We are going to be blessed with...

Another little cutie pie like this one

It's a GIRL!

We are so excited to have another little girl and for Sophia to have a sister. I grew up with 2 sisters and can't imagine life without them.

Let the sewing begin and the serger be bought. Everyone knows little girls are so much more fun to sew for than little boys : )

(photo: Amy Celeste Photography)

Married to a 4th year medical student

MEANS:

-your husband can be out of town for days on end, every week for interviews

(November and December were brutal. He's applying for an anesthesia residency for those who don't know)

- he can be out of town for your 30th Birthday and your 9 year Anniversary

(Both were last November, to sick to blog about them)

-your friends step in when he's not around and take you out for a surprise B-day dinner to make you feel special

(Thank you girls!)

-your husband makes it up to you when he gets home by taking you out for some Italian food

(that's the only thing I could stomach at the time, still had morning sickness)

-you become an airport taxi/shuttle

-your daughter thinks the airport is the only place Daddy ever goes

-your husband has taken up collecting travel coffee mugs and t-shirts

-you don't know what state you will be living in come June

-that thought excites you and scares you all at the same time

-you are counting down the days to 3/18/10

(Match Day of course)

(Photo: Amy Celeste Photography)

I love him and enjoy all the adventures he has taken our family on. I can't wait to see where we are headed for our next. As crazy and stressful as these last 3.5 years have been, I wouldn't change a thing (ok, maybe just having him around a little more).

Baby Boy...

Gift

I made these for a friend's baby shower.

I wish I knew the sex of our baby so I could make some for myself.

I have an ultrasound on Monday so hopefully the baby will cooperate ;)

Sophia 2.5 (well almost)

(I was just playing around with my new lens)

She tells me, " I know, I know." Like she's already 12 or something.

She says, "I want a puppy." Whenever she sees one on tv.

When I asked her if she wanted to go with me to a baby shower her reply was, " No, I'm too little."

Her new favorite thing to ask for is, " A nice cold snack." Where did she get this?

When she wants something she knows we don't have she says, " I have to got to the store and buy one."

You know when she's eating something she loves, because she continually says, "Mmmmmmm!" through the entire snack or plate of food.

She loves snuggling on the couch with me every morning while she drinks her milk sippy and watches cartoons.

What a little helper! I hope this continues as she gets older, anything from laundry to cooking, to dishes she loves.

She thinks her Daddy's work involves going to the airport everyday instead of the hospital. One day I said Daddy has to go to school/hospital and she said, "No. Daddy goes to the airport." (Can you tell it's interview season?)

When she not hopping or jumping around the house, she's tiptoeing. (She can't wait to start tumbling class again next week.)

Her staples: cheese quesadilla, bean and cheese pupusas, peanut butter sandwich (hold the jelly please) pasta, strawberries, bananas, and milk sippies.


She wants to do everything herself. "No Mommy, I do it myself!"


I'm so glad I have her to keep me company on those long days and nights when Rob is on call or out of town on interviews. She keeps a smile on my face. I love her so.

After working all night in the ER

Harpers Ferry- Revisited

It was cold the day we went so we spent a lot of our day in the little buildings and museums. This was nice because when we had gone in the summer we had spent most of our time outside and hiking up trails.

Rob's parents really enjoyed this outing and learning about all the rich history which lies there.

Before heading home we were all hungry for dinner. We wanted to eat somewhere good, not just fast food, we were thinking buffet. We remembered that Charles Town Races and Slots was just down the road and usually where there is gambling there are buffets. We found a really nice buffet inside the casino and right before we ate Sophia, Rob's Mom, and I went to use the restroom. When I got back Rob was fanning $20 bills at me. Let's just say he got lucky on the slots while we were gone.




I don't know why the trees in this photo look slightly hdr. I ran the same workflow action on this photo that I run on all my photos. Kinda cool looking.



Sophia really enjoyed having her Daddy around for Christmas break. On the morning he returned to school I found her at the front door with a pouty face and then she started crying for Daddy.







She can't get enough of the snow. Rob says it's a sign we'll match somewhere cold.

The Temple Lights

I think we chose the busiest night of the year to go see the lights and one of the coldest also (wait it's been freezing cold here for over a month and showing no signs of warming, I know I am a complainer, but winter is hard for me, I hate being cold, I hate getting an asthma attack just walking from my apt. to my car because it's so dang cold, I hate not being able to take Sophia outside to play everyday and to the park, ok this should be a whole different post) Anyhow we enjoyed seeing the temple and all the lights on the grounds. There is an amazing feeling you get from just being near a temple.

Rob has a cousin that is serving a mission at the visitors center with his wife, so we all surprised them that night by dropping by with Rob's parents.

Christmas Morning

Sophia was delightfully surprised to see everything that Santa and her family had put under the tree while she was sleeping the night before. She ran out to the living room and started to play with the first thing that was not wrapped up. It was the little people doll house. She kept busy with this for at least a half hour and then she wanted to start opening gifts.




















She had been wanting a tea pot for long time. I kept telling her if she was good, Santa would bring one.

We enjoyed the holidays with Rob's parents in town. Sadly I didn't take more photos of Sophia with them. Sometimes it's just nice to live in the moment and not worry about capturing everything in a photo.

Christmas Eve: Tamales and Santa

This year I decided I wanted to make tamales for Christmas Eve. With Rob being home and his parents in town I figured I would have plenty of help in the kitchen and with Sophia. I had never made them on my own before. I had helped my Mom and Grandmother before, but that was years ago. Tamales remind me of Christmas when I was growing up and this pregnant lady was craving them so they had to be made.

I cooked the meat and made the sauce the day before with my Grandmother's recipe. I was going to make a red and green sauce, but only ended up doing the green. That's my favorite anyway. The next day I made the masa, spread it on the corn husks, and put in the filling. I steamed about 3 batches. I think I ended up making around 6 dozen.

To my surprise they turned out EXCELLENT!!! This might be a new tradition for our family. We ate lots, froze some and gave some to our neighbors.

I want to give a special thanks to my Mom for finding the recipes and helping me through the process from the other side of the country. I must have called her 10 times during the whole 2 days of prep and making them. I wish she could have been here helping me and most of all I wish she could have tasted the finished product.

We also had a special visitor that evening. Santa stopped by a little early and gave Sophia a special magic wand. He said that after she went to bed he would be back later that night with gifts.

If she looks like she just woke up from a nap, it's because she did. I let her take a long nap that day because I was so busy in the kitchen.

She loved the snow and so did he

She enjoyed the snow a lot more when a path had been shoveled for her to walk and it wasn't falling down on her.













Playing in her snow fort.

Daddy and the snowman