Kansas fun and the adventure continues...

I feel like life has been a bit of a whirlwind lately, so it was nice to finally get away. Matt and I traveled the amazing 13 hours back to Kansas to visit friends and family. We managed to fit in all of our favorite things, such as time on the KU campus, Valentino's buffet (yum!), and all of our amazing friends and family. It was a super long drive, but it didn't seem like it took as long this time as last (probably because we were looking forward to it!) The main reason we went back was because my mom, sisters, and friends decided to throw me baby showers!!

My sisters and mom threw the first shower on Saturday. We played a couple of games, including the one where you melt candybars in diapers and then you guess which ones they are, and opened presents. The candybar game was a blast, even though I wasn't nearly as good at guessing candy as I thought!! I also got some pretty fantastic presents, but I really enjoyed seeing my family.



Here I am enjoying the cake and punch. Look at how adorable that punch is!



I love this picture. It looks like my mom and aunt are super confused!


We traveled to Lawrence on Sunday where some of our good friends threw us a co-ed baby shower. We enjoyed TONS of amazing food and opened up some more adorable presents! It was great to see all of our best friends, just wish our visit had lasted longer. We have some amazing friends and it's sad that we can't see them more often!

Here are a few pictures from the second shower!







I'm also into my third trimester. I can not believe how fast time has gone. It seems like just yesterday I found out I was pregnant and now I'm 11 weeks from being done! We are both anxious for David to make his appearance! Matt's dad and brother came into town this weekend and helped us move some stuff around. We moved the guestroom into the front office and started on David's room. Matt and his dad assembled the crib while Matt's brother assembled the rocker. They also helped us put together the car seat and stroller. Now all we need is a changing table/dresser and some decorations on the wall and we'll almost be ready for him!

I'll post some pictures on the next blog of where we're at with the room so far! Look forward to those!

Baby Kicks and Utter Awesomeness!

It has been quite an interesting couple of weeks with some new and interesting developments. First- I have started to feel actual kicks! At first I just felt flutters, which were fun, but not as great as the real thing. One night I was lying in bed and all of a sudden *kick* *kick.* I texted Matt and made him come feel too! And now I feel it all of the time. It's not really time specific, but it kind of tickles so it makes me giggle. It's probably the best thing about being pregnant so far!

Second- Matt won some awards for his work at the newspaper! I'm probably going to butcher these, but there are two organizations which offer these awards. One is the Colorado Associated Press and one is the Colorado Press Assoc. (I think!) Matt won first place for best sports story (YAY!) and also won first place for best SPOT news coverage with another reporter because of their awesome coverage on a missing DJ. Matt was obviously excited about both awards, but ecstatic about the sports coverage! After all of the hard work he has been putting in, it's good to know he's being recognized for it! It's also been nice to meet some of the people Matt deals wtih. I met one of the coaches the other day at Bresnan and he couldn't say any nicer things about Matt. It's good to know that people do actually see all of the long nights and weekends he puts in. I mean, the guy works pretty much 7 days a week. There is no such thing as a day off for him.

Third- TWO WEEKS UNTIL KANSAS!!!!!!!!!! I'm not sure I've ever been this excited about a vacation. Work has been killing me recently and I could definitely use a break. The only downfall is we have to board the dogs for a week. We figured that the money we're paying is definitely worth the piece of mind we'll be getting by letting our vet take care of them. Hopefully they will be smart enough to let them stay together because they HATE being apart!! There are so many reasons I'm looking forward to this trip! 1) Baby showers (CAN'T WAIT!!!) 2) Seeing my sisters and family 3) Seeing friends, hopefully. 4) Seeing my parents. I've learned to miss my parents much more now than I live so far away and only get to see them once a year. Neither of us are really looking forward to the drive, but we've already decided that people are going to have to come visit us! Driving 13 hours to Kansas will not be happening in 2012, especially with a newborn! I'm especially not excited because I found out I have a test to take sometime between Wednesday night-Saturday night, which means I'll have to work on it while I'm at home trying to vacation in Kansas. The plan is to work on as much as I can during the drive and hopefully finish a majority of it before we hit Seneca Wednesday evening.

I don't have any fun photos for this one because I'm still trying to catch Buster and Bella "bobbing" for ice cubes in their water bowl. Yes, it's hilarious but no, I can't seem to catch it on camera.

New and Improved

First, I apologize for the lack of posting lately. It seems like we've had so much going on lately with work, school, and baby stuff. Nothing too exciting has been going recently, but here's a small recap.

One, I'm 22 weeks along in my pregnancy, with the 23rd week starting on Tuesday. I also get to see the doctor again and have about a billion questions. I'm starting to get much bigger and it's much easier to tell I'm pregnant now instead of just "chubby," which is how I felt before.

