2 More Days…
12 Jan 2012 1 Comment
in Baby, Cars, Emma, Snow, Work
…Until Emma’s Big day!!! I am so excited!! I am so glad the weekend is almost here. This has been a really busy and tiring week.
Woke up to snow this morning, which I love. But I very much did not love getting stuck on the hill in my development. How totally embarrassing to get stuck in the snow in your OWN development. And to top it off I totally cried thinking what the heck am I going to do now, stuck sideways on this hill. I could only hope a plow truck (that was still absent as of that moment) didn’t come charging up the hill and slam into me. I finally broke down and called Scott to come rescue me. Once my wonderful hubby got me off of the packed crazy snowy hill, I dropped Emma off at school and finally got moving to work. The drive was slow, main roads were clear but side roads were still a mess. Better late than never.
Some super great news!!! My friend Ali,had her baby Tuesday night. A boy, Maxwell Keene, 7 pounds 12 ounces. He is super cute. Full head of dark adorable hair. Baby and mommy are both doing great!! Congrats to Ali and Alex. I can’t wait to visit and meet Baby Maxwell!
In Diet land, week two and I am still going strong with my plan!! I am feeling great and I can already notice clothes fitting better and overall feeling better about myself. I have set a goal of May 1st. We are taking a trip to St. Martin the first week of May and boy would it be nice to wear a bathing suit and feel someone ok about it! I think a goal of almost 5 months is totally doable and If I stay this determined and have the right mind set, I am hoping it won’t be a problem. But for now I am staying positive and focused!! I am just so thankful the holidays are over. That truly is the time of bad eating lol.
I am hoping some of this snow sticks around for the weekend so I can FINALLY put Emma in her snowsuit and let her play in the snow. I can’t believe its January and this is our first actual big snow storm. And it wasn’t even that big. Definitely not what us upstate New Yorkers are use to that’s for sure. I am very excited to see Emma’s reaction to the snow though. Pulling her around in a sled is going to be so much fun. My dad always had a blast pulling us around when we were kids. Fun to think back to being a kid, when it snowed so much over night. We would wake up to a winter wonderful and couldn’t get our snowsuits and boots on fast enough. We stayed out almost all day building snow forts and sledding until we were exhausted. Those were the good days!! We haven’t had much of a winter so far this year. I always love those saturday or sundays when we get a huge snow storm. We get to stay in our jammies all day, make grilled cheese and tomato soup for lunch and just watch the snow fall. 
As much as I hate driving in it, it is pretty to just watch it come down!
Thats all for now. Back to work on this snowy day!
How can our baby be ONE???
10 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Baby, Birthday, Emma, Family
As Emma’s 1st birthday is fast approaching, only 4 days away, I can’t help but think, how can she be 1 already? How did this happen? It went by way to fast!!! I can’t help but get emotional, happy and sad at the same time!!
Here is our baby the day she was born:
And here she is now,our little lady!!
I keep thinking back to this time last year, getting ready for our induction. Packing my bag, so excited that our little girl was finally going to be here. I remember us driving to the hospital. Of course I was nervous, its the unknown, you don’t know how things are going to happen, what to expect. But all I could think of is how soon we will be holding our girl. She will be wrapped up in our arms, and she will be all ours!! The excitement and anticipation was killing us. Labor was hard, I won’t lie. But it was so worth it. I didn’t care about what was happening, I just couldn’t wait for her to be here!! When she was born and they put her in my arms, it was like nothing I have ever felt in my life. Here she was, our baby girl. Bright eyed as ever when she arrived! Ready to face the world!! As I type this I have tears running down just thinking about how amazing that day was!!
She has been our perfect little angel ever since. Just beyond amazing. We couldn’t have asked for a happier, more content and joyful baby. She has made our lives more wonderful than we could ever have imagined!! Everyday gets better and better. On a daily basis I look at her and just cry. I think we did this, we made this wonderful amazing little girl. And somehow even though shes gotten so big, and is such a little smarty already, it seems like only yesterday we brought her home. Every night when I put her to bed, I just look at her in amazement!! I say to her “You are mommy and daddys most amazing treasure and we love you so much” then I sing to her what my mom always sang me “swing low sweet chariot” or “I see the moon and the moon sees me.” Its just amazing to me how something so small, can change your whole live and make you see things differently. Make you appreciate things so much more and cherish every single day!! She has definitely done that! Our lives truly started when she arrived!!
