the swing!

Ok, so the video is pretty sketchy b/c it's from Joey's phone, but I didn't want her first time on the swings not to be documented! (I had grabbed the video camera when we left for our walk, but it was dead and I still wanted her to try the swing!) There is a little park by our house so we walked over there (after a stop at Unkie B and Antie K's) to check it out. She LOVED the swing and we even went down the slide. Can't wait for the 70 degree weather later this week!!

38 weeks

Busy, busy weekend! We had dinner with Joey's parents on Friday night, then I had a shower on Saturday and bachelorette on Saturday night while Joey has his golf league smoker and had to move some furniture at his parents. Sunday Joey got out to he gym in the morning and hit some golf balls in the afternoon...I grocery shopped and made lunch for the week. So now I can finally sit down and update the pics from last week! In honor of Joe signing his big contract, we went with the Twins theme. The shirt (my 1st Twins tee) is from my friend Rachel, who happens to be married to Joe's brother, Jake. The blanket is from my Aunt Becky!

Joe's contract was for how much?

that's good, I am glad he'll be playing here
did you know that's like $43 a minute?
yahoo!
this is juliette practicing her 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th look...
and this is her look after the twins win!!!

videos from today

laughing baby...so cute!

daddy playing with juliette and the mirror

how did i not discover this earlier? so funny!

biggest loser

Joey and I are losers :-) For six weeks now we have been eating some meals out of the Biggest Loser cookbook and just generally counting our calories. Joey gave up regular pop and entire frozen pizzas. I gave up candy and cookies at work as well at the high calorie lunches that were so accessible. Some things have been hard, but we have also found some really good meals! We also have a cheat day every week and have enjoyed Wildfire, Ichiban's, Joey's birthday dinner at my parents, Wine and Cheese night...there is usually an occasion or something planned on the weekend that works out! This weekend we are going to Tria for brunch b/c I have a giftcard I need to use before the end of the month! So, as much as my brother is sick of us talking about it, it has worked!

It all started when Joey said he didn't understand why he worked out and didn't lose weight. I said pizza and mountain dew! So he said, ok, I'll give you one month and I'll eat whatever you tell me to...just no ground turkey (we tried that once...neither of us liked it!). So after a month of results we just kept going! Saturday morning is our weigh-in date. So after 6 weeks, this morning Joey weighed in down 23 pounds!! He is only 10 away from his goal! I weighed in down 10 pounds, and hit my first goal! My super goal is 5 more pounds- which would bring me to wedding weight! I am already lower than before I was preggo, so that is cool.

It's nice to be losers :-)

march madness

March Madness is Unkie B's favorite time of year. His favorite team is Duke, and since they play tonight Juliette thought she would bring Unkie B over a good luck treat. Hope it works, but if not, you can't be mad at a baby! The pictures are horrible quality, as there is like a 3 second delay in my camera phone, but it's all I had with me...

Go Duke! (on a side note, I can't believe that I went to 3 stores and none of them had basketball cupcakes...)

Unkie B, Juliette, and the cupcakes...which you can't tell in this picture, but she kept grabbing for them!
trying on Unkie B's hat...still a little big, but showing her support!

Duke is currently up 45-22. I think they worked...

37 weeks!

I am actually posting her pictures on Thursday! Yay! Today is my Aunt Ann's birthday...she's actually not my aunt and all, but the only person who I call "aunt", which is weird. I didn't call her, but I know she checks this blog, so I thought I would let Juliette give her the little shout out :-) I though it would be a little easier, but that whole "put everything in your mouth" phase is too much to battle!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT ANN!
Hope to see you soon!

Yup, got it again. Hey, I know you're over here, you're not fooling me! Ok people, where is my card? on the move....

These past few days have been so awesome! We have gone on so many walks just LOVING the weather. We even got Grampa Steve-O out for a walk...he said he was sore after, but that's good for him. Today was also the first day of he new swimming session. Juliette is still in the same class but it's awesome because she is the best :-) She is also the youngest. Last session the other kids were 7, 9, and 13 months when we started. This session there are a few 2yr olds. Juliette did super awesome today and was the only one not to cry! Such a proud mamma :-)

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!

