tried to be super fancy too! I even sent them in envelopes with a wax seal...I really should be nicknamed Martha Stewart or something. Totally teasing...I am definitely not crafty at all. So I had been planning for weeks on how to get shawn out of the house that night for his party. Every time I turned around another obstacle would be staring me in the face. First it was shawn's alumni water polo game that he tried to schedule for that night and he got really mad at me when i told him, "you just can't do it that night!" He finally re-scheduled that. Then we found out that his department convocation was that night at the same time! AAAAHHHH, i could not catch a break with this! He decided that he didn't want to go over so late at night (thankfully i might add) and just wanted to go to dinner. By the time we got back all our family was over and he was totally shocked (even though i almost, well pretty much blew it, over dinner). Everything was a success though and i was running around trying to take care of everything so i forgot to take pictures of the actual party. I tried to re-create it above so you could get a feeling (i know i am a total dork).

So whats new? Well my hair and i needed to part ways for awhile...it was getting a little too mermaid like. Anyway, so i chopped it off, this isn't the best picture ever (i took a nap today and went for a walk, but i guess this will do). It was the biggest pile of hair i have ever seen on the floor! I can't put it up anymore, so i guess i will get to find lots of new fun ways to do it! Hope you like it! Sorry if it looks creepy that i am posting pictures of myself.

So we want to start painting our house...well really our baby room (no i am not pregnant, it's just the only room we have with nothing in it so it seems easy enough to start there). We want to paint it like a sage green type color and once we do have a baby we will add some darker cherry type of furniture for the crib and dressers and stuff. But we are also thinking of doing like a fun painting on one of the walls since it's a bigger room and i don't want the color to be overwhelming. Anyone have suggestions on what to paint? i ask shawn but all he says is WWII pictures and florida stuff...neither of those seem very "kid-friendly".

These are pics of a cake I made for my Mom's and sister Kristina's birthday...it was decadent. It was a double layer cake with custard in the middle with chocolate frosting and raspberries on the top....unfortunately my mom did not get to enjoy this masterpiece since we didn't see her in time.

Happy Birthday Mom and Kris! I love you guys!

I can not believe 2010 is over! AAAAAHHHH and before I know it February will be here! These are just a few pics from our wonderful Christmas day. The snowy one? Yeah, that is headed up a hill that goes to my mom's new house! It is clear out there, but it was foggy that day and it looked really cool out on the ridge. My brother in law got stuck just out side the lane that goes to my mom's house. They spent an hour and a half trying to get him unstuck...

Anyway's, Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!

Well I can finally say that I have finished Christmas shopping! For some reason I always have the goal to finish it early so I can relax, and for some reason I am still doing shopping the week of Christmas! Not that I am procrastinating, but it just takes so long!!!!! It feels good to finally be done, and they all look so nice next to our tender little tree. I was so tempted to put up our third stocking...it is really cute but alas, I guess I will have to wait until we have a third member of our family.

I love this time of year!

Merry Christmas

I just want to take a moment and tell everyone how thankful I am for this time of year. It is easy to get caught up in the commercial side of everything, but I am so thankful for everything that I have in my life. I have the greatest husband in the world, and a wonderful new start in the next chapter in our life together.