Way Behind!

Ok so we are way behind in our updates sorry, life has been crazy! Let's see where did we leave off?....... Two weeks ago we made a trip down to the Cal Poly area for one of the largest triathlons in California, the Wildflower Triathlon. Originally we were going to make a long weekend of the event and head down on Friday. But Tim found out last minute (thanks to his spam filter) that he had a mandatory orientation on Saturday morning to get approved by the USDA to sign health certificates. So it was a meeting that he couldn't really miss. There we were driving 5 hours to get to the race last minute. On Saturday they do the long course (the half iron man) and close the roads down to the camp site until everyone is finished racing. So we ended up setting our campsite up pretty late but it all worked out in the end. We were accompanied by a few of our close friends on the Horsecow Blazing Saddles Hot Racing Tri Team. They were able to make it down before we did so they secured our campsite. In the end it turned out to be a blessing in disguise since my back started hurting earlier that week. We ended up camping one night instead of two! Thank GOD!


Last year both Tim and I competed in the race, but this year Tim was obviously the only one participating from our family. The baby and I were the cheer squad. We had a great time (except for the whole camping situation). The guys competing did well. Tim was 9th in his age group (the most competitive age group of the day) and was 22 overall completing the race in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Not too bad for a guy who isn't training that much due to his busy working/school/internship schedule. GO DAD! Our friend Chris improved his personal best from last year by 8 minutes and Duke (who is the US Record holder for 3 marathons in 3 days, true story http://renorunner.com/ or my favorite
http://renorunner.com/headlines/headline05.html don't be fooled in that race he entered as Lynryd Skynrod) competed his first Olympic Tri in 2 hours and 19 minutes. Go Horsecow! Naymoo!

Ladies Cheer Squad Yvonne, Heather, and I.

Horsecow Team! Jeff (J-Dub), Tim, Captain Studbull Steve, Duke, & Pecow

Tim coming down the home stretch, GO TIM!

Team mom shirt.

The Half Way Point!

Well we had our baby appointment last week (April 9th) to review the results of the "big" 20 week ultrasound. Overall the doctor said that everything looked great! Yeah! More specifically there are "four limbs" as the doctor put it. The brain, heart, body structure, spine all look normal and healthy. And last but not least she said that we were growing a good healthy strong BIG baby! So our baby is about six days ahead of where it should be in physical growth. He/she must be like his/her daddy. Tim was a 10 lb. baby! YIKES! The doctor said that this is normal but if he/she gets to be ten days ahead of where it should be in physical growth then they will move up my due date. So let's hope that baby stays somewhat small for his/her mother's sake! Baby has been moving around like crazy! It's newest trick is moon walking or what feels like moon walking on the inside of my tummy to do a summer sault! Tim and I will sit there watching my stomach move like I have an alien inside of it. The doctor is right it is healthy and STRONG (especially when it kicks my full bladder)!

Angela (my sister in law) and I

Angela is 30 weeks and I am 22 weeks. Ang has done this before with baby #2 in her belly! She knows how to pose at the right angle as not to look HUGE! I clearly have some learning to do!

This last weekend we went down to Mountain View to celebrate all the April Birthdays. Despite the rainy and cold weather we made our way to two wineries to celebrate Andrew's (Tim's big little brother) birthday. Earlier that morning we celebrated Angela and Carters birthdays. Here are some pics.

Carter opening his present from Uncle Tim and Aunt Jess for his first birthday!

Look out he's almost walking on his own!

Uncle Andrew stoked about his new goggles and gloves from us!

Wine tasting (well Tim anyways) at The Ridge Winery in Mt. View

Not much else to report. Tim is still on the job hunt. This last Tuesday we made our way to Ukiah so that Tim could interview at a practice up there. While he interviewed I toured the town. It is at the very most northern tip of the Napa Valley and in the past has been voted to be the best small town in California population ~16,000. There were some cute areas, lots of little farms with small vineyards. The interview went well and Tim again impressed them with his ultrasound skills, diagnosing pancreatitis in a dog. So we are waiting to hear back from them next week, they have two more people to interview.

This weekend we will be hosting a BBQ for some of our old college friends or FAGS (Former Aggie Greats) as we like to call ourselves. Every spring UC Davis hosts the annual Picnic day. The campus is open to the public and alumni with educational displays, a parade, animal events (wiener dog races, Frisbee dogs, cow milking, etc.) and some of the UCD athletic teams have home events. A big attraction for us is of course the Woody Wilson Track meet especially the alumni mile! I think I will be walking it this year:)

Aloh-no.....

