Ode to Brandon.....

so recently we celebrated my dear hubby's 27th birthday... Happy Belated Shoutout Sugar!! so this post is in honor of that very handsome man:

he has been very diligently working on his metal sculptures/art and has been a very busy boy. Here are his latest creations that I would like to brag about.
theyre bookends that he made out of steel and driftwood (from our trip to Oregon the beginning of this year) the detail on them is quite amazing and overall, im pretty impressed. the grain on the driftwood actually wasn't stained, he used an oxysetaline torch to burn and raise the grain... pretty amazing, pretty creative.

In other B news, his much larger piece was accepted into the Springville Art Museum and it has been there on display for the last month. So of course we had to take a trip to the SMOA to see it proudly displayed......
Liz and I had already dont a lap around the exhibit and has scoped out B's art in advance. This is his first time walking into the room, if you look closely you can see a side view of his hanging on the right hand side almost straight infront of him... He hadn't noticed it yet in the picture above..


As far as baby goes, he totally surprised me last night by doing probably the funniest but super sentimental/sweet thing ever. So he asked me to bring him home some headphones, not earbuds but the oldschool pancake headphones that were so major in the late 90's, early 00's... He quickly disassembled them as started sewing them into this cloth strip that was about 9 inches long and 1 inch wide. I seriously had no clie what he was doing. so he finishes up and askes me to guess what I think it is.... im still thinking headphones go by the ears, so maybe an eye mask with built in earphones?? nope, waaaay wrong. So he brought me into the living room to demonstrate by plugging in my ipod and i was already sitting down. He laughed at me again and said I had to be laying down for this.... He had made a little sling/wrap that drapes over my tummy so the baby can hear music better! I was SOOOO surprised! I was so happy and touched by his creativness and thought he had put into it. His only restriction? No lady gaga allowed for the baby which also made me bust out laughing again. He's now currently devising a plan so I can wear it during the day as I move at work when the baby will sleep the most.. What a funny man.

Thats my funny little baby story for the day, 1 month to go till we find out if its a girl or boy!! I can't wait..

XOXO,
Imelda & fam

Galactic Domination, the Golden year...

Happy Belated Birthday Liz! I have been really bad with posting and with pictures... Liz has spent the last few weekends with us and in an attempt to not be so boring for her, we busted out with Star Wars Risk.
Lets just say that B ALWAYS kick my butt and i was maybe a little sick of it so Liz and I made a pact to just take him down and then she could kill my hutts off. (Brandon was the Empire, Liz the rebel alliance and I was the Hutts as in Jabba the Hutt). Needless to say, Liz wiped the galaxy clean and Brandon was not a happy camper with our "strategy". Oops.... :( here are some pics from that silly fun and maybe not so fair night:


Elizabeth's Rebels are the yellow and Orange Men... like I said she cleared the board.

Yes that is a Hutt/booger shoved up my nose and I am wearing 3D glasses that we found 5 minutes before... random? YES.

best deal

i just had to throw this one up super quick. Mini version of the ugle doll. google it. I love them. any ways its a dog toy for Bobo complete with squeaker. Heres the best part: $0.97 at Walmart!! Love it!

XOXO,

Imelda

We're Having A Baby!!!

There, its official internet world, after weeks of only having family know, we are bringing a little one into the world! Today I had my first prenatal visit...and everything is great.Tomorrow we will be 11 weeks along, not too shabby considering we're a quarter of the way there. I was so sad that B could not be there for this but I was able to hear the little one's heartbeat!!! It was so cool and really surreal to be like "wow, thats coming from inside of me and its totally somebody else!!!" All in all being my first visit, it was pretty standard and just a lots of tests and questions etc. I did get vaccinated against the H1N1 though so Im pretty happy about that.

I know we haven't updated many since we first found out we were pregnant (which was back in the first days of October) but honestly there hasn't been that much to update about. I have had virtually no "morning sickness" except for this last Monday and let me tell you, it blew. I am so grateful I haven't been sick (knock on wood). I dont know if i could handle it, its way too draining. I have been sick with little colds which is aggrevating enough. I had one for a week almost right after we found out that we were expecting and I caught another on two days ago. But now that Im this far along the doctor has ok'd Sudafed which is a dream!!! yay for decongestants!! Now hopefully B and I can get some sleep, I keep him up at night with getting up to use the bathroom at all hours of the night and snoring (poor man, I guess I wasn't very pretty last night). Its almost like life is normal as ever.... except for being bloated all the time and having a mild for of heartburn 24/7. eh, such is life I guess. and I am NOT complaining!

I forgot to mention that we are doing all of this through a Midwife clinic. Its part of a gorgeous new hospital so everything is fabulous AND I get to spend alot more time during my visits asking questions and its so comfortable. I did originally want to look into seriously doing a water birth but they're not allowed in Utah hospitals, but with the midwives I still have a ton more options on how I want to go about things. Its funny I always imagined Midwives to have a Dr. Quinn type look to them etc. Nope. The gal I met with was so young and hip it was so NOT intimidating. Love it. Im pretty pumped I wont lie.

Some days I get freaked out thinking "Holy cow, Im going to be someone's mom soon" but Ill do my best for the baby so Im not too worried....yet. For those not seeing me on a daily/weekly basis, I dont believe Im showing yet... Liz thinks otherwise but I think Im always just gassy when I see her hahah. I'll try to keep everyone updated as other appointments come along but no big news other that the fact that we're prego!! Haha can you tell I can't get over it yet?

Ugh, I could keep gushing all day but I feel like Im so scatter brained on what Im talking about that no one will be able to read it and follow my train of thought. Ill save more for another day. Oh I almost forgot to post answers to the most common questions that people have been asking me:

1. No,I really don't have a preference as to what we have. I can only imagine a little girl because coming from a family of all girls (including the new niece) thats the only image my brain can compute. It doesnt have the creativity of imagining a boy because I've never been around a baby boy. I know it sounds strange but Ill be pumped either way!!

2. No we haven't seriously thought about names yet either, Feel free to email suggestions but dont be offended if we dont name he/she Grizzly Adams, or whatever you guys pick. We won't find out what we're having till mid-January to the first week in Feb.

3. Im due aprox June 25th. Seeing as my sisters baby came 2 weeks early but was 9 lbs and I myself was 10 days late (and also just as heavy) that gives us about a month to play with. So plan on sometime summer 2010. Hahah. I love it.

ok my wrist is getting irritated from resting on the edge of the laptop so Im going to cut myself off. Love you all and thanks for the support!

XOXO,

Imelda