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Keane's Arrival!!

Can't believe our sweet boy is here already!! It all happened so fast! I didn't even get to update the blog from all the other things that happened!
There was Thanksgiving... We did a short pregnancy photo shoot at Santa Monica. Here's a couple that Laine really liked.

the pier in the background

 

me n chia, freezing on the beach on Thanksgiving afternoon!

And after a nice walk and some pictures, we headed over to Pastor Soon's for a yummy dinner with great friends! It was a really nice Thanksgiving.

The next day, my parents visited for the weekend. We were on the go the whole time they were here! We did some mall shopping, did the L.A. Flower Market, Ikea (a first for my dad!), Santa Monica, and we even got our Christmas tree!! Yeah! All of that in 2 days! We're awesome!!

Santa Monica walk with mom and dad.                                                Mom and Chia (going potty, HA!)

  

Me n Mom at Cafe 50's enjoying milkshakes!

Dad and Laine looking at Christmas trees.

Our next appointment to see the Dr. was on Wednesday afternoon and that's when the craziness started! I started with a routine ultrasound since they have been monitoring the baby and his growth. After the ultrasound tech looked at me, she called in the Dr. and they discussed the decrease in Keane's growth. And while all this busy chatter was going on, the things that stood out to me was "We need to call her Dr." and "that baby needs to get delivered!" and I was scared! They sent me straight to my Dr.'s office. She was a lot more tactful in explaining to me what was going on. That since I was 38 weeks and full term, the baby could be delivered healthy. His growth had decreased in the last 4 weeks because the placenta wasn't giving him what was needed to grow. And they said his growing outside would be better at this point than staying in. She sent us right over to admit us into the hospital and start inducing! We were surprised, scared and totally unprepared, but totally excited! After being induced Wednesday night and Thursday, I finally went into active labor on Thursday evening when they broke my water and went from 6 cm to fully dilated in an hour!! That was a miracle! By 10:30, they had me in the delivery room and not even an hour later, Keane was delivered and healthy!! He was born 12-1-11 at 11:10, 5 lbs. 7 oz. and 17 in. long! Sweet and healthy, beautiful baby boy! We are so blessed! Please enjoy the following pics Laine captured! 

Laine cutting the cord

Oma and her first grandbaby

 

    cute pic <3                              all the generous gifts

 

going home

 a sleepy baby at home

Chia and Keane meet!

After 9 months of roller coaster riding with this pregnancy, when we delivered a perfectly healthy baby 3 weeks early, all I could say was how awesome God is! We truly are blessed to have such an awesome baby!  Thank you again for all your love and support!! 

Love, Laine, Jessica, and Keane xox

2 Showers and a Trip Home

Less than a month to go!!!! So crazy! I can't believe how fast all of this is going by!
This last month we've been literally showered with blessings! People have been so generous to us! Our small apartment is quickly filling up with  baby things and I didn't even realize how much space it takes! Haha! But it's been really fun!
Last weekend was my shower with our sweet church family. I have to say that it was thousand times more then I would've ever expected! The hostesses designed adorable graphics that were all over the place. We had a yummy brunch, games and I opened plenty of gifts! They had stopped at the flower market that morning and there were beautiful flowers everywhere!! And they also had a candy bar!!! It was so cute and yummy!

they had me sit with all the adorable stuff surrounding me! See the diaper cake? One of my favorite little touches!

candy area! 

So cute!

Monday morning I was in Nor Cal by 7:30! It was really nice! I had some quality time in Sacramento with my mom eating breakfast, shopping and then traveling 2 hours back to Redding! The week in Redding was a great one!! Every family moment was very special and pleasant (which says a lot for my family!). Karen threw me an adorable baby shower while I was in town! It was so awesome to see some really old friends, and spend time with some really sweet ones! We had an awesome potato bar for dinner, games and then opening gifts! And OH BOY! I was so spoiled! 

   

It was such a fun night and I felt so blessed to have so much support from friends that are so far and yet love us and still want the best for us! I loved every minute of the fun night! It was great! And it was only possible because of sweet Karen who did so much! LOVE HER!

