Candy Corn

Candy Corn! YUMMM....I love it! Not sure why, since you eat 3 and you have hit your max sugar intake for the day, but I still love them.

The other day I was eating candy corn while some of the students were doing presentations. After they were done I look down and all the white parts of the candy corn are sitting in a pile on my desk!

I didn't even notice, but I guess I don't eat the white part. I break it off and only eat the orange and yellow! So strange right????

Happy Second Anniversary

Jake arranged for us to take a dinner cruise on the Baltimore Harbor for our 2nd Anniversary! We had so much fun just sitting and talking. We didn't get to the dancing because well... i'm pretty prego and the only place I've been dancing to is the bathroom lately! The food was good, the view was good, the entertainment good, the hot cookies they served at the end were GREAT and the company amazing of course!

Happy Anniversary Jake! It's the last one we'll have without needing a baby sitter for a very long time!!

Ah...Pregnancy

With only 3 weeks to go, I am almost sad that my pregnancy is over. It has been such an awesome experience! I have escaped heart burn, swelling, constipation, morning sickness, round ligament pains, charly horses, and even a ton of weight gain (only 16 pounds so far). I love feeling her and seeing her moving around in my stomach. I love the way people treat me... so super sweet and helpful with everything. (in boston on the T people got out of their seats to let me sit down! I was amazed!)

If I wasn't on my feet all day from teaching high school, I would be happy pregnant for weeks to come.

So... we are ready for her to come at this point! I belong to a message board with other ladies due in oct 2009, and they basically keep me on the ball. I have had my hosptial bag packed since some lady scared me into the idea of not being prepared!! Not only is the hospital bag ready, but the diaper bag, the snacks, the magazines, books, cameras etc.. The message board has been an awesome resource for me and my questions, but today they are all fighting about someone who made a post and wrote they were annoyed that people were writing "dialate" and not "dilate". Its pretty heated right now! I guess thats what you get for putting lots of hormonal women in their 3rd trimester together!!

To get ready we also have brought home a doll ( "ready or not tot") that the child development students use. The baby is newborn size and weight and it cries and you have to feed it and so on... We got it to see how linkin does with the idea of having a baby around. Well... Linkin and Jake are doing great with it... Me on the other hand had a little bit of an episode when Jake forgot to turn it off before we went to sleep

In the middle of the night it starts crying. Like really loud!! Lets just say poor jake couldn't get the right key in it fast enough to turn it off and it ended with me screaming and grabbing the doll out of his hands and shutting it up! Jake says I told him I hated him...but I don't recall this. EVERYONE don't be alarmed. I will not be doing this with my own child! I did scare the crap out of my husband though!

Besides 1 ugly incident, it has been a smooth amazing ride with Zoey! I can't wait to see her face and hold her! I might not be able to cause we all know Jake won't be sharing her!!

Below are pics of her nursery (jake and his mom did the BEST job!) and some pics of me. I try to take pics of myself...obviously not so good at that . I also included the cute giraffe costume Zoey will wear for Halloween!! (anyone have a tip for arranging these pics better! They are being such a pain!)

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers for a speedy and healthy delivery!

Here We Go....

I finally got my butt into gear to start a blog of our very own. I have loved peeking at other families blogs! Hopefully some will love peeking at ours... that is if I can keep up with it!

Jake and I are about to embark on the greatest adventure of our lives. I am 36 weeks pregnant with our first, and we can't wait for Zoey to come and make our lives crazy! (Maybe I shouldn't be watching so much super nanny!!)

Jake and I also will be hitting another milestone in our relationship.... 2 YEARS this coming Sunday. It has been such an amazing 2 years....definately not as hard as we were warned it would be. I love having a husband to come home to, and to share my days with. I love having a husband like Jake who is just plain easy to get along with, and addicting to be around. Its been a very lucky 2 years.

Some of our FAVORITES since we've gotten married:

~Getting Linkin (our maltese) Remembering his little face in his crate as he came off the airplane still melts my heart! His barking at nothing...not so much!

~ Going to IKEA and just walking around and getting a 50 cent hot dogs

~ Coaching High School Cheer together

~Going on our first vacation to Jim Thorpe PA where we biked, rafted on the river, camped, and paintballed, and then to the poconos...where we relaxed!!

~ Getting our first Christmas Tree and decorating it with dollar store ornaments.

~ Buying our first house! It was such a long process, but so worth it!

~ Buying a brand new car, even though I cried having to trade in my MINI.

~ Seeing Zoey for the first time on the ultra sound!

As you can see.... life is good to us. Not perfect.... but we have so many blessing to be thankful for!

We hope our blog will keep our close fam and friends in the loop, as some are not as close as we would like them to be.

Here's to happy blogging!!