Another picture finally

Sorry it has been so long sonce I have uploaded a picture. A lot has been going on and with aaron working nights the past five weeks I.thought I would be this diligent blogger sending updates every night but I found myself doing other things around the house such as cooking and cleaning among a multitude of other stuff. Now aaron is off and I finally have time for a quick update. So here is your 30.5 week picture.
Love kristin!

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What She Cooks?

I know, you can't believe your eyes right?  Indeed I am becoming a good domesticated wife!  With Aaron working a really crappy schedule and all the time, I figured I could step it up a knotch and start cooking for him and I.  I guess it also helps that cooking saves money and is a much healthier alternative to eating out. 

So I thought I would share with you what I have been cooking the past week.  Forenote All Meals Have Been FANTASTIC!  I haven't screwed up yet....though I guess there is a time for everything- I am sure that is not too far off! haha!

Monday: Burritos
Tuesday: Pizza Bread
Wednesday:....ok we ate out....
Thursday: Chicken Curry and Rice (probably my favorite meal ever)
Friday: .....left overs.....
Saturday:....Ok, left overs again
Sunday: Burgers....but Dad cooked them! haha!  I prepared them though!

Ok so I didn't cook every night of the week but three of 7 is good right?  So far this week I cooked...ok ok, it's one night, but I have BIG plans for this week, I should be cooking most nights this week...save for tomorrow night, Pizza Take Out.

Oh and guess what?  I have a new picture for you!  I was in the dressing room at ross and I thought "perfect time to take a picture!"

Free Calendars!

Found this cool site care of Coolmompicks.com and thought I would share it with you!  Download the calendars and enjoy!!

http://www.redstamp.com/2011calendars/

Slapped on the Hand by more than one person!

Alright Already!  I know 4 weeks have gone by and nothing- NOTHING- from me (first hand slapping- thank you vicki)!  I am terrible.  I even took an 11 day vacation, where I spent a good deal of time at home and I still didn't write anything - although, it was on my to-do list. So here's the latest: 

1. A Picture I took myself.
2. I am 6.5 months along, in technical terms 26 weeks tomorrow. woot woot!
3. I have gained 23 lbs (second hand slapping- thank you doctor)...of which I am supposed to gain 25-35 of....so I am on the very high end of the weight gain spectrum hence the hand slapping by the doctor
4. I have been cleared for Gestational Diabetes and Anemia- meaning I DONThave them THANK THE LORD...whatever would I have eaten?!

Now for the details.

1.Picture I took myself. Well, I had one that aaron took, but it was AWFUL, so you will have to live with this one!
2. It is so nice to say that I am 6.5 months along...that means that we are nearing the end! hip hip hooray!  2 more weeks until we enter into the third trimester!  The baby is kicking harder and harder every day.  It's definitely proving it's gymnastic skills and soccer skills!  It's amazing to really feel the body of the baby now.  I can feel the bones in a way as it scrapes across my stomach.

3. I had my 25 week check up last week and it turns out that I am up in weight a little more than I should be at this point.   The doctor gave me a hand slapping and said that the next visit I should only aim to gain 5 pounds.  She said "no ice cream, non fat milk only, no flavored yogurt and excercise more."  OOOOOK.  The Ice Cream thing I can curb....the flavored yogurt maybe harder, but the non-fat milk ?  In the famous words of Mrs. Tim the Tool Man Taylor  "I don't think so Tim!"  I wil compromise though- 1% milk it will be :)

4. At my last appoitment they tested me for Gestational Diabetes.  Honestly I was a little worried.  With my sweet tooth, and lately it has been on high volume, I thought there was a chance that I would get it.  They made me drink this orange drink in 5 minutes.  It was like drinking a sweeter version of Orange Slice Soda. So it wasn't too bad.  It all came out good in the end.  No Diabetes, and a little bit of a wake up call for a healthier diet....today I had a salad for lunch :)

I am sure that is enough reading for you.  If this was my sister's post I would comment to her that it was WAY too long.  So I will sign off, and will assure you that I will try to write more...soon.

Kristin-

p.s. Once the baby comes I will start posting things about it on a new blog!  Stay Tuned!

21 Weeks

This week I hit the 21 week mark.  Just past the half way mark!  We had an ultrasound last week, which was really neat.  I had a check up today and the doctor said the baby's head was perfect sized, smaller than the belly and the legs, which will be a good thing for me further down the road....I assume she meant at the Big D (that's Delivery to you).  Everything looks healthy and it's growing great. 

