Feeling nostalgic

Over the weekend Jim and I met my parents for Mass at The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The massive Shrine, dedicated to the Virgin Mary happens to share the land of CUA where I graduated from College and spent many happy years! We took sometime to walk around the campus, the students had moved in that weekend and it was busy with excitement! We talked about how much we loved college and how certain smells reminded us of those days. For me the dried up grass in the hot sun always reminds me of the first few days of school; from Elementary-College it was the start of Fall Sports for me. Not sure how the kids in college now know how lucky they are to have the opportunity to go to college and explore life! It goes by so fast.. Which then reminded me of my first day in Kindergarten. My teacher was Ms. Papka. The majority of my friends from Nursery School were in my class. To this day 28 years later, I am still friends with the individuals whom I went to Nursery and Kindergarten. We are married and having children of our own! Its amazing how as an adult you can remember when you were 4 years old or earlier and it seems like yesterday. I remember my parents telling me stories of their youth growing up together and I would think they were making things up, they were "too old" to remember, I was wrong!
To present time, Jim and I are so excited for our little one to arrive. As Jim calls her ,our little bundle of joy, she is a Princess to me! I heard the song by Eddie Money this morning on the radio "I wanna go back". Talks about being older and how you can't go back in time, but have the memories of your childhood. I am so lucky to have married my High School sweetheart. A person who I grew up with, and who understand me. We have the same friends and we all have known eachother since we were very little. Which we can't go back, but we have an amazing past that we have shared, and right now our little girl and our time now is a present to us. Can't wait for the future, but will enjoy this time!
Hope everyone does the same, time goes by so quickly! Just enjoy life!

Nursery progress continuing

Work on the nursery is continuing. As you may be able to tell from the new pictures, the walls of the nursery are covered in not-so attractive green and yellow painted wood paneling. Believe it or not, the wood paneling actually comes off the walls rather easily. Besides making the nursery more attractive, removal of the wood paneling gives the nursery an extra 1/2 inch in length and width (in this room, every fraction of an inch counts). The original plaster walls reveal three layers of old paint including white, pink, and blue. Clearly this room has been a nursery many times over it's fifty-eight year life. Over the next couple weeks Jim will remove the paneling and patch the walls, while Donna picks out the perfect shade (or shades) of pink. Also, you may have noticed that the closet door is missing. Luckily, we found it and it's original hardware in the basement. It already is being filled of course with clothes!

Once we found out that the baby's gender on Tuesday, we couldn't wait to purchase the nursery furniture (a crib and a dresser). As we were warned, it will take 12-14 weeks to arrive. Stay tuned for future updates.

Surprise!! It's a Baby Girl!

Hello Everyone! Surprise, we are having a baby girl!
We had the opportunity to find out yesterday on our 8 year wedding anniversary. We could not pass it up and on such a perfect day! We are absolutely elated! The most important this is she is 100% positively healthy. The Doctor said she is textbook excellent and that is the most important thing, all we could ask for! God has truly blessed us.
More updates and pictures of Gigi to come to come! (Baby Girl, AKA Gigi for short)

*If you click on her picture it will expand

A nursery in progress

As you can can see in the pictures, the nursery is clearly a work in progress. The current yellow/green walls will soon be replaced with pink or blue (which reminds me...keep voting). Also, we plan to go furniture shopping soon. Since we've been warned that some furniture may take 12 weeks to be arrive, we are starting early to make sure that the room is ready in January. Our first task, that we completed over the weekend, was to clear out the clutter and remove the built-in shelving. Stay tuned for more updates and pictures of the nursery's continued development.

MATERNITY CLOTHES ARE UGLY!

Sorry to be so blunt, but its the truth!! My husband is even feeling sorry for me. Those of you that have seen my closets know, that for someone to feel bad for me regarding clothes, there has to be something wrong. So currently I have 6 things I can wear! 3 pairs of pants, 2 of which are black and 3 pairs of shirts, 2 of which are black!

Here is a list of why maternity clothes are not favored by me:
1. Mostly can be washed in a wash machine. I prefer my clothes to be dry-cleaned = less hassle!
2. They have no style!
3. Hate to wear the same thing in the same week!
4. They want all pregnant women to end up on "What not to wear"!


So if anyone knows of a good place to get clothes that are not ugly and I can actually wear in public to work, please give your suggestions! However, I ask no Gap Maternity. (sorry to those of you that love the Gap, but I did not wear it before I was pregnant, too casual for work and that is where I am 90%of the time.)

Thanks to all!

Adventures in registering

We could not wait any longer to register for the basics! This was more for us to have fun then for the baby. Of course we can not wait to take the little one to the toy stores, once again, more fun for the parents. Enjoy the pictures as we had a great time that night.

Baby's Gender

Another update:
We have set up a poll to see how many of you think the baby is a Girl or Boy!
Special enough, we find out on my cousin Adda's 20th Birthday, August 25th!!
I remember being over the moon the day that she was born, finally my sister and I had a cousin to play with and a girl to create more family craziness!!! I need to find a baby picture of Adda to put up on the special day :-)

Another update!

We had our regular checkup this morning! The baby has a very strong heart beat and is growing well, so is Mom to be! We have our ultrasound in a couple of weeks! We will be posting a poll to see if everyone's guess if its a Girl or Boy!