24 weeks.

6 months already....time is flying.
This little guy is growing daily and moving like a kung-fu fighter.
I love feeling him move all around.
(please excuse me in my wet bathing suit)

babymoon in maui.

We had saved up knowing we wanted to go somewhere before the bambino was born. So, we took our "last hoorah" trip to Maui. After moving and J starting a new job, it was the perfect time for us to get away. It was the best vacation we have been on since our honeymoon. Of course, we were having so much fun that I hardly took any pictures and most of the time forgot my camera. My baby bump transformed while we were there...I guess people refer to it as "my belly popped out." I'm sure it had something to do with the great food and multiple servings of shave ice.

This is the city that I am going to be mayor of someday. My grandma was born here.

Jared had to try out this surfing simulator place. Pregnant or not, there is no way I would have been able to get up on that thing.

Dinner at Kimo's in Lahaina...so good!

Haleakala

shave ice x20

baby gender reveal

I wanted to do something fun to tell my family the gender of the baby. Everyone is excited because this is the first grandchild in my family. J and I were also VERY excited to find out.

So....last year at my friend Marisa's baby shower, another friend of ours made some delicious cupcakes. She said that it was a tradition to hide a little toy inside one of the cupcakes. She hid a small plastic baby in one of them. Later that night after the party was over, we joked about whoever found the baby would have the next baby. No one found the baby that night. A bunch of girls (including myself) took extra cupcakes home. A week later, I went to eat the last cupcake (for breakfast) and found the little baby inside. I laughed to myself and decided to keep it for good luck. I put it on display in our kitchen and may have even told Jared he had to rub it for good luck every once in awhile.

When we found out we were pregnant, I attributed part of the miracle to that plastic baby. I decided to use the baby and bake it into cupcakes for my family. We all got together for a family bbq to celebrate my sister Maren's 30th birthday and to reveal the baby's gender. Happy Belated Birthday Auntie Maren!!!







Mom ended up having the baby in her cupcake. We ALL decided she will NOT have the next baby! hahahaha....
She is thrilled to be having a GRANDSON!!!

catch-up

i need to do some major catch-up....
posts coming soon:
1. baby gender reveal
2. babymoon in maui
3. mom & tom's wedding
4. baby update

drum roll please.....

(is this inappropriate? oh well.....sorry son)

semi-settled

we moved...it was exhausting.
my amazing husband did most of the work.
we are semi-settled.
i use this term because i am going to be living part time in temecula and part time in manhattan beach for the next couple months.
i dislike this schedule because i am away from jared 3-4 days a week.
although, it is not our ideal arrangement, i have to finish up my work in manhattan beach before the baby arrives.
so, we tough it out and do the best we can.

jared started coaching this week.
i know this is where he is meant to be.
he loves it.
looking forward to the high school football season.

actually, i'm more looking forward to our "babymoon" in maui in 13 days.

speaking of baby, he/she is moving more frequently.

We just got home from a long weekend at Big Bear Lake.
Now the "intense" packing begins...we move Saturday...ugh!

A blog post on our trip will have to wait a week or so....