I just had to post these...

Ok so this is totally random. My mom & I were chatting just about Emma's birthday and really just reminiscing about the past couple of weeks. She started laughing and mentioned that all the parents were taking side bets after leaving our house on Mothers Day because they were 100% positive that I would go into labor that night! She said that I was just SOOO pregnant (and I did have two contractions while everyone was here:) and they just couldn't believe that I wouldn't go that night. So Chris & I were looking at prego belly pictures of myself and here are two from Mothers day that came out great but WOW!!!!!!! no wonder the parents were just watching me and waiting... Needless to say I went into labor 30 hours after these pictures were taken:) I told you totally random... Enjoy!!! we got a kick out of them; I seriously don't even remember being that big now??? What about my other mom friends do you remember those last moments of pregnancy and feeling this ginormous??? It's only been 3 weeks and I seriously don't remember:):):)...

I mean seriously people... Holy Moly!! I can't believe that's little Emma in there:)!

Tried to fix the pictures from previous entry....

Don't know why these didn't work before.... ENJOY!!

We'll definitely post more later:).

We are in LOVE!!!

Introducing Miss Emma Grace Garcia!...

well the walking must have paid off:) because Tuesday 5/12 at around 12:45am I started having some fairly intense contractions and woke Chris up to help me time them. It wasn't until about 45 minutes later that we thought, "Holy cow I think this is it!" So after chatting with the doctor, taking a hot shower in between the contractions and laboring at home for about 3 1/2 hours we headed into the hospital. We arrived at around 4am and immediately went into triage to get monitered and start laps... at least that's what we called them. In order to get admitted and make sure that you are in "active" labor and not be sent home they make you walk the halls for 1 hour and then get checked to make sure things are progressing. Needless to say we were admitted! We finally contacted all the parents and away we went. I labored for another couple of hours and around what they measured as 5cm I got the heavenly blessed thing called an epidural:). Honestly it was great because the night before after feeling like I was going to be pregnant forever, Chris & I stayed up watching a movie and stayed up pretty late so the epidural allowed me to get lots of rest and still interact with family and mostly enjoy the experience... not saying that the previous 5+ hours were a piece of cake because labor... wow! back labor... double wow! It was intense to say the least. Around 16 hours into it I was 8 cm and we were all excited; unfortunately I stayed 8cm for another 4 hours and after an ultrasound confirming that she was "sunny side up" basically facing up instead of back which makes vaginal birth almost impossible; especially when you're not fully dialated. During which time I had gotten a pretty high fever and they were worried about me & the baby. So we began talking c-section, not something you ever want to hear. After much prayer, deliberation and coming to a peaceful conclusion they wheeled me into the O.R. and we had Miss Emma Grace at 8:16pm via c-section. Although that was never exactly how I envisioned or anticipated the birth it was a great experience and a very good day. The staff at our birthing center were amazing and continued to respect and follow our birthing plan even though we had a c-section so I/we were able to have some close bonding time, alone with no nursing staff and I was able to breastfeed right away! All of which were incredibly important to us. So that's the revised version of our birthing experience that day and WOW what a day it was... I can't believe she's here. Here are a few pictures... Enjoy!!
... sorry I don't know why the pictures came out so weird!! I'll post more later.

Walking, Walking & more Walking!...

So here we are, 39 weeks and waiting!

It's Friday the 8th and I AM READY!!:)

I've been telling her all week that today is the day, this weekend is the weekend BUT who knows if she is listening:)LOL!!

I have been walking like I have somewhere to go, doing squats:), got a pedicure... all the things that random people have been telling me to do. I actually just got back from a nice long walk and we have our 39 week appointment in a couple of hours so hopefully everything is still looking great and Lord knows we'd be excited if something happened this weekend.

We'll keep you posted!

Pray for us!

(especially Chris he is fighting a cold and desperately losing so he is bummed)

We made it to May!

So First off...

Happy Birthday to Nate Varela;

I truly can't believe he is 4 years old!

and

Happy Birthday to Angela;

I miss you terribly Ang!

I hope all the birthdays are enjoying and relaxing today:)

Well we had our 38 week check up and everything is still looking great! Continue to pray for us and God's timing for Emma to come into the world... it's a little crazy that we just wait! We'll keep you posted!

Happy May & Happy Spring

Work in progress... The Nursery!

Getting her crib & bedding all ready...



I have already been using that chair to sit in, read and just pray over her room! I actually really love it in there:).


Her little reading corner with her bean bag chair and cute chandelier... I still want to find something cute for over the crib; like a monogram or letters or something so like I said work in progress but we're as ready as we'll ever be so any day:):)

We're ready for you Emma Grace!!

We've made it this far...

