It's A Girl!

Last Thursday we headed over to our doctor's office for our anxiously awaited 20 week ultrasound appointment! Let me just say that I am SOOO over the 3:30 appointment that lasts until 5:00 with only about 20 minutes in the ultrasound room and about 7 minutes in the doctors office...ANYWHO, I digress...

We had decided ahead of time that we definately wanted to find out the sex of the baby, a) because I am WAY too much of a planner to not know these types of things... b) because it is almost impossible to find any "neutural" clothing around these days, and c) because we just couldn't take the wait any longer! SO, we wander into the ultrasound room, wait for the technician to check all of the organs, amniotic fluid levels, ect. ect., and then she tells us that we're going to have a GIRL!! Yay!! She shows us her, "up the skirt" pic as Eric described it, proving her gender, shows us her face (looked a little creepy...) her feet, and then her hand...which actually waved at us! Yes, she is already a ham for the camera, just like her mom! :)
Hi Everybody!!

I went to school on Friday and my sweet friends Erica and Trinace, aka "Auntie Erica" and "Auntie Trinace" had bought me the prettiest hot pink roses! They were also excited being as they had "known" it was a girl from the get-go, along with my mom and dad. Poor AJ lost his hope that he was going to have a nephew that was going to play hawkeye football...That's ok, I told him that Eric already needed his help fending off the upcoming boyfriends she would have!

It's been a busy weekend since we found out about Baby Eloise or "Elle" (like the letter L). We went to both Babies R Us AND Target on Saturday to start our baby registries, we took all of the "stuff" I organized and discarded from her nursery to Goodwill today, and got all of the stuff from the closets up into the attic! Whew...

Anyway, here is a pic of me at 20 weeks (starting to get bigger) and the ultrasound pictures of Eloise! Just a little FYI: I am running again! :) HOT DOG!

Happy New Year!

Good morning and a happy new year to all! It is officially 2010, a year that will be very big for our little family! What does the new year bring for us you ask? Well, for starters, my "little brother" will no-longer be a teenager in March :( my, how time flies! In April, Eric will be venturing to Munich, Germany for a week or so thanks to Roadtec, Inc. Also in April, our first born, Isabel, and her boyfriend Wrigley will be turning the big FOUR years old! May will bring a close to my 5th year of teaching! Whew :) June will bring the birth of our second born, first non-furry baby! In July, Eric and I will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary! In September, our friend Coon will participate in his first (probably of many) IronMan races in Madison, WI; GO COON!

As we bring 2009 and another decade to a close, we started to think of what a busy decade it has been! I graduated from high school in 2001, Eric and I both graduated from Iowa State in 2004/2005, we got hitched in July of 2005, moved across the country to Chattanooga, TN, we have both started our careers, Eric in Marketing at Roadtec Inc.; and I in teaching in downtown Chattanooga. I started and graduated with my Masters Degree as a Reading Specialist, we bought our first house, started our mini-family with Izzy in 2006, and are starting to prepare for Baby Baker as a close to the year. WHEW! :) Seems like such a short time, but so much has gone on! I know that we couldn't have possibly done all of it without the support from our family and friends, so thank you, all of you who have been such a big part in our lives over the past decade! It has been a fun ride and we look forward to what 2010 and the upcoming years will bring for us!

Oh dear, I almost forgot! Our Cyclones WON their bowl game last night!!! HOT DOG!