Pregnancy Chalkboard

We started taking pictures at week 9! By the way, what's happening with my hair? I blame going back to work.

Obviously, here I am at week 10!

Starting getting more creative with the chalkboard at week 11. And, yep, there's our sub-woofer peeking out there in the corner. I told you we're not professionals!

The week we told everyone the exciting news!

Hubby did a good job on this one! Well, you can see my boots but that's okay :)

I told you we forgot week 14!  I think my belly is really starting to show here. Baby is the size of an orange this week!   (Eek! double chins are no good.)

Baby's the size of an avocado! Plus, only 2 more weeks and 2 days until we find out the gender!

Yep, we missed week 17. Sometimes we are busy, sometimes we just forget. BUT here is this week's! Also, we find out in 2 days if Lill' Baby is boy or girl!! 

Yay for Baby Girl!! We are so excited to have a little girl! My belly is getting bigger by the day!

AND... you get two pictures this week, the first one shows off the belly more, but this one is fun too!

Oh, yep. We missed a couple of weeks, so for that I'm posting up 2 pictures again. My guess is that this is what's gonna happen from here on out. It's getting busy around here and I don't always find time to take a picture each week.

I'm finding it harder and harder to find poses that I like. My poor hubby has to deal with taking 20 pictures before I'm satisfied! And yes, the writing is crooked :( but I really didn't fee like doing it all over again, so crooked writing for week 22 it is!

 

Hey friends! I finally found some time to do another picture, I tried to make it a little extra special for Christmas! Week 25 on the 25th day of the month! Merry Christmas everyone, enjoy spending time with loved ones.

Showing off baby girl in two pictures again this week! I'm really amazed at how she's growing (um... and therefore me too!)

Here we go friends! Happy week 27, baby girl is about 13.75 inches (the length of an English Cucumber), and right around 2 lbs. I'm feeling her move a LOT now, and it's probably the most amazing thing to experience! I'm so in love, only about three more months until we get to meet her!

Whaaaat is that number in front of the zero people?? Oh my, we are in the 30s. It is very exciting, we cannot wait to meet Lill' Miss!! And... I think I'm getting bigger. Everywhere. Ben keeps telling me I'm supposed to, I keep telling him I should probably lay off the cookies. Also, our nursery is coming along nicely. It is NOT DONE at all yet... but we are getting there and that is very exciting too! I'm really enjoying pregnancy, it is such a miraculous event and I'm so blessed that I get to be a part of this miracle of life. 

Well, as you can see we don't always get the same positioning from week to week, but that's ok with me. It's fun to see the progression from week to week and I'm excited to share them with you!

Happy Sunday everyone! Come back soon to see the next week's pictures.

A resurrection

Oh, hello there again. It's been a while. Well, to be exact it's been 6 months. 6 months too long! I have decided to *try* to keep this blog alive. It will need some TLC though since it's been neglected and ignored for a good half a year. But I feel as though I'm ready to have at it again. It's gotten a face lift (and as much as I would REALLY love to have a custom designed template I have not even a clue at all how I would even do that, so the on-line template design is the best I can do), and is ready for new life! I feel as though I actually have things to share about again. The most important, thrilling, exciting, and above all humbling is the news that I am pregnant! It is unreal, it is already life-changing, and it is the most blessed feeling I have experienced in a long time. I would like to share my story about infertility. But not quite yet, that will be saved for another day, soon though. I'll ready to share it soon. I think part of my need to share our experience is just for myself. I feel as though I need to get it out in writing. But I also hope that it could, or would, be helpful for someone else too someday. And although I really doubt I would ever forget what we've gone through, having it written out somewhere feels right to me. So, that is what I'll do. Soon. For now though, I have decided to share my weekly pictures of my pregnancy on my blog instead of on FB. So, if you want to see the updates each week, you'll have to check them out here! So exciting (ok, for me it is!). We are not professional photographers or models around this house so don't expect anything crazy cool. I don't even know how to edit the pictures, so what my hubby snaps is what you (we) get. I also bug him every week to tell me how to stand so I'm not doing the same thing each week, we even have looked at other people's pregnancy chalkboard for ideas. I've got to say if you were a fly on the wall here on Sundays you'd probably see some pretty entertaining conversations! So, here's the plan. I'm going to post this blog entry then start a new one, and then post the previous 15 weeks pregnancy pictures (I know... there's no week 14 because we got busy and forgot! Oops) in new entry. I hope you enjoy!

Good Shows

So, I have small confession. I have decided that I like sci-fi shows, now I don't even try to compare to the real die-hards and please don't quiz me! However, I have found a few shows that I have come across that I love. If you are curious to check them out, here's what I've found (yes I know that many of them have been around for a long time)...
Warehouse 13
Eureka
Doctor Who

If you have Netfix I must recommend all of these, some of them start out a bit "cheesy" but give them a few shows and I promise you'll love them! If you don't, well, I guess that's ok too. In the meantime you can wonder what show this is from...

An update. Finally!

So, I am still here :) My presence on here has been pretty absent, but that's just the way it goes! What is new with me?? Well, for January I decided to stop eating sugar. I did let myself indulge every now and again. And to tell you the truth it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I do like my treats. Now that February is halfway over I must say that I am back to enjoying my treats but not as much as I used to... especially not as much as I indulged during December (isn't that what always happens). Let's see, what else.