Well we've made it to 37 weeks... or in pregnancy circles "full term"! So yipee and yeah because after 4 weeks of bedrest this girl was ready to be in the "safe zone". Anyway, here we are 37 weeks and officially counting. Doctor says baby & I look great and really now we just wait... I think we are as ready as we'll ever be. The nursery is calling her name, pack & play is set up, we've got bouncy seats and strollers strewn about. I'm telling you it is amazing how much stuff this little girl requires.
Other than feeling very pregnant I'm feeling good. Even better now that I'm allowed to run errands and just be back to normal before she arrives. We had our last birthing class last night and were able to tour the New Life Center / birthing suites where we'll be and got to meet some nurses so that was great; it definitely made it feel very real though:). So pray for us and we'll keep you posted!

A lovely baby shower!!

Another lovely baby shower... this one thrown by the grandma's themselves:). My mom's went above and beyond putting together a great afternoon of cute decorations, an adorable cake, great friends & family and of course some good food. They even invited all the husbands over for drinks & dinner after all the "lady" festivities and we all had a great time. I'm not going to lie; I was absolutely exhausted by the end and maybe even a bit cranky:)... me never! Here are some cute pictures from Saturday:

With Katie, Cary & my best friend Kristin who flew in just for my shower:)

Kristin & I

Such cute decorations & cutest cake ever!

Opening some fun gifts... 1st homemade blanket from Grandma Sadie!!

One of my favorite pictures because seriously look at that belly:):)!!

So needless to say we had a great time and per usual Chris & I felt completely loved and blessed! We missed all who couldn't come but hopefully we'll see you all once she's here.... Well we're almost at 35 weeks and counting. Doing well on bedrest; notice I'm sitting in my decorated chair for this event:) and still feeling good. We can't wait to meet her and are getting so excited & anxious!!

32 weeks & counting...

Well I can't believe we're here... 3rd trimester, 8th month, heading into the final stretch... Crazy!! With all that said I am on bedrest for the next 4 weeks. I really am doing great despite what bedrest makes it sound like:)... I was showing some signs of preterm labor last week at my appointment so they put me on some meds and I am officially homebound until week 36! So if you find yourself bored, want to chat or feel like emailing someone... PLEASE feel free I'd love to have the company any way I can get it:). Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. We start some classes in a couple weeks (that I hope I can go to:), got another shower coming up on the 4th and some friends & family flying in for that so lots of fun things to look forward to and just trying to stay busy and of course frantically getting ready for this little girl:):)!! We can't wait to meet her!

My Shower!

Well I had my first baby shower on Saturday the 7th and I just felt so loved & so blessed. A few of my friends hosted a shower for all the ladies in the neighborhood and my work. We had a blast. Such a nice morning of girl time! As you may have noticed from the nursery pictures we are sticking sort of with lavender & sage for the colors and so the shower was just filled with those colors, great food, great drinks and just lots of laughs. We had a great time. Opened some fun gifts and because it's a girl... oh my gosh; seriously such cute stuff! Anyway here are a few pics from that. We have another shower coming up in April that the grandma's are hosting for family & friends so we're looking forward to that also! God is Good and boy this little girl will definitely be taken care of by all the people that love us and already love her:):):)!

Kristen, Stephanie & Renee threw a wonderful shower!

Everything was so festive & so cute!





The best neighborhood ever... & my favorite work ladies & Mom of course!!

Opening some fun gifts! ~ Girl things are seriously so cute, aren't they:). So needless to say I had a fabulous day of connecting with friends and just having a great time! Thanks to all who were there! 9 1/2 weeks and counting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Nursery

Well I am going to make an effort to update our blog more often. I'm telling you facebook has completely sucked me in:). Anyway it was brought to my attention that I did say this would be the place to get updated on pregnancy and life in general... oops:).

Ok so the nursery; it's coming along. Our furniture finally came in (which was a Christmas/future shower gifts from my parents) and it is gorgeous! We love it! So needless to say after our first shower this past Saturday we are beginning to fill the nursery with all sorts of fun stuff. So here are a few pictures of the nursery in it's beginning stages.

Chris was so excited and just felt accomplished like a proud dad for getting this crib done!

Starting to accumulate more stuff! We are getting so anxious & excited to meet her!!

It's a GIRL!!!

I know, I know... for those of you that already know this news is about 6 days late BUT I at least wanted to spread the news on our blog! Well our appointment went fantastic and it's official we are going to be bringing home a precious baby girl come May! I can't quite believe it. We are busy starting to figure out decor and finally being able to look at girl stuff and not both. So far we have been on a cloud all week. We are super excited and cannot wait to meet her! Happy 2009!

Stay Tuned...

We are counting the seconds until we find out what we're having on Monday (12/29) we just cannot wait and are so anxious to know if we're having a little boy or a little girl! Unbelievable that it's already time. So stay tuned and hopefully baby garcia will be cooperating during the ultrasound... Our family and friends are pretty much split. There is no one strong concensus either way so we'll see. I've been saying boy since day 1 but the last week and a half I've only thought girl and actually dreamt girl so???????? What's your guess:)? Have a great Christmas!

so here's the deal:)

Ok so I have officially stepped to the dark side and joined facebook; which I know I've mentioned but I'm telling you it's a great way to keep in touch, see pictures, chat... anyway that's my sales pitch but I've been adding lots of pictures on there, etc... so if you don't already have a facebook account I think it's about that time:). The latest addition I've made is Chris finally took a good belly pic of baby garcia so I thought I'd share it with the world:) Enjoy!! and come and hang out on facebook!

