Maternity Pictures

We took our maternity pictures yesterday and it was so much fun!! Erin Cox is the photographer that took them and she was wonderful. I highly recommend her!! She has already posted some pictures of our shoot on her blog if you want to check them out.

http://www.erincoxphoto.blogspot.com

She is going to be doing Jules newborn pics too and I can't wait to see how those will turn out b/c Erin is a great photographer!!

Baby Name

I wanted to share why we decided to name our baby girl Julia Carol.

Julia was my grandmas name who was like my second mom to me. She passed away about 3 years ago and we were extremely close! Before she passed I promised her that if I ever had a little girl I would name her after her. Love you Grandma!!

Carol was Robs grandmas middle name and she passed about 2 years ago from cancer. Rob was very close to her as well and we thought what a wonderful way to honor her.

So Julia Carol it is!! Our baby girl is named after two wonderful women that definitely made an impact on us!! We love you!

The Baby Room

This is the "before" picture that was once our spare bedroom. The baby room was Rob's vision. He chose the paint colors and the only thing missing is our rocking chair. We bought a (local) old fashion handmade one that we are picking up tomorrow. When he finished the room we were standing there just taking it all in and he said "This room is made for a lot of tea parties" I just smiled!!






This is a picture of Jules baby crib and changing table that her papa (aka grandpa Carlos) bought for her. The picture above her crib is of an angel that we found and thought above her bed was a perfect place to hang it- to watch over her!




This is a picture of our twin bed in her room for mommy and daddy to sleep in when we are up for many night feedings!! The lavendar blanket on the bed her Nan (aka grandma Patsy) made. This is also a place for our friends and family to stay when visiting!! The pictures that are above the bed I found them on Art.com and fell in love with them.



This is a picture of her name on the wall and again her changing table that we are going to be changing A LOT of stinky diapers on!!



This picture of her first pair of Uggs just like mommy! My dear and wonderful friend Jenn bought them for her!! Sooo cute!

Our Baby Shower

Our baby shower was so much fun! It was wonderful to have everyone we love all in one place. We had such a good time and I think the guys enjoyed the Seahawks game! We had soooo much food b/c my mom always thinks we won't have enough. We got a lot of cute gifts and are very grateful for everyone coming and supporting us.



I love my husband so much! He's just an all around amazing person!



Love this family picture of our best friend Emma and her baby boy Jaeden. We have already arranged the marriage between her boy and our baby girl!!

Congrats to Dimitri and Zhanna Bogomaz

I would love to introduce this new baby girl Evolette Nadia Bogomaz born on Oct. 8th. She is the cutest little thing and has the smallest feet with long toes! This is going to be Julia's new best friend! And this girl already has at least over 300 outfits! You should see her closet!! I was left speechless when I did! Zhanna looks great and is a wonderful mommy and a great example for me to follow! Love you girls!

Profile Picture

This is our newest picture of our baby girl. I know that these pictures are sometimes hard to understand but I will try to help you see this wonderful profile picture. We got this a few days ago. It was so awesome because when my doctor was doing the ultra sound she kept moving her hands from her face and my doctor said "Ohhhh shes trying to suck her thumb"! It was so cool to see her moving on the screen but at that moment she started to suck her fingers. It was soooo cute! Anyways I wanted to share this picture. When your looking at it you can see her profile of her little nose and her mouth is open b/c shes just about to start to suck her fingers. Her little hand is coming up to her mouth. You can see the side of her body and the little dark spot on her chest is her strong heart. I have notice that she moves the most when I eat waffles in the morning or Organic Roasted Red Pepper soup for dinner. Rob is almost done with the baby room and our crib and changing table is on the way. I can't wait to share the wonderful job Rob has done with her room and the best thing is the whole theme and design was all his idea!

