Crib Project...practice pieces

Don and Chris...inspecting their practice cuts...they weren't very happy with them.

One of the legs for the Sleigh Crib

This is the end of the crib

So Don and Chris have started working on making a Sleigh style baby crib. The plans are very difficult, so yesterday they practiced making some of the pieces before they buy the good wood. The curves to the Sleigh look were really hard for them to cut and turns out they need to get a different blade to be able to do it.

This is a picture of what the final product will be like except it will be dark cherry.

On a positive note, I have actually been feeling kind of normal again. I have even been able to go running a few days a week, clean my house again and help with cooking dinner without getting sick. I hope it stays this way and the nausea doesn't come back later.

First Ultrasound

I had a little scare and worried there was something wrong with the pregnancy so I got an early ultrasound and everything turned out to be just fine. The ultrasound dated the baby as 6 weeks and 3 days which gives us a due date of August 31st, 2010. We saw the heart beat at 117 bpm. It seems even more real seeing the little heart even though in this picture it doesn't look like much. This week I have definitely started to feel more pregnant with nausea, heart burn and fatigue. I have been sipping on lots of ginger ale and snacking on saltines. Hopefully this passes in the coming weeks.

Christmas!

Jackson and his new nutcracker for his growing collection

Uncle Chris and Jordyn with her new cell phone

Mom got a new computer

When we told our family that we are expecting

A mandolin from Grant...now I can make perfectly cut veggies

Jordyn in her new car

Jackson got DJ Hero

Jordyn with the nerf gun that is about as big as her

Katie and Jordyn

Don and Chris got knives

Barb...excited new grandmother to be..this might be an understatement...her reaction was pretty funny

Chris and Chelsey

Me

It was definitely a Christmas to remember and of course the best present of all being the news that we are expecting. We had a great time spending Christmas Eve with Don, Barb, Chelsey and Grandma and then Christmas Day with my family. I got so many neat baking things including a bunch of extra silpats, a beater blade, new measuring spoons and cups, a silicone rolling pin and commercial grade icing gel colors. I think everyone knows now how much I love baking and as you can tell from my blog that I tend to blog about it a lot.

Because this gift was rather humorous...I had to put a video in. Here is Jordyn in her little mini cooper. Her face is so funny.

And here is a video of Jordyn dancing to DJ hero


The highlight of Jackson's Christmas was the 4 remote control helicopters he got. They were actually really hard to fly, but he got better with practice.

We're having a baby!

We were blessed this week with the best Christmas present ever!!! We are expecting our 1st baby. To tell my family I made these cute little onesie cookies. It came as a big surprise considering we thought the fertility drugs I was on did not work and were being referred to see a specialist on January 4th. I was so happy to cancel that appointment. It truly is a wonderful Christmas gift. I can't wait for our first doctor's appointment and to find out our official due date...right now I am guessing around September 2nd, 2010.

Poor Chris

Last night Chris got elbowed in the face at soccer and ended up with a broken nose, 2 broken walls of his left sinus and injury to his infraorbital nerve making the left side of his face below his eye and his left front upper teeth numb. Poor thing. He will have a consult with a plastic surgeon to determine if he needs surgery or not. It makes me so mad that some people have such bad sportsmanship and that the refs let someone like this play. He didn't even get a red card for this.

Gingerbread House 2009

It's finally done! So I ended up doing the same house as last year but with a few nice additions. Santa peeping down the chimney, the sleigh and reindeer. I was pleased with how it turned out.
I have entered a few competitions online..and there is one that you can help vote for me. Here is the link:

http://yourviews.contracostatimes.com/mycapture/photos/Album.aspx?EventID=890061&CategoryID=26655

Update on the gingerbread contests...I won a $25 gift card to Amazon.com from the RecipeZaar contest. Woo hoo!!!! 1st gingerbread house contest winning. Maybe I will get lucky and win one of the other contests I entered.

Babysitting

I got the pleasure of babysitting Jordyn on Friday night and she was so precious. And as you can see from the picture. She was into everything including Uncle Chris's Cocoa Pebbles which she dumped all over the floor. Good thing I think she is too cute so I wasn't upset. She also really liked the Christmas tree and kept wanting to put a vice grip on the glass ornaments. She is such a sweetie and so much fun to play with. It will be fun to watch her open her gifts on Christmas morning. She seemed to be quite interested in the presents under our tree and did attempt to tear open the paper on 2 of them.