The Nursery Is Getting Smaller, While My Belly Gets Larger!

We haven't put up any decorations yet except the mobile which we LOVE!! My theme is world globes so you'll see much more come through in decor later. I have 8 weeks left... plenty of time! Thanks to generous friends and family we've gotten almost EVERYTHING we need for Baby B to arrive! Only decor stuff (and a mattress) left to get!

The door hanging pillow was made by my creative and super athletic neice Elle. THANK YOU ELLIE BELLIE it matches perfect in his new room!
These are some of the globes on the mobile! Also trying some artist shots before baby comes!
The boxes don't match the decor so I've order 4 light blue ones that DO match, but you get the idea with these before I return them!

Our dresser/changing table! Beautiful and matches perfectly with the crib! AJ put it together relaly late one night and we LOVE it! THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!! You're SO generous and we LOVE having you in our thoughts as we change EVERY diaper on this beautiful peice of furniture!

Empty crib with no mattress or bumper... but it's coming... very, very soon!

Oh, and I'll finally put a 31.5 weeks preggo picture up since I've had some beggers...

AJ Goes to Australia

So after the long flight to Hawaii in my first trimester... there was NO WAY I was going on a 5 hr flight to CA, then a 14 hr flight to Australia... So I stayed home and remodeled our basement! Finally decided on a color, replaced light fixtures and blew up and framed some of our favorite home photography to hang!


Oh, and AJ got to fly first class too! Hence his feet and personal TV!

I'm so mad I missed the first business trip he's taken without me!!!

Let's Go To Hawaii!

In December, AJ got a surprise last minute business trip to Hawaii, so OF COURSE, we had to go! So 12 weeks preggo, I hopped in a bikini (last time for a while, I'm sure) and went to Honolulu, to snorkel, eat great food, relax on the beach and catch some beautiful sunsets from the pristine waters! We saw a luau, and explored all over Pearl Harbor during the Anniversary day too! AJ had never been to any of the islands so it was a great trip to say the least!




We visited the famous north shore to watch some wild surfing contest too!

We even had pinapple ice cream with pinapple chuncks, in a pinapple cup at a pinapple plantation! Pheww!

AJ got his picture taken with a Luau dancer!

We went snorkeling in the most beautiful filled in crater too!

We went snorkeling below... you can see the carved out natural crater that filled in!

This is the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbbor, very sobering tour, but a must see for all generations!

Waikiki Beach from our Hotel

Beach of our hotel

Catching Up from OBX Trip in 2010!

Ok, so here is me catching up (mainly for my little sister who is so much better at this than me) a little since lots has changed in our lives the last few months!

In October, 2010 we went to OBX as has been tradition since we got married! We had a blast, not to mention the day we got back was when we found out we were expecting our first baby!!! God knew what he was doing with giving us a relaxing trip away at the beach, just enough to let that little egg nest perfectly!

The girls are wearing the matching jumpers I made them! Yup, I sewed them!!! My experimentation turned out pretty well!

My brother and sister are teasing us here since we ALWAYS have a kissing picture shot, so this time, we let them have one of their own!!!

Nursery & Crib!

Ok we finally painted the nursery! We haven't put up chair rail so right now there is just a line between the paints. But you can imagine some nice white chair rail in there very soon!

We also got our new crib from our AJ's parents! Thank you so much! We can't wait to start filling the room with the rest of our baby items!

Baby on the Way!

I know, I haven't blogged since Christmas... but for good reason. We're going to have a baby boy!!! That's right! After 5 amazing years of marriage, God has finally blessed us with a baby!

His due date is June 18, 2011, so I'm almost 21 weeks today. AJ has told everyone I'm the easiest pregnant woman because I've had little to NO side effects of pregnancy! Other than some neasea in the 1st trimeseter. I don't crave any weird foods or there is nothing I can't eat either. I haven't really been more tired than usual at all either. I do wish I was bigger though! When you find out your pregnant you want to see results and changes right away, but 9 months is a long wait to get as big as you will ever be!

AJ went to Australia 2 weeks back, he was only gone for a week and when he came home he was so excited to see my belly, but partly dissapointed that I hadn't quadrupled in size in a week! HA! He can't wait for me to get bigger... it's really funny! He loves rubbing my belly all the time! I know we are both looking forward to this blessing God has honored us with the new responcibility in our marriage!

I'll be posting some pictures of me soon but for now, here are some baby pictures over the last 5 months of pregnancy!

And NO... NO ONE should assume we're having an Albert the 4th! (Just wanted to clear that up...) The name will be a secret revealled when baby Bachmann arrives in June!

9 Weeks Old!

16 Weeks Old

20 Weeks Old

20 Weeks Old

I'm High on Shutterfly!!!

Hello everyone! I just have to spread the holiday cheer about the holiday specials going on at my favorite online photo shop! They have a great selection of photo cards this year to spread the Christmas cheer with friends and family.

My husband and I have great news this year, We’re PREGNANT!! It will be our first baby and first Christmas as 2.5!! So we thought there is no better way to pass on our news then using a Shutterfly Christmas card! There are over 500 Holiday card options at Shutterfly (http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards)! I’m still deciding on the final version but for this one I picked a Christmas card below that has a classic modern look with our red and green outfits on too! The quality image on the card looks tremendous and I know will always turn out exactly the way I see it on the screen. No guessing if it will look ok, which is great! We order our Christmas cards from Shutterfly EVERY year!

AJ and I have about 8 different Shutterfly photo books (http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books) over the last 4.5 years of our marriage. We get one for EVERY vacation we take. They are a great product that we get to add caption to all the pages so we so we can remember the order and fun events and memories we created! And the whole family enjoys reading them without us having to tell the story over and over again!
The third product I have ordered from Shutterfly are their calendars (http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars). It’s perfect for my large extended family! There are 5 siblings, all are married and there are 9 grand children as a result and 2 on the way! So capturing the best family pictures into a yearly calendar makes all of my sisters and brothers smile every time they look at it! It’s perfect since we’re all kind of far away from each other.

Thank you shutterfly! You’ve made a lasting impression on our family life!