Almost two weeks ago we were going to meet the Dr. and his wife from Hawaii to discuss the contract. Well as we were getting up and ready to go meet them Tim receives a TEXT yes a TEXT message from them that they are no longer offering the position. I guess the other Doctor that they hired in January was taking them longer to train and adjust to the practice so they were no longer going to be hiring on a third Doctor. Needless to say Tim and I were totally bummed that we would not be moving to Hawaii. But, we feel it may have been a blessing in disguise since they showed their level of professionalism by contacting Tim via Text message! I think that the hardest part of the situation was that Tim and I had to pretty much mentally commit to moving there before we met with the Doctor to make sure that that was a move we were willing to make. We were upset but in the end things happen for a reason and now we (or Tim) is back to the drawing board applying for more jobs. I think for selfish reasons all of our family members are a little relieved that we won't be moving so far away. We are still excited to see where this will take us. It will be an adventure anyway we look at it.

We made some pretty big purchases in the last two weeks! I bought a brand new Nikon DSLR digital/manual camera. VERY EXCITING! I am still learning how to use it so that when that baby gets here I can take photography up (of the baby of course!) as a hobby. We also made our way into San Francisco last weekend to pick up Tim's new toy a Kestrel Airfoil Pro bike for racing Triathlons. Since he is on the Horsecow Blazing Saddles Hot Racing Tri Team he got a VERY good deal on it. He will race on it for the season and then possibly sell it.

Tim and his new bike like a kid at Christmas! I think the cardboard weighed more than the bike.

For the cost of that bike they didn't even assemble it! What a rip off!

Bike complete.

While in SF we picked up my cousin Maggie from the bus station and then headed over to Martinez for an early Easter Saturday dinner with my family. It was a beautiful day filled with good food and family (our California family, the Patutes came over for dinner). Here are some pics with the new camera!

Taylor and John Mark and his little Dog Cerberus. (I think I spelled that right?)

The little dog.

So stinking cute!

Dad's most favorite flowers in the back yard Lilacs.

Bouncer and his most favorite toy.

Happy dogs come from California!

20 weeks! Is it a Boy or a Girl?

Tim has been home for the last two weeks on a pretty intense rotation in internal medicine. But it has been soooo nice to have him home. I have been busy at work just doing what I do. Last week we braved Babies R Us for the first time ever. Overwhelming was how we felt the minute we walked into the store! How could something so small require so much stuff! Needless to say we registered but are waiting to purchase anything until we know if we need to ship these things to Hawaii or not. Exciting either way!

This last Friday Tim had the day off so we were both able to attend our 20 week baby appointment. Because this was a more intensive visit we had to go to the Sacramento Hospital to get the "Big" ultrasound done.

Not wanting to know the sex of the baby, Tim watched as the ultrsonographer took the necessary measurments diverting his eyes as the scan went south. According to Tim everything looked to be in order...five fingers, five toes, two arms, two legs, lips, nose, structurally normal brain, and an actively beating heart with four chambers. I got to watch as she took some fun pictures for us to have. The baby was very active, moving around the entire time often sitting with his/her hands folded perfectly under his/her chin. The ultrasonographer said the baby was very photogenic...must be my genes.

We were so happy to see the baby again. We had been getting, or feeling rather, little glimpses of the being inside the womb, but we got to SEE the baby again! So cool...

Tomorrow we head to the bay area to meet with the owners of Keauhou Veterinary Clinic to negotiate Tim's contract. I am excited to meet them, and we are excited to see how things go. We are very ready to know where we are heading after Tim's graduation.

20 Weeks

It KICKS!

So it has been a full month since we updated, sorry. What can we say we have been VERY busy!

Tim had a very successful trip out to Kona, Hawaii. The owners of the practice wine and dined him (sushi dinners, a zodiac boat trip to snorkel along the Kealakakuha bay) and he did a working interview with them for two days. Tim made a good impression and on the final day they offered him a job. We have been making a pros and cons list about moving to Hawaii and the pros are defiantly outweighing the cons! We are looking forward to meeting with Dr. and Mrs. Head at the end of the month to discuss a contract, etc. It is still up in the air but there is a good chance that we will be off to Hawaii in July! SO EXCITING!

I had a great time with my co-workers down in Irvine for the annual Applied Behavior Analysis Conference. Got to hear some good lectures and took home some info that I can hopefully apply to some of my cases. Needless to say my trip was not as exciting as the one to Hawaii.

As soon as Tim got back from Hawaii (literally less than 12 hours later) we headed up to Northstar a Tahoe for Erin and Justin's wedding. They are close friends of ours from college. Tim and I ran with Justin at Davis and Erin was his GF who is an amazing person that we became friends with immediately. We all have so much in common. Erin was in our wedding as a bridesmaid and Justin or as we call him "Hurd" was part of the entrainment at the wedding (he was the guy going on 100 mile long bike rides the morning of the wedding on his fancy bike that you could easily pick up with your pinkie finger... aka the guy who does Ironman Triathlons). They had a beautiful wedding weekend up in the snow and were the first couple to get married at the Ritz in Northstar! We felt so honored to be a part of their special day! Congrats Justin and Erin!

