Catalina 5-1-09

This weekend, May 1st, JC, Kaylee, and I went to our favorite home away from home, although we haven't been for a while.....Catalina. It was to celebrate JC's 36 birthday which is this Thursday, May 7th, as well as our last time over there before Macie. I wanted to get over there before summer seeing that I won't be able to get back over there again until Spetember. That is okay though because that is my favorite time to be over there. Kaylee now being two and more aware of her surroundings was super excited to get on the boat. On our way over there I was hoping for at least one dolphin to swim next to the boat but what we got was something that I can't ever recall seeing before. There had to be hundreds of dolphins swimming and jumping for us. JC was able to get a few pictures of them as you see below. Kaylee has a great time on the golf cart or what she calls the booooring ( taught her that golf is boring LOL!) so anything associated with golf is "booooring."

Due to the swine flu going around all the cruise ships were deverted to the island so there were two ships in everyday. The crowds were like summer time, too bad the weather wasn't. We had a great trip and Kaylee had a blast over there as she always does. We did have to come home a day early because I exhausted myself and had a hard time Friday night so we opted to come home on the late Saturday night boat to be on the safe side, didn't want to get put on the helicopter in an emergency and flown back to LB seeing that they do not deliver babies on the island. Being 35 weeks pregnant and the size of a buffalo walking around Catalina proves to be a bit challenging. There were at least 3 comments a day about how far along I was by complete strangers but some were pretty funny! 2 days over there is better that none at all. Next time we get to the island as a family we will be up by one. :)

Macie's Room!!

I am so excited with the way Macie's room came out! I always seem to have a great idea in my mind but the execution of that idea usually falls short in some way or another. This time....it came out just as I wanted. :) We had the father-in-law of a guy that JC works with come out and put up waynescotting in the room and then JC painted it white with the chocolate brown on the walls. It is the exact brown that I wanted (amazed it worked out that way). We brought in the crib that was once Kaylee's and I added the chocolate brown bumper and the chocolate brown crib skirt that mom sewed to match. The blanket that hangs over the crib is from a lady on Etsy.com (my FAVORITE website) who made that for me as well as the painting of the birds on the wall above the rocking chair. I also purchased the decal above the crib that says "tweet dreams" from Etsy. Paula and John bought Macie the pink chenille rocker because I still use the one that they bought us for Kaylee so much that I knew we were going to need another one. The jumbo safety pin from Auntie Ali holds up an adorable hanging that Auntie Shawn made which has chocolate brown squares to put pictures of my girls in. Then of course there is the mobile..........that I MADE! Yes folks you read that right.....I made it with my own two hands and a hot glue gun! LOL! Who knew that I could actually do something crafty?! I just may start selling them on Etsy.com. I am so in love with this room and often go and sit in there just to pat myself on the back ;) I think that Macie is going to be a very happy girl in this room and Kaylee thinks so as well, Kaylee points to the crib and says "MayMay ni night!"

Baby Shower for Macie

Sunday, April 26th Shawnna, Ali, and Ang threw me a baby shower. It was a nice small shower, just as I wanted, with friends and family. We had it at our house so that everyone could see the nursery that was finally finished. Macie is a lucky littel girl already with lots of people excited to meet her. The top picture is of my friend Janae and I, we are both due on the same day although she is lucky and is scheduled to deliver on the 27th. She is having a little boy so maybe we already have another prearranged marriage for Macie ;)