Saturday, November 14, 2009

7 months down and 2 months to go!

28 weeks and counting. This has been by far the fastest 7 months of my life. I feel like it was just yesterday that I was taking 3 pregnancy tests to confirm our hopes :) Things are starting to all come together, I have my work baby shower this Wednesday being thrown by a fellow nurse at work (Rickie) who has become a great friend. And then my family/friend shower the following weekend, which I am also looking forward too!
Ty's Uncle Dustin has been hard at work in his room, painting an amazing mural! (See pics below that Drew has posted) His room is slowly starting to fill, with blankets, diapers, toys, bedding, gifts, etc. Its all seeming a little more real every day! We are so excited we can hardly stand it! I start next Friday with my every 2 week doctor appt's. as opposed to every 4 weeks!
I am fortunate enough to work with amazing people (Stacy & Vickie) who always do Ultrasounds for me, so I can see the little guy moving around in there as often as I want! In addition to the excitement that Drew & I have, this pregnancy as also showed me that I have amazing friends. Thank you to my fellow nurses, doctors, tech's, Ultrasound Tech's, and director at work who have all become little 'Mother Hens' to me and protecting me from the crazy people out there and all of risks that come with working in an Emergency Room; they won't let me lift people, push stretchers, or take care of certain people with particular diseases to avoid the risk of me getting sick! Ty and I really apprciate it, we love you!
To Vanessa, who is constantly reassuring me that everything is fine, and that although she worried about all of the same little things while she was pregnant... its normal and EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE! :) And also for lending your husband to us to allow him to create Ty's room.
To Dustin, for taking the time to do Ty's room... its awesome!
To our families for the constant support, and help! And to all of out other friends who are always checking up on us, to see how I am feeling and to make sure everything is right on track!
Also to Drew who remains to be so patient throughout this whole process with me and my pregnancy emotional ups and downs! Your the greatest and I can't imagine going through this with anyone else! I LOVE YOU.
I am done rambling now, 2 months to go wahoo.. and Im thinking it will fly by with the Holidays right around the corner!
Drew will post picture tonight when he gets home of my 7mo. baby bump!
Drew and I on our date in St. Armands Circle

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Ty's Room being created

Here are photos from start to now of Ty's room being created. We had alot of idea's and one was to make sure it wasn't your typical teddy bear baby room. Not our kid. So me being the extreme board sport athlete I am, it was only right that we tied that into his room some how. We want him to be very well rounded and do every different sport that he wants to play. Now Ty's Grandpa Joe is all about Baseball. He played baseball, watches baseball, and even coaches high school baseball. Over the years he has even turned me back into a team sport guy and I am really enjoying watching baseball. So we had to be sure to tie that into the room as well. These pictures don't show the baseball stuff we have for Ty's room, but we have a mini bat engraved with Ty's name and 2010 MVP, a Tampa Bay Rays mini batting helmet (my team) and a New York Yankee's Ball on a mini bleacher seat(Grandpa Joe's team). One of our very close friends Dustin is painting a mural on Ty's wall. He is an amazing artist and we are so excited to see this done. Here is where it is at now.

What it use to look like:




First round of Paint:




Dustin Working his Magic, and bead board up:

Phase 1 of the artwork.

The Wave started:


I will add to this post as more gets finished.

October

Well this is going to turn into a picture post. We had an awesome Halloween with great friends. It started with some pumpkin carving with the crew. I only have pics of Nicole's pumpkin and my pumpkin because we didnt bring the camera with us. We went trick or treating on the island with the crew for Lily's first Halloween. But this turned into watching Dustin, Vanessa and Lily have there picture taken by 40238783674 strangers because they had the best costumes EVER!!!!!!!! We hung out with Derrick and Jess at their new house and ate dinner. Then called it a nite.
My Pumpkin

Nicole's Pumpkin

Nicole and I in our last minute costumes

The Crew

BEST COSTUME EVER!!!!!!!!!


Dustin started painting Ty's room. That will be another post.

Nicole and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary with a short trip to Orlando. We just relaxed, went to Sea World and walked around Downtown Disney. It was an awesome trip and taking time to just hang out in the pool and relax with each other was so nice.
We did manage to get close enough to the dolphin pool at Sea World to pet some dolphins. One even longe up on the ledge right in front of us, however I was busy bobbling the camera and missed the picture:(

Us and some Flamingos




Now we are back to work and reality. And we are hoping that hurricane Ida hangs out in the gulf so Dustin and I can surf all day Tuesday and let Nicole, Vanessa and Lily relax on the beach.
We are so thankful for all of our close friends and family. Thank all you guys for being such amazing people.