So as we get ready for her first birthday, I admit, its bittersweet. I am of course so happy to celebrate this wonderful day, but sad that our little baby girl is slowly leaving babyhood and becoming a toddler already. I want her to stay our little baby forever!! She learns new things everyday, and discovers to much. It amazes me how quickly she can absorb something new. She picks things up so fast. We could sit and watch her play for hours. She makes us laugh and cry with joy every night.
It’s just so funny to think that this time last year it was just us. And we were so happy for our girl to arrive. Then our Emma was here in a flash, and I feel like i’ve had a huge smile that just won’t seem to ever go away, all because of her!
Saturday we will be celebrating the day our lives changed forever, in ways we could never have imagined, with pure joy, happiness, and feeling so blessed!! The birthday of our daughter, our Emma Margaret!!!!
Emma Margaret is here 1/14/2011
23 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
our girl is here!! born on 1/14/2011 , 7 pounds 1 ounce, 18 inches long shes gorgeous and totally amazing!!!
32 weeks today :) 38 days until Christmas!! YAY!
16 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Baby, Christmas, Emma, Family, Holidays
Wow I just checked how many days are until Christmas and its really only 38 days? Omg where did the year go? Remember when we were kids and we were counting down Christmas starting in October? Where we couldn’t wait to start hearing Christmas music on the radio or seeing Christmas Ad commercials on TV? When we circled everything we wanted Santa to bring us in all of the flyers and catalogs that would come in the mail. When the week before Christmas break seemed like the longest week of school ever!! And now for the past few years It seems like Christmas creeps up on us all and within a flash its over! 
I am a huge Christmas fan, always have been! I love the time of year. I love the sounds, the smells, the snow, everything about it!!! I seriously want to start decorating now, but every year I try to be good and at least wait until after Thanksgiving!!
This year is extra awesome since in just eight short weeks, Emma will be here! (unless shes early or late) I am hoping she holds off until after Christmas so that next Christmas will be her first. When shes a little older. But that doesn’t mean we won’t be buying her Christmas presents this year I am sure!
This week is a crazy week. Scott’s parents are coming for a visit on Friday. My baby shower is Saturday!! (I can’t wait), then Wednesday night we leave for PA for Thanksgiving with Scott’s fam! I can’t wait for Turkey!! (I am sure dinner in PA will be yummy, but I know I will long for my Mother’s amazing Thanksgiving feast she always prepares!) I think as soon as I get my foot in the door of our house after Thanksgiving, I will be decorating for Christmas no doubt!
I just hope the time doesn’t go by to fast!! I really want to enjoy the holidays. Especially since this will be Scott and my first Christmas alone!! As much as I love love love being with family either in Altanta or having them here, I am kind of excited about this being our last Christmas of just us!! We will be having xmas dinner with my parents this year of course. But I don’t think he and I have ever had a Christmas eve alone, were we woke up Christmas morning alone also and got to open presents together just he and I. That will be super special this year!!!! Then next year at this time we will be planning our own Holiday traditions as a family!! How exciting!! I can not wait!!
30 weeks!! Only 10 more to go! YIKES!!
03 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
I can not even believe I only have ten weeks to go until Emma is here. Where did the time go? I remember in the beginning thinking, “wow I have nine months to be pregnant, it will seem like forever, I will have so much time to get things done” Yeah not so much. It has flown by. I feel like we still have so much to get done!! More cleaning, more prepping, more getting the house up to par for her arrival. I feel like I have been such a slacker. I come home from work and am just so tired. All I want to do is get my pjs on and crawl under a blanket on the sofa.
So weekends are really the only time we can get stuff done. So from this point on we really have to buckle down and get everything set and ready!! Her room is pretty much done. It looks so great!!! I can not wait to see her sleeping in her awesome crib. I find myself going in there now just to check out how great her room looks and how excited I am for her to be here!!! In a lot of ways I feel really ready but at the same time i’m scared to death. Will I be able to do this? Will I be a good mother? Will she and I get into a good routine?? Scotty of course tells me over and over that everything will be great and we will be awesome parents and work through whatever comes our way. I know he is right but it is still nerve-wracking. I think once the shower is over I will feel more prepared for her and once we have our birthing class I will feel better about the whole process.
