Giving Thanks, 2008 is great!

I am thankful this year for the beautiful baby I am carrying. For Andrew and I to raise her as our first child, and I am excited for March 2009 when she will be due to arrive. I am thankful for our happy marriage, family and friends supporting us and laughing with us. Thank you to all who we call family and love so much. You are a special part of our lives and we are very happy to be a part of yours. I am thankful for this pregnancy running smoothly, thus far. I am thankful for our president, Barack Obama. I hope he will do this country proud in the coming 8 years (2 terms to run, like the last couple of presidents have done). I am thankful to the gas company, or whom ever it is, lowering our gas currently to $1.57 and will enjoy the low prices while it lasts.


I am also thankful for Pasteurized food products. With out the Pasteurized option I would be missing out on Eggnog this year, due to being prego! Thank goodness I can still enjoy some: Non-alcoholic, pasteurized, Eggnog!





"Thank you and good night, ladies and gentlemen!" -TV Talk show host.

Preggy pics at 21 weeks!

I'm getting there, and the belly is getting rounder! Last week I had an ultra sound appointment for measurements and such of our baby. The U.S. Tech was pointing out all of this detail on the monitor. She showed me the baby's 2 kidneys and a little white cross shape on the beating heart; which are the heart valves. The heart was visible to see it actually beating as well as hearing it. Way too cool! Then I saw her feet up near her head, so she was all curled up and chilling out in my womb. She showed me the shape of the baby's nose was a good triangle shape to show there wasn't any cleft shape on the face or signs of down syndrome. The ultra sound was very fascinating with everything she showed me. I am so excited to meet our daughter, Audrey in March!

Here are pregy pics at 21 weeks. I am now at 6 months (24 wks).

Birthdays!

Last weekend, Andrew and I went to a little girls birthday party. She turned 3. The theme was Tinkerbell. My friend baked the cake and little cupcakes. Pics below. The cake she made had cream cheese icing and the little cupcakes had flowers on top.

The flowers she made by cutting up marshmallows and sprinkling colored sugar sprinkles on it. Way to Martha Stewart! She was so creative.

I have been inspired to do cute stuff like this when our daughter has birthday parties! It will be so much fun down the road...a few yrs from now. Photo above is Carissa and I at her daughters b-day party, you can see my 23 wk baby belly!

Today is my Mommy's birthday. She is wrapping up another decade. I wont mention which one, but next year will be the big one. Happy Birthday MOM! Love You! I get to see her next weekend over Thanks Giving, and can't wait. Me and 6 month pregnant belly will give her a big, belated, birthday hug.

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People see my baby belly and ask me when I am due. I say, "March 25th" Then they usually say, "Ahh that is right around my birthday...have her on the 23 and we can have the same b-day!" UGH, too many birthdays in MARCH! Looking back now, I remember a lot of my friends had birthdays in March also!

Baby Audrey will be added into the month of March birthdays with the rest of the world.

Random thoughts

I have a question, and I would like some one to come up with an answer for me! Google it or make it up, just humor me.



Why do we park a car in the PARKing Lot
and park a car in the Parking Garage...
BUT park a car in a DRIVE way?

Shouldn't this be called a PARK way?

Another thought, bubble gum ice cream. What the heck?


There are real bits of bubble gumballs in the Baskin Robins ice cream. Do people actually chew it later once the ice cream is gone? The Bubble gum probably gets swallowed up with the ice cream?... Unless the eater of this ice cream it careful to set aside each gumball as he/she comes across them mid way of eating the ice cream!?


ICKY! That means at the end is a slobbered pile of gumballs, on a napkin, to put back in your mouth. Sounds to me like "ABC gum" = Already Been Chewed gum... icky.

I'm getting a KICK out of being pregnant!

I am little over 5 months pregy now and our little baby is poking me in the side more so than kicking, yet. When she pokes me in the side, I just rub the spot till she moves. I do get a few kicks, but still just felt internally and not enough for some one else to feel the kicks. I am excited to get stronger kicks, to be able to share them with Andrew and whom ever else.

My belly is big and round, I have gone past the stage of questioning it. Early on some people would look at me and either not notice I was pregy or thought that maybe I was, but didn't want to ask; in case I was just "Fat". Now people see me and for sure know that I am pregy. They keep asking me, "When's the baby is due?" or "What am I having?" etc. It is also fun wearing maternity tops and looking pregnant. I get a KICK out of it! tee-hee.

Agree to Disagree!

A friend of mine, voted Republican, McCain, and had some harsh words to share after Obama won the presidential election. Here is my response. You, the blog reader may agree or disagree. That is why people vote, for their own opinions and for their own likes, and dislikes.


Dear "Friend",

I think quite the opposite from you, it was time for a Democrat (black or white) to be elected, no more sending our children to war, and democrats will hopefully end this ongoing war, and fix our economy, etc. Republicans are also the ones voting in CA against people getting married! If two people love each other, they should be able to get married. Who are we to choose and vote against love? Earlier this year people were "allowed" to get married and did so only to have it taken away again.

Did you see on TV that Ellen DeGeneres got married earlier this year, only to have it now taken away from her? She is just one person in the whole state of CA treated that way, unfairly. Thanks to republicans, mostly.

I personally voted Obama two reasons, he is democrat, and black... Finally, after 60 years later we are just now having a black president!? I find this mind boggling! We have CEOs, surgeons, doctors, VP of large corporations, and principals of schools, etc. who are all black; why not have a president be a black person. It is about time...2008.

IT'S A.....

We are thinking about naming her Audrey (middle name?) Hay! we are naming her after Audrey Hepburn. As for a middle name we could either go with her having the same initials as Andrew (ASH), and pick an "S" name, OR do the same initials as Audrey Kathleen Hepburn, (AKH), and pick out a "K" name. Andrew likes the name Kara for a middle name? We will see.



It is a big responsability picking out a persons name! This name will be thier name for thier whole life to go by. If we pick out a "dorky" name she will never forgive us...or like parents who picked Pat for the childs name, & grows up to become a "fat Pat" just isn't nice.

As a kid, Andrew grew up gowing by his middle name and only changed back to using his first name when he started College. Which ever middle name we pick out, Audrey may go by that as her name also, maybe? Who knows. Kara may be a nice name for her middle name and to go by as a first. I like the name Kiera, Andrew likes Kara.