Waiting

Waiting for something that will change my life forever is....

Amigos

Ben and Sam my bros came into town

The last pic of Amy and I super prego

Michelle visiting from Zurich, Switzerland (hurry up and come back already!)

Wuv her!

Showered with love!

Our baby girl has been showered with love!

We can't wait to use all of the amazing gifts we have been given.

Hostesses Amy and Joy and the prep crew

Homemade by Amy!

Jeanne, Becky and Melanie-dental hygiene alumni

How cute was this chalkboard message!

The Shiloh Park Relief Society Shower

Love this cupcake outfit

Melanie, my church visting teaching companion, we are due 5 days apart

Mom and I having fun

My hostess Amy and her hubby Blake

Summer

Lucky for us our summer has been packed full of fun things to keep us busy and keep the baby count down speeding by.

For Cohen's birthday we spent the day down in San Fran with our friend Ryan. We hit Chrissy Field and walked the beach with all the other dog & owners. We tried Ike's sandwiches for lunch and discovered a new favorite eatery.

In May Cohen's younger sister Havila and her boyfriend Jonny showed up and surprised us for Memorial Day weekend. They literally knocked on the door Friday night at midnight and totally shocked us! We laughed for an hour after.

10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

June 16. 2011

This was such a fantastic day! For so long you wonder who you will marry and spend the rest of your life with. Then all of a sudden in a flash boom-you are celebrating your 10 year wedding anniversary ; ) While Salty was at doggy day care Cohen and I celebrated in San Francisco at the SF Zoo. We took our time and walked through at a nice leisurely (pregnancy) pace. This was Cohen's first visit to the zoo and it had been about 15 years since I had been there. They have done a nice job with the park and its animal exhibit areas. The only thing that I was bummed out about was that they are no longer feeding the lions & tigers in the Lion house. If you visited the Zoo as a child like I did you will know what I am talking about. We had a yummy Indian dinner at a Zagat rated restaurant before heading home. At dinner we tried to recount what we had done each year for our anniversary celebrations. One of our favorites was our first year when we went camping in Zion National Park.

Living the life

"It's worth it...it's totally worth it"

My experience so far while being pregnant is a having a lot of people tell me their parenting stories. Some are sprinkled with the more intimidating elements of caring for children especially newborns. I see peoples eyes slightly glaze over when they tell me about the early days filled with sleepless days/nights. They might even thrown in a scary 23 hour labor story. Generally the walks down memory lane are ended with a nice line about how parenting is a unique, life changing experience that they wouldn't trade for anything...."it's worth it" or "it's totally worth it". This is something I don't understand yet.

I don't know what that means. And I won't for a couple of months. Someday down the line I will share my take on "it's worth it".

April ultrasound pic

24 weeks : )