Some of you have been begging for a picture of me.  I made aaron take one tonight, but please note, it just started raining and my hair is suffering the consequences...not to mention it's the end of the day and I look like crap and bad lighting doesn't help.  Anyway, take it in, because clearly I am bad at this picture taking thing right now.

Love

Kristin

What Did I Miss?

I am well on my way to getting around the Baby Registry.  I am sure this will be fun, but like I said in my last post, I have some research to do.  In order to prepare for that research I figured I needed a check list, which again I told you I could barely find.  I took the Berkeley ladies' list and made it into a spread sheet- much easier for a Type A like myself.  You moms out there- did I miss anything on this list?  Let's just call this the Official, Unofficial Baby Registry Check List.  Add on in the comments section and I will update the list.  Maybe someone out in cyber land will find it useful!

Click the link below to go to the spread sheet:

The Official, Unofficial Baby Registry Check List

Ok Too Funny!

Hello Friends and Family!

This week we found out the Gender of our forthcoming baby!  If you have not heard the news yet, text or call me.  I can't publish it here, because I promised my Gram that I would do everything in my power to make sure she did not know what it was....at her request of course!   I think this might be a difficult next four months, on the blog, but I will do my best to not reveal the gender on here.  And you do the same in the comments section!  - Thank you!

Ok so since we found out the gender of the baby, the next step is to complete a registry.  Gram, don't look at my registries because I think I will definitely give the gender of the baby away on there.  Ahem, back on track- so I started researching for the registry.  I HATE research, but ok, this is probably one of the top 5 research projects I will need to do...and hopefully only once.

Being a First-Time-Mom, I have little idea what it is that I am going to need, and how much of the stuff I need to register for.  When we registered for the wedding 4.5 years ago all the stores supplied you with a check list, you could find a checklist on almost any wedding website, and it was a breeze....not so in baby land!  Do you know I have not found one stinking checklist online?  I am floored.  So today I googled "what do I need to register for for a baby shower".  Amazingly I got a half decent run down on a "mommy blog" based out of Berkeley, CA....not as earthy as I thought, and covered pretty close to everything.  Here's the kicker....one link said "Hands-Free Pumping Bra", I thought "novel, I wonder what that looks like?"  So I clicked.....

....AND ENDED IN A FIT OF LAUGHTER!!!!!!!!


Hope you got a good laugh out of that too!

Love
Kristin


"Hello John?  Yes, how are you doing to day?"
"Great, Thanks Gretta"
"John, I am going to need those TPS reports on my desk by tomorrow"
"Sure Gretta, but can you tell me what that swishing noise is in the back ground?  Where are you?"
"Uhhh......"

OOO Pretty!

Just some pictures I snapped on the road... is that illegal?

Poppin Out

Alrighty, most have you have seen this picture already, but I thought I would do a little post to log my progression.

I really wanted to continue where my mom had left off in her pregnancy/post pregnancy journal that she started for me and made about 4 months in to my life with.  Admirable effort, especially since I haven't written one word in it...  My poor children.  Anyway,  I thought since we are now in the digital era that I would scribble here on the blog instead...and a little differently.  Where my mom wrote to me, I will write to you, but it should be fun for them to page through someday, right?  I guess if we have boys they won't care, girls on the other hand might take a little interest.

Ok enough with that.  The picture posted is at 4.5 months along with, of course, our first. 
Today is the 16th of November and in just 8 days we will find out the 50-50 question that has been plaguing us all these past 4.75 months- BOY or GIRL  (Gram I will try to spare you the knowledg of this event)...or as Mom, Colleen and my co-worker Brenda think- Twins! 
DISCLAIMER: In the initial sonogram there was only one. At the 16 week check up we only heard one heart beat, so my guess is that we will not be surprised by a #2 in there, that there will only be one.  BUT Aaron is still holding out for a second.

...more to come

A Very Late Halloween!

Yes, yes, yes, this is very delayed.  My laptop went down, which is where I have been contucting these blog postings from.  Tonight, with a wish and a prayer, I turned it on and lo and behold it started it up without a glitch.  It is running a little slow, but I will take slow over not working at all.

My dad called the day of Halloween and asked me to pick up some pumpkins for the house....have you ever gone pumpkin hunting on the day of Halloween?  My advice, DON'T!  I went to five grocery stores and found two Cinderella pumpkins and three miniture organic pumpkins, and that was it!  I felt lucky at that!

