New Years Adventure

This New Years Eve we had a wonderful opportunity to do a backpacking trip in Franconia Notch to Lonesome Lake Hut with some great friends. The weather was quite warm which was a pleasant surprise, we enjoyed an amazing potluck dinner: including chips and guacamole, quiche, chicken, gingerbread, cookies, and mulled cider.

6mo!

I know, I know, everyone keeps telling me, update your blog!! So here it is, Dec 28th, a couple days after a big snow dump on MA/Eastern US and David and I are so happy for all the blessings we have in our life. We just spent a wonderful weekend with my family, celebrating Christmas and relaxing. We celebrated with extended family the life of my father's crazy cousin Rookie who sadly passed away the weekend before Christmas but lives in grand, hilarious memories in all our hearts and minds. We will be able to spend sometime with David's family later this week to celebrate Christmas together. And of course there is this little boy growing inside me, unbelievable right!!!

Our son is growing rapidly and quickly making tying my shoes much harder and all my clothes now say Motherhood or something like this on the inside tag. I don't know if I'm ready for this yet but he's coming. It's so crazy!!! David continues to be so wonderful and supportive, helping out with everything around the house and all the errands, of course it also helps that he's on vacation right now. However despite vacation he's been busy keeping up with me and getting ready to send in his grad school applications.

That's right, David's still applying to grad school even with a baby on the way (Univ of New Mexico, Arizona State Univ and Mass Art). I know we are slightly crazy but we expect you all to visit and be full time babysitters when you come. :-) We'll find out where he is accepted and make a decision on where we are going just about the time that the new babe arrives. Busy month of April!!

But even with all this celebrating, work, school, applications...we still find time to play. The weekend before Christmas we went up to Warren, VT to a beautiful b&b just south of Burlington for a long weekend. It was so beautiful. With some snow and sunny days, we enjoyed some hikes, visiting with friends, good food and lots of relaxing.

5mo!

Our little boy is healthy and kicking!!!

I am doing well, still feeling sick in the morning but the medication is making a huge difference and I finally have some energy to hang out with people. David is doing great, super excited and always toting on me. Below is some great pictures of our babe, a profile picture and evidence of it being a him!!!

Beartown State Forest

David, Olive and I were finally able to get out of the city and into the woods to soak in some fresh air at Beartown State Forest in western MA. We were able to catch the tail end of the foliage and some last warm rays of sun.

Family Portrait Day!

Last weekend the Lier's when to Portland, ME for the day for a family portrait session and great food for David's birthday. We ate at DuckFat, which is an awesome panini shop, famous for their french fries made in DuckFat. David and I shared an amazing ratouille panini with smoked squash soup. And at Peppercorn where we enjoyed an amazing 4 course meal with salmon cakes, salad, cream of celery soup, haddock w/ crab and blueberry cheesecake. So delicious. Highly recommend both restaurants!

The family shoot took place in the early evening by a wonderful photographer, Erinn in this great park in downtown Portland. She has a preview of some of the photos on her website which came out great. http://bluebirdbaby.typepad.com/freyaphotography/. Once all have made edited I can post more directly on our blog, but I would definitely recommend checking out her site and working with her if you get a chance, she was so fun to work with.

4mo and counting!

Things are great on the baby end! We had our 16wk appointment and listened to the heart beat on the dopplar, it was so awesome to listen to, really fast and loud. David didn't get to come thought because he was sick so my midwife called him and left a message of only the heart beat. For those of you who know David really well you can assume this didn't go as planned, he deleted the message thinking someone had called him from a train by accident.

I also am feeling much better. I was put on Zolfran, a medication to help with nausea and vomitting which is making a huge difference and is finally allowing me to eat what I want and gain some weight (#5). For a while the only things I could eat in the morning were: potato chips, coca cola, pizza, things I like occasionally but not ever day for breakfast.

And we own our first piece of baby clothing! It's the cutest Patriots onsie jersey, with Wes Welker's name and number. Maryka and Nick gave it to us and we are both so excited!! More updates to come soon! November 5th we'll be having another ultrasound and are going to learn the sex, oh my gosh!

Baby Pictures!!

We don't know if the babe is a boy or girl but we know it has 5 fingers on at least one hand!!
I think he/she is sucking it's thumb here, I don't know if that's possible but it sure looks like it.

So crazy right, I can't believe this living being is growing inside me. It's been good so far, I have been super sick so I finally asked my midwife after 8wks of throwing up almost every day to be put on something, so I'm taking Zolfran and it's a life saver!!! This Wednesday we have a check up and then the big date is Nov 3rd when we find out the sex, ahhh!!! Keep you all posted