what we've been up to lately

This post is a completely random assortment of our life this month. Odds and ends, pictures I never got a chance to update you all on and even some christmas decor we just got up.

First, where do I fit in this picture??? I keep trying to tell him that as I get bigger he's going to have to move over, at least a little ;) LOVE this puppy

Noah's seahawks hat as worn by both Dominic and Mary, from the weekend of Zach's wedding

I cannot believe that H fits in this wedding dress. We used to wear this when we were little!

Modeling some christmas attire at Target

Possible Christmas ideas, me first

And D

Dominc at Red Robin on my birthday

Another Christmas accessory at Target, I'm such a good model

The much hated ORANGE mustang that took up way too much of the garage

What a wonderful looking breakfast sandwich, Dominic

Got the Christmas lights up, and one is already out! Figures.

We won't be celebrating Thanksgiving at home so we figured we could switch out the decor early and not have to worry about it when we got back one. Turned out to be a great idea, now I know just what we have and what we need.

Our first born, she's been lounging all day and I wanted to let ya'll see just how adorable she is. Now if you could only smell her. This makes me smile.

12 weeks

Our baby is the size of a PLUM this week (for the record that might not seem too big but my bladder will contest it still manages to get in the way!)

The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.

Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long and weighs half an ounce.

Big news for this week includes deciding on a stroller, the Uppababy Vista

And getting to work on the nursery, here's what we have so far it's just the basics

Nusery by shawnamj on Polyvore.com

and our quick trip to San Fran to see Ryan, Mora, Trent and Megan. We visited the Golden Gate Bridge and even walked on it (our first time doing that)

We had Irish coffee, well really I had a sip and everyone else had one or two, from The Buena Vista Cafe. you can read the story of the recipe if you follow the link. The guy making the coffees was just lining them up and making 10 or so at a time....CONTINUOUSLY! They were small but certainly powerful.

Dinner was fantastic. We ate at Betelnut, an asian restaurant, everything is served family style and since we had so many people we got to try a bunch of different dishes. My fav was the
chili crusted calamari and Dominic's was the glazed pork short ribs with thai basil & garlic. Delish. Of course the day wouldn't have been complete without our new favorite sweet, cream puffs from Pacific Puffs

Belly shots for the week...is there a little bloat?

Wish List

As I'm starting to get things organized for baby I've amassed a list of things we need to have before this little one arrives.

#1 a new digital camera. Our point and shoot is ok but is starting to get outdated at only 6 megapixals. I'd really like to get something that allows for new lenses like this:

the Canon - EOS Digital Rebel XSi has fantastic reviews and is used by MANY of the blog authors that have phenominal pictures. Certainly it would be handy to be able to capture the details of our little one's life ahead.

#2 of course there is NO POINT in having such a great camera and not being able to edit your images. I would go with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 / Adobe Premiere Elements 7 for that purpose. Sure it would be nice to have Photoshop C4, but come on $1000 is a little unrealistic.

3. I think we should upgrade our video recorder to HD with the Flip Video - UltraHD Camcorder. We have the basic flip now and I certainly think a full video recorder with 1080p would be nice but I'm CERTAIN we would reach for the lightweight and easy to operate flip 99% of the time anyway.

quilts for a small human

All pieces and pictures from this flickr group