29 weeks

Here is the belly at 29 weeks.

Our little man is now about 3 pounds and 17 inches long.

I have grown a lot in the past couple weeks and I know I am only going to get even bigger. I am getting a little uncomfortable finding it harder to bend over, get out of bed to go pee every 3 hours and put my shoes on... I laugh at myself a couple times a day. Little Parker is also starting to wake me up with his strong kicks and gymnastics moves at all hours of the night. But I can say that I am still feeling good.

I am still having contractions but less than before now that I have been taking it easy and making myself rest. My Dr. did take me out of work which I was bummed about but I know it is best for me and the baby.

Now that the holidays are over the realization that we will be a family of 4 is starting in set in. I am getting a little nervous about having 2 kids. All of my friends with more than 1 child always say "just wait tell you have two". This time around I am less scared about labor and more scared about the first couple weeks and months...

Christmas Day

Christmas was a fun and very busy day at our house. We had everyone over at our house this year and it turned out wonderful. This was the 1st time in 13 years that I did not have to drive anywhere on Christmas.

Santa came to our house

Kaylee opening presents from Santa...

This year was so awesome she really "got it" and had so much fun. All day she kept singing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus and talked about Santa coming to her house.

Her new purple bike from Santa (she asked him for a purple bike and kitchen)



Me & my parents

Our house full of gifts

Cousins eating dinner

They are so sweet together...

Aaliyah (almost 6), Liannah (1.5), Conner (7), Kaylee (almost 3)

This Christmas I felt an overwhelming amount of joy and appreciation for all that I have. I am so blessed to have an amazing family, husband, healthy little girl and a sweet baby boy on the way and of course great friends. For me Christmas is not about the gifts but about spending time with the ones you love and giving to others. I love this holiday for all the traditions, family time, music and beautiful decorations.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Christmas Eve

This year we spent Christmas Eve at Gramma Spikes house. She made a delicious dinner of course and the girls were of course spoiled rotten by Gramma, Aunties and Uncles.

Can you tell she is really excited

Hanna, Kaylee & Hailee opening presents

Kaylee girls new kitchen from Spike

All ready for Santa and the reindeer

Reading Christmas book before bedtime.

She is such a Daddy's girl

Christmas Fun

We love the Christmas Season...

There is always so many fun things to do and so many great yearly traditions.

Cousin Hanna's Preschool Christmas Performance

The Newport Boat Parade

And of course making cookies for Santa!

Santa 2010

Kaylee & Santa 2010

This year was SO different... NO tears! She loved Santa and told him what she wanted for Christmas and then just kept talking and talking... he had to cut her off.

So excited waiting for Santa

Riding the train after.

This year Daddy came with us... it was really fun to have him there! I look forward to making this a yearly family tradition.

27 weeks

This is the final week of my 2nd trimester. We only have 13 weeks left and time seems to be going by so fast. I am still feeling really good but starting to get a little uncomfortable and tired. I have been trying to take it easy which is hard for me to do. Those of you who know me well know that I am a busy body :) At my last appointment I was 25 weeks and 5 days my Dr. decided to check me because I am having contractions and I am already dilated to almost 1 with a softened cervix. Which is not great news considering I am only 27 weeks. She did a test to check on the likelihood of preterm labor happening in the next 2 weeks and it came back negative which is good news. I have not been asked to stop working or exercising yet. I had contractions early with Kaylee as well but these are a little stronger and more frequent. At this point I am trying to listen to my body and lower my activity lever. I am still working but only 1 day a week. I have an appointment again on Thursday to see my high risk Dr so I am hoping that nothing has changed in the past couple of weeks. Little Parker needs to do A LOT more cooking before he joins our family.


Just for fun... Here I am 27 weeks with Kaylee

The Happiest Place on Earth

Kaylee and I met up with my brother Ryan and his family at Disneyland last night. We got to see the Christmas parade, Small World all decorated for Christmas, the fireworks show and snow. I absolutely LOVE Disneyland during Christmas time. It is so beautiful and definitely puts you in the holiday spirit.

