Sneak Peek

Today we had a neat surprise! A good friend of mine, a dental hygienest whom I work with, has a sister who is an ultrasound technician... Annnnd well she pulled some strings and got us an early look at our growing little baby. What an incredible experience! This one was a freebie and a cheatie since usually you have your first ultrasound around 18 weeks. Well according to my calculations I was only 14 weeks as of last Saturday. Now we mainly got this done so that we could prove to everyone that I am NOT having twins... Im just carrying a bit of extra weight :) But to our surprise I am actually 2 weeks ahead of what I had originally thought. So I am just 4 months.. not fat. Oh and yes... there is only one baby in there. However he does have a head big enough for two! I guess it runs in the family..we all know who Im talking about... Sorry Ed :) We'll have the cutest bobble-headed babies ever. Oh and one more thing... she was pretty sure it is a boy, much to the joy of his father.. and I must admit Im quite excited about it as well. We go back for another look in about 3 weeks and we will know offically then. So he's happy and healthy and so are his parents. I did get a bunch of pictures that she sent home with us but I dont know how I will get them onto here. If anyone has any tips.. please help me out. You cant see a whole lot of detail... perhaps I will just wait until we get the next ones in three weeks. Anyways.. we just thought we would let everyone know... and announce to all his family and friends just how well he's doing, and that he will most likely be arriving two weeks prior to his original date of November 17th. Can't wait!

Nothing new

Life is pretty much predictable for us lately. Ed is busing working, trying to get us out of our lovely debt. I am busy working trying to be patient for this baby to grow bigger inside of me. Im still in that dreaded "fat" stage. Where I cant fit into my old shirts anymore, but Im still too small to fit into maternity clothes. It is weird to let my stomach all hang out though! It goes against everything I have practiced my whole life! Suck it in... suck it in. A few weeks ago I caught myself still trying to suck in, mostly when we were out in public. I find I cant do that very well anymore. It hurts :) Its starting to be very uncomfortable to lay on my stomach... not that I did it a whole bunch before.. but now that I find I dont have that option anymore... I've been wanting to do it!
I've been reading in my pregnancy book that Mom bought for me and looking at all the pictures of how the baby is supposed to look at this stage...11 weeks. Wow. It felt so good to hit the double digits! I cant believe how many more weeks I still need to go until the end. Now that I am counting by weeks... I find they tend to drag on.. and on and on. Im still convinced one of the best parts about becoming a Mom.... is not having to work anymore. Well.... maybe just a change of careers is a better way of putting it :) It will still be a ton of work. I cant wait to see him... yes we're both convinced its a boy! Ed and I both have had dreams it was a boy and I cant see a pretty princess of a girl making me feel this sick all the time! Besides, seeing how I was correct on my last dream prediction... Im feelin' good about this one!
Oh I almost forgot... I just wanted to say a quick congratulations to my brother-in-law Roberto on his recent engagement! He asked Mary-Ellen Purnell to be his beautiful bride :) Really, we were totally expecting it. AND as I am married to the best friend and brother of the groom to be... I get all the inside information early :) They have chosen the 20th of July to be married and are already well into the planning mode. Its an amazing and exciting time and I wish all the best for them! Congrats you guys!

BIG NEWS

And by "big" we mean "little" and by "Little" we mean "very very tiny"! Yes - you've guessed it...we're having a baby! Most of you already know by now but we thought we'd post it anyways. We're due in November so its still very far away but we're trying to be patient. We have some excited family members as the only Grandchildren on my side are in Australia, and it is the first grandchild on Ed's side. My mother-in-law is finding it hard to believe she still has 7 months to wait. Just wanted to say a congratulations to my sister in law Amanda who just announced that she is also pregnant with their 4th and due a month before I am! I can hardly wait to see the new arrivals!

A dream come true?

