Nursery Update

This past weekend Mike started working hard on the nursery (with help from my dad of course). Although there were some questionable decisions on how to put the furniture together, it has come together quite nicely, so far.  One thing we have figured out in this assembly journey is that 800 square feet is extremely small!! Mike's quote of the weekend was "All we have to do is Jenga everything together...its a good thing that I am good at games like Jenga." Well the Jenga Master did get everything to fit...so I guess I am very thankful that I am married to the Jenga Master.

The start of making the crib... they only had to start over once!

This was one of the funniest moments cause they were just trying to get the box off the dresser but the ceiling kept getting in the way.  As I am taking a photo my dad is saying "Hurry Mike I don't want  a photo of this!" LOL

Okay to put the feet on the dresser they decided that the best way was to put the dresser on top of a chair.  While my dad is holding the dresser Mike screwed the feet on...at least it all ended well.

Here is a somewhat finished corner... I may rearrange some stuff, but I wanted to contribute to the nursery before I left for work.

And of course the blocks that we love so much finally got put up on a shelf!

Another one...

turns 30!!! I can't believe how much we have all grown up... marriages, babies, careers, and turning 30! It doesn't seem that long ago when I met Jaybee on the soccer field at CSUH, and within 10 minutes of meeting her I told her, "I hope you know that we are gonna be really good friends!!" I am always right ;0) My dearest friend Jaybee celebrated her 30th birthday this past weekend.  We went out to dinner and then to the all famous Saddle Rack!! Well, Kimmy and I didn't go to the rack because being pregnant and going dancing in a bar doesn't really bode for a great combination.  Anyways we enjoyed an awesome dinner at The Elephant Bar and went to a hotel to help the girls get ready to go out. Everyone had a blast that night... especially at the bar (judging by the pictures on facebook!!)  It was a great way to send Jaybee off into her 30's!!! I know this next year will be amazing for her!!  The above photo is pre Saddle Rack... we all dressed very classy to dinner (new favorite photo!!)  And of course the beautiful birthday girl to the right with her birthday dessert.

Here are Tori (AKA LC) and Sam at dinner...both looked so beautiful all night long.  Please comment on how good Sam's hair looks cause she spent two hours doing it and developed an arm cramp for the rest of the night!! LOL But her hair did look amazeballs!!

Here the preggo ladies of the night... Kim decided to take the classy approach and stay dressed to impress till she got home.  Me on the other hand... being seven months pregnant makes you uncomfortable all the time so I decided to change.  Mikes reply was "All your missing is your doorag and a can of worms."

Here are all the ladies dressed to impress!! I am sure they were the most beautiful girls in the bar!!

Beeze and Tweedy having fun at the rack!

Thought I would also document that Mike was the only guy there (other ones cancelled), but he stuck it out even at the hotel while all the girls were getting ready.  He is one great husband!!

Christmas Craft Day

I feel like our blog has turned into baby blog central lately, not that its a bad thing at all.  Cause I am super excited with all these new babies coming into the world!! But I thought I would give some props to my crafty friends and all their projects lately! So every year we do a day dedicated to Christmas crafts.  So everyone picks their craft and brings it to Debbi's house and works on it.  It's a lot of fun... especially since we banned any craft done by Martha Stewart ;0). Anyways here are some pictures of the craftiness...

This is Sam's craft... a snowman family for her office at work.  They are made from water bottles (which Mike did very good contributing too)and paper mache. They turned out super cute!!

Granted Tori didn't make these on Sunday, but she made them a while ago and I thought they needed some recognition.  They are cake pops and they are delicious!!

Some other crafts this year that are not pictured above are ball garland (Kimmy needs to post on this craft cause I am still a little confused) but it involves water balloons and wrapping them in string and gluing over them. No picture yet because its not done (yeah I am just as surprised as you are that Kimmy didn't finish a project...lol) I guess I can't talk cause I didn't even attempt a craft this year...lame I know. Tori's project is a stocking for her dad....those take forever to finish, but when she is done I will post another picture.

