Announcing a Fresh New Year!

Happy 2009! I'm hoping that this year will be filled with much happiness and good fortune all around.

Our Christmas was a hazy blur of our usual activities. Christmas Eve mass and dinner with the Ahern cousins and Fred. We will miss Fred who will be moving to Hawaii this year to be closer to his son. Christmas Day was a mass of presents both at home and at Grammies and Grandma and Grandpa. And even Grandpa Ken surprised us with 4 huge bags of gifts for the boys! Needless to say we have spent much of the remainder of the week, much like most of you I imagine, making room for the new toys.

The weather has been a pleasant change but abysmal in motivating me to take pictures. It's been raining on and off, and oh sooo cold! The few pictures I've managed to snap can be found here.

We started today the first day of 2009 off with lunch in Malibu with Mike, Maria, Emerson, and Gus, Vel, Nicolette and Tom. It was our first chance to drool over three month old baby Emerson. He is just the cutest, sweetest and most mellow baby! Our three hour lunch gave us time to catch up and make new plans for future outings.




One of my New Year's resolutions this year is to take more photos and blog more. I've really been slacking off the last few months and have blamed much of it on a hectic schedule. The hectic schedule was only part of the reason; if all goes well there will be no slowing down. I have about 5.5 months before it gets even more hectic.

This is the real reason.


11 week ultrasound. We saw the baby scratching it's head before deciding to wave at us! My wonderful doctor added the "HI".

13 week ultrasound. The doctor was so delighted with the baby's cooperation she proclaimed the baby a natural ultrasound model.

This is our new project due in June! My parents' Christmas present for the baby was a set of beautiful bibs in white, purple and pink. Do they know something I don't?! Because yesterday morning at our appointment, while we were all squeezed into the exam room for the ultrasound, yes this included Ken, Henry and Rhys, the doctor got a good look at the baby and said that she was 90% sure it's a girl! When Kenny asked how she was so sure she pointed to the screen where the image of the baby with legs spread showed no visible signs of boy parts. Henry who has been referring to the baby as a girl, stated that he was 99% sure! While I'm still holding out for 100% confirmation.