i guess i really am pregnant!

so guess what? i am officially half way through my pregnancy...and i have a tummy to show for it!!! i was beginning to wonder if i really was pregnant. it wasn't until christmas break that my stomach suddenly appeared and i feel like i am expanding every single day now. it is the craziest thing. but is also kind of exciting. i decided we best start documenting. so here are the most recent pictures of me (21 weeks) showing off my new shirt and shoes we got this weekend while out shopping for maternity clothes!!!! i tried to last as long as possible, but i guess it is time.:)





we also made our first baby purchases this weekend. it was so much fun. i wanted to buy everything!!! at old navy we bought 2 pairs of shoes and 1 shirt for a grand total of $3.65. how awesome is that?! the little shoes are the cutest things i have ever seen in my life. i loved it. we are getting more and more excited every day about our baby girl and can't wait to meet her!

top 10 of 2010

1. finding out we are going to be having a baby girl!!!! she will be joining our family the end of may/early june. we are so excited!

2. moving down the street into a duplex where we are now next door neighbors with abi, arie and little evelyn. we love being neighbors!

3. we spent a week in outerbanks in an awesome beach house with dental friends. we have decided it is our new favorite vacation spot!

4. rich has real patients now! he is in his third year and is just moving right along

5. brittany has been working at a new doctors office for the whole year now and is loving working part time so she has time to do fun things like learn to crochet and take ASL with her friend brook.

6. it was a year of parties. we found many excuses to get together with all of our friends here--pie parties, byu games, halloween, fondue, donut making you name it! we are so thankful for all our wonderful friends here.

7. we got in lots of other fun traveling besides outerbanks including toronto (rich's parents), chicago (a very fun spring break) , DC (visiting rich's aunt and uncle), and new york city (long weekend with brook and linwood). we love to travel!


8. we survived another winter in pittsburgh, even through a giant snow storm in february where we received 21 inches of snow in one night!!!

9. we headed out west for a few weeks this summer and managed to see a lot of family and friends in utah, idaho (family reunion with rich's family) and washington. we love being out west and with our families!!!

we spent thanksgiving in California full of manly activities for the boys (paintballing, hiking, and football) while the girls got manicures, saw tangled and made many tasty foods. we also managed to all play some tennis!

10. volunteering. we volunteered to help out with special olympics and had a great day cheering on all the competitors. we also participated in the pittsbugh children's festival where we spent the afternoon with an alpaca, a pig, some miniature horses, and a bunch of goats (not the best smelling of our outings). we went to cosmopolitan pittsburgh which was an art crawl and fancy-pants party where we manned the craft booth. we loved dressing up and eating all the fancy foods.


2010 has been another great year. we look forward to what 2011 has in store for us!