Month: December 2023

  • Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving

    The week of Thanksgiving was special for many reasons. It was our first big holiday with a little one on the way, my whole family was coming to our house to help us celebrate, and we held our gender reveal party! Mom and Dad arrived on Tuesday, and Em, Drea, and the boys arrived on…

  • More Ultrasounds

    More Ultrasounds

    In early October, we had our 8-week appointment and ultrasound at Kaiser. Once again, everything was textbook.  At our first appointment, they’d told us we should be able to hear the heartbeat at the 8- or 9-week mark, so we were excited to possibly hear little peanut’s ticker.  At this 8-week appointment, they said we’d…

  • Trauma

    Trauma

    As I mentioned last week, Baby Jackson is doing great. I don’t want anyone to worry about that when they see this week’s post title. But the title is very appropriate for what I’m going to share.  Sometime between our first couple of ultrasounds, I had a scary flashback.  I went to one of Nick’s…

  • The First Ultrasound

    The First Ultrasound

    First, I’m sorry I’m a week behind on posting this blog. I should’ve known the week of and the week after Thanksgiving was just going to be too busy and fun to sit down and write a new post, but I was optimistic.  I’ll share more about our fun holiday week in an upcoming blog…