Joey and I are both Irish, so our baby has a good amount of Irish in her! Also, one of the joys of girls clothes....newbon sized dresses can become 8 month shirts!

just chillin...

hey!

a st. patty's day hug coming your way!

i am even playing with a green block!

i want to get off the couch now

Have a great day!

fun little sunday

What a nice Sunday! A lot of what made it nice is that we got all of our chores and cooking for the week done yesterday, so today was more of a lazy day (we actually got to sit down during her afternoon nap!). This morning Joey went to go work out and do some shopping while Juliette and I worked on getting back on schedule with this "spring ahead" hour. I think we're actually in good shape. I am hoping everyone here got out to enjoy this weather today! Seriously....wow! So nice! We got to take the stroller out and go for a little walk around our neighborhood. That was always what I pictured about a family...going on walks with the baby in the stroller. Perfect.

she LOVES this shirt...

a good teeth shot!

daddy, this is REALLY high up!

after our walk

sitting on grass...not too sure

trying daddy's new grips on his golf clubs

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

new hat

grampa steve-o stopped by a few days ago after his haircut and brought me this cool hat...i acually like to keep it on and don't fight wearing it!

blue steel

normal happy juliette

36 weeks

Ok, so it took a few extra days for me to get this up...

picture day already?

let me get this for you

no really, i want to help...

no daddy, i can DO it...

see...i can hold it AND smile!

bonus shot...you can see my TEETH!

last day of swimming (well, for this session)

Today was Juliette's last day of swimming in her first session. They evaluate at week 5 (of 10) if they pass to the next level. It wasn't until like week 4 that she didn't cry during the zoom, so she didn't pass. If they would've rated her at he end, she would've passed, but you have to register early so we'll be in Baby Backfloat 1 more time...which is fine by me because the kids in BB2 are big, and walking! There are 4 baby levels and you usually hang out in BB2 and BB3 for a few sessions. They have to be 30 months to be in BB4, and in that one parents are in the water half the time and out half the time- HOLY CRAP! That will be a tough one for me! So here are some pics from our last day (daddy was able to come today!)

practicing her monkey cheeks

daddy loves this pic...reminds him of the shining. i just think it's funny...
happy baby!

done with session 1...Danielle is moving to BB2, hopefully we'll see her there in the summer session!

our certificate for taking the class! and look at those thighs! what a chubby baby!!!

I'll post weekly pics tomorrow! Have a good night!

200

Ok, so when I logged on and got ready to post, I noticed that this is my 200th post since I've started! Wahoo! Thanks to those of you who have read them all and commented here and there. This is a nice little diary to have and hopefully I can turn it into a keepsake one day...I'll have to put it in volumes :-)

Todays post is short, but cute...Brent took a video on his phone last night of Juliette crawling and he sent it to me at work this morning, so I thought I'd put it up here! Joey likes to put his phone out and have Juliette crawl to it...here you go:

wine and cheese

Saturday we had our fifth annual wine and cheese night. We're not super sophisticated or anything...we don't pair the right wine with the right cheese, but we do drink wine and eat a bunch of cheese! This year we had 17 people in our little space! We had the usuals: baked brie, boursin, beer cheese fondue, various crackers and misc cheeses...and we also had some new ones: club, italian or taco pinwheels, baked goat cheese in marinara, and pesto w/cream cheese on baguettes. Super yummy all around. A few years ago I started doing themes, and this year was hats! Some people forgot, but others came through!

mickey cheese spreaders :-)Brent started with his Duke hat, but traded up

Anna found this gem for $1 at Michael's!
Katrina trying to take a casual shot

Lindsey's casual poseKatrina, me, Laura, LindseyA few member of the Elite discussing the finer thingshats!

The night was a ton of work and a ton of fun! We love having this tradition :-) See you next year!

35 weeks

Hey! I am kind of on time with my posting! Here is the little chubb at 35 weeks!

got your nose....

just because you try to "hide" it doesn't mean i don't know it's there

(after i took the card away) "mom, give it back!"

see, i can help out... i am 35 weeks!

reaching for the cardalmost there!

and that's an example of how i get her to crawl :-) she will do it if she wants something...sometimes she tucks her left arm a little, sometimes not. she can get up on "all fours", but that's a lot of work b/c of her big belly! it's fun to watch her get better!

Have a great weekend!