She's a Girl.

Nick and I had our ultrasound on the fifteenth and we're excited to find out that we are having a girl. At first Nick was much more excited than I was, but I'm warming up to the idea. We still don't have a place to put her but we do have some of the essentials and a name. Her name is going to be Sienna Kate Hudson. Kate, as in Katie my sister not the actress.

She is starting to become more active or just bigger so I can feel her more often. She does not like to be poked and is already proving to be a little stubborn like her mom.

We had a ton of fun with some of our friends this weekend up in Tahoe, and while my camera battery died, Erin was gracious enough to get a picture of Nick and I. Since she's so wonderful, as promised, here is the most recent picture of the belly and the shrinking husband (15 pounds in two weeks).

Tahoe 2010/Week 21

YW Sleepover

This past weekend my YW class was in charge of the Young Women combined activity and decided to have a sleepover at Sister Harlow's house. (Thanks!) It was a very eventful, fun night. We went to the park, played games as well as did girly things like painting toenails and facials. We had one mishap in the shape of a bedroom door that was accidently closed while it was still locked. Unfortunately even after youtubing how to pick a lock and a little bit of our own ideas the door still had to be opened by a locksmith the next day. It was so much fun getting a chance to ge to know not only the girls better but also the women that I work with in the YW program. Here's a few picture highlights from the party.

Stay tuned later this week for not only a recent pregnancy picture but to find out if this crazy baby is a boy or a girl. We find out on Thursday!

Things I Heard at Work Part 2

This first one needs a short preface. Three year old boy in my class is SUPPOSED to be transfering small plastic penguins from a bowl with water in it to a dry bowl. I see that he is taking the penguins out of the water one at a time, dabbing them with a sponge and placing them on the table. I walk over to check out the situation a little...

Boy: (to penguins) Don't worry...Don't worry...I got it.
Me: Hey....how come you're cleaning the penguins?
B: They have gross, sticky black stuff all over them.
Me: Oh! Are you saving the penguins?
B: ...Somebody has to!


Four year old boy: I saw a really, really big, huge, tall guy when I went to San Francisco. Don't worry I'll show you when it's bring a tall man to school day.

And now for the best one...

*Retold to me by her mother...

Three year old girl: Mom, I spy something that is black and can turn into a boy.
Mom: Ummm....
Girl: LUCIFER! (At this point mom is very concerned)...you know Cinderella's cat.

I love my job....

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend we went down to Santa Cruz for our mostly annual Busath Camping Trip. It rained a little bit on the way down so we decided to wait a couple of days before braving the beach, but that didn't stop us from visiting the tide pools with sweatshirts. It's probably my favorite thing to do when we are down there and while we didn't see too much variety as far as the ocean life it was still fun to go and check them out. Katie found the one starfish, Lucas found a crab while the mussells and sea anemones were hard to miss.

On Saturday we headed down to the beach and had the best beach day that I can remember. The wind wasn't too bad, it was sunny and about 70 degrees...perfect.

Sunday was our last day there and we took the hike down through the redwoods, including Sam walking boot and all! This is the best hike ever because there's ice cream at the bottom, it's mostly downhill and we don't hike back, we drive. The ice cream was even from the shop that has my name so of course it was especially delicious. We even got to see what we decided was the first tree EVER...planted by Adam and everything.

The rest of the pictures are just some fun ones from around the camp site including Nick's homemade donuts and roasted bananas with peanut butter and chocolate chips.

We had so much fun camping and then continued our fun by having a BBQ at the Esslinger house on Memorial Day. We were excited to get in our Esslinger fix since they weren't able to come camping with us this year. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures but if you know Andi you can check some out on her blog. Hopefully everyone else had a great weekend too!

Mother's Day

Nick surpassed my expectations this year for Mother's Day. I told him that all I wanted was a card, so I guess it didn't take much. However, I was impressed with his thoughtfulness. He did in fact get me a really cute card as well as a Precious Moment and a really cute box that he put the gift in. She's cute huh?

In case your missing it or somehow have not been told by someone in my family...I'm pregnant. I was going to put an exclaimation point there but since I'm just 11 weeks and feeling a little sick the excitement just hasn't hit me in full force yet. I'm beyond happy, just trying to get through this first part. However, Nick is probably excited enough for the both of us. My due date as of right now is December 1st.
Today I feel like I'm starting to show, but tomorrow I might not. Until I'm starting to show consistantly I probably won't post pictures of me but here's one of the baby we are affectionately calling El Diablo.

A Good Reason to Walk.

The tradition continued this year for all the girls to walk in the Annual Race for the Cure. This year we were lucky enough to add Momma Alice to the list of participants and even one silly baby Thomas. The race itself was just as cool to be in as always and I'm so thankful to Katie who takes on the roll of ring leader for our share of the group. We started a little behind everyone, which was kind of nice because it meant less crowds but it also meant all the treats and snacks were gone by the time we crossed the finish line. It's always such a great experience and I'm so glad that I get to share in this special tradition with the women of my family every year.

I'm already excited for next year...
*For inquiring minds: Sam fractured her foot, she's okay and she'll probably explain more in her next blog post.

Work.

Silly things I heard at work recently....

* One of the teachers: "You know, sometimes a child just needs to get slammed in the door."

* Three year old boy talking to a teacher: "Did you know that aliens harvest people's brains?"

* Same three year old boy talking to me: "I don't remember what a purple nurple is, but when I do I'm going to give you one." (Said in the sweetest tone, like a purple nurple is a bunch of flowers....)

* Two four year old girls eating snack:
-Girl #1: "Oh my gosh, I LOVE Justin Beiber." (Starts singing some Beiber song)
-Girl #2: "Um...he's alright....I just really like Usher the most."