Well, I also decided in January that I would focus again on getting more exercise into my life. Whenever I go back to work in September, exercise usually takes a back seat. I realize that's probably the worse thing I can do when I get busy and stressed - stop exercising. But in reality that is just the way it goes. I hit it hard in January again. I bought a few DVDs and (try to) make sure to exercise 4-5 days a week and (minus a few exceptions) I've stuck with it. In combination with cutting out most sweets I'm feeling pretty good about how my body is getting stronger. Want to know what DVDs I've been using? I spent most of January using Jillian Michael's Killer Buns and Thighs. This one:

To tell you the truth, it really stinks...but in the best way possible. Level 1 killed me. Level 2 really killed me. And level 3... well, yeah, killed me too. I actually prefer Level 3 over Level 2, not that it was easier but I enjoyed the exercises better. Unfortunately, like most people, after a month of doing the same DVD I got pretty bored with it. However, I was actually seeing results so I am really trying to stick with it. You know when you can mimic everything JM is saying you've done the DVD a few times. Now I rotate it with this JM DVD:

I've read some people's critique's on this DVD which have said they don't think it's very "Jillian" but I personally love this workout DVD. Yes, it's not as "Jillian" as some of her other workouts but that's probably why I like it so much. It's fun! And there are a whole group of girls doing it with her so it feels more like I'm taking a class with a bunch of friends. I am a big ball of grossed out sweat at the end (the DVD is broken into 3 workouts and I typically do 2 of them, one right after another for a total of 40 minutes). I am pretty sure I look like a complete fool trying to do all the punches and kicks but I don't care! Next up I'd like to try these:

Also:

And, I just heard about this on the Today show and it looks so fun! Combination of Pilates and Boxing:

Well, I suppose that's all for now. I'd say that's pretty good seeing as how I hardly ever blog anymore... I'd like to say I'll be better, but we'll see :)

Quitting??

So, I guess I should fire my blogger self. Unfortunately I'm not too surprised that I haven't written anything on here in like...um...4 months. I have a confession. I'm a quitter. I start things and then I quit things. I've done this for as long as I can remember. Let's see...there was basketball, then volleyball, then track (these I started and quit at some point along my high school career), but I'm going to blame lack of skills required (it was probably actually lack of commitment needed to gain required skills). Then there was knitting, pottery, kempo-karate, golf, photography (remember I was doing a photo/week things - yep gave up on that too didn't I?), cooking, crafting, sewing (although I'm not ready to totally give this up yet), painting, baking (I haven't totally given up on this although last night I made some pretty amazing banana muffins... and burnt the bottoms (which means that baking might be next on the give-it-up list). I've started exercising and quit exercising more times than I can count, but I think that's pretty normal, right? Also, I started and then quit doing my own nails (that didn't go over too well). I did garden this year and didn't give up on that yet! So, there's that. And now this blog. I'm not saying I'm quitting it. Yet. I still think about it and wonder what I should do. Should I keep it? Should I quit it? Should I keep it and just think about it and never actually write anything (because right now that's working for me).

Anyway, I just thought I'd send this little note out there and let anyone who actually reads this informed on the fact that I haven't completely given up on blogging yet. Also, to wish you all a very merry Thanksgiving and I hope that I won't actually quit this Lill' Life blog, yet.

The last few weeks, again!

I'm not sure how I manage to ignore this for so much time, especially in the summer when I thought I'd be paying much more attention to My Lill' Life, sorry little blog :( Here are some pictures of what the last few weeks have been like for me. The first three are just kind of random, the middle three are from our Cali. trip and apparently in the last three, I was liking the "nature" pictures, I guess especially with water drops :) Enjoy!

A yummy Heart-Strawberry from our garden!

I guess I can't resist a high bun picture every time. I have fun playing with my hair during the summer, when I actually have time!

I had a gift certificate for a local day spa and decided to get Shellac(ed)!

Hubby didn't know I was taking pictures of him, hee hee! At a rest stop having lunch heading to Redding.

The road shortcut we took from Sonara to get to Yosemite. This picture DOES not show how scary this road (and I say 'road' lightly here) was! We were in our Jeep and we barely fit inside of the road, one side was a cliff down the other side the mountain. Lucky hubby is a great driver!

Pine-cone along the shortcut to Yosemite.

Drew Drops

More dew drops!

Lily from my mom's yard, they lasted 3 weeks cut in a vase!

Over did it?

Well, I decided to go on a walk today. I don't usually do this. There are many not so good reasons, but they are still my reasons. First, I don't live in a town where people tend to walk just for exercise. Two, I'm not often motivated to go on a walk alone. Three, I get bored walking solo. BUT I did it anyway.Yay me! It is my goal every summer to be a better me come September, I don't usually follow through very well. But so far, two days of summer break and two days of exercise!  However, to be honest with you, I think I over did it. You wonder how can I over do walking? I wonder the same thing. I do know that I am already sore and my muscles are twitching. It might have something to do with the body weight matrix from last night. Don't ask! It might have something to do with the pace at which I was walking. It might have something to do with the hour and seven minutes, 4.15 miles. It might have something to do with the fact that I haven't gone on a walk (for exercise in a LOOOONGGG time).  For those of you exercise enthusiasts this might seem like no biggie to you, but boy was it tough for me by the end. I thought my legs might crumple right underneath me! Good thing I had some good walking buddies. Some of my friends who kept me company deserve a shout out: Britney, Will S., Adele, Kelly and the many more who I don't remember. You're the best!

And the biggest thank you to my amazing shoes.  I love you dearly.