At the end of my stay, we had one last family night with a great steak dinner and 2 movies, plus, homemade pumpkin pie!

which I made from scratch! YUMMY!!

We loved it all! It was great and I can't wait to see them again for Christmas and Keane will be there!! We are so excited to see him! 

A HUGE thank you to Carol, Juhee, Lianne, Phuong, Yvonne, and Karen for my showers! They were so awesome and I will never forget them! Now, I'm recovering from the trip (got a little bit of a head cold) and working on washing spot stuff. Hopefully will open in the next few days!! Thanks again for the love and support from everyone!!

xox~ Jessica

Halloween Recap and a splash of PTL!

Our Halloween weekend was very fun! We haven't been able to really celebrate and go full out like that in a couple years! Our costume idea was actually stolen from a parent magazine and I fell in love! I wanted to integrate my preggo belly into my costume, but couldn't think of anything creative, but this idea stole my heart and Laine was on board as well since he was part of it! On Saturday morning, I walked over to the office building accross the street from our apartment and raided their recycle bins for a large box!

Cut out my head hole, arms, and oven opening and the covered it in butcher paper! 

Just drew on my knobs and details and vwalah! My oven for the bun! 

Then the extra butcher paper made Laine's baker hat! He borrowed the chef coat from a good friend and he was complete! I was so proud when everything was done!! I made it all the day of the party in just a few hours and it looked great!! PLUS, we won first place for the costume contest at our friends Halloween party! There were some really great costumes there!

  

Here we have a woopie cushion! Brilliant! Everytime someone hugged him, he would make a "pfft" sound! And then there was the "careless electrician". By far one of the most creative costumes I've seen! He looked great!! Then there were our hosts for the evening.

Andrea and Jess each performed some songs for us while we munched on some yummy homemade treats! It was really a fun night and great to see some good friends! The biggest hit was a delicious treat called "Kevin's Cakey balls" (Kevin is Jess's husband). It was pretty entertaining to hear the comments that went into that one. They REALLY were amazing though! No one could stop eating them!! HA!

Laine and the man behind the woopie cushion! ;)

Then we ended up visiting our buddy Matt from UPC (church) and some friends were there hanging out, playing games and chatting. It was a good night and we got a lot of use outta the costumes I put so much love and labor into! hehe

Not the best ultrasound pic. Keane loves to press his face against my tummy so the pics aren't really that great in detail to get his face. But I still love them! I seriously only see his daddy in him so far!

Today I had an ultrasound appointment to check up on things! Well, I haven't really mentioned to many people some of the hard times we've had through the pregnancy. My first and second trimester screenings were positive for possible down syndrome baby. It was really hard to hear that (as any parent would agree). We decided against amniocentesis and further testings as we would never intend to "terminate" the pregnancy and most of the reason for the positive screening was because of my blood testing and nothing to do with the baby's growth.  I didn't want to put myself or my baby through that stress! So, we decided to give it to God and He would have control of this! I knew in my heart that it was Satan trying to scare us as new parents and I wasn't going to let him have that satisfaction.

As the pregnancy went on, our 3rd trimester ultrasound (about 25 week mark) said I had developed "notching" on the left side of the womb. This is a newer thing that the medical staff is aware of so there isn't much information on the term. But it meant that we were to come in a lot more often to watch Keane and be sure he was developing correctly. Again, I felt a satanic attack! But I knew in my heart that everything was going to be okay! 

Today, at almost 34 weeks, I went in for this routine ultrasound to check on the status of baby because of my "notching" problem. The ultrasound technician called the Dr. in to give the status and she turned and looked at me and said, "WOW! It's amazing!! No more left notching! You've completely healed yourself!" and I knew I had nothing to do with it and just praised God for the power of His healing! After all was done, Keane is perfectly healthy in there at 4.5 lbs and all measurements are perfect! Praise the Lord for all He has done for us! It's so amazing to see His miracles at work! Please continue to pray with us as we look forward to a healthy and safe delivery in just 6 weeks!!

Psalm 127:3-5 "children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows, in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court." 

October Fun!