Preggo Pictures

 To add to the theme of our blog lately I thought I would post some of my new pregnancy pictures from our photo shoot this past weekend.  Yes, I said photo shoot, like I am a pop star!! If Kimmy is like Beyonce then I guess that would make me Kelly Rowland?!?! I don't know... anyways there is an access code to view more pictures on their website, so I will give that to you also.  I think the photos turned out great!! I absolutely love them!!

 I love this picture of Mike and I... we have never done professional photos before, so it was nice to get some really good ones.

I always wondered how pregnant I actually look, well this photo shows that I guess I am pretty pregnant!! LOL I have been waiting so long for this belly to show up!! Here is the website to view more of the pictures (its still not all of them!!) Click on the link then go to sneak peek, then type in bball.  There are 14 pictures.  I think the last one is my absolute favorite...even though I like them all.

jaebirdphotography.com

Who Doesn't Love Babies?

Well, I figured for my 2nd time ever writing on the blog I should pull out the big guns. The exciting news I have to blog about is that Matty and I are having a BABY! We dropped the baby bomb on Facebook today with this video we made so I figured its safe to share with the blogosphere. Our little babe is due in June 2012. We couldn't be more excited!!! I like to think I waited until I was 30 to be pregnant just like Beyonce (it's one of the many things we have in common!) The greatest part is that our little babe will only be 4 month's younger than his handsome older cousin Jacob Wood. I grew up being really close with my cousins so I am beyond thrilled that our kids will be so close in age. Ash, who knew our hair-brained scheme of being preggo around the same time would work? I look forward to all that 2012 has to bring!

Below is the video that Matty and I made for our Facebook announcement. Yea, it's stop motion animation so feel free to be impressed. (Really we were trying to keep up with the likes of Gabby and Ash. Thanks for the inspiration!)

Story of We. from Kim Villamar on Vimeo.

Gender Announcement!!!

We made our announcement at the Halloween Party a few weeks ago.  Since most, if not all of you know, that the baby is a boy, I wanted to show off my cool collage that I made with the assistance of Tori's pictures.  Also the name of the baby is Jacob Matthew Wood.  We got the name Jacob from my mom's side of the family (her maiden name) and Matthew is after Mike's brother (cause he is so wonderful). Oh and I passed my blood glucose testing!! YAY for no diabetes!! Anyways just a little happy blog to help get you through your day!

A Frightfully Fun Party...

I realize hat it is now almost mid November and I am still talking about Halloween.  Well for two reasons... it is my favorite holiday, so I have a hard time letting go of the month of October and I have been laid up on my couch for the last week with the worst sickness ever.  Its official, being pregnant and sick is the WORST combination in the world... its like traveling back to the 1500's when modern medicine did not exist.  Anyways back to Halloween.  We had our annual Halloween party at Debbi and Dayton's house this year.  It was an extra special year because we were making the announcement of what the sex of baby Kirby was... and placing a bunch of bets.  I think this year we actually out did ourselves on decorating.  Dayton had the week before the party off, so he was able to get his creative juices going and make so really cool projects.  I deem the party a complete success!! We had a lot of people there and everyone seem to enjoy themselves.  Here are some pictures from that night...

Even Melodie made an appearance in her lobster costume!! She was so cute!!

 And of course Mama Gabby looked adorable as Sponge Bob

I think most creative costume of the night goes to Matt and Kimmy- the Hamburglar and the hamburger!! And Kimmy made both costumes which makes it even more impressive!!

Funniest costume would have to go the Sam and Tyler as the "Wet T-shirt" contest.  Very creative and impressive that they stayed connected as long as they did. Oh and there is Tori in her devil costume (Jaybee was an angel)... They decided to switch personas for the night.

And yes Tyler and Sara came down!!! Ironic that they were steak and eggs considering how specialized eaters they are... but I am sure Sara was a free range egg and Tyler killed that piece of meat himself. I am so glad they came down!!

Here is the gang... Debbi was Abby from NCIS and Dayton was a creepy Dumbledore!! I think Dayton had the most fun scaring everyone in his costume!!

And of course last but not least the goofy Shadd family.  I think my dad won most shocking/obscene costume.  He was a crack baby!! LOL!! Complete with authentic (but not used) crack pipe from Hayward.  Every year he out does himself!!

Mike and I were Juno.  Fairly easy costume to do while pregnant... so it worked out well!