The holidays are now winding down here at home.  We had a WONDERFUL holiday and were so excited to celebrate with Gianna.Everything started Friday, December 23 with lunch with friends.  A group of us from high school still get together at Chr…

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Happy Thanksgiving to all reading this.  My little family is going to have a busy day.  We always eat at my parents’ house which will have 17 people in attendance this year.  It’s quite a house full.  Afterward we’ll head to my husb…

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Today starts my last week home of maternity leave.  I go back to work on Thursday (Thursdays start our pay week at work).  I’m looking forward to having a regular schedule again and getting out of the house daily, but I am not looking forward…

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My little girl is now two months old.  It’s so hard to believe.  I tell her all the time she’s the sweetest thing I’ve ever known and I truly mean that.This month she has been smiling a TON at us.  Sometimes I just hold her and she …

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Last Monday, July 11, my husband and I welcomed our sweet little girl into the world.  Gianna Mary-Lynne was born at 5:27 p.m., 5 pounds 7 ounces and 18.5 inches long.She was born early.  We had our 36 week sonogram which revealed that s…

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I’m officially in Week 37 of my pregnancy which means the baby is considered full term and I could go into labor at any time although I’m thinking it’s going to be a few more weeks.  At our last sonogram we found the baby was on the small side, we…

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Sometimes I forget I started this blog to keep track of what’s going on in our lives so I can look back and see where we were and what we were doing.  I usually feel if I’m going to post something it needs to have a picture or a cute story which o…

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I haven’t posted a baby update for awhile and, since I’d like to look back on these posts someday, I thought I’d get something together for this week.How Far Along?23 weeks 6 days.  Tomorrow will start 24 weeks.Maternity Clothes?I’m mostly materni…

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My mom has been an avid quilter my whole life.  She has always tried to get my sisters and me to start, but I never felt I had the time… or the extra money to invest in a sewing machine and all the many tools and gadgets you need to get started….

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So somehow Mandi dropped the ball on week 18 and never posted so I don’t have a picture that I can copy from her blog.  They say at week 18 the baby is the size of a green bell pepper, so we’ll use our imaginations on how big the baby is.How …

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So, we somehow lost a week.  We counted so carefully, but when we went to the doctor last week we were told we were in our 16th week and thought we were only in our 15th week.  How that happened, we have no idea, but we just finished Week 17….

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So, the Super Bowl was yesterday.  My husband is a Denver Broncos fan so, by marriage, I’m also a Denver Broncos fan.  But, living in Northwest Pennsylvania it was hard not to get caught up in Steeler Fever for the big Bowl yesterday.  T…

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I’ve stolen this post from my sister, Mandi, from when she was pregnant.  My goal was to record things week by week so I could remember this pregnancy.  Unfortunately, work has kept me busy and I’ve been exhausted these first weeks, so coming…

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It’s been well over a month since I last posted on this blog, so I’m not sure how many are still reading.  I thought I’d post a few updates on what’s been going on here in our house.First, I’m working full-time and have been since this summer.&nbs…

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This blog has been put on the back burner for quite some time. I’ve wanted to start posting again, and the day I decided to do something, of course, the whole blog design fell apart. I had to start from scratch and fix everything. To start, I wanted to…

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I haven’t had anything new to post lately, so I thought I would pop in for a few updates on my life and good recipe.I finished school in May and am officially a nurse… well I still have to take my boards which will come later this month.  I acce…

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