recent pictures

Here are Erin and I! We met for coffee the other day, each of us pregnant, and each of us carrying our new diaper bags just for the fun of it. :)
We had Christmas brunch with Amber and David in our pajamas, and got a few good shots in....guess whose belly is whose....

And we had Christmas Eve dinner with the Satterfield family! Here is a nice family portrait of them....

Christmas at Cannon Beach

We celebrated an early Christmas with Mom, Jay, Deedee, and baby Benjamin. It was wonderful to be at the ocean - I think Cannon Beach is one of my most favorite places on earth. It was mostly rainy and stormy, but it was nice. A nice friend of Mom's let us stay there for three nights free of charge! It was right on the ocean and we had a great time. Here are some pictures of our time.

First, a delicious salmon dinner cooked by Jason. Mmmm.....the man doesn't even like salmon himself (we cooked him a steak instead), but he sure can cook it up well! This is a recipe of Salmon stuffed with crab, shrimp, and brie cheese. Growing up, we always had salmon chowder on Christmas Eve for dinner, so this fit in nicely. :)

Here is a view of the ocean, and a puzzle that kept the men occupied for many hours.

Amy and baby Ben, who is sitting on his cousin in my belly....my belly provided a perfect little shelf for him to sit on.

Grandma Gretchen:

A big belly side shot:

Haystack rock:

I love love LOVE this picture.....

Beautiful Deedee with her son....

Jay and his mini-me. :) I think Ben looks just like his Dad.

SNOW!!!

This is the current state of the world outside our door. LOVE IT!!!!

A few belly pictures - 37.5 weeks

Thanks to our dear friend, Michelle Young, for snapping some photos for us on Christmas Eve morning so we can have some memories of this baby belly.

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Decorations

Here we are decked out for Christmas!

See the tiny little baby sock in the middle?? Awww..... sooo cute. :)

The Nursery!

I'm laid up on the couch today with a pain in my butt. It's true. I can hardly walk. Jason has to help me hobble around if I need to get anywhere. I've self diagnosed myself with "pelvic girdle pain" according to my highly scientific google search. This is how it is described, and exactly how I feel..... "It can send shooting pains into your buttocks or down the back of your legs. You may also have pain in your hips. One or both of your legs may feel very weak and you may not be able to lift your legs, particularly when lying down" For me, it seems to be worse at night, or right after trying to get up, or when I roll over in bed. It's a result of all my joints and ligaments loosening and shifting in this last phase of pregnancy. Luckily, for our masses of fans, this means I have time to upload some pictures to the blog. :)

So here is the nursery!! We've been working to get the nursery ready for the baby and it's been a really fun project for us. We've been through many paint colors, spent hours and hours at Ikea (love it there!), and feel like we have accomplished quite a bit. The old office has transformed into a little baby room!

Here is the crib (beautiful hand-me-down from the Satterfields).....crib bumper from Stephanie Paulson, sheets are from Anna, and the bed skirt matches the bumper (Pottery Barn Kids - chloe collection) but I found it on craigslist. Great idea, Amber!


And here is the view from the doorway. Cute curtains and wall lights are from Ikea, changing table from Satterfields, glider rocker from Joyce and Jack Lacey (and assembled by Andy Macklin), fish mobile from our trip to Cabo.

I've even got the clothes washed and sorted in the closet and dresser and labeled by size. We will be 36 weeks along tomorrow - she is going to be here quickly!

A first for us

Neither Jason or I have ever broken a bone in our lives......ahhh, until now. :) Remember that pre-thanksgiving football game? Jason injured his finger while trying to hold onto Andy so someone could grab his flag. Andy had quite the welt on his arm afterwards, also. Well, after nearly two weeks of the injured finger, the discoloration, the pokey out part that worried me, the soreness, I did some online research and called his doctor. The doc wanted him to come in to check it out. That wonderful man of mine loves me so much that he even WENT - it was totally for me. I think if he had had his way he would have just put some duct tape around it and carried on. It reminds me so much of Grandpa Arb....these tough farmers.



They X-rayed his hand and it turns out that it is in fact broken/fractured. That bump you see on the left side of his finger is the broken part. :( Oddly, the doctor wasn't as concerned with that broken finger as he was with a bunch of other fingers of Jasons that seemed crooked - probably from jammed fingers playing basketball in years past. Anyways, turns out that they don't do anything for factured fingers except tell you not to jam it into anything for the next 5 weeks.


So at least we now know, right? And Jason can't ever use his "I've never broken a bone" line when we play 2 Truths and a Lie, and use it as a truth. We've reached the end of an era.