Oct. 18-21, 2008 - at the cabin

We had a nice visit with everyone. I spent most of Saturday in bed and stayed at the cabin. Ventured out Sunday for the afternoon with mom and dad to do some antiquing/shopping in downtown Blueridge and had a great time. Joe and Jen showed up with the boys Sunday and Eileen, Rich, and Stephanie made it up Monday.

Was a nice trip and had great food and company, with beautiful views!

Oct. 17th - Over the river and through the woods...

After spending much of the week baking, cooking, and getting food items together to take (as well as getting all the stuff together for all of the animals to leave for Kyle, who house-sit for us while we were gone). We got the rest of our stuff packed up and loaded in the car to head up to the mountains. Poor Max, he was absolutely traumatized that we left without him!

It's a nice short drive up, only takes about 50 minutes. But wouldn't it figure, I made it the whole way through the first trimester without getting sick, and I had to make Thomas pull off the side of the road when we were about a mile from the cabin! Oh well. I think I just overdid it during the week.

Got to the cabin around 6, which still gave us some time to enjoy the evening. Very nice cabin, and absolutely gorgeous views. At the top of a mountain with a nice view of the valley and other mountains on 2 sides.

Oct. 14, 2008

Since we officially "graduated" from the Specialists last week, I had to have my first visit with my midwife today, Kim Storey. She will be handling all of my prenatal care and delivery. It went just fine, they agree that everything looks perfectly normal and we spent most of the time reviewing my paperwork from the specialist. She did want to listen to the heart, so she used a little microphone device on my belly and we easily found the heartbeat. It was pretty cool because as we were listening we got to hear a kick too. She was saying "that's the heartbeat at 150, oh, and that's a kick." Next appt not for another 4 weeks, so things can slow back down a bit in regards to appointments (Good!).

Looking forward to joining Mom and Dad Starr up at the cabin in the mountains this weekend for some R&R (going up Friday after work through Tuesday morning).

Oct. 11, 2008 - Outlet shopping for the girls!

The long awaited shopping day finally arrived. Mom Starr, Catie, Berna, Katie Murtha, and myself took the day to head up to the N. Georgia outlets so we could say good bye to Katie before she left us for 3 months for Oklahoma. I had a wonderful time with everyone. We stopped and had lunch first and then worked our way through the outlets throughout the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. Katie was able to find some nice outfits for work and I got a bunch of clothes to help handle my expanding waist line (definitely don't fit into my regular clothes anymore, although maternity stuff is still a bit loose for now). Catie got a few pair of her new love - Sberry shoes (look cute on her but make Katie and I look like grandpa material. yes, you got it right, grandpa, not grandma). Berna even found herself a few nice shirts for very good prices. And yes, we were finally able to convice Mom Starr to buy some pants and 2 shirts for herself. All in all I had an absolutely wonderful time. I was exhausted by the time I got into bed Saturday night and lounged most of the day Sunday, but it was wonderful. Thank you ladies!

Additional Sept. 25, 2008 (ultrasound picture)

Just wanted to go back and add the pictures from the second ultrasound.

October 7, 2008

Today we had our last OB follow-up visit with the specialist. So we got to "graduate." Had our third ultrasound. Fingers were more pronounced, could see the spine, eye sockets, etc. And again, lots of movement. Measured in just at 2 inches crown to rump. It's just amazing how quickly things develop and they grow/change!

Still feeling alright although definitely running out of clothes that fit in a hurry. Can't wait to go shopping with Berna, Katie M, Catie, and Mom Starr Saturday! Hopefully I can find some things that fit now during this in-between stage.

Thomas got to video some of the monitor this time around: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7774727878343435453

September 30, 2008

Any of you that really know me probably aren't surprised by my limited postings... ha! Since I'm starting to grow out of my clothes (can't fit into my jeans anymore and what's left is getting tight around the waist), Thomas has started taking pictures of my "baby bump."

First Picture - 10 Weeks