Sunday, April 26, 2009

maternity shoot

yesterday we had the most amazing maternity shoot with the wonderful jamie waters! :) jamie & her husband chris were our wedding photographers. as always, they do such great work and we wanted pictures of us right before kaia makes her appearance. :) here's a little slideshow sneak peek:

waiting for kaia

thank you jamie for an awesome maternity shoot! we love you! :)

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Baby Update - 37 weeks!!!

Hoppy Easter everyone! :) I'm about to be 37 weeks tomorrow. . .



At my last prenatal checkup on Thursday the nurse midwife said the baby is upside down and could come anytime! She's guessing she weighs about 6 pounds and pretty active. We can't wait to meet her! :)


On Friday I went to The Scrapbook Oasis and made these:


I traced the images from die cuts I made with the Making Memories Slice machine and then stitched them by hand. I'll have to make more now since I only used the size 0-3 months onesies so I guess Kaia will only get to wear them once. But I think the owl is my favorite (of course)! :)


Since I haven't posted in forever I wanted to share some pics we took when we were picking out stuff for the baby registry.

new parent "survival kit"


these shoes are so cute! . . . do they come in mommy's size? :)


damien had a little too much fun . . .



daddy trying to figure out how to set up the car seat/stroller. . .


I'm such a lucky girl. I had 3 baby showers! :)

the first one was with my friends at the Oasis


2nd shower was the one my parents threw for us at Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach.
We were lucky it didn't rain but it was extremely windy that day!


we had a game for the guys to play . . .


and the third, my coworkers suprised me with:


Thanks to everyone for celebrating with me! So far, this has been an easy pregnancy. The only thing is my "cabbage patch kid" swollen feet (I can't find my ankles!!!) and the pressure on my pelvic bones which makes me use the belly support belt all the time now. I just lost my voice the other day from a cold so I haven't been sleeping well. :( I have to admit though, I am scared about the labor & delivery part. I don't like needles and everyone tells me different things about getting the epidural. I kind of want to but then again, I'm terrified. I'm just hoping I won't have such a hard time.