Merry Christmas and New Year Resolutions!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I know it has been wonderful for me, especially being off for 5 days without having to take vacation days! I am definitely very relaxed. I was yelled at by my aunt about not blogging enough in her Christmas card. I have decided to make that my New Year's resolution to blog weekly. So be prepared to have some boring updates.

Everything is going well with the baby, he is kicking more and more every day. I have my sugar test next week which I am nervous about because of all the cookies I have been eating! There is still no name...I have decided this is the hardest decision I have ever had to make! We have a couple of names that we have been batting around but nothing permanent, yet. Kelly likes to call him "Senate Candidate Number 5" and there are other "temporary" names going around the family. The goal is to have a name by February.

Nothing else major is going on. Andy and I are both working a lot and don't see each other much. Today we are going on a date for the first time in a long time, we are both excited!

It's a BOY!

That's right we found out on Monday that we are having a boy! Now we have to start working on a name! Andy and I decided to surprise our parents and made recordings of his heartbeat and than went to Build-A-Bear and made a bear for each of the grandparents' house. I am not sure if the grandparents were surprised about the sex (since my mom has been referring to the baby as "him" for quite some time now) but they all were surprised about the bear!

Last night I got to experience my first bad night being pregnant. I got a flu bug and only got about 3 hours of sleep. The good news in that horrible evening was I finally felt a punch and kick, not just the head butts I have been feeling. I guess the stomach and intestinal spasms got the little guy going! I took the day off from work and am feeling much better.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, I did it for the first time ever! I got up at 4:30am and picked up a friend from work and we went to Meijer's for their Thanksgiving Day sale. I waited in line for a Wii Fit and Jenny was waiting for a Kodak Easyshare Camera. The line was very long and I was worried that I would have waited one hour for nothing. At 5:55am, a worker came out and announced that there were 40 Fits and was not sure if from me and back there were going to be enough. When I got closer to the door, the workers stated that there were 7 left, and I was 10 away from the door. THEN they said that there were about 10 more! Needless to say I thought I was going to have an anxiety attack. Finally there was just one person in front of me and they said there were only 2 more! We gave each other high fives and laughed! I now understand the thrill of shopping on Black Friday, and I always thought people were just crazy.

I have been told that I need to add new posts. SO the excitement lately.....Last Thursday I was in session with a client and Andy called three times. Since he never does this I apologized to my client and answered the phone. He told me that there was something wrong with Diesel and he was taking him to the hosiptal. It turns out that Diesel scratched his right eye really bad. We are not sure how he did that exactly but here he is with the cone on (which he hated). We felt bad, so we let him sleep with us that night. He is spoiled rotten.

Big news today is the SNOW!!! Mom sent me a picture from her house with no snow but look what we got (and it is still snowing).......

I forget, are we north or south of Toledo?

I know it has been awhile since my last post. Frankly not much is going on. We have gone to two more games and I decided that plane rides are not fun when pregnant (especially when you are flying every weekend). I told Andy that I would go to one more game this year. Now the leaves are falling and Diesel is loving the leaves, he blends in so well!

On one of our trips to California we made our first baby purchase, of course it was USC!

First Picture..

Monday was our first ultrasound. Andy and I went and when both had huge grins on our faces when we saw the little peanut. I was shocked at how much its legs and arms move for only being 1 inch long! The doctor said that everything looked good and healthy! Only 30 weeks to go!

FOOTBALL SEASON!!

I am so excited for football season this year, and I am a little late on updating the trips we have had so far. Our first trip took us to Virginia to see USC vs. Virginia. After spending 9 hours in the car (not including the 6 hours we spent at a hotel) we watched the football game (we were there about 5 hours) and than we were heading back to Ohio. I told Andy from now on I want to spend AT LEAST the same amount of time at a destination as the round trip takes! Here is the picture from our seats. All I can say is at least USC won!

Our next traveling adventure was to LA to see the wonderful game against Ohio State. Andy reserved us a place at a tailgate party located in the basketball arena. $20 for all you can eat (but had to pay for drinks), we were there about 5 hours, so I definitely ate my $20 worth. Below is a sample of some of the food we ate.
We went to the game and it was really neat seeing all the same people as last year. Andy and I got out favorite Southern California football food: chicken and rice bowl with hot sauce. I think we talked about it the whole way to the game.
During halftime we were able to see a few famous people. Henry Winkler (the Fonz) walked by and waved to the crowd as everyone yelled "hey Fonz" I took a picture but it was a little blurry. Than this guy walked by and I thought it was Isaiah Thomas, but the girl next to me and I said that he looked too tall. However, the guy in front of us said that it was him. We did see Denzel Washington but unfortunately mom it was only on the jumbo tron.

The game, I think, proved who should be in the national championship with USC stomping over Ohio State. Hey, at least one of my teams can beat them! Andy is already talking about going to Miami in January.