Easter and Julie & Eric's Engagement Party!

Last weekend was one busy weekend! Julie and Eric's Engagement Party was on Saturday...and what a fun time it was and weather! It was so much fun to celebrate their engagement and to see everyone again! A huge thanks to Trish and Olivia for bringing Jen and I non-alcoholic wine, I'm thinking Presley loved it because the whole next day...kick up a storm! Like mother like daughter! It was great to see Jen and Jess because they have grown oh so much! Jess is due in 2 weeks, I can't believe it. Baby Miller will be here before we know it! It was truly fun times all around! Thanks for getting engaged guys because it was just the beginning of more amazing times to come!

The happily engaged couple...just adorable I tell ya!

Some of the ladies!

Me 21 weeks, Jess 38 and Jen 17

The next day was Easter! So off to my parents we went. It was a little odd this year as my dad was still in Arizona, Nadine and Steve couldn't make it, Janet and Bill were still Palm Springs and Rachel was at work. So it was a small gathering of sorts...but nice to be around the fam. So Drew, my grandma, mom, Aunt, Jamie and Dana made it to my parent's house. It was delicious and fun no matter what!

Off to the doctors I went today for my monthly check up! My mom joined me this time because she wanted to hear Presley's heartbeat! It was hilarious...the nurse was using the doppler finding Presley's heartbeat and she kept kicking it. They would find it and then move away, find it then kick it. She has been all over the place lately, loving life in there! I have gained a whopping 6 lbs, so the doctor said I need to start eating more protein to gain weight. At the beginining of my pregnancy protein was the hardest because I just didn't want to eat it and it tasted horrible, then with my cold/flu that I had, she thinks I didn't gain much weight during that. So protein it is!! My tummy is measuring right on track where I am supposed to be and everything else looks fabulous!

Off to go pack my bag for Palm Springs! Yes, checked the weather down there...and I don't mean to rub it in but, mid 90's!!!!! And I have a feeling baby Miller may just make his appearance while I am gone. We shall see!!

Baby Young has a name!!

For those of you who don't already know...most of you do because we couldn't hold it in any longer. Drew and I have already named baby girl! Here is a hint that I painted for her nursery!



Presley Raynn Young! We absolutely love her name! It is perfect in everyway. I absolutely fell in love with the name Presley after hearing it was Elion's (Drew's nephews) best friends name. Me working with kids, it's pretty much impossible to not associate a name with a student I have had in the past. Drew would say a name "nope, she was a snot" or "nope, smelly girl!" There was always something wrong with the names. So I brought up Presley to Drew. He wasn't so sure about it as it is Elion's best friends name. He thought it would be hard for Elion to have two Presleys in his life. I told him...no matter what, he is bound to know two of the same name. After him going down to Vancouver and chatting with his mom and sister, he decided it was perfect! Thank you Kam and Marla for telling him that it would be a-okay for Elion to have two Presley's in his life! We absolutely LOVE the name, have loved it for months! For her middle name Drew actually thought of it. It's Ray for my Grandpa's first name, my mom's middle name is Rae and Drew's mom's middle name is Ann...which equals Raynn (pronounced Rain)! It flows oh so well together! So baby Presley is officially in the works! (Mind you, she has been kicking up a storm all day today, so active!) Off to our monthy appointment tomorrow which my mom will be joining me because she wants to hear Presley's heartbeat! Can't wait for her to join us!

Nursery we picked out!

Alright ladies and gentlemen...hold on to your britches, I am officially half way through my pregnancy! I am actually 21 weeks and 3 days. I missed a week somewhere in there (never was good at math). Haha! Not sure what I was thinking last week because I even have it in my baby book that I'm doing that I'm 21 weeks. The weeks just keep going so fast I lose track. Goodness gracious!

I am off to Palm Springs next week! Yep, off to Palm Springs to a conference for work. It's truly the best conference out there and my third year going to this conference. Of course it's different everytime and super excited to see what it's all about this time. It will be a tad different being there preggers though. We always go to this AMAZING mexican restaurant and I get those huge margaritas, oh they are delicious! Us managers have a couple of them and our boss just laughs and laughs the whole time. We are pretty good entertainment, gotta tell ya. But this time...nope, water for me!!

Drew is off to Tahoe with his family to a family friends wedding....otherwise, he was going to join me in Palm Springs as I will have my own hotel room compared to last year where we rented out a house. But I so wish I was going with Drew and the crew to Tahoe, I have always wanted to go there!

And more exciting news...we decided on the colors and the nursery we want!!! It's the Daniella set from Babies R Us, with light pink and brown! My mom and I stumbled across it before we found out we were having a girl! I told myself...I love this SO much that if she ends up being a girl, this is the nursery we will have! Here is a picture from the website (we aren't quite at the point of getting baby's room ready, but soon)...