9 weeks to 21 weeks

This is our baby girl's 1st picture! This was taken at 9 weeks. You can kind of see the shape of her head, her little arm buds and body. At 9 weeks I was feeling completely AWFUL!! The 1st trimester...Wow your never really ready for that! I always heard about morning sickness from other women but going through it is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT STORY!!!! My morning sickness was all day and all night for about 4 1/2 months! My body was changing and I couldn't control it anymore, whatever was happening was going to happen and I had to deal with it! I've never gone through so much emotions in the 1st trimester of crying, to just feeling hopeless with being sick all day and I couldn't really take anything to help it. The one thing that helped was that Rob is the most supportive and caring husband. He has really taken the role of the care giver and does everything for me. Poor Rob...one of my favorite "Pregnant Moments" was.....One Sunday after church we went to Fred Meyer with my mom to get something to eat and I was feeling really awful and I couldn't believe I made it through church but we were waiting in line and Rob was standing behind me and I felt this rush of air hit my neck and for some reason I had a "pregnant moment"! I turned around and looked at Rob with a frown on my face and asked him "Did you just breathe"!?!? the people in line looked at me like this lady is crazy! Rob had this stunned look on his face and responded " Yes babe I have to breathe for the next 9 months"!! I realized what I just said and I felt so bad! There are so many more stories but not enough room to write!

This is of our baby girl and me at 18 weeks! If you look at her picture you have a veiw of the back of her head, neck and spine. You can also see her little five fingers to the left of her head. At this point I was starting to feel better day by day and actually starting to look at food again!

Our most recent pictures. The first picture is the bottom of our baby girl's foot. Rob always makes fun of my feet because he says that my 2nd toe is so much longer than usual compare to the others and when he saw this picture at the doctors office he started to laugh because he said that she had my feet. He thinks her 2nd toe is longer than the rest like mine but I think he's CRAZY! The second picture is of me and my dear friend Zhanna who is also having a baby girl and is due in 3 weeks! Doesn't she look great! Currently I'm feeling wonderful and I can feel her move all the time and I can't believe I'm already past the 5 month mark. Rob is starting to get the baby room ready so I will keep you posted.....

How it all started......

So this is how it all began. I will never forget that day for two reasons 1. Everything was going to be different from that point on and 2. My mom was taken to the emergency room. I really didn't think I was pregnant but I wanted to take a test just to ease my mind that "I was not pregnant"? So I went to the store and bought a 3-pack test and Rob told me to wait until I got home from work so I did. We were going to get some dinner but I decided to take the test before just to see and when I went to bathroom I thought just another pregnancy test! So I waited and waited and I saw the first line and my heart was a little sad because I thought "Not pregnant" but then when the second line started to form I literally went numb all over. All I remember thinking is OH MY GOD I'M PREGNANT! I couldn't believe it! We always said that we trusted God's plan for us and whenever he wanted a baby for us then that was the time. So I opened the bathroom door and Rob was waiting for me to come out and I just walked out and stared at him and he was like "What did it say"? I just kept staring thinking OH MY GOD I'M PREGNANT! I told him it was positive and he just beamed saying "Really"!! I was like "I have to take another one"!!! Went into the bathroom and took another one and another one and again 2 lines!!! I came out just in this trance thinking this is really happening! I couldn't explain the feeling it was happiness, scared, nervous that my life and body was going to change. I always thought of being a mommy and wanted it so bad but when it actually happened it almost felt unreal! So guess who was the first person I wanted to tell...my mommy but before I could call her about it my brother called telling me she was going to the emergency room because she had a kidney stone and was extremely sick. So we got in the car and rushed to the hospital and when I saw my mom in the ER I was so overwhelmed because I wanted her to be okay but at the same time I wanted to scream at her that I was pregnant!! I knew that she would be so happy because she has been waiting for this for so long ,along with my mommy-in-law (aka. mommy #2). So there is so much more to this story but to make a loooong story short my mom ended up getting taken to a Seattle hospital and had to stay for about 2 weeks. I couldn't keep this information from her any longer so when she got out of surgery she was still a little loopy but aware of things and I knew it was bad timing but I had to tell her. We were in her hospital room and I asked her "Are you Ok"? She said "Yes why"? My brother asked her how many fingers he was holding up and she answered correctly. I said "Mom look at me" she turned her head and I said I"'m Pregnant "!!!!!and she just said with a smile "NO"!!! Rob and I had huge smiles on our face and we said "I promise"!!!! she just smiled all loopy from surgery and gave us a big hug and that's how our journey began.

Our 1st Entry......

So this is our first entry with this whole blog world. We normally don't get too involved in this type of stuff but we thought this would be a perfect way to keep our friends and family updated on our lives. If you haven't heard yet we are expecting a baby girl and our due date is Feb. 5, 2010. We are so excited and nervous at the same time. I wanted to share whats been going on up to this point and how we found out about the pregnancy and all the wonderful emotions we have gone through to this point. So I hope you enjoy our journey and know that we cherish all our dear friends and family even though sometimes its hard to connect!