Baby Updates!

We had our 'official' 20 week ultrasound today! Baby is still a boy, and is perfectly healthy!! He's very active and didn't really want to cooperate but they managed to see everything anyway! The tech really tried to get a good 3d shot of his face, but this is the best she could do!

This weekend marked 20 weeks--that's half way!! It's going so fast!!

Sunday we spent some time putting together some of his nursery furniture!

It's just the start....however it does make it all seem much more real having furniture here!!

Nursery Ideas

Of course, one of the most fun things about being pregnant is planning the nursery! So of course when I found out we're having a boy I set to work right away. I settled on green and brown as the color scheme and decorate with monkeys. I don' want full out jungle-just monkeys.

I fell in love with this bedding I found on amazon:Isn't it adorable? The only problem is it's made with elephants. So, what's a girl to do? I did what anyone would do--go to mom!! My mom is the most gifted seamstress I know, so I started sending her link after link! The plan is for her to make all the bedding and some extras pretty close to this but with a few twists and with a monkey in place of the elephant!

This is the monkey head we're going to use one everything. Yep, my mom is that good!

I haven't decided what I'm going to do to the walls just yet. We rent, so if I paint we'll have to repaint when we move. And the walls are all textured so I doubt we can use decals. I still have plenty of time to decide on all that. However, babies r us has some adorable monkey accessories and decorations that I'm sure I'll have to have!!

Now if I could just decide on a name......

It's a Boy!!

I just realized, while I made it facebook official, I forgot to make it blog official!! So sorry! Our Doctor scheduled an ultrasound for when I'm 20 weeks, but I just couldn't wait!! We're so blessed to have a friend of a friend who works in ultrasound! She snuck us in last week and took a peek at out little one and we found out IT'S A BOY!! We couldn't be happier! Here's a few pics of our little guy!

Even though it looks like he's sucking his thumb, he really wasn't....he was just waving his hand back and forth by his face.

Of course, all our family is pretty excited and has already started buying stuff! Of course, Elijah wanted a boy bc 'even though he'll have to be nice when it's a baby; they can wrestle and fight when it gets bigger!' HA!

I didn't post the 'boy' picture because it wasn't very good. However since this wasn't our 'official' ultrasound, we'll be getting more pictures in a couple weeks!

18 Weeks

Best.Dance.Ever.

Christmas Day Catch up!

Our Christmas Day was Chalk full--which means I have a lot of pictures! We loved spending the time with all our families. Unfortunately, I had one heck of a cold! Combine that with being pregnant and not being able to take anything made me pretty tired!

Our day started bright and early at Chris' parents house; where we opened presents before they had to go to work. Here's a few pics of the fun!

Chris' mom collects salt and pepper shakers so we couldn't resist getting her a cute panda set from the DC zoo!

Dalton got me the same movie my brother got me the day before. Luckily Dalton hadn't wrapped any of his presents until the night before so he graciously included the reciept! haha!

Next we headed to my Grandma's for lunch and presents.Tyler serenading Eric with his piano skills.

After my Grandmas we headed back to Chris' parents for dinner and presents with the extended family on that side!

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is singing Christmas carols as a family while Nanny plays her guitar!

Chris' mom, Andres, and the Grinch! haha!

We had a great time with all our family! It was great to spend time with everyone!

2010 In Pictures!

This is always a blog I enjoy doing! It's so fun to look over the past years worth of pictures!

This about sums up Janary....We had record amounts of snow and our house really doesn't stay that warm! So we spent a lot of time watching movies and snuggling up with the dogs!!

February: The Messenger boys arrived!! These are the twins I now watch once a week. I forget how tiny they were!!

March: Allison and Elijah came for a visit! It was great having them here and we fit lots of shopping, eating and museums in!

April: We took an unplanned visit to Missouri and totally suprised our families for Easter!

May: They glorious sun started shining again and we quickly started up Volleyball!

June: Camp Rainbow 2010!!

July: I got to visit Erin in Colorado as she welcomed Baby Faye into the world!

August: We went back to Missouri for our cousin Jason's wedding!


September: Nicole and Greg came for a visit and we all headed to Dc!



October: We discovered we were pregnant!! Then we managed to keep it from our families for an entire month! (yes, the picture is sideways, but I can't get it to turn!)


November: We headed back to Missouri with our big news! And Allison hosted Thanksgiving, when Tyler serenaded us!


December: We got to see our beautiful baby for the first time!! Even though we don't know the sex, it was so wonderful to see it!

We've definately had a wonderful, full year!! We're so excited to see what this year brings! Happy New Year from The Lius!!