It does have some princess stuff like you can buy a princess rug, a princess blanket with crowns on them. YUCK! No thank you...no princess stuff for this little girl. She may be our little princess but she doesn't need to have it everywhere. Otherwise, it's perfect in everyway!

Here is the pic of me from this week. Belly is getting bigger and bigger by the minute! Thanks to my fabulous girlfriends, they gave me some ideas to help me sleep. My hips have been killing me when I sleep, so I have been trying out different ways to sleep. Something is bound to work! I know it...even if it takes me until September.

Can't wait for this weekend! It's Julie and Eric's Engagement Party! It's going to be so much fun to celebrate their upcoming wedding and to see everyone. It feels like it has been forever since I have seen everyone. Realized I haven't seen anyone since Jess' baby shower in March. Wow, long overdue!

Honey..I'm home!!

I just got back from Arizona from visiting my parents! It was so much fun to just relax and spend time with them for 6 days. It was very nice to get away from it all and just...do whatever. The only thing missing was Drew. It just wasn't the same down there this time without him. It's crazy to think in a week and a half...I'm jet setting again and off to Palm Springs and Drew off to Tahoe. I have a conference in Palm Springs for work and Drew has a family friends wedding. Wish I was going with him as I have always wanted to go to Tahoe and just know it's going to be beautiful! Here are a couple pics from Arizona...

Mom and I at the Phoenix Zoo!

Dad and I out to lunch at Tia Roses'! Amazing Mexican food! (Laleh, my fav shirt!)

It's funny...this was the first week that strangers starting asking me about baby, all the time! It's almost like they are now finally noticing, geez...my belly has been big to me for awhile and only going to get bigger! It's fun to show off baby girl, and she loves kicking for everyone!

While down there I was in my 19th week and went into my 20th week, so below is the amazing pic of week 19!

And it's a.....

Today we found out what we are having!! It's a GIRL!! We couldn't be more excited!! Oh my goodness we beyond excited about it!

We got to the ultrasound place and the nurse asked "what do you think it is?" We said "we hope it's a girl!" And then she went on to ask us if Drew's dad had brothers and sisters and Drew said...just brothers. Her response was "ohhhh". So that wasn't too promising. After doing all of the measurements which baby girl is happy and healthy. She measured the heart, kidneys, etc. and all looked wonderful! Then when she got to the end she said "okay, are you ready to find out...girl or boy?" Drew and I looked at each other and said " you better believe it!" Sure enough, like night and day...it's a girl! We asked her if she was ever wrong and she has never been wrong and she has been doing this for awhile. So that was promising and she said "go out and buy all pink!" We got so many good pictures from the ultrasound. Precious pics of her profile and so many other fun things! We are so excited and are on cloud nine!! After the appt. we left and called everyone and texted everyone!!

Both Drew and I had to head to work after the appt. It was the sweetest thing! When I got back to work, my coworkers had bought me flowers and a basket full of baby stuff! They had girl and boy balloons and cards...not knowing what it was! They were so excited and were in anticipation all morning waiting for me to get to work. I truly work with the most amazing people! Love my job!

Off to go celebrate...with a Shirley Temple (with oj of course!) That's Canada's little trick :)

On the mend...

Here I am....alive and kicking (with the little one kicking along with me)! Yep, slowly on the mend from that horrible cold/flu. Well I'm pretty sure that's what it was, but ended up going into a nasty sinus infection. After almost taking the whole week off last week, I had it last Saturday morning. I called my doc and she finally put me on meds. I really didn't want to get on meds, but something had to be done. Thank goodness...I'm slowly on the mend to being healthy again. I'm tryin to slowly ease into it but it's tricky since this week as been our Spring Break and I have been working 7am-3:30pm. Yes, I'm spoiled because I normally can come home in the middle of the day and nap if I need too. So trying to not push it and get sick again because I'm off to the sun and relaxation come next Monday for a week...off to Arizona to see my parents and I can't wait for that!!

But before that fun comes, we have some very exciting news just on the horizon. In just three days, this Friday we find out what we are having. We can't wait for Friday morning to find out. Hopefully baby will cooperate and let us see what he/she is because baby normally likes to move way to much to even get a picture. So cross your fingers everyone! We will let you know asap about the exciting news!

Also...a HUGE thank you to Kam for letting us have her boppy, vibrating baby chair and so many other goodies. We truly appreciate it so much and never expected any of that. As well as hooking me up on my prenatals! ;) Thank you SO much!

As for pics...here we go! I am in my 19th week this week and haven't gotten a pic yet. But here are pics from the last two weeks. Baby surely is getting bigger!

17 weeks

18 weeks

Until next time when we figure out....girl or boy!!! Yippeeeeee!!!