Funny quotes from Bry's dad

I wish I had written down more of what he said when he was here last weekend, but this is what I did get on paper:

"She could dissect a banana and no one would know it was gone." (speaking of a politician, I think)

"cerfiticate"

"It's good to be disarming."

When will baby come?

Guesses were made without knowledge of other people's guesses - believe it or not. I had it be optional to include time, length and other factors.


Who                 Date                  Time        Weight           Length         Other                          
Bart                 12/31/2014                         8 lbs
My doctor       1/7/2015    
Bry                  1/10/2015                          7 lbs  5 oz
Roxanne         1/10/2015                           8 lbs 2 oz
Mandy            1/10/2015        12:24pm    8 lbs 12 oz     22 inches     Moderate amount of hair
Isaac               1/10/2015        9:00pm      7 lbs 10 oz    20 inches
Laurel Lee      1/11/2015                            7 lbs 14 oz                          Blonde hair; cute
Jane                1/11/2015         1:10am       8 lbs 6 oz      21 inches      Almost bald
Becca              1/11/2015         4:00pm      8 lbs 6 oz    
Allison            1/12/2015                            7 lbs 3 oz      20 inches       A bit of strawberry blonde hair
Liz                   1/12/2015        4:23am       8 lbs 3 oz                            Wisps of blonde hair
Rochelle          1/14/2015        8:42pm       7 lbs 14 oz    21 inches        Full head of dark hair
Aiden              1/15/2015        6:40pm       6 lbs  7 oz

Christmas

Bry and I got up and checked our stockings first. For breakfast we did a combination of our traditions: Bry made omelettes (that turned out perfectly - he's a pro), I cooked linguica and washed strawberries (normally my family has pineapple, grapes, and/or oranges but we picked up strawberries - close enough), and we had juice to drink.

After breakfast, Bry cleared up the dishes and we opened our presents which had been sent to us by family. 

We went and saw Into the Woods which has great music.

I called home and talked with family, watched some family videos that Becca had Costco transfer from VHS to DVD, and went to dinner with friends from our ward. We had a lot of fun at dinner and ate tons of delicious food. 

Overall, it was a wonderful Christmas day, and we were glad baby didn't decide to change our plans and come 2 weeks early. 

January is coming fast

I'm 34 weeks! And definitely looking more definitively pregnant.

Our baby girl makes me feel pretty squished sometimes and it feels really weird when she shifts around. Everything has been looking good, though, and time keeps moving. I can hardly believe it's almost December. 

Thanksgiving in Washington

Interesting note: In the last three years, Bry and I have moved up one State each Thanksgiving (CA, OR, WA).

This year was possibly the quietest Thanksgiving of my life. It ended up just being Bry and I on Thanksgiving day. It was so great to have him home on a weekday (even though it totally threw off my sense of what day of the week it was), and although it would have been nice to have been with lots of family, it was nice to have a relaxing holiday.

We started off the day by going to see Mockingjay, Part 1 which we both enjoyed.

We came home, ate lunch and were able to relax in the afternoon. We both worked on preparing the food for our Thanksgiving dinner. Since it was just the two of us, we kept it small and simple: ham, seasoned red potatoes, grapes for dinner with water and apple juice to drink; Toll House pie for dessert.

While it was nice to have a quiet Thanksgiving day, we were grateful to be joined on Friday and Saturday by Laurel Lee, Robert, and Valerie. We had Thanksgiving food, round 2, on Friday night - same food as Thursday but with stuffing also.

Saturday morning we woke up to snow which was a surprise! I blame Bry since he'd been saying it wasn't winter to him until he saw snow. Now it's winter. Luckily, it didn't snow too much and stopped snowing by late morning so the Corkrans were able to drive back to Portland safely.

Halloween 2014

Our last Halloween before becoming parents.

After changing my mind about 4 times, I decided to be a karate instructor (I have one pupil - she's a natural). Purple belt means intermediate; I didn't realize I was blocking it with my arms in the photo. Woops.

Bry was a Calgary Flames hockey player.

My motto idea

I decided today while shopping at a Costco I wasn't familiar with that they could use this motto:

In every Costco store you find the same wonderful joy. :)

Bry confessed to me that there are very few brands that he's as committed to as Costco. We are totally Costco fans.

So much to read

Good thing I have lots of time (for now). =)

Maybe I should figure out a schedule for reading all of these.... Luckily only some are library books.

Old Treasures

Becca helped me clear out some of the junk from my room this past Friday and I found some things that I no longer need but that I thought were worth a picture.

