Our Perfect Day

Here are some pictures from our wedding. The torrential down pour we had earlier that day ended up bringing the perfect breeze for our ceremony. The afternoon ended up being pretty cool (especially since the forecast was calling for 94 degree temps!). We had so much fun and are so grateful for our friends and family that made it. Needless to say, we are very blessed. The pictures were taken by my friend Amy. Great shots girl!

The Rose garden at Loose Park. It was a little too wet to have the ceremony down there so we ended up under the pavillion instead.

Some of the grub to munch on.

Sweet Nikki

Erica and Jana, two of my oldest, dearest friends. Erica and I used to compete against each other in track until High School (then we were on the same team) and Jana and I met in 7th grade core.

Cupcakes from Cupcakes a la mode. Delicious! nom nom nom

Friends

The smooch!

There will be more pictures to come!

Our Moose

A son! Here's the proof!!

This is our son. He is healthy, BIG, and I'm finally starting to feel him. I'm convinced he likes the song "Kung Foo Fighting" because that's what it feels like when he is "dancing" in my belly, usually around 3 am. Today I am 22 weeks and 4 days. So far he is above average in size (two weeks ago he was measuring at 15 ounces when the average is about 10 1/2) and we are excited (and nervous) to see how big he gets before the special day we get to meet him. Because of his size, I have to have a monthly sonogram-at least we get to see him every month :o)

                                            His sweet little profile.

It's amazing how much my body has changed, both physically and chemically. Obviously, I'm showing and have been showing since about nine weeks. I probably popped around 18 weeks. Chemically, I'm on a giant roller coaster. I can cry very easily (even easier than before!), be angry, laugh and that's all in 3 minutes. Also, the dreams are crazy! That's one thing no one ever mentioned but W-O-W. I think sometimes Ward is nervous to hear some of my dreams because they are boderline crazy. It must be the testosterone......

The cats love to jump and/or walk across my belly. Thomas particularly likes to walk up my mountain of a stomach and lay across my boobs-not fun for me at all. He's such a richard! It will be interesting to see how our family of fur take to their new brother. I'm already preparing myself for the day Guinness and Rowdy decide to "mark" the baby carrier as their own. That is also the day they will be taken to Zarda and turned into BBQ........just kidding.

This is his foot-one to kick me with over the next four months. I'm sure he will be a size 15 like his daddy.

Life is so good right now, I can't imagine what the next year is going to bring. This weekend we will be celebrating our niece's first birthday and I'm so excited. I love watching Ward with his nieces-he is so good with them. It tugs my heart strings everytime I see them together because it makes me so excited to see what he will be like as a father. I know he will be a good one.

Sorry for the mushy blog.......damn hormones!  Also, sorry for the crappy scan job of the pictures...the next ones will be better.