Also, a note on Cinderella pumpkins, they don't smell like a regular pumpkin inside.  It's more like a typical gord or squash smell. Not unpleasant, but not the nostalgic pumpkin smell. They are also really soft, so on the upside, easier to clean out. Lastly, they are so squatty that you really don't have too many choice on design.  Hence why mine look like this!

After it was all said and done, it was super fun to carve 5 pumpkins.  They looked so neat all lit up...once it got dark.  We had about 30 trick-or-treaters, not too many, but enough to feel satisfied.  All in all a great Halloween....I just miss getting to be the trick-or-treater...maybe next year we will take the baby out- hahaha just kidding!

Having a Little Fun Figuring Things Out.

This morning I got up and decided there were some things that needed cleaned, organized and put together around the house.  I have only been up for an hour and a half and I have- cleaned the shower, taken a shower, done two loads of laundry, picked up the office, organized (well half organized) the finance book, cleaned up the coffee table, and my favorite....put the clean padding on the carseat! 

I was having a little trouble with the harnesses on the carseat, one was a bit looser than the other.  So I decided "I need a body in this thing".  I have my three favorite dolls from growing up, stuffed away in the guest closet: Baby, Kathryn That Can Walk (don't ask), and Rainbow Brite.  Since baby is about the size of a 3lb preemie I immediately knocked her out, Rainbow Brite is about the size of a 3 month old, so I thought she was too big.  It turns out that Kathryn That Can Walk is pretty close to a newborn size (probably about a 6 or 7 lb size (at least that is what I guessed).

I took K.T.C.W. and put her in the car seat.  With some menuevering and a lot of yanking and pulling I finally got the dang thing even and taught on both sides.  K.T.C.W looks so cute in the seat now!  I think I might just have to keep her in there for a while! hahaha!  Aaron will probably think this is creepy when he wakes up. oh well! hahaha

I'm BAAAACCCCKK!!!!

Wow...after a VERY long hiatus (sorry vicki), I am finally back, and hope to be (fingers crossed) a good blogger, staying consistant in my posts! 

The last time I posted was in July and little did Aaron and I know, but we had a big surprise waiting for us that month.  On August fifth we found I was/am PREGNANT!  What an exciting event!  This, ladies and gentlemen, is one main reason why I have been so bad!  No I don't have an excuse like "I was vomiting left and right and good barely drag my butt out of bed" becuase I had a great first trimester, with no sickness (enter all the women  of the world who struggled with this, letting out a loud "DANG THAT WOMAN!!!").  Honestly though, there is a reason why I wasn't sick and I am sure it's because God knew that I would have been the most miserable person to deal with.  I don't throw up...well at least not in recent history and so to think about that being a daily occurance frightens me, and then I let out a big sigh of relief and thank God that I did not have to deal with that.  Whew!

Onward- we are approaching week 16 here (yes I know time is flying...yeah right I wish!) which means another check up on Tuesday morning and hopefully the scheduling of the sonogram that will (fingers crossed again) determine the sex of the baby!  !!!!!   !!!!   !!!!!  AHH!  I am so excited!  I have been a lot more pacient about this coming event than I thought I would be however, it still sits in the back of my mind...or the front, as everyone is starting to ask "what are you having?"  - 'I don't know yet'  - "Do you have a prefernce as to what you want?" - 'Nope, neither of us do, we see great characteristics in either gender, so we are equally excited for both!'  Is my typical answer.... then of course the very next question is "When are you going to find out?"  Well people, we are hoping that we will know right around Thanksgiving!  Isn't that perfect?!!!   I am thinking that we are going to be hush on it until our traditional "what are your thankful for this year", table rounding on that Thursday.  I think I will make everyone else say something first and demand that we are last!   MOOHAHHAHA MOOHAHAHAH! (enter Dr. Evil) hahah! 

Ok that is way too much for you to read, so I will sign off for now.

Peace Out!

Inception

Courtesy of Gstatic.com

Last night Aaron and my dad and I went to see Inception, the new Leo DiCaprio flick.  Can I just say it was AMAZING!  Definitely a movie that you need to see, and in the theatre for that matter. Christopher Nolan directed the film and did a fantastic job of keeping us on the edge of our seat through out the movie.  This is definitly a "thinking" movie, something that keeps your mind active throoughout. Aaron said the ending was the best ending that he has seen in a long time as well.  After we left the theatre I kept thinking about the movie, that is when you know you saw a great film, when you are still thinking about it after you have left, and on in to the next day. I give 5 flaming redheads!  woo hoo!!!

