10 Year High School Reunion

Well ten years have passed, so that means it was time for my 10 year high school reunion.  Friday night was kicked off with the football game.  Since I was the homecoming queen (not quite Kate Middleton, but royalty in my own way), I had the duty of handing off the flowers to the current homecoming queen. There is a funny story with the football game and my job of presenting the flowers.  I was told by the school to arrive at 6:45.  So I thought that I would go around that time, and my parents, Nick and Jack would show up a little later, so that Jack wouldn't have to sit through the entire game.  I was also informed that the presentation of the flowers took place at halftime of the varsity game.  Well, as soon as I got there around 6:45, I was informed that it takes place before the beginning of the varsity game.  So therefore, Nick, my parents and Jack missed it.  But besides that, the weekend was pretty fun.  I really couldn't get too crazy considering I am pregnant, but it was really nice to catch up with some of my classmates.  We celebrated after the football game with a get together at Waterstreet and Saturday night we were at the Super Bowl where some comedians performed for us.  They were pretty good.  And I was also proud of myself because I actually stayed out until midnight both nights!!!! 

A Mickey Mouse Birthday Party to Celebrate Jack Turning 2

Jack's birthday party was exciting and eventful to say the least.  We decided to go with a Mickey Mouse theme since that seems to be Jack's favorite thing right now.  We invited some family and friends over for some Rip's chicken, BBQ, birthday cake and plenty of other goodies.  The party started around 4:30, and by 5:15ish, the entire town of Ladd was out of power!!!! A complete black out.  Since our basement is recently finished and it is the perfect set up for a party, we thought it would be the idea location for the festivities to take place.  But a basement is not a good place to be when your house is completely black. We continued the party as best we could, and about an hour and a half later, right after we finished singing Happy Birthday, the lights came back on.  Once the lights were back on the kids were able to play a little more freely and the adults were able to have more conversations without having to look for their missing children in the dark.  So thank you to all of our family and friends who stuck around through the power outage and helped us celebrate Jack's birthday.  I might have become a bit frazzled at times while the power was out.  I guess that's what happens when you have about 50 people in your dark house and the party must go on.  

Here are a few pictures that I was actually able to take before or after the power went out.  

I love Finley's face in this picture, like she is wondering what the heck Jack is doing

Even some of the adults enjoyed wearing Mickey Mouse ears during the power outage

My Aunt Carol and my Cousin Rachel

Not quite sure what to think about everyone singing to him

Angie and Tula, I just can't get enough of Tula's cheekers

The Birthday Boy playing with one of his many new toys

Ready for some more cuddle time with Grandma Boo after his fun filled day

Dr. Appointment @ 17w 5d Pregnant

I had another Dr. appointment this afternoon to make sure that everything was still doing good with my cervix.  And some good news.....everything looked great! So now we are anxiously waiting for our next appointment and ultrasound on October 18th so we can finally officially say whether we are having a boy or a girl.  Today the baby's heart beat was between 158-160 bpm.  And since my appointment wasn't until 1:30 and I had to take the entire afternoon off from work, my mom treated me to lunch at the Uptown before my appointment.  Since I didn't have an ultrasound, I don't have any pictures to post, but I promise to have some posted after the next appointment. 

My Baby Boy Is Turning 2!!!!!

I must admit that I am accepting and dealing with Jack's 2nd birthday a lot easier than I accepted his 1st Birthday.  Last year I remember feeling like I could cry at any moment on his birthday just thinking about how fast he was growing up.  But today I am still in shock that he is already 2, but I am filled with happiness on the happy little boy that he has become so far.  I am excited to see what the upcoming year has in store for him and I have thoroughly enjoyed the journey he has taken us on so far.  (The pregnancy hormones hormones might have something to do with this blissful feeling, but either way, I will take it. ) So as I am sipping my Pumpkin Spiced Latte on this beautiful fall morning I am thinking of how thankful I am for the happiness and love that Jack has brought into our lives.  I am also thinking that I better get my butt in gear because we have a Mickey Mouse Birthday party to get ready for.  I will add some more birthday posts later this weekend, but for now I have to get ready for this party. 

