big news!!!

About 11 years ago, I decided that meat just wasn’t for me. I’m not a huge fan of blood dripping from whatever Is going into my mouth. Of course, everyone pressures you to eat meat as soon as you don’t. I can’t even count how many times my girlfriends and I would go out to get icecream cones and they would ask the cashier if they would hide some meat in my icecream, or the texts from Tanman that go a little something like this: “STOP DEPRIVING OUR CHILD OF PRECIOUS MEATS”. Since the dawn of Tanman and Merelips, I had always promised him that I would try meat again when I was carrying his baby, expecting that I bought myself a few years.  He has kindly reminded me of my promise each time meat  has been served, but I have somehow been able to resist. It wasn’t until a few weeks ago when Tanman and I went to In-n-out that I started considering going to the dark side. I became obsessed with the cheeseburger that the little boy at the table next to us had. For some reason the baby inside me was begging for it. It took all my strength not to take it from this poor stranger. Well, the other night we found ourselves at Smashburger (scrumptralescent) with brother and sister in law and baby H. Looking at their burgers compared to my chicken sandwich I just had to have a bite! So I took Tanman’s burger and bit into it. I’m not going to lie. It was good! Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, I’m not about to go order an entire burger for myself but I definitely would have a few more bites of that goodness Don’t think I’ve gone completely meat-eater, I still want my food cooked in a separate pan with separate utensils from meat and I’m sure this too shall pass after we meet this little guy. Next time I’ll try a Boca patty and see if he falls for it.

be prepared for a gush

Can you believe how time flies?! This past year has been absolutely amazing and I pretty much owe it all to my wonderful husband. He is such a sweetheart and I am so grateful for his love. It's crazy to think how much our lives have changed in this past year but we couldn't be happier where we are. And now I will gush through photos:

Joyeux Noel

Oh what fun it is to spend time with family! I got the A-Okay to chill with my fam for Christmas from the doc which was good because it was their turn this year and I think my hormonal heart might have shed a tear or two if I didn’t get to see them. With our travel plans taking up most of the week, we celebrated early with Tanman’s family. We all gathered for dinner and Christmas Eve jammies and they were so cute! We put words on us and arranged ourselves in a little saying for their brother who is on a mission.

 I cannot get over how cute Baby H and K looked in their tutu pajamas!

I stole this picture from my sister-in-law’s blog but I love it so it is officially double posted on blogspot. We are both having boys and only a few weeks apart. This is going to be some fun!

The next morning, we packed up my car and padded up the backseat with pillows for me to sleep on during the drive and finally made it to my fam’s (after multiple bathroom breaks) to rest for Noel. Of course we followed tradition and all donned our Christmas jammies.

We spent the rest of our trip cooing at Baby W, 

Could he be the cutest kid ever?! …until our baby makes his debut, of course

playing games, 

brother in law somehow pulled off a royal flush and stunned us all. I had to get proof.

watching Christmas movies, drinking wassail and eating donuts.

perfection.

We are so lucky to have such loving families that are so fun! Can’t wait to bring our boy into this world so that he can play with all of us!

merry merry wishes

We aren’t sending out cards this year because, let’s face it, they’re only cute if there is a baby in the picture. (everyone already knows what the two of us look like) So here is a “Happy Holidays” from our home to yours! Enjoy!

Oh what a week it has been

We have had so many changes this past week at our house and in our family! Last Friday, we went to the doctor for an ultrasound and found out that we are actually having a BOY! The doc couldn’t get a great shot but that’s what he’s thinking. That would be partly my fault because I was laughing so much that the my belly would move his camera scope thing and then the little pickle started covering up all the parts we needed to see! That's exactly what happened last time and that's why the tech's guess wasn't quite accurate.

We had a pretty busy weekend after that preparing for my sisters, brother-in-law and nephew to come visit. Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen?! I could seriously kiss his cheeks all day long. I can't wait for our boys to be firends! I was so excited to see them and for all of us to head to the river for Thanksgiving that I think I might have made the baby a little too excited as well cause he decided to see if he could make his way to this world a little early and hang out with us!

I had been in some pain since Sunday but thought nothing of it cause I was so busy, but by the time Tuesday came around I could hardly stand up so I decided to call the doc and check-in. He told me to come by his office and that worked out great with my plan for the day cause we were going to head to the hospital right after to meet our new niece who had been born that morning. 

I joked around with Tanman that it would be so funny if I had to go to the hospital the same day my sister-in-law did to have her baby, and guess what… I did (not as funny as I thought it would be). Well I was definitely in pre-term labor and had to get hooked up to machines and get meds to keep this little guy in. The doc took some tests that didn’t turn out the way he wanted so here I am, in bed and probably stuck here till March. Needless to say the rest of the week did not turn out the way I hoped. I have been on the couch since Tuesday and we definitely never made it to the river.

By the weekend we did, however, welcome a new addition to the family. We are officially dog owners… temporarily (Tanman likes to remind me). We lucked out with the cutest, sweetest boxer/bulldog! She is adorable and so fun! We love her and I’m definitely secretly hoping that “temporarily” turns into “permanent”. 

Ooh Baby Baby

My imagination got the best of me the other day as I stumbled onto one of those funny and ridiculous sites that mesh the faces of you and your significant other into one slightly misfortunate looking child.  Let me tell you that the chuckles uncontrollably burst out of my mouth as soon as I saw the picture that developed from the glamour shots I chose to use. I’m thinking our kids will be absolutely adorable no matter what because, let’s face it, who doesn’t think their own children are the most beautiful things ever?! I wish that I had saved the picture and posted it, but I guess I will have to let you all be the judge. Here are a few pics of Tanman and I growing up so you can decide if our kids will be beauty pageant contestants or pig farmers. If our kids are, on the off chance, entirely unpleasant looking we all know that they are gonna rock the world with the coolest personalities ever.

Hallow's Eve

Could Halloween be the best holiday ever? I think so! My only wish was that the weather would decide to cool down enough for fun fall sweaters and boots. I mean the heat pretty much turned our pumpkins into liquid before we could even enjoy them! As grateful as I am for nice weather (we spent our entire Saturday playing at the pool) is it too much to ask for a little chill in the air? … Just a thought. Here is a summary of our fun Halloween:

We tried to make our costume as clever as last year’s…

…but it’s a little difficult to be extra creative with a baby bump. So we decided to play on that instead…

I did, however get some pretty interesting looks at the party we went to and quite a few compliments on how "real" my stomach looked. All in all it was a pretty fun night and I think we rocked it. Now it's time to put lights up and turn on the Christmas music right?