Hiatus

My storage space on this blogging platform has been maximized, which means I can blog but I can't include pictures (unless I link them)....how boring!  So the 10 other blogs that I have all written up, but with no pictures won't be posted until i can figure out a way to get more space or link my pictures from a picture server.  Anyway, that is a lot of technical stuff, but just wanted to let you know why you aren't seeing more posts.

To Space hold for today I have put in a little offer from Travel Zoo that is really tugging at me... I WANT TO GO TO GREECE TOO!!!! (My sister just got back from a week's holiday in Greece, so I am a bit jealous...not to mention on top of that she gets to live in Europe- ugh!).

$1249 -- Greek Islands & Athens Vacation incl. Cruise & Air* 

She's Back!!!!

About four months ago our dear friend Davina left to go home for an undisclosed amount of time. Most of you think "home? so that's like down the street, or across the state right?" WRONG! D is from Germany! SHE LEFT US HERE 5K (errr...whatever) MILES AWAY!

Davina called me about a month ago and planned surprise return! Here was the best reaction to her surprise return: my future sister in law (wedding number three this summer...)- awesome!

Sailing...

The other day I was running behind, trying to get our weekly ultimate frisbee pick up match. I took the standard marina drive to the field and on the way I saw a million sailboats going by! So I had to take th opportunity to capture them on film. I sailed right past the freeway on ramp and took the high road up to the look out where I could take a few more pics (oh yeah I stopped and took a few pictures at the marina too...) needless to say i was a tad...ok 20 minutes late to our frisbee pick up game...however I got these great pics!!!!

And So It Begins....

...This was the first of the Pre-Wedding celebrations- Kristin G.'s Bachelorette Party!

We had a blast at the A's baseball game which was definitely Kris's cup-of-tea! She loved being able to root on her team and celebrate her pre-nuptuals with us girls. And to boot, the A's won! woot woot...Now if only we had been at the game the next day, we would have got to witness the 19th ever no hitter ever. Oh well we made our own memories that are lasting a la the obnoxious guys you can hear in the background of the "baseball anthem".

vick- ;) thanks for spurring me on to keep writing these! - Love you

Coming Soon...

A new Post coming tonight, and hopefully a whole lot more to follow. Check back tonight or tomorrow morning... woo hoo!

I know Vicki is jumping up and down!

Erin's Shower

So I am the MOH of Erin S. wedding (I told her I don't want to be called the Matron of Honour because it sounds too old! So we are just going with MOH). Sunday was my dutiful day to throw her a shower. Let me tell you, leading up to Sunday was a whirlwind...especially EVERYDAY last week. Today I woke up and thought, I need the weekend back!
Never the less, we had a TON of F-U-N! What a shower it was! The color scheme was Purple Green and Pink (see invitation). Jos put together AMAZING floral arrangements (no I don't have a picture) and we had a fantastic spread of food and drink! Let me mention the most important part (no not Erin) THE DRINKS! This was a "Cocktails in the Garden" kind of shower and so our list included (from weakest to strongest) Water infused with cucumber and strawberries (no, not alcoholic vodka infused ones), Lavender Lemonade (straight lemonade, no alcohol again you alchies!), Coppola Family Rosso and Bianco wines (YES! THERE IT IS, THE A-A-A-Alcohol....look it up it's a song- probably not a good one, so forget about looking it up!), and The Signiture drink Erin's Signiture Chambord-Grey Lemon Drop. Here's the recipe cuz I know you are dying to know it!
3 parts Lemonade (we used country time)
1 part Vodka (Grey Goose- nothing but the best- YEAH MAMA C!)
1 splash Chambord (MMMMMM!)
Anyway the party was a hit. Here some pics of Mama C, Erin and I. Nate's video is coming maybe later this week if I get to it! This is the first night I have had nothing to do...it's kind of nice. BUT tomorrow is the continuation of the Shoe Saga for the Brides Maid Dresses...hey I am not complaining, any shopping is good shopping!

For Vicki....

....So this is not about me, however, my coworker sent me this video today and I thought "Oh my gosh I have to share this with everyone I know!" Ladies and Gentlemen you are looking at a star in the making. This boy sings the song better than the performing artist Lady Gaga. Hands down I would much rather listen to him than her! (Make sure to watch the related videos too!)

Introducing Greyson Chance: