Possibility for an early Ultrasound...

Okay, so we're sitting at the dinner table yesterday here in Arizona and Natalie pipes up and tells me that her friend has a ultrasound machine and can read if it's a boy or girl. My appointment at home isn't until January 4th, so I've given it some thought and if Nat's friend is willing, I think we're gonna find out earlier. What do you think? Should we wait for the Doctor appointment or just find out now??

Making progress on our house!

The foundation has been poured for the addition on our house and now we just have to play the waiting game for the loan to go through so we can start framing!! We are very excited to bring our ideas to life. Spring time will bring a lot of work, but it will be well worth it to have our own home and also to have a place to bring the baby home to!

Thanksgiving '09

We are so grateful for the opportunity we had to spend Thanksgiving with my family this year, it's wonderful to celebrate with the ones you love. We missed Taylor's family dearly, but we'll be at their house for Christmas this year. We are so grateful for all our family and good friends and all that we have been blessed with in our lives, especially this new little one. Here are some photos from the day!



My adorable nieces and nephews







If you know my Dad at all, you know that he drinks diet coke like water quite literally and so we had to document him drinking a mountain dew.





We had a great week and half in Portland and already miss my family like crazy!

Cooking: I kinda LIKE it

Celeste pre pregnancy LOVED eating out and I still kinda like it, but it mostly makes my tummy really upset now. I CRAVE home cooked food now and Taylor can tell you that I have been going ALL out lately, because I ALWAYS want something different (I know he LOVES it).

Here is a little sampling: It was so pretty, I HAD to take a picture!



The lighting is a little red, but it's a Salmon fillet with mango salsa and cilantro lime rice. IT WAS AMAZING!!

As I said, this is just a sampling. I've been making egg salad, bacon egg and cheese sandwiches, loaded breakfast burritos, TONS of homemade salsa, waffles, cookies from scratch, peach cobbler and tonight I made the MOST DELISH enchiladas EVER!!! YUMMMM LIFE IS BUENO!!

Halloweeny 2009

This year we were invited to a Halloween party at the Zebes! We had a lot of fun and Mike and Bre were great hosts!




This is just a taste of the AWESOME food we had! Bre made the most amazing things like the sushi pictured above made of rice crispy treats, vanilla frosting, fruit roll ups and swedish fish, with green vanilla frosting to imitate wasabi! Also pictured is my pumpkin shaped cheese ball-- SO YUMMY! We also had fruit complete with chocolate and caramel dipping sauce, 7 layer dip and chips!!! Needless to say that both Tay and my tummy hurt SOOOOOOO BAD when we left...




I didn't get a chance to get a picture of the Woodard family and realized at the end of the night that I am nowhere to be seen... WHOOPS! The Woodards were strawberry farmers and Paisley was a strawberry; she looked SOOOO CUTE!!! She is pictured here with her Mama's wig on. The Zebes were each other (Mike as Bre, Bre as Mike) and little Ande was a Who, The Flakes were Osama Bin Ladin and a U.S. soilder who caught him and Taylor was Obama and I was a flapper.



Look!!! It's Osama and Obama forming an ALLIANCE! OH THE IRONY!!!!

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Little Barlow

It's official! I'm 11 weeks pregnant with Baby Barlow, due May 14th.

Little one,

Mommy took 3 pregnancy tests just to make sure you were really there and to prove it to Daddy. I would never know that you're even there if you didn't like making me really sick all day long, but the doctor gave me some nausea pills and they have SAVED Mommy's life! You are letting me eat whatever now with a few cravings(sandwiches, stouffer's mac n cheese, fruit and really spicy food). You've given Mommy REALLY bad acne, but you're totally worth it and I know it'll go away once you're here with us.
When Mommy saw you on an ultrasound, I teared up a little when I saw your heartbeat and Daddy took your picture around to show all of his friends. We can't wait to meet you. I'll write again soon.

My 24th Birhday

Taylor could NOT wait for me to open my gift until Friday, so I opened my gift Thursday night and I got...



I am SOOOO excited, it was exactly what I wanted!!

FRIDAY I had to work, but I ended the night in an AWESOME way with a FREE entree at Warbirds cafe in Driggs with Taylor and the Woodards. Thanks for coming guys! We had a GREAT time!



SATURDAY was even MORE FABULOUS!! Taylor and the Flakes took me to Salmon to Gold bug Hot Springs!! It was so much fun and we ended the night with an AMAZING dinner at the local pub. I had a Philly Cheese steak sandwich that was HUGE AND SOOOOO DELICIOUS!!!









What's a Birthday without SHOES??? My Mom and Dad sent me two adorable pairs of shoes! Thanks Mama and daddy! Thanks everyone for the best Birthday EVER!!! Thanks for all the phone calls, cards and texts! LOVE YOU ALL!! Especially my HUB, who is the BEST EVER!!!!