Family Ties...

Charlie got home from work early this afternoon and so we got the chance to spend some time together and hang out with Asher while he was awake. Because I had help I was actually able to get my camera out for a bit and take a few photos of the little man (other photos will follow next week). As I went to put them on my computer I immediately recognized one of the photos of Asher, as if I'd seen it before, the same exact face on a different little baby! It took me a while to find but here is a photo of Asher and one of his cousin Ezrah, at about the same age with almost identical 'mom-you're-annoying-me-with-your-stupid-camera' glares in their little eyes.

E at about 4 months

Asher at 2 months

It's hard not to see the family resemblance; ears, cheeks, pouty little bottom lip, they are related for sure!

Cait

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Our Date Night!

Here is just a quick peek at a few of the photos I took last weekend when Charlie and I attempted to take a day trip (we only made it about 15 minutes from our house) to get out together one last time before the little bean arrives!

At Lake Washington

Cooling off my swollen feet in the Lake :)

After stopping by a small park on Lake Washington (OO Denny Park) we headed up to Mill Creek to find lunch, coffee and wander through some bookstores! It was a nice quiet day, by the end of which I was completely exhausted!!! We ended up home by 6 and in bed by 8, we're not even parents yet and our bedtime has already become seriously compromised!

Charlie. 

I was trying to get a cute photo of the two of us but could never get out into the water fast enough,
this was the best I could do!

This weekend we went to our Church's retreat up at Fort Casey. I'll try and get some photos up of that soon!

-Cait

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Family Affairs

Alright, I know it's been forever since I've posted anything but to be honest I don't have any really cool updates about baby to post... so, I'll just give you an activity update about Charlie and I. Now that I'm in my second trimester the docs are kind of just letting me 'wait it out' or so it feels. I'm only seeing the high risk doc every 4 weeks and my regular doc every 2 weeks (in addition to some visits to the diabetes educator sporadically in-between!)

So in our free-time (yeah right), Charlie and I got to go home to Wisconsin to see my youngest sister get married! It was a beautiful quiet little ceremony at a rooftop restaurant in downtown Milwaukee. We got to see my little niece Ezrah for the first time since our wedding, and she was an absolute doll (see photo below).

The little princess playing with her favorite toy... 

Rocks (a girl after my own heart)!

My sister was beautiful, the wedding was classy and by the end of the night Charlie and I were left with an awesome new brother-in-law (a first for us both). We are so excited for them, and excited to give Ezrah her first (well maybe second) new baby cousin!

 The beautiful new couple!

The trip was short but packed full of lots of crazy family activity. I would post more photos but I don't want to steal K's thunder (to see more photos check her blog in a few days). 

After making it back to Seattle I spent the next 2 days sleeping (literally!) and Charlie headed back to work. Things are going well and I will try to post again when I have more to share!

Cait

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Oh... I didn't see a doctor this week but I do have my own sneaky ways of checking on the little scout at work so just incase you were worried he is still doing okay, strong heartbeat and very active. I don't have a good photo but I have a close up snapshot of him being a little stinker and griping onto his own umbilical cord! See the blurry, pixelated photo below! :)

Our little bean being a stinker!

The Truth Comes Out...

So... here we go.

The real reason my lovely youngest sister has pleaded with me to start this blog is because my husband and I are expecting our first child late this year, cat's out of the bag now! Prior to getting pregnant I had this dream that I could make it to at least week 16 prior to telling anyone I was expecting (maybe even find out the sex first, if I was really lucky), just to make sure things were going well and everyone was okay.

Well, then it actually happened and all bets were off. First off its kinda difficult to have your whole life plan take a 180 and not be able to explain to those around you why plans for next year are suddenly changing, why financial worries that were not that big of a deal before are all you can think about, why business plans that you once had take on a whole new meaning, and why I suddenly have 3 different doctors appointments a week. The second reason is because lets face it, who am I kidding, there's no way I can suck in my gut for 14 hours a day, I make it the first 4 hours and then everything is aching and I can't breathe! I think that I maybe could have made it a little bit longer by being extremely covert (and patient) but that would have required buying an entire new wardrobe (which my loving husband suggested that we do after I complained to him for the 300th time last week that I have nothing to wear that doesn't make me look fat or pregnant). But the reality of the situation is that we don't have money to buy me new clothes, that at this point that will only fit for 4 more weeks, just so we can keep people guessing as to whether I'm actually pregnant or just putting on a surprising amount of weight since the wedding. So I decided that it was in our best "financial" interest (and for Charlie's sanity, poor guy) just to suck it up, announce it to the world, and then I can go around wearing my too small, too tight, unbuttoned and awkwardly layered clothing for a few more weeks.

Don't feel bad it's not like I actually don't have clothing to wear, its just that I am just a girl who is used to being able to mix and match outfits and I am now limited to sun dresses and maternity t-shirts and tanks which if any of you have been pregnant or had a pregnant wife know that there is NO hiding the bump in either of those clothing options. :) So we decided later this week, after all my doctors appointments, if everything is okay, we are going to call our families! ...then the cat will REALLY be out of the bag, no turning back now!

-Cait

Stay updated later on for some medical updates (too boring and complicated for most but mainly just for my parents) and possibly blurry pictures of the little bean!

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New Beginnings

Let me start by telling you a little bit about myself... yeah maybe not.

The truth about this blog is that I'm not doing this by choice, I am doing this to quiet the pleadings of my youngest sister (and soon, I'm sure, my the rest of my family). You see I am not a writer (I miss spelled that word the first three times I typed it, it apparently has only one T... right) neither am I a reader, nor am I really interested in any major or minor literary arena. I am however very close to my family, who 3 years ago I up and moved 1,600 miles away from. Although we talk occasionally and keep up on facebook (if that even counts) I feel like with all the changes happening in life I need a new way to keep them all updated on my life in the great northwest. Cause lets face it there are lots of changes coming and I don't have enough time to spend two hours contemplating every time I pick up the phone who I am going to call first, and then what excuses I'm going to give to the others as to why they were called second, or third, or God forbid last (because I'm the type of person who would stress about things like that).

So there you have it, in a nutshell, kind of. Please feel free to check in for updates but please be prepared for infrequent posts, inappropriate uses of punctuation, run-on and incomplete sentences, not to mention poor grammar and spelling (sorry mom & K, but seriously I even miss spelled the word grammar two seconds ago, I spelled it grammer and then when the red line showed up underneath it I though "Oh maybe it only has one M like the 'writer' word I just screwed up" so then I tried gramer and then auto correct just said screw this your an idiot and automatically replaced it with the word gamer... yeah this is going to be great!) Have fun reading and please don't judge me too harshly.

-Cait

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