Vegas!

A few months back we planned this trip as a last get away weekend for a while.  We relaxed, ate well (very well!), saw a show, walked a ton, and enjoyed being in the sunshine.  I know that we will do lots of traveling once we get the little guy figured out.  And I know that it will be a different kind of travel.  This was a lovely and restful weekend together. 

The Chef

She said:  What a truly scrumptious dinner Justin imagined, planned and prepared for our Valentine's Day feast. Scallops, pasta and broccolini with a little salad and garlic bread.  We haven't spent a lot of time in the kitchen together, and for me that was the best part of al!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Here is a photo from our wedding last Fall. 

Much love to you all.

Showered with Love...

She said:  I knew the time was going to fly, I just didn't know how quickly!!  These post-holiday weeks have just flown by, and we have been busy.  I traveled to Idaho for a snowy mountain weekend reunion (2nd annual!) with some very dear people I met while doing the Hoffman Process in 2006 (www.hoffmaninstitute.org).  They are a lovely and loving group of friends and they surprised me the first night with a celebratory dinner honoring me (and Birdy!), followed by a showering of gifts for the little guy.  A very sweet way of making this all the more real to and for me/us...

Belly Shot: Week 27

She said:  Here I am February 2nd with 3 months to go.  I can sum up January 2008 in one word... GESTATING.  That's what I've been up to... all month.  We are trying to get out and do something each weekend--try a new restaurant, see a movie--things that a few months from now will be luxuries.  

Creating

She said:  I had the profoundly emotional realization last night, while Justin was packing for a quick overnight business trip, of the enormity of what we are doing in creating a family together. We are connecting ourselves to each other in the deepest way I know.  And perhaps because we have come into this all with such willing and open hearts, it is more lovely and compelling than I ever could have imagined.  

Belly Shot: January 1, 2008

She said:  Well, here we are in 2008.  Our due date is 4 months from today, May 1st, and I certainly have started to feel and (slowly) look like a pregnant person.  I have been going to pre-natal yoga, and it is pretty wonderful to be with some other expectant moms at various stages--I haven't had much of that.  A few of my co-workers are/were also pregnant these last few months, but other than the occasional chat in the break room, the office is not much of a place to bond with other moms-to-be, I think we are all trying to not be so different than we have always been.  So these yoga classes are very sweet in that way.  It is also so interesting to me how very differently women's bodies carry babies, and to see these women from different walks of life come together to just "be" with their changing bodies and growing babies.