Just blows my mind that less than two months from now she will be here, she will be ours, we will be holding her and staring at her in awe that she’s really our girl. It is just amazing to think how time has flown by. How about ten years ago I use to say how I never wanted kids and now I can not wait for our girl to be here!! To have a family. Scotty is going to be such an amazing father to. I am so excited to see Emma have her daddy wrapped around her little finger! I just sometimes can’t believe how lucky we are. Now if i could only get past the scared to death of the delivery part lol.
On a different note. Work has been very busy thank goodness. We had maybe the worst September and October that we have ever had and now it is finally picking up. I hate worrying when we have little or no work. I always feel so much better when there’s money in the bank here and cars filling up the shop!!! Makes for happier and smoother week!!! I am just hoping we have a great winter to and that we continue to stay busy!!!
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it and I am really excited to see everyone in Scott’s family in PA. It will be a great time! And of course since I am a Christmas freak, I can not wait for that to be here!! A lot of people think Emma will be a Christmas baby and come early but we shall see!!! So far she’s doing great, kicking and moving around all day everyday!! I keep saying how if she’s this active outside the womb, we are in trouble! heehee
26 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
Emma’s Nursery set is all put together and set up!! It looks so amazing! I am even more in love with it in person than on the JCPenney website. It is super cute, was easy for my hubby to put together and looks great in the nursery!! Scott’s parents got it for us as a gift!! We are so appreciative. I can’t wait to decorate the whole room once we get bedding and accessories. It is going to look so amazing!!! I can’t stop going in there to look at the room.
We finalized our plans for Thanksgiving. Scotty’s parents are coming up November 19th and staying for the week, then Wednesday night we are all driving to PA to for Thanksgiving with Scott’s gram and family. We booked our hotel and booked Scooby in at the Happy Dog Pet hotel. He loves it there! I can’t wait to see all of Scott’s fam. It will be alot of fun!! Scott’s mom i having a shower for me while we are in PA and my mom is having one for me here. Scott’s mom will be here for my home shower which will be nice for us all to be together! I can’t wait!
29 weeks pg today. I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. Only 11 weeks to go until she is here! Time has flown by. We scheduled out birthing class, I’m excited and scared at the same time. But I think it will be very beneficial to go and get all the info that we can! I just feel like we have so much to do still to prepare for her arrival. I am starting to feel overwhelmed. I just want to make sure we have everything set for her!! I know it will all come together.
Only 77 days to go!
Great Pregnancy Snacks!!
06 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in Baby, Diet, Emma, Pregnancy
In an effort to keep ridiculously fattening snacks out of the house so that I don’t find myself just sitting around pigging out and blaming Emma, I have been on a quest for great pregnancy snacks!
My total weakness snack before was always smart food popcorn. My god so good but so so so bad for you and sometimes I would find myself just polishing off a bag in one sitting before I even knew it. My favorite treat lately, has been Freeze pops. I can’t get enough of them. Fruit is my other huge crave. Grapes, cherries, rasberries, apple slices with caramel sauce, they don’t last long in my house lol.
But last night while at the market grabbing a few things, I came across some to die for snacks!!!
My first find was this:
Amazingly delicious Caramel Crunch Chex Mix. They come in mini bags to so you don’t have to feel so guilty if you eat one bag at a time lol. The taste is amazing. So delicious and you get that sweet and salty crunch at the same time!! And with 65% less fat than ordinary snacks, you don’t have to feel guilty at all about enjoying this!!!
My second find were these:
Single serve Haagen-Daaz ice cream cups. They are the perfect size when you just want a little bit of ice cream. The strawberry is so rich and delicious and creamy with huge chunks of strawberries mixed in. And just 220 cals per cup its the perfect treat! It even comes with its own spoon under the lid so you can enjoy it anywhere!!!
My third find are these:
Yo-crunch Fruit Parfaits! Just 120 cals per cup and super delicious. I love putting something crunchy in my yogurt and this has the all in one factor. Real fruit, yummy strawberry yogurt and crunchy granola!! Its win win!!
So far those are my three greatest finds!! More to come though I’m sure. I have also found I can’t eat as large of a meal as I use to. There just isn’t any room in there for normal size meals so cutting meals down to half is a very smart thing to do!!!
97 days until Emma arrives!!! We can’t wait!!