Electronic dogs that I thought were amazing when I was little.

A radio that made me feel like the coolest kid in elementary school because it was so small.

Slippers that were made by Grandma Chase many years ago.

My old dream catcher which I'd had since I was little. 

Aiden quotes from last week

Cousins aren't babies. Ever.

(When asked what he thinks a good baby girl name is:) Jesus.

I'm not handsome! I'm not wearing my Cars outfit.

(An Aiden classic for getting Landon to quiet down:) CROCODILE BOO! CROCODILE BOO!

Anderson/Snow family visit - overdue post

My parents, sister and nephews came out to visit Bry and I the second week of August. I gladly enjoyed being able to go around and see many of the sites that Bry and I went to our first month out here. In addition to some sites that were familiar for me, we also went to the Museum of Flight which was really cool. I forgot to bring my camera the first day so I missed taking photos at the Aquarium, on the Harbor Cruise, and at Pike Place Market.

View from the Space Needle. Foggy day. 

ZOO!

The otters were napping.

A hippo out of water! Might be the first time I've seen that.

Sitting in this plane freaked Aiden out because it made sounds.

Why isn't airplane food still like this?

This was Aiden's parting gift to us - he heard we had fruit flies in our apartment so this was his attempt at a trap. He sure is a cute kid. And he sure loves organizing magnets.

In addition to seeing some sights while they were here, we ate at some tasty restaurants, mom taught me how to cook fish (Bry was really excited about that), and mom bought maternity clothes for me and a pack'n'play for my baby, as well as a couple other items. Becca helped to clean up our second bedroom which was incredible and we can easily walk around in it now as opposed to doing the acrobatics that were previously required. My dad helped to move things out to our patio closet and installed a shelf in our washer/dryer/dining room closet which significantly added to the amount of stuff we can put in there. Thus, our kitchen is now better organized because we were able to move some things into that closet. It's great.

I'm so grateful for my family - for how helpful they are and how much they care about me and about Bry. I love them and I'm so glad I was able to see them up here for a week.

Happy half-way to me!

Today I am 20 weeks and would like to announce that last week the ultrasound technician said our baby looks like a GIRL! =D

Note: I'm not really showing much - following after my mom and sister in that way. When there's a bump to be seen, I'll post a picture for you.

Blog Update!

I changed the look of our blog! Now the background matches where we live. =) I was feeling like it needed a change, so here we go.

Baby giggles are too cute

This is my nephew Landon a week and a half ago in a restaurant. He liked it. Also, note his semi-crazy arm flailing. =) So funny.

Behold. More arm flails. This was totally cracking me up because he would wiggle his arms before each Cheerio. 

Bingham Family Reunion

August 1-8 was a fun week with the Bingham clan in Lincoln City. With 22 children and 10-16 adults (varied by day and activity), it was pretty crazy at times. We saw a lot of great places and I enjoyed spending time with them. Bry wished he could have stayed the whole week but with having started a new job this summer, it wasn't feasible, so he just came for the first couple days over the weekend. After he left I tried to take plenty of photos to fill him in.

On Saturday, we did family photos on the beach and watched a slideshow of families' photos from the last 2 years. Sunday we mostly took it easy.

Monday was our first day of adventure/travel. We went to two cheese factories up in Tillamook - Blue Heron and Tillamook. At Blue Heron we were able to browse the shop, feed some animals and the kids got to climb around on old farming vehicles/equipment. At Tillamook we walked through the factory viewing the process of making and packaging cheese, sampled some amazing cheese, and ate delicious ice cream. I would have taken a picture of mine because it ended up being a huge cone of ice cream, but I was too busy trying to lick it down to a less messy size.

In line for samples: "This is where our religion begins." ;)

Tuesday we drove over to Devil's Lake and hiked down to a waterfall and bridge. It was beautiful and it felt great to be outside in the woods.

Wednesday morning the kids/cousins participated in some "Olympic" games.

Award ceremony. 

Watermelon-eating contest. 

Wednesday afternoon we visited tide pools.

 

Thursday the cousins got to play some more games, the Bingham siblings went out for lunch, and we made a final trip down to the beach.

Our short walk to the beach.

See the faces in the sand? :)

 

"Tender-hearted sweet soul" - he's a cutie!

Birthday boy!

Friday was the pack-up-and-leave day, so we all said our goodbyes. BIG thank you to those who finished cleaning up the house at the end of the trip and to all those who helped with the preparation and planning of this big event. It was wonderful and I look forward to more reunions to come. :)