Douglas & Nicole

Saturday, February 28, 2009

It's a baby!

IT'S...

A...

GIRL!!!!!!!

This is her thinking pose :)

The baby is healthy and doing great! I am calculated at 17 weeks, 3 days (not 15 like originally predicted) and my due date has been moved up from August 22 to August 5! We are sooooooo excited!!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

I am now officially the proud sister of an Eagle Scout! No, it's not like I wasn't proud before... it's just that now Jordan is an Eagle Scout and I am proud of him. Tonight was his Eagle Scout Court of Honor and it turned out very nice. The presentation was beautiful and the food was yummy. Congratulations, Jordan!

Jordan's display table

Chips and chili dip, veggies and dip, cookies and cake

Congratulations Eagle Scout Jordan

I tried to get a picture with the family, but Dad is missing and Grandpa Gray wheeled himself out at the last second (you can see the tip of his chair in the corner)

So I waited for Grandpa Gray to come back and Grandpa Button thought the picture was about him :)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day

This year we celebrated Valentine's Day by having a family dinner yesterday at Souplantation and receiving yummy treats from Mom and going to see opening night of Scarlet Pimpernel at the Welk (which was REALLY GOOD, by the way.)

Douglas and I are not into the whole spoil-each-other-on-Valentine's thing, although we both celebrate the holiday and try to do something special. I bought us some caramel- and chocolate-dipped pretzels ahead of time (which were SOOO yummy) and they were delivered on Valentine's Day. And it supported girls camp, so that was an added bonus.

Today, Douglas and I decided to drive down to Old Town and spend Valentine's Day there. We visited his sister, Meredith who works there, ate lunch together at O'Hungry's and the three of us enjoyed some ice cream. It was a lot of fun and we were exhausted by the time we got home.

Hope everyone else had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Monday, February 9, 2009

Heartbeat

Today I got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time! It just really made it a reality. I have been on cloud 9 all day!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

The infamous prego pic

12 weeks

There's something there. But I've got a long way to go. :)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

200 Days

ONLY 200 days left? Sheesh, this is gonna take forever. My pregnancy is going really well. I'm already starting to show, but I'm in the fat stage... you know, when you see a lady on the street and you can't tell if she's pregnant or fat? Yeah, that's me. I haven't had any morning sickness, just afternoon "blahs" and lots of tiredness and increase of appetite. All in all, I'm very happy to be pregnant and I'm trying to be patient and enjoy this pregnancy because I'm very anxious to hold my baby in my arms right now. I'm almost done with my first trimester - yay!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Grand Pacific Palisades

This past week, Dad, Mom, Jared, Douglas and I spent a relaxing time at the Grand Pacific Palisades Resort in Carlsbad (about 30 minutes away.) A very generous friend of ours owns a vacation timeshare there and moved out of state so they invited us to use it for a week. We checked in on Sunday and of course made cookies that evening like we do every Sunday. Monday was spent at Legoland, just around the corner. I felt like a kid. It was so much fun! At only 10 weeks, I could go on most of the rides. And the things they built out of legos were incredible! It was only the second time going to Legoland so it was still pretty brand new to me. On Tuesday, I had to go home and teach (somehow managed to pack all my students on one day) because I couldn't afford to take the whole week off. Wednesday through Friday was spent relaxing at the condo, going swimming, going out to eat at a local steakhouse and Pat & Oscar's and a bonfire at the beach! We checked out this morning and then drove to Old Town San Diego for the annual Mormon Battalion celebration. It was so hard to come home. I wish we were still there!

The condo