Kevin, Shannah, Liam, Lorelei & Delaney

We finally found our nursery furniture and ordered it a few days ago.  The company says all three items are in stock and should mail within three business days.  We're currently on vacation (in Hanford) visiting family and will be here until a few days after the New Year... so we have plenty to do upon returning home!  Baby F's room is still a "man room" so we have our work cut out for us.  I thought maybe having the nursery furniture sitting in boxes would motivate us to get the room cleaned out!  I guess we'll see.  Until then, here's the photos of Baby F's bedroom set:

We had two appointments yesterday, the first with the perinatalogist and the second with our doctor.  The perinatalogist did an ultrasound to measure the thickness of Baby F's neck (and to let us have a little fun).  Here are some photos:   Assuming Baby F was trying to find his/her thumb to suck Looks like he/she almost found it, a little lower sweetie The ultrasound tech said I am right on track, measuring 12 weeks and 2 days, so my due date was confirmed as June 29th.  Daddy-to-Be was excited about that, as he's hoping for a June birthday since I was born in April, him in May and now Baby F may follow right after! The perinatalogist said all measurements came out with normal results (no increased thickness in the neck, meaning there is no indication of Down's Syndrome or other birth defects/abnormalities at this point).  Although, she explained the blood tests, which screen for Down's & mental retardation would confirm this with more accuracy...

re are the results from our amateur photo session (please ignore Mommy-to-Be's hair, her new stylist completely misunderstood mommy and cut it all off)... so we're in the process of growing it out... and Mommy-to-Be is VERY sensitive about it (lesson learned--never let your hairdresser cut your hair with your BACK facing the mirror). Anyways, enough about Mommy-to-Be, on to the photos:     Considering this was just a "run through" and all of the photos were done in less than 20 minutes, we think everything turned out great (although our photographer is being a bit more critical of himself).  I feel I am showing a little bit, but it only seems noticeable in the bare belly shots.  Guess that is the point of following the pregnancy month by month.  We'll see how much I've grown around week 14.  Stay tuned...

So, by the end of this week our secret will be out!  Christmas cards (revealing the surprise) went out in the mail today!  We wanted to wait until we were 12 weeks, but I am always a beginning of December Christmas card kind of gal.  I tried to ignore them sitting there on the table, but it was driving me crazy, so I had to send them out!  We're a week early, but the good news is in a few days everyone will be able to speak freely about the pregnancy (what a relief!). More good news--I have never felt better!  I am back to my old self and even went back to work today (part time).  Work went great!  The past couple of days I wake up feeling full of energy and my stomach is no longer doing cartwheels!  I still need a lot of sleep (averaging 10 hours a night and if I don't get those hours I suffer from terrible headaches).  As long as I give my body the rest it needs, I feel really well.  I am hoping this means the worst is over (for now)...

So, I am really late posting this, but here is our favorite recruiter working the 1st Annual Veteran's Day Celebration in downtown SLO.       I know at times Kevin really misses his "real" job in the Navy, but he looks like he was having fun here to me!  In all seriousness, this is just one more "challenging duty" role that I know Kevin will be proud to have been apart of in the future (if he's not already).  I am so proud of him for his relentless commitment to both our country and our family.  We both have made tremendous sacrifices, but overall I'd say giving up a very unique job that you absolutely love, for one that is less exciting and even more challenging is a sacrifice made out of respect and love for your family and their needs.  Not a day goes by that I don't realize the hard work, dedication and commitment this sacrifice requires. There are so many military members making similar sacrifices right now.  I think they need to see our supp...

Its been a while and we have some catching up to do!  About 3 weeks ago, I took some photos of my belly (this is when we first started noticing I had a very small "pooch" or in other words, when we noticed my stomach was no longer "flat").  I was about 7 weeks, almost 8 weeks at the time (sorry it took me so long to post its been a busy couple of weeks!).   Don't know if you see it or not, guess I notice it the most since I am obviously the most familiar with my body.  Around this time, my pants started to fit a bit more snug and were a little less comfortable (hence the reason I am wearing sweat pants in the photos).  Now that I am 10 weeks I am noticing even more of a "pooch" but, again nothing anyone would notice!  Hopefully we will get some more photos posted here soon (there are some plans in the making). So, I thought blogging today might help me keep my mind off of feeling yucky.  I was supposed to substitute this afternoon, but abso...