Whoa, so I know its been awhile. So long in fact that I forgot my username and password and it has taken me most of the night to figure it out again. We're back... finally.
Moving along.... anyone know how to interpret dreams? Or how you can make them come true? This afternoon, during a well deserved nap,I had a dream that Wes and Amanda came home to visit for a mere three weeks. I got to hold my little Reid again and let me tell you it felt SO REAL! I woke up soon after and forced myself back to sleep because I didnt want it to end. I ended up sleeping for another 4 hours, sadly with no more appearances from the missing Prepchuks. I don't REALLY want to ask because I already know the answer... but any chance of this one becoming a reality?? Oh ya.. and in the dream... Amanda was pregnant with their 4th.... Hmmmm interesting.

Gingerbread Houses

We had our friends, Brad and Amber Holt over to make some Gingerbread houses. Like I said before, ours doesn't even compare to Wes and Amanda's but we had fun anyways!

It takes alot of concentration :)

And that's pretty much how it went... Brad ate the candy.. Amber made the house :)

If you look closely you can see Brad's contribution... the dirty snowman... or snowwoman I should say.

And the finished result! Mine and Ed's on the left, Brad and Amber's to the right

In my defense... ours WAS nice until Ed decided to use his "artistic" abilities and slop icing everywhere.

A day at the Spa...

I treated Ed the other day to a relaxing foot and leg spa treatment! He soon fell fast asleep which is when I took advantage and stole some pictures.

He looks kind of scary really... but at least his pores are clean

Our Honeymoon

Aloha! As most of you know, we spent our honeymoon in Hawaii. It was beautiful! Im sorry Im not better with the camera. Even when you see the scenery in the pictures it just cant compare to being there in person but I tried!

Sleeping on the plane

Venturing out our first day there to find the beach

This would be Waikiki beach. Our hotel is nestled in there somewhere.

Our day at the beach, dont we look like we're having so much fun??

This old crazy guy next to us starting doing some sort of Yoga routine on his surf board before heading out to catch some waves.


Don't know if you can see the big hand somebody made in the sand

My model husband thinking he can wear a flower in his hair and look cute.


The view from our hotel room, the beach was off to the right

Ed relaxing on the sweet bedspread!

A submarine in Pearl Harbor

An anchor to one of the ships

Sorry, I forgot to turn this one. It was a clock that belonged to the Captain of the USS Arizona that sunk in the Harbor. The time is frozen to the hour the ship sank.

This memorial is in the middle of the Harbor directly over the sunken USS Arizona which claimed most of the casualties in the attack. The bodies are still inside the ship.

A map of Pearl Harbor

These plaques have the names of all who died that day. I couldnt even fit all of them into one picture. It was very humbling being there and reading about all that history.

Getting ready to go shopping

This was the start of our drive up the coast to the Temple on our last day

There was some really nice scenery behind his head :)

It would have been a nice picture if the traffic light hadnt popped up out of no where.

The Hawaiian Temple

A view from the top




This is in the back of the Temple where they have a small cemetery, and where you can go and pick coconuts from the trees.

Okay, has anyone seen the show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter"on TV lately?? Well if you dont, you're missing out. Anyways, Ed thought I was crazy but I made him take me to the place where most of the show is filmed. It was only a few blocks from where we were staying. If we had went during the day I probably could have met the Dog! I was so disappointed.

I always bug Ed because everywhere we go he always knows SOMEONE. It doesnt matter where we are. I thought we were safe in Hawaii... turns out I was wrong. This is a friend that Ed grew up with here in Calgary, he is going to school at BYU and working at the Polynesian Centre near the Temple (which is why hes dressed like that)


Walking around the Polynesian Center

With this ring...

Welcome to our new blog spot! I know the wedding was awhile ago but I just figured out how to put all the pictures on here so bear with me if you have already seen these. I thought it appropriate to start off with the day we begane our life together. Enjoy....

Ed getting ready to marry his beautiful bride, sure looks happy doesnt he??

Our first picture as husaband and wife!

Totally stepped on my dress...

The Caballero's

The Prepchuk's

Ahhhh, a whole day taking pictures of me?! Lets do it again!

It looks like we're hugging but really he squeezed the breath right out of me.

This is one of my favorites

I got my fall wedding! The colors were beautiful

The boys

So handsome

Awww so in love

They pretty ladies