Month: July 2014

chip whitley

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Keith and I have a ritual before bed – he reads and I watch videos (usually trailers on IMDb or YouTube videos). The other day I came across a video that Conan O’Brien and Dave Franco did together last week. Usually Keith gets annoyed if I watch more than a few videos, but this time, he was intrigued. The video is about Conan and Dave joining Tinder, a social networking app that allows people to meet others in their area – pretty much a dating app.

Anyway, I’ll let you watch the video on your own but man did Keith get a kick out of Conan’s fake name. I haven’t seen him laugh that hard, well since the previous day. I make him laugh often. 🙂

I know I said the baby’s nickname was going to be Big Foot but that’s been overruled by Keith and it’s now Chip Whitley.

baby’s first boat shoes

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We may not own a boat (and probably never will) but I had to get the baby his very first Sperry’s. I love when Keith wears his boat shoes so it was only suiting to get his mini me a pair as well. Plus, they were on sale at Nordies!

P.S. Now knowing the gender of the baby, I may have gone overboard with buying baby clothes and shoes. I hit up Nordstrom, Gap and Carter’s in the couple weeks – at least everything I bought was on sale right?!? 😉

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a bug’s life

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Normally when my parents let me watch the big box, they put on HGTV for me. My favorite show is probably Property Brothers and Love It or List It (the original one). However, the other day my mom put on a movie for me and it was A Bug’s Life. Have you seen it? At first I wasn’t super into it because like mom, I hate bugs. But after a few minutes, it grew on me so I watched the whole thing! I especially like the little ant, Dot.

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big foot

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Before I get to the main point of this post, I want to recall a few things that happened in the last couple weeks:

1) A few days before Keith and I found out we were having a boy, I had a dream about the baby. In the dream, I didn’t know the gender of the baby right away but saw it’s foot pushed against my stomach. I remember thinking that the foot seemed really big and it was also this bluish color since I was at an ultra sound in my dream. Towards the end of the dream, I had this inclination that the baby was a boy though it was never confirmed. That was the only time that one of my baby dreams revealed one gender or another – guess it was right. 🙂

2) At the ultra sound where we found out the gender of the baby, the technician taking the measurements commented a couple times on how big the baby’s feet were. She even stated that I was growing a puppy in my belly!

3) On another note, we were at Bartell Drugs the weekend before the party and were looking for a gag gift to use for the incorrect guess prize winner. Keith had suggested getting a random big foot figurine that was on the shelf with some other terrible Seattle chotskies. We decided against the big foot figurine as the prize giveaway but we still laugh just thinking about the stupid thing.

4) I had to go in for another ultra sound today to check the baby’s heart since my brother had a heart condition when he was younger and the doctor wanted to make sure it wasn’t hereditary. A different technician helped me this time and during the visit, she had also commented on how big the baby’s feet were!

 

Here’s a picture from today’s ultra sound – I think we’ll nickname him Big Foot for now. That was the main point of my post so sorry for the ramble.

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baby brother

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A couple months ago, my parents asked me if I wanted a baby brother or baby sister. They each put out their hands (dad = boy, mom = girl) and asked me to pick one. To be honest, I didn’t really know what was going on so I went for daddy’s hand since he usually gives the best pets.

I guess my wish came true – the baby is going to be a boy! I would have been fine either way but I think it’ll be fun to have a boy around the house.

What I’m looking forward to the most is licking his feet like I did with baby Lily.

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without further adieu…

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It’s a BOY!!!

Since Keith and I didn’t get a chance to throw a housewarming party when we moved to Seattle last year, we decided to host a Summer BBQ / housewarming party that included the reveal of our baby’s gender. We had an awesome turn out with a combination of family and friends. And the weather held up nicely for us – not too hot and not too cold.

We always knew we wanted to do something fun for the reveal of the baby’s gender. We scoured the internet for ideas but everything seemed so generic and overdone. Keith and I also wanted to involve Pearl somehow so we came up with an idea for Pearl to wear a t-shirt and colored bandana that would reveal the baby’s gender. She did a great job and it seemed everyone was surprised. The best part was just seeing all the smiles and laughs as she tried to walk around to say hi to people. Pearl even posed for pictures at the end!

As part of the gender reveal portion, we had our guests vote on which gender they thought the baby was by writing their name on the back of a mint (boy) or orange (girl) raffle ticket. Once we revealed the gender, we selected a ticket from the pool of folks that guessed right. The grand prize winner was Liv Nedved, one of our close friends that also moved to Seattle last year, who went home with a $25 gift card to Amazon. And we didn’t want to leave out the people that guessed incorrectly so we had a secondary price which was Fas, the KS 107.5 cash cow. This went to my aunt and second mom, Bac Phuong, who then willed it down to my niece, Addy.

All in all it was a great party. Thank you to everyone that could make it and to my parents for all their help!

 

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diy backyard

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In preparation for our summer BBQ and gender reveal party, Keith took on the task of reworking our backyard.

The previous owners had filled the backyard with bushes and shrubberies that we didn’t care much for. We decided to strip out what we could and make the grass area as big as it could get. After a couple weeks of manual labor, Keith with the help of our good friend, Mike, was able to finish the job. I’m very proud of my husband for taking this on – he went in with no knowledge of landscaping and ended up with a beautiful new yard!

The first two pictures below show the step-by-step stages Keith took in getting our yard in tip top shape. If you look closely in the first picture, you’ll see Pearl taking her last poop on the old grass before it was taken out. The last picture shows the final product – “try my product” (inside joke between Keith and I).

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Yard Evolution 2

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