October has been really great! I've been feeling good and making more time for socializing and fun stuff!

We went to First Friday in Venice this month with a few friends. Food trucks lined up all along the streets and people waiting in crazy lines for them! Plus there was some night life out and it was fun people watching! Laine found this great old gate for a backdrop and made me stand in front to take a few shots. I was so tired! AND wearing my Awana uniform~

Then we saw crazy stilts man. 

He was kinda cool! 

It was a fun start to our month! We did two weddings this month! First was Cherry's (previous blog) and then last weekend a couple from the church! Laine was their MC! He did a great job!! This weekend we went to the pumpkin patch with some friends!

 We did the haunted maze and ate tons of amazing food!! Including a BBQ pork sandwich and funnel cakes. 

I've been getting bigger every day! Which is such a good thing! I can't wait till Keane gets here! I'm 32 weeks now and it's just crazy to think we only have a few more weeks to go! All seems to be going well so far, so please continue to pray for a healthy baby and safe delivery when it's time for Keane to arrive! Still have a trip to Redding, 2 baby showers, and a visit from my mom and dad before he even get's here! But I know it will just fly bye! Tomorrow I have another Dr.'s apt and we will continue to keep you posted on how things go!!

Love and God Bless 

xox

Weekend in San Diego

What a crazy weekend it was! Friday, we left for San Diego and what shoulda've been a 2.5 hour trip ended up being almost 4 hours!! Right when we were leaving our place it started raining, which is never a good sign! If there's rain, there's traffic! It cleared up when we got to Irvine, but by this time, traffic rush was at it's fullest all the way to our destination. NOT FUN! When we finally got there, I had just missed the rehearsal! I pulled up right when they were finished! So we went to dinner and enjoyed the rest of our time there.

Saturday started at 8:00 a.m. and was a very long day! Our hotel was in this adorable area of S.D. called Little Italy and for lunch, Laine brought me the best meatball sandwich I've ever had in my life from a deli where they pack their own meat! SO GOOD!! After hair and makeup, pictures were at 2:30 and ceremony was around 3:45. It was a beautiful day! NOT KIDDING! One of the most perfect weather days I've seen in a while. Not too hot, breezy and not a cloud in the sky! The location was a beach park in the harbor so there were all these amazing boats around. It was so nice! Here's some of Laine's shots right after the ceremony:

This was one of the three flower girls. She is Cherry's (the brides) niece. She was not happy during the ceremony until the recession, then she was all smiles and playing with bubbles. She was so cute!

I LOVED our bouquets! They were callalillies and orchids and little white feathers! So pretty!!

The other flower girl enjoying the bubbles. She is Bill's (the grooms) niece.

Cherry was and IS so beautiful! He dress was so cute and she was just stunning!

Next we headed back to our hotel for the reception. They had a rooftop set up with cabana's and an amazing view of the ocean! Plus the weather was just so perfect!

Laine got this amazing picture of the sunset. Totally reminds me of the song John Mayer sings called 3x5 only it talks about sunrise not sunset... "shoulda seen that sunrise with your own eyes. It brought me back to life" Ayway, point is, a picture can't capture how beautiful that night was. It was awesome!

The happy couple! Bill and Cherry off to play in the photo booth! It was really fun! They had the photo booth and then used those pics for their guest book! It was so cute!! And a lot of fun!

We got home yesterday morning since Laine had to be at the church by 9:00 a.m. and after a really long day at church, we came home and took a nice long nap, watched the newest transformers movie and then went straight back to bed! We needed the rest!!

Laine just got his new camera last week and here are a few pics that he's been messing around with.

Our sweet little girl. Shes such a princess! Whenever she saw Laine playing with the camera, NO JOKE, she would go straight to him and look at him, or pose, or lay down all pretty!! SO FUNNY!!

Baby bump!

Mom, this one's for you. LOVE how chis's in the background with her little tongue sticking out!

Now that we are all rested up, we are getting back to things this week. Laine has to work today and I have a lot of WashingSpot things to take care of. There are a lot more pictures to come with Laine's camera. He's really getting the hang of it and getting some really good shots! I'm so glad we got one!!