Maternity Portraits

Jessyel's producer at work was so nice and took some amazing maternity shoots of us together.  I'm somewhere in the eighth month of pregnancy in these photos.  Here are some of the favorites:

10 days old!

Tonight Penny will be 10 days old! It's already going by so fast! We haven't been out of the house except to go to the pediatrician since we've been home so today we decided to venture out. We went to a park for a little bit and then to lunch! Penny slept the whole time! When the 2 hour mark approached from her last feeding, we quickly hurried home!!

The Great Burger Challenge

To pass the time, three weeks before my due date, we set out to find the best burger in Denver. We decided that we would try to go to one place per weekend and the hopefully Penny would arrive!
The first place we went to was My Brother's Bar. The burgers war quite tasty and we felt good about these burgers. Here are the pictures from that night:

The second stop was City Grill. They have won awards for having the best burger in Denver, so we were pretty excited. They burger here were very good. They were sirloin burger and came on really yummy buns. We were not a big fan of the fries here. After City Grill, we decided they had moved into first place. Here are the pictures from that night:

The last stop we made was to Cherry Cricket. This ended up being on my actual due date. I had been on bed rest for three days and Jessyel agreed to break me out for awhile and take me to lunch. I was really hoping that we would leave, eat a burger, and then I would magically go into labor at the perfect time and we could go straight to the hospital. Well, that didn't happen, but we had really awesome burgers. We also really like their fries! Here are the pictures from that day:

After careful consideration, we decided that our favorite burger was at Cherry Cricket. They were really juicy and had a good smokey flavor. And the fries really made it too! In second place was City Grill and a close third was My Brother's Bar. So there you have it! We will be back at Cherry Cricket for another burger soon!

The nursery

Here is our sweet baby's nursery.


View from the door.



The crib, which I absolutely love!!



Bookshelf complete with lions!



The worlds most expensive dresser.



Basket of toys



Coordinating light switch



View from the other side of the room.

There are still a couple more things we want to get, like letters for her name and Jessyel wants to get some kind of baby star wars art to hang up. But, it's ready for her!!

Today's the day!

Today's my due date.  So far, nothing!  I went to the doctor earlier this week and my blood pressure was slightly elevated.  I think that if I was ok with being induced, they would have sent us to the hospital right then and there.  Instead, I have been on bed rest since Tuesday night.  I went back for another appointment on Wednesday.  They did an ultrasound and everything looked good!  I think this baby is going to have a lot of hair because we could see if floating in the fluid in the picture.  I guess that must be why my heart burn has been so bad!  They checked my blood pressure again and it had gone down!  I also lost 4 pounds overnight.  I guess I really did need to spend some time just laying around.  I can almost see my ankles again!!  My mom has been a wonderful help since all of this happened!  She's been cooking and cleaning for us and bringing me whatever I need!

Jessyel is on official paternity leave today.  I have very mixed feelings that we are both on leave from work and just sitting around with no baby.  I really didn't want my leave to start until I had the baby.  It's only been three days, which isn't so bad, but I hope she comes soon.

We go back to the doctor on Monday, and I have a feeling I will be induced.  I really don't want to be induced since it most likely means I'll have to get an epidural and it increases the chances of a c-section.  We'll see!  Being on bed rest is not the greatest thing in the whole world, but a least I will be rested up for the big day when it finally arrives.  I just hope it comes sooner than later!