Our First Pink Things

Occasionally I do mystery shopping, for grocery stores and restaurants and other retailers. I do it because it pays for (or reimburses for) groceries or eating out or other things I want to buy, which I love and Chris definitely loves. Plus I had a lot of time on my hands in the evenings while Chris was in school, and this helped give me something constructive to do.

As it happened, I was able to schedule two mystery shops for the day we got our ultrasound that allowed me to buy some pink things for our baby girl for free! I can't tell you the name of the store...


...but the things I bought are oh so adorable. I bought the pink kimono outfit to be the take-home-from-the-hospital outfit, but it just looks huge even though it's 0-3 months. So we'll have to wait and see if she's a chunk and can fill it out. The other floral sweater was just so adorable I couldn't resist, so I bought it for next winter. I can't wait for the nursery closet to start filling up with cute pink things!


P.S. Rach, these outfits are our first homework assignment. You have to teach me how to make bows!

20 Week Ultrasound Pics

Here are the pictures from our 20 week ultrasound yesterday. If you remember at 12 weeks, she had her hand up by her face in all of the pictures. She did the same thing yesterday, so it made it hard to get a good profile shot. Even when I rolled over and back, she loved that hand by her face!

Cute little profile.

Cute little foot.
Cute little bum.

On Chris's side of the family we have one niece (Hannah, age 6) and four nephews. Hannah was so hopeful at first that she would have a little doll of a cousin to dress up. But since I kept saying I thought it was a boy, her mom started prepping her for the news by telling her how special it is for her to be the only girl on that side of the family.

Yesterday after our ultrasound, Chris's mom called Hannah to tell her the good news. She was going to have a girl cousin to play with! Instead of being happy, Hannah broke down and cried because she wouldn't be special anymore.

Crap.

It's a Girl!!!

We had our 20 week ultrasound this morning and it's a girl! I couldn't be more shocked. I was just so sure it was a boy! And Chris keeps saying 'I told you so,' because he "knew" it was a girl. But we are both so excited and so happy that she is healthy!

Chris and I invited both of our moms to come with us to the ultrasound and experience the excitement. We went to breakfast beforehand at Cafe Normandie and it was sooo yummy. I think all the women subconsciously wore pink today because deep down we knew it would be a girl. :)

Even my mom is tanner than I am. I give up.

Chris and his mom.

Our friend Janeal was the ultrasound technician for us. She brought the baby up on the screen and went through all of the things they check for -- she showed us the 4 chambers of the heart, the brain, the head measurement, the femur measurement, the kidneys, the stomach, the feet, the arteries in the umbilical cord, the mouth and nose, etc. As she was getting to the end of the evaluation and everything looked good, Chris said "so do you already know what it is?" She sort of smiled and chuckled and said, "yes, I'm pretty sure I already know." Then she brought the view down to the bum and showed us the legs, the bum cheeks, and what she called "the hamburger" that let us know it was a girl! Too funny!

We got lots of cute little pics (and a dvd!) from the ultrasound, but the little munchkin kept her hand up by her face the whole time so we never got to look at her features in 4-D like we were hoping. Janeal kept having me roll onto my side and then back to see if we could get her to move her hand away but she was always went right back to the same position because she was just too comfortable. Stubborn little thing takes after both of her parents!

Ultrasound pictures to come. :)

I've waited for this day all my life...

Last night I went to Babies R Us with my little sister Amy to buy some of these, along with a baby shower gift.

When we drove into the parking lot, I started to squeal with delight (no joke...ask Amy) because I realized I'd be able to park here for the first time ever:

The sign is hard to read, but it says "Stork Parking for Expectant Mothers." Genius.

I heart Babies R Us.

Oldschool Rewind

My mom found some of my photos and awards from 1st grade when she was cleaning the other day. They made me chuckle so I scanned them in for safe keeping.

Was there ever any question that I would someday become a super-nerd?

These are a few of my friends and classmates from 1st grade. I had to laugh when I saw it. I'm so posting this on facebook and tagging them all. Can you find me?

And another one of my 6-year-old adorableness. This was taken a mere few days before I knocked out my two front teeth by smashing my face into a steel pole on the monkey bars at recess. True story.

Soakin' Up The Sun

We finally got out waterskiing last week! We've had such crazy rainy weather the entire month of June that we haven't been yet. But we finally got out with our friends the Hansen's and the Martin's. We went to Utah lake and had beautiful, sunny weather!

Chris on the wakeboard.

The Martin's with one of their three adorable little girls.

Rach & I and the Bentley man.

How adorable is this picture of Bentley snuggling with Chris? He's gonna make a good daddy.

Thanks, Hansen's for getting us out on the water! Lets go again soon if the weather keeps up...we all know I could use the rays. :)

Father's Day

It was Chris's first real Father's Day yesterday, so I thought it deserved something cute and special. I gave him a framed picture of our 12 week ultrasound along with a poem called "My Daddy's Hand" that sits on a cute little rod-iron easel. The poem made me cry the first time I read it, I thought it was so adorable. Happy Father's Day, Chris. I love you!

My Daddy's Hand
Daddy, Take my hand in yours and you will plainly see,
How very much I need you now to love and care for me.
As my little hand grows, I will need you even more,
Everything I do in life, I have never done before.
Teach me to be kind and loving, sharing and forgiving,
Show me through your acts of love the pure joy of living.
The years will pass by quickly and one day I will be grown,
I will pass what you have taught me onto children of my own.
Hold me always in your thoughts and remember when we are apart,
The special love between a child and a daddy's heart.