I Eat My Turkey and I Take a Nap

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is already behind us? Where has 2007 gone? Honestly, so many changes have been happening and this year is just blowing past me. Anyways, Thanksgiving was nice. Tony had to work on Thursday, so I joined his family in San Diego for dinner at his sister's house. It was nice to see everyone and all the kids. On Friday, we packed up the truck and headed to Big Bear for some time with my side of the family. We took our dining room table for my brother and my parents gave us their beautiful oak table. We were going to get a new one but my parents offered me their's since it doesn't work in their cabin and I love it! Tony is going to put it together tonight, I'm so excited. Its been in storage for 2 years so I have some work to do with it but I'll get it polished and pretty tomorrow morning. We did some shopping in the villiage and just had some quiet family time. Its freezing up there but no snow. They haven't had any precipitation up there in a long time. Let's hope they get snow before the fire season dredges on too far. Meanwhile, above is a giant picture of me. I had no idea how large I was until I saw this. Back to black for me!

Road Trippin'

This last weekend, Tony and I were blessed to take part in Gabriel Michael's baptism as his Godparents. This is a holy vocation that Tony and I take very seriously and are proud to do it. Gabriel is the son of our dear friends Jenn and Danny Castro. We hauled our happy butts to Arizona for the occasion and had a wonderful time. It was a whirl wind of a weekend but good times were had. Lessons learned from this trip are when you are pregnant, don't wear high heels to church (especially when you are Catholic because we stand alot) and also to bring a couple of extra pillows to help support your back. I don't know why it didn't occur to me bring a few but sleeping was an issue for me. The baptism was great, their priest Father Richard, gave a wonderful service and is a friend of Danny's with a great sense of humor. Gabriel did better through the service than most of us expected. When Father Richard asked if we reject Satan and evil, Gabriel just started laughing hysterically. He's too young to understand but the irony of the situation did not go unnoticed! I posted pics above. Jenn will email the formal portraits of him in his white satin tuxedo and I will post that at a later date. I couldn't get him to hold still long enough to get a shot of him on Saturday.

There's something happening here....

So I finally felt the baby move early Saturday morning. I would have blogged about this sooner except I've had my mom staying with me for a few days so I have been pretty busy. It felt like a ripple going through my abdomen and I'm noticing it with the ingestion of orange juice, spicy food and coffee. Once I imbibe on one of those, about 5-10 minutes later this kid goes nuts. Kinda cool and it makes it all seem real.

Meanwhile, Mom and I have picked out the baby furniture. We ordered the dresser and changing table. Tony's dad is helping us out with the crib so we are going to wait and get that for a few days so he can be there. We went with a beautiful cherry wood and I love it!

Happy Halloween a deux

Our Godson, Gabriel, dressed up as Chesty the Bulldog (Marine Corps mascot).