Uncle Ry Ry

All the girls

Cousins having fun

The girls waiting for the parade

~Ryan and I~

I am so thankful I live close to my family. I am lucky to have amazing brothers that I really enjoy spending time with.
Thanks for a fun night Jess and Ryan xoxo

Happy Birthday Elle

We got to celebrate Elle Belle's birthday over the weekend. The Mermaid party was great and all the kids had so much fun!

Happy Birthday Elle!

Elle & Kaylee

They love each other it is so sweet

All the kids loved the beautiful Mermaid (Auntie Lolo)

100 Days

The belly with 100 days left...

I did this same post when I was pregnant with Kaylee so I thought it would be fun to compare my belly as well as my emotions.

In my post about Kaylee I talked about how the count down has started and that I was starting to get super excited and nervous about all the little details. I was starting to clean a lot and had nesting feeling.

Well things are VERY different this time. Maybe because I remember the last 100 days going by pretty fast. I am now thinking that I cannot wait to meet our little boy and am very excited for our family to become 4. But I have absolutely NOTHING done. Parker's room has become the room I put everything in that I am not sure where I want. So it is full of boxes and a bunch of crap. So I am really hoping that I will become motivated to unpack the rest of the house and get his room ready. I do have to say that I am enjoying this pregnancy much more than I did with Kaylee and I appreciate being able to be pregnant so much more. I have also gotten very excited about having a BOY.

25.5 weeks...

I wanted to be sure to take a picture of me in my work uniform. hahaha... I feel like I look so silly in it but it is something I want to remember.


And this is my belly with Kaylee when I had 100 days to go... I think I was a little bigger and was carrying a lot higher.

A night to remember...

Last night was our first real trip to the ER... and I say real because we have been once before but if was for an allergic reaction and we were able to go to an after hours Kaiser facility. This time we had to do to the actual emergency room.

Kaylee fell while trying to climb up one of our bar stools and hit her chin on the edge of the chair on the way down. She cried but not that bad and seemed fine very soon after but the cut on her chin was deep so I wanted to have it looked at. Sure enough our baby girl needed 4 stitches. She did really good and was more upset about them holding her down than the actual stitched. Today she is happy and seems totally fine. She just keeps telling me that we have to keep her band aide on...

Daddy holding the topical numbing stuff on...

Our little burrito
so so sad....

All finished and ready to go home.

Kaylee sure is a tough little cookie!

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a busy weekend as always for Thanksgiving. I of course forgot my camera on Thanksgiving but on Friday and Saturday we went out to the river. It was cold but we still had a nice time as a family.

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Kaylee LOVES the river and is always such a trooper when we go. Daddy is very happy about that.

Some new BLING

Kaylee got her ears pierced last week. I have always been ok with her getting them done it is Daddy we had to get to approve. So finally gave in after many phone calls asking for earrings. She was so excited and is definitely a girl that know what she wants.


I don't think she was expecting this... but she did great only cried for 15 seconds. Now she LOVES her new earrings

Lots of Birthday Fun

Last week was a fun and very busy week full of birthday celebrations. We were lucky enough to join Hanna, Cannon, Ella and Grandma Spike as they partied it up.

Our beautiful sweet niece Hanna who turns 3 on Nov. 26th

She had a party at Build A Bear. It was such a cute party and great for the kids I highly recommend doing a party there with a small group of kids.

Mr. Cannon James turned 2 yesterday

Cannon had his party at Prehistoric Pets. The kids got to touch and hold so many animals. I was surprised that the girls (mainly Harper and Ella) liked it more than some of the boys. And of course my man is still a kid at heart and had to have a HUGE spider on his head...

And Ella had her party at SCATS her gymnastics place. All the kids got to play on the gym floor and had a blast.

Ella Reese turns 5 Nov. 26th also... WOW how is she 5 already!

We had a ton of fun! Thank you for including us in your special day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hanna, Cannon and Ella!