So here it is folks the 1st offical belly pic of baby G:). I'm feeling really well other than a bit of a scare last weekend and bedrest but this was the first night my doctor allowed me to get all gussied up and enjoy our annual christmas party at our house. I'm 5 months and anxiously awaiting our next appt. in 2 weeks to hopefully find out if we'll be welcoming a baby girl or baby boy:)! Can't wait. Alright well enjoy!

update

So I've been learning how to use facebook so I have to admit that I have neglected the blog lately. Between blogs, facebooks, my spaces I just don't know; sometimes it's all to much ya know?:) Anyway all is well here. We had another appt. yesterday and all is looking fantastic. I am 15 weeks or so and feeling very good! All my vitals; blood pressure, etc... are doing great so nothing to new to report other than we heard the heartbeat again and I can't tell you how comforting it is to hear that when you haven't heard it in a few weeks, crazy! Anyway we are all fine & good. Getting ready to head up the mountain to Breckenridge for Thanksgiving week so that will be a fun time with family, food, shopping, snowboarding (for Chris:) and hopefully some snow... it was 80 degrees here today so I'm actually anxious to get a little winter for Thanksgiving! We made our ultrasound appointment for 12/29 so hopefully we'll find out what we're having then... boy I'm getting anxious to know:). Anyway I am finally enjoying pregnancy and just praying that feeling good stays with me for a while!

OB appointment...

Well we had our first OB appt. 2 weeks ago ( I know I'm way behind, I'm so sorry:) anyway it went great. We measured and watched and basically I/baby am measuring bigger than we thought so I'll be 13 weeks tomorrow; yippee:). Anyway the picture we got of little baby G is hilarious. We've been calling him/her a circus because while they were trying to take a picture she/he wouldn't stay still, moving, kicking like crazy. The arms were like pumping and moving over it's head and face:) it was hysterical! We were in absolute awe of the movements of his/her little arms and legs. Just so small and gangly:)... Needless to say it was a great appointment and everything so far is going great. I am feeling a 1000 times better so that is also helping.

Organizing for baby!

Don't get me wrong I know what some of you are thinking... "You know you are only 9 weeks and some change! You realize you have like 9 more months to get organized?" I understand that BUT I am me and let's face it the sooner it can all get done and organized the happier I'll be (which in translation the happier Chris will be:) So as some of you know getting ready for baby, baby room and baby stuff sometimes brings some emptying this or cleaning out that and for us it is no different.

About a year and a half ago for Chris' birthday gift I turned our third bedroom into Chris' "man" room! He had his own closet, I got all of his sports memorabilia from the basement and got it professionally framed, massage chair, his books and just made it sort of his oasis...

Well needless to say that will be babies room... Sorry honey:)! So disassembling that room, making a new man room in the basement (which means organizing the basement, wow!) and rearranging the office to fit some of the man room stuff, I am seriously exhausted and overwhelmed just thinking about it. Hence the reason why I want to start now so we can relax later; good logic right?? Anyway this past Saturday WE DID IT!... well at least some of it. Babies room/Man room half empty and office is finished!!! Yipee:)

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love sitting here, looking out the windows to the park across the street and just having an organized (I know the word of the day) place to work on the computer, pay bills, whatever. We still have to organize basement and move man room completely down there but there is something about accomplishing one thing that just makes you feel better! So here we are one step closer for baby garcia to join our home:)... can't wait!

So now that the cat is out of the bag!

Let's talk about this pregnancy thing that we've been praying for for so long:). I'm bloated and nauseous all the time! Actually a more accurate assesment is I feel car sick/ sea sick 24 hours a day, Lovely:)!
Foods that might actually kill me:)... chicken, actually meat of any kind, soup (I got nauseous just typing that word:), toast, butter, mashed potatoes.
Foods that I can sort of tolerate:)... breaded chicken patty, french fries, salad, CEREAL (wow how do I love my special K right now:), egg & bean burritos (don't ask?)
So I'm sure there will be more fun food updates as the weeks go on but there is a silver lining in all of this, I have it pretty easy compared to some of my other friends:). The ones that can't stop vomiting long enough to enjoy a minute of their day I do thank God that it's just nausea. Anyway other than my husband having to throw away a candle the other night while we were watching a movie because I thought I was going to die because of the smell and having to clean out my purse last night because there was some sort of sweet candy smell coming from it:):):) who knows everyone, this is the weirdest thing ever! More later...

GUESS WHAT!!!...

Baby Garcia due to arrive May 2009!