Monday, August 18, 2008

Showers!

Surprise, another whirl-wind weekend! "Thor" & I attended 2 showers and had my family visiting! We had an excellent time but need a few nights of good sleep to recover ;)

On Saturday, we went to a Dessert Shower for my friend Cassie Palla. What a great idea! Chocolate fountains complete with every fruit and food you would ever want to dip! This was followed by "Thor's" first slumber party at Camy's.
On Sunday, Jerri, Sara & Camy threw me a FABULOUS baby shower! It was so beautiful and they served the most wonderful food! Everyone brought a book for the baby and now he has a great library to get him started! I had such a great time visiting with everyone and relaxing at Camy's house. Nick, "Thor" & I received some wonderful gifts including my Vera Bradley diaper bag & our stroller (which the boys were very happy to test out). Now Nick & I need to sort through everything to see what we still need (it can't be much!)

"Thor" is so lucky to have such wonderful "Aunties"!!!!!!!! Thank you so much to everyone for traveling to the shower. Friends & family came from far and near and we love you all!

Spectacular Hostesses!
Great Friends!

Friday, August 15, 2008

Woo Hoo!! Almost there...

Well, we have made a ton of progress in the last 2 days! My Dad installed a beautiful chair rail for us, he and Nick moved the furniture upstairs, and Nick & I put everything together last night! We still have some work to do but it's starting to look like nursery!





Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Nursery Progress!

More nursery progress below!!



Monday, August 11, 2008

31 Weeks!

Thor will be here in 9 weeks!!!! I can't believe it. Once again, we've had a busy couple of weeks. Where do I start...



We finally started on the nursery! I am so excited with the progress so far. The paint colors are awesome and the stencils are working out better than I expected. We have some more painting to do, a chair rail to install and we need to hang the fathead on the wall (it's currently just slapped up there with tape). Then, the furniture can be moved in and stuff can be put away!!! He definitely will have the coolest room in the house.




Nick & I also managed to get away for a few days last week. Sort of a "babymoon". We went to San Diego to visit our friends Jordan & Sheri Roach. We had the most relaxing couple of days going to the beach a few times and even the horse races at Del Mar! We won our bets on the first 2 races and got excited, but then lost the last 6 :( I don't think we should quit our day jobs.


Finally, last Saturday was my first baby shower!!! My wonderful friend Julie Coldani threw the shower with help from her Mom and Mother-In-Law. It was so much more than I could have ever expected!!!!!! The entire shower was Giants themed! So awesome!!! Thor received some excellent gifts that I am very excited to put to use. It is so hard to believe that he will be small enough to fit into some of the items we received. It's also kind of scary to think that I will need all of the diapers that people brought...



Tomorrow (8/12) is Nick & my SECOND ANNIVERSARY!!!! I can't believe how fast time has flown by. I am so happy with the life we have created together and could not imagine sharing it with anyone else. I love you Kernal!!!!!! Here is one of my favorite wedding pictures.





Monday, July 28, 2008

What a busy few weeks!

Wow, the past 2 weeks have flown by. We have been going non-stop with activities!

First, my parents moved up to Stockton on July 19th! Nick & I (and Thor) flew down to LA to help finish packing and help drive cars & U-Hauls back. It's so great to have them here!!! We spent the next few days visiting and unloading U-Hauls. Well, they did. I carried lamps and other "light" things :)

Then on Monday the 21st, my sister came home from Chile!!! I haven't seen her since January and was SO EXCITED to see her!!!! She had to rush to Napa to go back to work but I'm glad I got a few days with her to catch up.

This past weekend my friend Katie got married!! We spent the weekend in San Luis Obispo celebrating Katie & Brett's wedding. It was an eventful, exhausting fun-filled weekend with friends. The weather was perfect and Katie was such a beautiful bride!

Unfortunately with all of this activity, we have made no progress on the nursery. The goal is to have some paint on the walls this week!

Here are some pictures from the wedding:



Monday, July 14, 2008

Party Animal!

This past weekend Thor crashed his second bachelorette party! He celebrated the upcoming wedding of Cassie Palla in Lake Tahoe. He definitely reacted to the music this time and was quite active while we were at Club Vex. There was a celebrity golf tournament in Tahoe so we saw quite a few famous folks! The picture below is of my favorite celeb we met, Kevin from The Office!

We also bought our furniture this weekend!!! My Dad and I went to the Goore's warehouse sale on Friday and bought an awesome crib and dresser for the nursery! For now, here is a picture of the furniture at the warehouse. I'll post more when it's set-up. Currently it is boxed up in the living room while we paint.







Monday, July 7, 2008

OMG, Double Digits!!!!

Nick and I did the math last night and we are officially 97 days from my due date!!!!!!! Holy Moly did that creep on us! I suppose we should start preparing :) The good news is I think we are done registering and we have started on the nursery. I'll post pictures of the nursery as we work on it.



Below is my 26 week picture! I'm getting bigger and still feeling great!



Hope everyone had a Happy 4th!