Bun in the oven

At long last, the awaited belly shot.  As you can see here, the baby is a growin'.  Stay tuned for ongoing ab growth.

Blackhawks

D scored some free--and AWESOME--tickets to the Blackhawks/Sabres game a couple of weeks ago. It was a great time, even though it was unbelievably cold that night. The seats were in the seventh row, right behind the goal.

Of course, it was even better that the Blackhawks won.

Belly photo FAIL!!

We took the first round of belly pictures on Tuesday. At 16 weeks, it was my first day wearing all maternity clothes. Unfortunately, Monsieur Photographeur decided that they are not blogworthy photos (something about white balance and apetures ... whatevs.) Anyway, rest assured that there is officially a bump, finally visible to the naked eye, and it will be documented here shortly.

(Though whether your eyes are naked or not is your business.)

Hunter Ice Festival

We went to Niles this past weekend to brave the elements and attend the 2009 Hunter Ice Festival.  We have never been so this was a first.  I am pleased to say that we were happily entertained.  There was a lot to see and do during the day and night.  It was also fairly well attended even though it was quite cold.

Here are a few of the ice sculptures.

Here you can see Ashley won king of the hill.

Here is a shot I took of my beautiful (and pregnant) wife drooling over some baked goods.

The Belleh

Some have started asking when we're going to start sharing pictures of the growing belly. Well, uh, there really isn't much of one. I feel like it's huge and obvious, but when I have D take a picture of it ... nothing.

So, in the meantime, you get a placeholder:

Week 13 Ultrasound

Well, apparently we did it this time. The doctors say we are going to have a baby in July. Around July 8th to be more specific. Contrary to my poor attempt at jokes here, we are very excited. We have a lot to do before July and some of us are more than a little scared, but we feel very blessed and can't wait for the newest member of the family this summer.

Week 13 Ultrasound
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