Mariachi's....YUMMMYYYYY!!!!

Jack was having a slumber party at his Grandma Marieda's house with his cousins Logan and Brady on Saturday night, so Nick and I were all for a little grown up family get together with my Nana, Parents and my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Angie.  Nick and I had never been to Mariachi's in Naplate and everyone kept talking about how good it was.  So that's where we were headed.  Since I would not be able to indulge in any margaritas or Corona's I figured I would be the DD for all of the others.  So we piled into my Grandma's minivan and we were off to Naplate.  The food was absolutely delicious, almost as good as the company that we had.  My Aunt Angie's birthday was on September 11th, so of course we had to order her some fried ice cream so we could all share and celebrate.  I won't mention her age, but I will say that she definitely isn't 50 yet, right Angie??? And of course since all of the party animals had a DD, we couldn't just go home after dinner. So we stopped in Utica for a few.  And I was extremely shocked to hear that my parents stayed out until around 1:00 am because they were partying it up in Jeff's man cave.  Of course everyone turns into party animals when I can't even have 1 drink!!!

Jeff, Nana, My Parents and the Birthday Girl Angie

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy Birthday Angie!!!!

Kids Day & The Park

Our Saturday morning started our with Jack taking every single puzzle and his blocks out of the cabinet and continually scatter them and play with them all over the living room floor.  This little boys really hit the ground running this morning.  But we had some fun plans to meet up with our cousins for a fun little morning.  

Jack & I met up with Lesley and her girls and Angie and Miles at the Kids Day festivities at the Janko Center on Saturday morning.  I found out about the festivities through a flyer that was handed out to the kids at school.  A petting zoo, clowns, face painting, games, a jumpy house and of course popcorn. There were quite a few big kids in the jumpy house so we thought we would wait until Lesley and the girls got there to try that out.  In the meanwhile, Jack became very interested and entertained by his blue balloon that some nice lady gave him and his bag of popcorn.  So there was no way that I was able to take the balloon away from him when it was time to go in the bouncy house, so Jack played with the balloon while Finley went in the bouncy house.  

Kind of difficult to get all of the kids to look at the camera

Miles & Grandma Gigi

Jack was more interested in his new balloon than anything else

Finley enjoying the bouncy house

After we had enjoyed all of the festivities at the Kids Day, we headed to the park to let the kids run around while Lesley and I got a chance to catch up.  I didn't get a chance to take any pictures at the park because all of us were enjoying ourselves and playing on the slides that we were too busy to even take any pictures. 

And It's A........

So today when I was at the Dr. for my monthly ultrasound, I asked the tech if she could tell what it was yet.  She didn't know if she would be able to but she said she would try.  With Jack I found out around 16 weeks, but this time I still had mixed feelings of whether or not I was ready to know the sex of the baby.  But before I knew it, she was point everything out to me, but reminded me that nothing is 100% until the 20 week ultrasound.  So just in case anything were to change, we are holding out on telling until the 20 week check up. But I am not totally convinced that I will be able to hold out until then, so we will see.  But no worries to some of my friends and co-workers that have been wondering, we are not going to even attempt to keep it a secret this time around, that was way too hard the last time.  But I must say that we definitely have a little mover and shaker on our hands.  The tech was having a hard time getting some of the measurements and heart beat because the little peanut just wouldn't hold still.  I guess I only have myself to blame because of my little daily dose of caffeine.  

So now the battle over the names will begin.  I am truly convinced that Jack might have been the only name on the face of this planet that Nick and I could both agree on.  And we can't have both of our kids named Jack, so something will have to give.  And no, if it is a girl Jill is definitely not at the top of our list. And I also had a good check up, so that was definitely a relief.