Halloween

We wanted to post a couple of photos of us from Halloween...we dressed up as our niece and nephew, Anthony and Isabella...

Birthday Celebration

We celebrated our birthdays with family over a few weeks ago and since many of our friends who live out of town have been asking for pregnancy photos, we thought that we'd post a couple. This first photo is of me, my dad, and our niece Isabella acting crazy! :-) This photo is of me right around 20 weeks pregnant...the half way mark!!

This one is of me and my best friends...also known as my sisters! :-)

Exercise

So, I have been giving myself and our baby some much needed exercise by attending prenatal water aerobics and yoga at the YMCA. The water aerobics is by far the best thing that I could be doing right now, it is so much fun and as many of you know I just absolutely love the water! The added benefit to this class is that I get to interact with other moms, I am the only one in the class pregnant with my first. They give me lots of insight and much needed laughter. I am also participating in yoga for the first time in my life and have found what an amazing experience it is! I love, love, love it!! The instructor, Marilyn is so accommodating for my pregnancy and I always leave the class feeling relaxed and refreshed. It is such a nice treat for me and for the baby. My hope is that my wonderful husband will watch our newborn as I take some me time and continue with the yoga class after the baby is born...I have a feeling I am going to need it! However, those of you who know Nick well know he will probably be pushing me out the door to go to the class! :-)

Thank You

We want to send an overdue thank you to Aunt Lolly, Uncle Tony, and cousins Austin and Dillon for their beautiful and thoughtful gift. From them we received the sweetest ultrasound photo frame. I have never seen anything like it and we just absolutely love it! Tomorrow we go for our long awaited second trimester ultrasound, so we are really looking forward to having a clearer picture to place in it!!

We would also like to thank Papa and Nana Gonzalez and Uncle Kevin for the really cute "neutral" outfits and baby towel that we received...we love them and they match many of the gifts we have already received...this baby is so blessed! Thank you so much for already outfitting this baby before he or she is ever born! :-)

I would also like to personally thank my mom for spending some one-on-one much needed maternity clothes shopping time with me. The funniest thing about shopping with my mom is that she will leave no stone unturned and be certain that we saw everything the store had to offer...she's a blast to shop with! As I stood in the fitting room on that afternoon of power shopping with her I was just about brought to tears thinking of how much I am thankful to have her along for this journey...these are some of the most precious times in a girl's life and it just makes you realize how much you truly need a mom...I LOVE YOU MOM!!