Happy Birthday to our Baby Girl!

Happy Birthday to our baby girl. She turned 2 on the 28th of December. You are a spunky, smart, and energetic little girl. I missed you soo much in the hospital. I can't wait for brother to come home and be with all of us. He has a wonderful sister to look up to. Mommy Daddy and Ethan love you lots.

Announcing......

Our new baby boy, Ethan James, arriving 10 weeks early after two and a half weeks of bed rest at the hospital. I was admitted after a rupture of my membranes following Thanksgiving. He is at the hospital where he will likely remain for the next 6 weeks. He is doing well and growing bigger each day. I have a lot to say but not enough energy to write about it right now. Thank you to everyone for your support prayers and well wishes. We love you all!
Windy, Ryan, Hannah & Ethan

He was 3lbs and 5 oz, 15 1/2 inches long.
Born 12/15/08

Welcome back readers!

Well what can I say...with Thanksgiving, X-mas and Hannah's birthday coming up I have been busy, busy, busy, and mostly trying to conservatively shop for the bargains out there. I have also been busy reading others' blogs but have not put forth the effort to update mine. I hope everyone is doing well. I am fine just getting bigger by the day. Feeling more and more fatigued running around after a 2 year old pregnant and trying to keep up as well as trying to think of fun things to do in the 90 degree weather we have here in late November! Not looking forward to cooking a turkey for several hours in the heat next week. I hope, hope, hope, it cools down. So much for Fall now what about a Winter? I am in a tank top and capri leggings today and I feel warm. On a much more interesting note Hannah is getting so big... she can sing several songs now and thanks to Dora she knows her numbers and colors(almost) in Spanish! I guess I am not too fond of too much TV but it is amazing the things they put in the cartoons now. She loves Dora so we will be having a Dora birthday party/fiesta for her b-day in early January. Should be fun and I can't wait to chow down on the Mexican food. Hannah also loves beans,rice, and chicken. In baby news, I went for my Glucose Tolerance Test last week and just like last time I have to go back for the 3 hour GTT because my sugar level was high again. Please pray that I do not have gestational diabetes b/c if I do I am in for a very interesting 3rd trimester of meal planning and maybe even insulin testing. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I can't wait to show pics of my Thanksgiving table next week with our big meal in the middle. I just love all the food. To have to watch my sugar during the holidays....would suck!!!!!I will update after I get next results. Take care all!
Windy
P.S. This is a picture of Hannah last Thanksgiving. I don't have many pics of her sleeping as she never sleeps and when she does I am sleeping too. Sleeping babies are so cute though!

Kinsey's Welcome Party

Yesterday I went to a welcome party for baby Kinsey and Amy in San Diego at a place called Extraordinary Desserts
I had a piece of chocolate cake and it was literally the best dessert I have ever tasted! We had so much fun hanging out together as Mom's and talking. Four of us there were pregnant! Don't drink the water out here!! Amy got a lot of wonderful gifts and she looked beautiful. I was able to borrow my sister-in-laws camera, thanks Robyn! I love her camera! It's called a Sony Cyber Shot. It takes great pics. Here are some pics of the party. Hope all is well and I am so glad it finally feels like Fall!!!!!!!!!Yeah

Halloween

Yesterday our street decided to have a Halloween party for all the kiddos before the Trick or Treating. It was so much fun. Hannah wore her whole costume and I was a witch and Ryan was a pirate. I can't believe I even got him to actually dress up! Here are some of the pics! P. S. Hannah ate so much candy and cupcakes at the party - she was even eating the cake decorating supplies by the handful! Hope everyone had a great time last night too. Thank you for all your comments!
I added a pic of Hannah last year too so you could see how much she's grown!

Laughlin

So we went to Laughlin this last weekend for Ry's mom's birthday. we took the boat but it was a lot windier than expected so Ry and Robyn just went out once. The boat was kind of slow this time in the water and when Ry got home he checked and ..there was no oil in it at all! The lessons you learn when having a new boat. Lucky for them it didn't blow up on the water. Robyn's face would have been priceless driving him on the wakeboard in the back. Hannah did fairly well considering she was trapped in a single room for four full days. We ended up going to the store and buying a portable DVD player because there was not one cartoon channel on the TV at all. Although she doesn't watch a lot of TV she couldn't possibly have four days without any, especially without all her toys from home, etc. We also bought her a small bucket of plastic animals and a barn from K-Mart. Boy did those come in handy. Next time we travel with child or children we will definitely rent out either a house or a condo. Kids need space to run. Needless to say, none of us struck gold in Laughlin, except for Hannah of course : ) Read the t-shirt on the first picture above, after four days with her in Laughlin I had to buy it to commemorate the trip!

Sorry I haven't Updated in Soo Long!

I have been well...busy! to say the least. I have started a lot of my X-mas shopping. I know it's pretty disgusting. With Hannah's birthday December 28th I sort of reserve the month of December for her planning of her B-day party and getting gifts for her so I generally try to finish all my Christmas shopping by the end of November. I have been adding some elements to her Halloween costume and I can't wait to dress her up and post pictures. I also have a Halloween party on my street on Halloween day and I have been planning a craft for the kids to do that day. I am going to have them decorate frames and I will bring my soon to be extinct Polaroid camera to take pics of them in their costumes. I thought I would bring a crock pot of Apple Cider as my potluck food donation to the event. Topped off with whipped cream - sounds yummy! This time of year gets so busy and being bigger with Hannah sure makes it harder to get things done. I thoroughly love this time of year the best and I am happy to celebrate it with family and friends. This last weekend was my Aunt's birthday and we went to Lucky Strike Lanes in Orange. I haven't bowled in ages. Thank you to Robyn and Lynn for watching Hannah! We had a blast, although I think maybe I should have stretched first. I welcomed back the wonderful sciatica that I had last pregnancy! Other than that, this pregnancy has been much easier so far. I do not have any of the swelling..yet! that I had last time and I seem to have a lot more energy but do tend to get winded in the afternoons. Had another ultrasound last week and the baby is right on target for weight and length and is right on target for his due date. For everyone's info the baby is due February 24th but will probably end up being here more like the 17th because I will have a scheduled c-section since I ended up having an emergency one last time. Still no name but I think this one is going to be named upon arrival. I hope everyone is doing well and thank you so much again for commenting on my blog. P.s. Does anyone know where I can either get or make cheap placemats? I want the table to be pretty for Thanksgiving but I am having trouble finding placemats for under $3 and when you need about 15 that adds up. Thanks!