My Monday morning friend! :)
29 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
I pulled into my parking lot Monday morn and had a visitor there to greet me!! At first I thought he was hurt because he seemed to have something wrong with one of his legs. He was hopping around a lot. I inched my way a little closer to him to discover he had a huge squirrel in his claws. Awww poor Squirrel I grabbed my phone and kept inching closer and closer to him to try to get a good pic. He let me get really close. Didn’t seemed bothered by me at all. It was so neat to see him so close. I have only ever seen Hawks from far away or circling overhead before. Some guys across the street at hess were screaming at the top of their lungs or some reason and they ended up scaring him away. He flew away, squirrel and all. lol It was the neatest thing I’ve seen in a long time, well not as neat as seeing Emma on the ultrasound
I submitted a photo of my Hawk friend to the Motorola Moto pic monday and it made the site!! Rock on! Pretty neat!!!
Speaking of Emma, had another doc appt. yesterday. She is doing awesome. Perfect size, heart beat is fantastic, she doesn’t seem to like to be poked with the doppler stick, she changes positions every time they try to get a good reading lol. Stubborn already hee hee
I can’t WAIT for her to be here!!!!!
I broke down and started buying a few things…
23 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
I have been trying to be really good and not buy Emma a ton of stuff before she is here. I don’t want to go overboard. But there are a few things I just couldn’t resist. Here they are!
I also got her two pairs of cute baby sunglasses that I saw at Carter’s on super clearance at the outlets, a yellow blanky teether I got in Boston while we were there a few weekends ago and a Bassinet off Craigslist (pictured above) to put in our bedroom for the first month or so. We shall see how that works out but I thought it would be nice to try that out in the beginning. Easier to have her right next to me for feedings.
I have a giant pile of things for Emma thanks to my BFF Bri. She has been cleaning out and giving me so much stuff for Emma. Totally amazing items, from clothes to baby care items, to bottles. She is wonderful. Everytime we go to her house she loads us up with more!! I will take anything we can get Thanks Breezer! Love you!
I think I have been good. Of course I cruise the net and check out all the adorable things I WANT to get for her but I hold back…. for now! heehee
Baby Emma is doing fantastic!!
21 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
So far Baby Emma is wonderful. She has been moving a lot which is a very surreal but amazing experience. I keep trying to put Scott’s hand on my belly so he can feel it, but as soon as I do, she stops moving. Shes stubborn already lol.
Lots going on in the next few months thats for sure. My Sis Becky is getting married on 10/10/10 so we have alot to do before then. We have her Bachelorette party this saturday night. Can’t wait!! And an October wedding will be awesome. I love October, all the leaves changing and the pumpkins, Fall is definitely my favorite time of year!!
November is a busy month also. The week before Thanksgiving, I think that is when my Baby Shower will be Very exciting, but nerve wracking, I’m not a ran of sitting in the front of a room and having everyone stare at me while I open gifts lol. But it will be so neat to see what Emma gets For Thanksgiving we are heading to PA to visit Scott’s fam and his Mother is throwing me a little baby shower there as well with the PA family. So that will be fun to and we get to see Scott’s 99 year old gram, shes so funny, love her!
I can’t believe Christmas is around the corner. I love that time of year. I get so excited when I start hearing Christmas music on the radio stations. If Emma comes early, we will be having a Christmas baby. Which would be super neat but kind of sucky for her in the future as far as Birthday’s go. She will always feel like she doesn’t get enough presents since both days will be so close lol. Her due date is 1/11/11 so hopefully she will have a little more time in between present times. But it would be a great Christmas present and so fun to have this be her first Christmas So we shall see!!
The more weeks that go by and the bigger she gets, the more excited Scott and I get!! I just can’t believe how fast the time is flying by. I’m already 24 weeks today. Thats just crazy how quickly it has gone by. I always thought being pregnant would seem like it went on forever. And so far (knock on wood) I think I have had it fairly easy. I haven’t had a ton of horrible symptoms besides horrid headaches and morning sickness was a little bad in the beginning of the 2nd trimester but its better now. But I am sure the worst is yet to come when I get bigger and closer to the due date. yikes!! Overall though it has been a fun and exciting experience.
I can’t wait to finally get to hold Emma in my arms!! Scott is so cute about being a father to!! I can’t wait to see him with our baby girl in his arms!!! YAY!!!! only 112 days to go!
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