YAY, YAY, YAY!!!

Oh yea…and we’re not finding out what we’re having…the suspense might kill us, but we’ll wait!  Edit…I’m due July 15, we adjusted it a few days, but realistically I could have the baby -2 weeks or +1 week.  We’ll see!

The Cape is my happy place, it’s where I spent time every summer growing up. It was such a joy to share it with Amelia.  We went miniature golfing (I did win despite having Amelia in a sling on my hip), we ate lots of ice cream from Four Seas (YUM!) and Amelia had a few tastes herself.  We lounged around my grandfather’s home and enjoyed knowing that we didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything if we didn’t want to…the perfect vacation.

It’s hard to explain to someone who has never been there why I love it so much.  I hope these pictures help explain it a bit (that’s Dustin sailing in the second one).

We went for a long drive on Wednesday, upon Gramps’ recommendation we took the scenic route from Centerville to Province Town (P-Town).  Boy do those Cape Codders love their antique shops.

P-Town is an interesting place; it’s part beach town, part party town and part artsy-fartsy town.  I guess the best way I can describe it for Houstonians is by saying that it’s Montrose on the beach.  We ate lunch on the beach, walked the streets taking in the sites and picked up a few souvenirs before heading back toward Gramps’ place.

Here’s the Monkey on the beach. Sitting with Daddy, looking for stuff on the beach, being told ‘no, don’t eat stuff off of the beach’ and enjoying her ability to stand and cruise.

Here are a few street views of P-Town.  Yes, that shop is bizarre…it’s called Spank the Monkey.  Not sure what they sell, but it sure sounds interesting.

On our way back we decided to take in one of the many lighthouses on Cape Cod.  Well, unfortunately we chose the Chatham light house which is a. small and not very impressive, b. not really on the water and c. still operated by the U.S. Coast Guard and completely off limits to the public.  Oh well.

We had a wonderful time and look forward to taking Amelia back again and again.

Here are a few pictures from the first few days of our trip. If you want to see the rest please click here. ***Please note that these pictures are not the high resolution images and will not print well. If you want a certain image to print, heck if you want all of them please let me know and I’ll forward them to you. This is the case with ALL of the images on this site.

Keira learned to WALK at the Cape. She walked across the room toward me and didn’t think anything of it until we all started clapping and cheering. She continued to hone those skills throughout her time there and she’s a walking fool now! This is Keira just after she officially started walking. YAY Keira!

Here are the girls (Amelia, Keira and Kaitlynn) the first time they went into the water together. They were just dipping their toes in but Kaitlynn went ‘all in’ as you can tell in the second picture.

Keira and Amelia relaxing together

Gramps with the kiddos. I am certain that it’s not surprisingly to anyone that it’s quite hard to keep a 2 year old, a 14 month old, a 12 month old and an 8 month old focused and in one spot long enough to take a few pictures. It doesn’t help that we had lots of parents, grandparents and bystanders calling names and taking pictures. Fun stuff.

Amelia with her Great Aunt Kathy

Feeding the ducks before the bonfire…eek that sounds like we roasted the ducks…no worries we didn’t.

We had a wonderful time with our family and look forward to seeing everyone again soon!

It makes me think about all of the people that were there with us celebrating our wedding day five years ago. Most are still married, some are not. Some have kids now (maybe even a few) and some do not. Most are still with us, but I’m sad to say that some are not.

We’ve experienced so much together in the last five years; many, many happy times and a few sad ones too. We’ve both grown in our careers and taken big leaps together. We’ve had great adventures traveling to England, Italy and Egypt and little ones traveling closer to home. We’re working together to establish our business and define ourselves as artists. We’ve taken on the greatest and most rewarding challenge of our lives, being parents.

The constant in everything we do is the passion we have for each other. Dustin makes me laugh like no other. He gives me chills when he touches me. I get butterflies when I see him and I fall deeper in love with him every day. I admire him, I respect him and love him with everything I have.

Growing up I thought I’d move to NYC, Paris or some other city of intrigue and throw myself into my work, marrying in my thirties. I didn’t know that there were greater plans for me, that I’d find my soul mate at 16, that I’d marry at 23 and become a mother at 28. Never could I have imagined the beautiful life that would be laid out for me.

I would like to thank all of you, our family and friends for your endless love and support. Our lives are more fun and our hearts are more full because of all of you.

Here’s to another 5 years!

With love,

Kelley

Amelia (4.5 months) is certainly catching up to Keira (10.5 months)!

I was pregnant all of last baseball season and we planned at that time to have a personalized bat made for our little one for their first Astros game.  First stop when we arrived downtown was the gift shop in Union Station to have Amelia’s mini-bat made (see the picture below).

We had a great time and thankfully the Astros WON!!! We’ve been going to Opening Day for many years and we don’t remember the last time we won. The score was 5-3 with all of our runs from home runs (3 solos and 1 2-run home run).

Happy day!

Amelia’s Godmother, her cousin (my Goddaughter), her Great Aunt and Great Uncle came to visit from New York. We’re all pooped out from shopping and goofing off, but we had a fabulous time together.

We finally got the three girls together for some photos… (Amelia was pooped out hence the stoner look)

Small = Amelia (1 month)

Medium = Kaitlynn (5 months)

Large = Keira (7 months)

Here are my favorites…

For the rest of the photos of the girls click here.

Tueday (the 27th) marks an important milestone. Kelley and Amelia will be full term.

In (very frighteningly real) terms, this means that Amelia could be joining us any day now.

So – keep a close eye on this site for updates. We’ll of course keep the grandparents updated – but this will be our primary means of keeping everyone else up to date.

This will also be the *FIRST* place to get photos of Amelia.

We’ve also put together an e-mail distribution list. We’ve done our best to cover our bases, but we are human and destined to fail. Please don’t be offended if we missed you. The e-mails will be the same thing posted here.

So… wish us luck! Hopefully the post above this one is FAR more interesting to read!