Separate blog

I don't know how this is all going to work out, so I went ahead and made a separate blog for Luke's daily (eventually weekly, I'm sure) pictures. This way, we can highlight more of the family stuff on here and focus primarily on Luke on the other one.

Baby Luke is here!

I have way more I want to write but I am sooooo busy right now that I can't sit down and write it all out - although Morgan said I really need to do that so I have it for later because my head will continue spinning.

I went into labor on Friday night - my water broke at 1;30am Saturday morning. We had Luke at 5pm a la c-section, which I could have had him much earlier, but I pushed for 3.25 hours because I really didn't want one. After all is said and done, he could have been born about noon and all would have been fine, but oh well. C-sections are okay. I healed really quick from them and was up moving around walking by myself by Sunday afternoon.

Life is so wonderful with Luke. He is the best baby and so precious. Tim and I are both so happy he is here. Will post more later.

I probably have a million photos I could post on here, but I haven't uploaded any of them. I had a shower on July 12th - which I wrote about last time and need to put the cake on here cause it was so cute....then we've worked on the nursery more, so I have those pictures. We also had some other fun events, but the latest this weekend was - "oh, honey, it's the last weekend before my due date, why don't we have a quiet weekend?" HOWEVER - this is not in real Tim & Michelle style - so what did we do you ask?
Well, since the Air Conditioner condensate drain backed up and water came into our bedroom soaking the wall, carpet and master bath -we said - why don't we redo our room. Off to Home Depot, 3 cans of paint later - a la Sandstone Cove (a creamy light beige), Rainwashed (a soft, gloomy blue) and Bison Brown (rich chocolately color) - we repainted (and re-textured the bath) our entire Master Bedroom/Bathroom. It looks so fantastic, and Tim's family came to help a great deal - because we re-painted the ceiling too....so I have to post pictures!
My due date is officially two days away and tonight Tim had a double header for softball (in the 105 degree heat no less) but all is well and life is just patiently waiting on the baby.
Mom gets here on Thursday! Woo hoo!

Hot Pocket! Baby Pocket!

Tim & I had a great weekend! First, I had a shower with my close friends at Stephanie's house. It was nice to have time with my great friends and we played some great games. I think I feel fully stocked for the baby - at least for now.

After the shower we headed to Midwest City where Jim Gaffigan was performing at Rose State College. His act was absolutely hilarious and although I laughed a lot, it didn't trigger labor or anything, so that's good. After the show, he always has a meet & greet with everyone. It was way crowded, so Tim & I agreed to head back after his 2nd show and that way we could be first on line. So here we are meeting with Jim. It was so great!

This weekend we worked on the nursery. It looks so great with the crown molding and white baseboards - baby is going to have the nicest room in the house! :-)
Crib is still being built, but looks great so far. Still looking for a dresser and Tim & his dad say they have enough wood left over to build a changing station - awesome!
My pictures won't post - don't know why, so for now I posted in the color of the room. ocean blue.....but no, that doesn't mean anything!

Baby countdown, I guess

I went to the Dr. on Friday, June 20th (happy birthday Mom!) and got some baby pictures from the 4D thing. It's pretty neat to think that in about a month I could possibly have the baby - though I probably won't. Our 6th anniversary is coming up and we are looking forward to having a nice 4th of July vacation and anniversary. I don't know what we are doing, but something fun. Not to mention we have 2 BBQ's to go to.
I had a baby shower on the 14th which was super fishy and very nice. Got lots of clothes and towels - enough that I don't need many more clothes and towels. I need do diapers and wipes and bottles and bibs and actual baby equipment. I'm sure I'll burn through clothes, but I'm getting lots of hand me down clothes - especially if I have a girl.
Speaking of which let's post pictures here and see what you think. Girl face or boy face?

Posting again

I have fallen behind in keeping posted on certain pictures and things I want to put on here, but I've noticed you can't change the date, so here's to a holding place until I can get back and put a picture in without it being another week...or month in this case.

May 10th....

In order to preface my weekend, I must first tell you that Friday was my day off and I had two appointments - one with my regular doctor for a check up and one that was my next scheduled ultrasound where we got to see the baby in 4D! Too cool. Felt fine - all was well and I was happy.
Then I woke up early Sat. morning not feeling so great. Shortly after that, I started to feel very sick and threw up over the next 3 hours at least 4 more times. So, by 11am I decided I would call my good friend who is a P.A. and has already been through childbirth - to ask - what is wrong with me. Because, up until this point I have had an excellent pregnancy - no sickness, not really tired, staying active, etc. etc. And suddenly this horrible, violently ill wave of really sick and puking.
So she tells me to call my on call dr. which I do and I have to get up to Mercy in the baby ward where they hand me a gown and tell me to change. I'm being admitted? - well, no bracelet, but up on a hospital bed and in a room. They proceed to give me an I.V. (my very first) and that was uncomfortable. I stayed there for about 4 hours on the baby monitor, a bag & 1/2 of IV fluid to get me re-hydrated and then they bring me some chicken noodle soup and sprite and I hold that down so I get to go home. Slept off the rest of the night and woke up Sunday feeling better...not 100%, but better. I get to work on Monday to brag about my "scary sickness & hospital visit" experience and low and behold find out that 11 other people got sick over the weekend and 3 of those went to the ER as well - so it was quickly realized that we all got food poisioning from lunch on Thursday! We had a lunch meeting Thursday at work and the food was catered in so out of 23 people - 13 were sick. I got my EOB - and I had my first hospital visit ever for the low price of $1,000 (billed to my insurance, thank goodness!). Needless to say, I won't be eating at that place for quite sometime - those of us that got sick determined that we had all had salad and salad dressing so that must have been it. Well, now that you have the yucky details - I'll try to post a happy baby picture.

Washington D.C. Rules!

Tim & I just got back from what we will refer to as our last "just us" vacation. Granted, we will go on vacations with just the two of us, but it will never be just us on a vacation again we will think about the kids constantly, or worried something will happen, etc. It's nice though - the thought that we will never be just us two anymore. Anyways, Washington DC was so awesome and we had such a great time...but we walked everywhere! We probably walked 7 miles in one day. Can't wait to go back.

Surprise!

I threw a surprise party for Tim's 30th Birthday and invited all of our good friends and his immediate family. We had such a great time and the weather was beautiful! Tim was very surprised and I'm still amazed that I pulled it off. For those of you that helped with the party THANK YOU so much. Your help was truly appreciated and made a most memorable day for Tim. We are so blessed to have such great friends!


I made his "Darth Vader" cake for his birthday per his request about 9 years ago - when he had the R2D2 cake for his 21st! It was really great to see all of our friends and I know we both enjoyed seeing all the kids playing together in the moon bounce. (and yes, we are still kids too!)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

For our regular Sunday dinner, Tim & I made Corned Beef & Cabbage with carrots & potatoes and served with a sour cream/horseradish sauce. I also made Irish Soda Bread, Shamrock Sugar Cookies and Irish Cream Bundt Cake. It all turned out so good and we all liked it. June had been in Target earlier that day and got these wacky hats and garters so that we could all wear them for the evening. It ended up that they were leaking glitter into our hair, but we wore them for the picture anyway.

Be Green!

New to the blogging world

I am finally creating a blog so we can have one place to update everyone. Future posts will include baby pictures, house projects, and just life in general. Not much going on this week, so no particular news.