Moms visit to the Bay!!

Valerie, smothered in flowers!!

Forest Home Farm pictures...I'm showing off the Farmers Market

Pregnancy pictures, at around 5 months.

Hands of Love!

Now that I have finally resolved my uploading issue, I can finally blog pictures again! Thank goodness because life is about to pack on a big reason for lots of pictures. The pictures are a bit random and out of place...forgive me, I'm using a different editing tool for blogger.

Enjoy the pictures and thank you to each of you for being a part of our baby shower and the journey ahead. The baby shower prepared me in ways I never expected. I knew the gifts would give us a great head start but the fun, the love, the laughter, the stories, the advice...it truly prepared us both and eased some of my parental concerns (for now). I felt so loved after this event and just want to say thank you so much for my family...I love each of you and feel beyond blessed that we were together on this special day. Cheers to the road ahead...its going to be a long and awesome travel.

Everyone loves the cotton ball game!

We are going to make a beautiful baby!

OK, this has to be the picture of the year!

Mamma and Pappa to be!

Dan is doing rather well at this game!!

Dad likes drinking out of a bottle

Adorable sweater that Roo Roo knitted

Gift time!!!

The Crib!!

Pappa-son and Daniel-son putting the dresser/changing table together

Enjoy some of the giggles in this short video clip. Can't wait to see the pictures that I others caught!

Hip Hip Hooray!!!  A new router resolved uploading issues!!!  Soooo joyful...more blogging to come! 

High Tides at the Meloy's!!  This little river/water hole/historical sloth resides in front of our patio and the river was a'risin' on one particular rainy day.  Yes, California does get rain!  This was pretty wicked for us!

I'm so Happy I could poo!!  I have finally resolved my blogging issues.  Sadly, I have no idea what I did to fix this so my best guess is that I didn't fix it but Blogger did.  Either way, happy camper!  Here are some random pictures during the week of Halloween, hanging out with Tanis and her son Xander as well as Halloween on the farm.  More to come!  I have some serious blogging to do now that this is fixed and the holidays are approaching.  Much Love!!

Junior was dressed as a spider for his first Halloween, LOL!!

This is just a test!  Old pictures are being displayed, I'm in blogger hell!!  Haven't been able to add any images since moving to Vista, so I'm experimenting on an XP machine. 

Its working!  This is Microsofts fault.  Everything wrong in my life is Microsofts fault, LMAO!!!

OMG it finally worked!!!

Sweet little Honey catching the last bit of sun. I caught her doing her best to get a tan!

These pictures might be a little tiny but so is our baby! We had our very first ultrasound on Wednesday, August 12th. And at 10:47 a.m., I heard her heart beat for the very first time. I LOVED every moment of the beat. And what a fast beat it was. I have been eagerly waiting this day and even as I type, my smile is wide! Along the way we found out that I am not 10 weeks pregnant but rather 14 weeks. Who would have thought I could have skipped a months worth of pregnancy in a day. Needless to say, I feel GREAT! Still no morning sickness although I am learning that my love of spicy food may need to take a rest for a while. She doesn't seem to have the same love for jalapenos as I do...in time though. My belly is getting really hard and I feel what is commonly referred to as a baby bump. When I first saw the baby, she had the hiccups, it was so adorable! The doctor asked that I talk during the ultrasound to keep her moving and sure enough, she shot me a wave with her hand full of 5 tiny fingers. The doctor says her spine is beautiful and that she is nice and big. We are very happy to hear this good news and next month we already get to know the sex.

Here's what Baby Center has to say on our little one...fun facts!
This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

Me at 9 weeks pregnant. No, I'm not yet showing, that's just old fat, lol. Our baby is now about an inch long and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. By now she has lost her tail, or so we hope! She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months.

Other changes abound: Our baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks.

Mom is doing great!! No morning sickness thus far which means I might miss the entire morning sickness plague, how sweet is that!! I get tired from time to time, its the kind of tired that won't escape you without a nap. My boobs are completely unrecognizable, I have already grown one full cup size and this is only the beginning...OUCH! And I am no longer able to sleep on my belly, not because of growth but because of the firmness of my abdomen, its solid like a rock. Somedays I really miss caffeine but I am happy just sipping my pregnancy tea...yes, they have a pregnancy tea. But I don't really miss anything else. So far my cravings include chocolate and deviled eggs, in that order. More to come, we have our official "first" pre-natal appointment tomorrow and hopefully an ultra-sound very soon...we are eager to hear her beating heart.



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