Happy New Year and Go Cards!

I am currently baking Chex Mix for the annual U of L vs. UK basketball game so I thought it would be a good time to blog. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2010- it will be a very exciting year for us when Baby Boy Hess arrives- yes he is still just called Baby Boy because we have not come up with a name. We went to the doctor right before Christmas for just a quick check up and all seems well though I feel as if he is sitting really low, the Dr. told me there weren't any problems. I will go in next week for my glucose test (after the Christmas cookies have made their way through my system) and then I see the Dr. again before my birthday!

We had a very nice Christmas- spending the morning walking Hana as usual and then opening gifts, on to G's parents for lunch and presents, and then more presents when my parents arrived the day after Christmas. I should specify that the majority of gifts were already for the baby so we are under pressure to get this nursery started just to have a place to store all of it- Hana doesn't really want to share her room with baby toys if she can't play with them :) For those of you worried about our nursery progress- we are ordering furniture this weekend and have ordered some bedding so we just have to get calking and painting before any of that arrives. We are also scheduled to take a marathon baby education class at the hospital this month.

New Years eve was even more low key with just a movie and countdown between the two of us- at least we made it to midnight! On the 1st we sang Happy Birthday to Hana because we think she was born 2 years ago right around the beginning of the year- we are still so thankful for our sweet pup who gives us lots of love and reasons to be outside walking in the cold even if we don't want to- watching her chase snow flakes definitely takes your mind off the frigid temps.

Hopefully U of L will pull off a surprise win this afternoon and start 2010 off right! Go Cards!

San Diego December 2009

1st day of December

The weather has been mild for most of November thank goodness because I still can't take the cold and dreariness even though we have officially been back in KY for a year. Not to mention I lived through the ice and snow storm last year, however I am thinking of warm and sunny SoCal as I am headed there tomorrow. I can't wait to walk on the beach and see my San Diego family!

The latest update on the littlest blogger in the household is that it is a boy and he is busy all the time. Kicking Mom so much it is almost making me sick to my tummy but I like knowing he is in there and growing. :)

I really knew it was a boy from the beginning somehow and told G. Paul that one picture looked like him and one looked like my brother - and that was before I was told it was a boy. Here is his picture as of last week and he weighs almost a pound. I know you are waiting to see pictures of my pregnant belly though I am not so into that but maybe I will be willing when I see the sun and sand this week so stay tuned.

Summer turns to fall before you know it

August brought some other unexpected changes and the reason for the delay in updating the blog. We found out after a couple weeks of me struggling through yoga and being quite nauseous that we are pregnant!!!

I went to my first doctor appointment with my mom to confirm and got an early ultrasound to check out just how far along the little one was. Here is the first pic!

Due date is April 10, 2010 and we couldn't be more excited.

Let's back up to August 2009

These are pictures from our anniversary trip to San Diego. To celebrate our 3rd anniversary we went back to our wedding night villa in Temecula, CA @ South Coast Winery (not pictured here). We enjoyed a day at the spa, had lunch at Wilson Creek Winery (home of the famous Almond Champagne), and then headed inland to the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA. We got a private tour of the grounds and had a wonderful dinner.

The next day we headed back to San Diego to spend time with friends esp. all my yogis at Bird Rock Yoga who kicked my butt back into shape with 4 yoga sessions. We drove around the old neighborhood and even got to see Jovis -one of Hana's first friends. We were able to spend a Sunday at the concert in the park at Kate Sessions- we used to walk from our apartment and now we know why because parking was not easy to find. It was a great trip!