Hips and heartburn and fibroids oh my!

Kelsey has been losing sleep and in a lot of pain moving through this part of the pregnancy. It seems like sleeping on one side or the other is taking it's toll on her hips and she walks like an old lady sometimes! Her fibroid is starting to "roam" as the baby grows and it doesn't hurt directly but it feels like it is wrenching her uteris around. The heartburn has been the least of our worries and has been very managable.

We are both very excited for this weekend! The nursery will get a coat of paint and we are heading to the aquarium with Sara and Elaine and our two beautiful nieces to see the fishies. Hopefully one of us will remember to take some pictures because we haven't documented much in the last few months.

Tonight Kelsey is going to see Il Divo in concert with her mom and Tami gets to find a quiet place to study :)

The month of May...

Tami and Kelsey enjoyed a week of sun and fun in Kauai with Kelsey's mom and her good friend Marti. Most of our time was spent laying on the beach or by the pool, I don't think we even had the energy to do any site seeing! Kelsey got pretty burned the first day, pregnancy does weird things to your skin, and spent a day nursing swollen burned feet and ankles.

It was a tough adjustment back to the real world after getting back from Hawaii but we managed. Kelsey ended up leaving her job on May 15th, as many of you know it was a hostile and oddly stress filled enviroment. We both felt that the baby's health was more important than staying there and it was very impowering to leave.

The baby's room is almost ready for it's grand transformation. Our good friend Elaine is coming to paint...mostly because Tami hates to paint and Kelsey can't while she's growing the baby. We are very greatful to her for this. Her partner Sara is bringing the girls and the 3 of them and Kelsey will be headed to the Seattle Aquarium to keep busy! After this project is done we can move the furniture in, as soon as it arrives, and get to work putting away all of Mackinley's clothes. We are both getting very excited!!

It's a...

BOY! We both wanted a girl but knew it was a boy for about the last 4 weeks. Kelsey even started calling the baby "he" a few weeks ago. We are both still in shock but very excited. Of course after our appointments yesterday and dinner with Heather and Matt to celebrate we hit up Babies-r-Us for some boy geared fun!

Here's a picture of our little one's foot. We can hardly wait till September to meet him :)

Long Overdue Post!

Today is the day of our "big ultrasound" as everyone calls it and Kelsey realized we never posted a picture of the first ultrasound.
While we are still pretty hopeful we could find out it's a girl we are perfectly happy and adjusted to having a boy. If you know anything about our process to conceive you know our desires for a girl and the hurdles we felt knowing it could be a boy. Either way we are both so excited for this afternoon!

Getting Excited!

We have been tracking our little one's growth...you might be interested too!

Pregnancy Week by Week

It finally happened!

After 6 months of trying to conceive we found out this morning we are truly blessed. Kelsey is in San Francisco for a month for work and she packed only 1 test...just incase. This morning at about 5:30am it was time to check and look what she found.


















It was so hard to take in that she finally went out and bought another test. Here are the results...one from 5:30am and one from 1pm. Tami is very excited, although I'm sure being 2 states away she is actually freaking out!