At the Ritz overlooking Northstar Tahoe.

We were both in the wedding (we don't usually match that well)

After the wedding Tim left the Baby, Bouncer, and I and stayed up in Tahoe for a two week externship. Although he did enjoy working at the practice, business is slow up there and that clinic was only able to offer him a part time job. However he did get in a few great days of snowboarding with his brother and friends. It was rough getting calls from Tim on a ski lift as I was driving to work. He owes me next year!

As you can see Bouncer was very happy that Tim was home.

Through all of this we were able to both make it to our baby appointment on March 4th. Poor Tim was a great dad/husband and drove all the way down from Tahoe in a snow storm the night before to make it to the appointment. We thought we were going to get to see the baby via ultrasound but we were wrong:( The Doctor poked and pushed on my stomach and listened to the baby's heartbeat. It was going strong at 148 beats per minute. Everything checked out excellent and we have another appointment on March 26th. The BIG APPOINTMENT where we could find out the sex of the baby if we wanted to. But we aren't so until August the color is a gender neutral green! HA! The Doctor said we were in the minority not finding out the sex of the baby.

We just had a great weekend. We met Angela, Mike, and Carter in Alameda at a winery where Tim and Michael got to taste. Ang and I got to be the designated drivers, lucky us! It was great to see them and catch up. After that we took a quick trip into San Francisco so that Tim could get fitted for his triathlon uniform (they are going to be pretty amazing!). It was a beautiful day in the city totally clear with picture perfect views of the Golden Gate Bridge. Next stop was in Martinez to visit mom and dad. We surprised my mom with a bottle of wine and a cake for her early birthday present. Happy Birthday Mom!

The big new development is that I am not crazy! For the last week or so I have thought that I have felt the baby kicking very lightly, but was not totally sure if it was that or just normal bodily functions. Well today Tim was resting his head on my belly and out of no where this thud kicked him square in the ear! No mistaking that one! Welcome to fatherhood. He was able to feel and hear the kick. I was so excited that he got to feel it and to know that I wasn't crazy or gassy!

16 weeks!

Today 3/14/10 at 17 weeks 5 days

More to come after the big appointment! I promise it won't take a month until the next post!

Happy Valentines Day!

We are at the end of a fantastic three day weekend, but have enjoyed every minute of it! Tim and I spent Friday night watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. We tuned in for the WHOLE ceremony because our old team mate/fellow team captain from the UC Davis Track team is on the Women's Olympic Bobsled Team. So if you are keeping up with the Olympics watch for Emily Azevedo! Go AGS!
Saturday we were in San Francisco all day enjoying a beautiful sunny day in the city. On Sunday we went on a five mile walk, through the UC Davis arboretum (where we used to run on a daily basis) and saw the beginnings of Spring starting to bloom. I think that Monday's should be mandatory days off every week! We haven't done too much today but we aren't feeling guilty for not being productive!
Last night I think my stomach muscles gave up and stopped sucking the baby in. So I think I am officially "showing" now. No more sucking it in. Two Wednesday's ago marked the 3 month mark! We are officially in our second trimester. I have started to feel better and can finally eat more at meals. Now I am consuming everything in sight! Look OUT! Here are updated pictures.

11 Weeks

12 Weeks

We have another busy week coming up. I am leaving for an Applied Behavior Analysis Conference in LA on Wed for work and won't be back until Friday. Then Saturday we will head down to Martinez for the night and take Tim to the airport early Saturday morning for his interview in Hawaii. Lucky!

Twelve Weeks!

Last Thursday Jan. 29th, we had our second doctor's appointment. It was a much better experience from the first appointment. We got to see the baby again which of course was the highlight! We were able to get a few more pictures and even one of the baby pointing it's finger! Pretty cool! We also got to hear the heartbeat, which we saw at the first appointment but got to hear this time. Baby was looking perfect and healthy! The doctor said that she didn't see anything wrong with my uterus so that was a huge relief. And I only had to have one vial of blood drawn as opposed to six so that made it even better. Here are a few pics of the little bambino.

Overall things are going well here in dreary Davis. Weather has been pretty depressing, overcast and rainy the last couple weeks. I am ready for Spring even though I know we need the rain. I was super busy this last week. I had six reports due for work in addition to working my normal LONG work days. Tim just finished up his rotation in radiology. He also found out that he got a job interview at a clinic in Kona, Hawaii! So lucky guy gets to fly out in a few weeks for a working interview. I tried to make it work so that I could go too but work is too crazy this month. He will just have to take me another time.