Two, Matt has been working like a madman. Not like that is anything different than usual. He's been working from home on Saturday's covering basketball games and wrestling. Luckily, he's been getting tons of good comments, which I think just proves he's doing a good job. He also turned 25 last week. I've been telling him how weird it is that he's in his mid-20's, but in reality, it's not such a big deal.

Third, the dogs are crazy! They've been doing some extremely cute, and sometimes annoying things lately. It's been crazy cold here so for a while, Bella was just refusing to go outside. We'd open the back door, let Buster run out and Bella would run away. She's getting better now that it's in the 50's, but still funny. They've also been doing some funny things in the snow. Today we came back from our walk and let them play in the front yard. Our house faces north so all of the snow that drifted up there that we were too lazy to shovel is still up there. They both laid in it for a while, then Buster would slide around in it and start rolling. Oh, the days I wish I had my camera! We've also learned that Bella loves to watch TV. Her favorites are sports, Conan, and Dancing with the Stars. She turns her head while watching so I'm pretty sure she's paying attention.

I officially made it through my human resource class and started Managerial Finance this week. I'm a big nervous for the 7-8 page paper I have due next Sunday, but I'm hoping to finish group homework today so I can dedicate the rest of my week to it. We also had some family in town for the last few days, which was a nice break. Matt's mom, uncle, and cousin came to visit and we had fun hanging out and relaxing. His mom also bought the cutest ever Derrick Rose onesie for the baby. It's officially the first piece of baby clothing for David, since I have yet to buy any. Other than that, we're looking forward to going back to Kansas next month and I'm trying to survive school while fitting in everything else I want to accomplish. I'm willing to bet that will be a problem for quite a while. :)

Now for some cute pictures.



Bella watching TV.



Bella's new favorite place to sleep.


The adorable Derrick Rose onesie



My growing baby bump at 21 weeks. Normally I'm against this type of photo, but I think it's important to show how big I look already.



Buster's favorite way to sleep- on his back, while rolling around and growling

It's a............

BOY!!!!!!



We had our second ultrasound at 19 weeks yesterday and it was the prefect time to see gender. We were a little concerned because our cute little boy decided he wanted to take a nap for the first 20 minutes so the ultrasound tech wasn't sure we'd be able to tell. I almost started crying because I was so tired of waiting!! She took tons of pictures of the cute boy including the four chambers of his heart (yes you can see this!), and his kidneys. She also took the size of his brain, his femur (the bone in his thigh), and his tummy. It was so fun to see every little part of him! The tech had me turn on both of my sides to see if she could get him to move and he did...just long enough for her to tell us it's a boy!! I turned over on my back again and she looked at the spine and then...THE MONEY SHOT! ^ He moved just long enough for us to get the above shot! The only downfall is that we couldn't get a good face shot because the little guy wouldn't face camera! Basically we have a stubborn, somewhat lazy and tired, camera shy little boy...he's just like his mommy!

Another cute moment was when we got to keep watching him sleep with his arms near his head. First, behind his head then one near his brow, etc. This is adorable because it's the same way I sleep! I always have an arm above my head, next to it, or I'm laying on it. I started crying when we saw this.

We were extremely surprised because we were both thinking girl, but are both happy. Matt is extremely ecstatic that he now gets to watch baseball instead of ballet and we get our little Mavericks fan. We've decided on David James for the little one, after both of our dads. Both my dad and Matt's are the best ever and we couldn't be luckier to have them both in our lives. And for this reason- our little one couldn't be more blessed to have such amazing grandfathers in his life.

2010 In Review

Matt and I spent New Years Eve alone at home. We watched "Get Him to the Greek" and I went to bed at 11:00. I tried hard to make it to midnight, but just couldn't handle it!
We were commenting on how fast this year has gone and after thinking about it, it feels like this year just flew by!! Here is a recap of the fantastic year we had!

I turned 23 and started grad school. As most of you know, it's going much better than I ever anticipated!

Matt turned 24 in February and we went on our honeymoon to the NBA All-Star Game in Dallas. We had an absolute blast!!!!

We had lots of people visit this year including my sister, brother-in-law and nieces, my parents, Matt's dad, Matt's brother, our friends Dusty and Renee and probably some others I'm forgetting about!

One of the big things we did this year was move into our house! Granted, we're just renting but a house nonetheless. And to go along with the house, we finally got to move the dogs in!! Buster decided to christen the carpet.

We also made a visit to see Matt's family in California. We enjoyed lots of good food, good wines, and lots of family. It was a nice relaxing vacation.

We took a trip to Kansas in August and enjoyed seeing friends and family. The dogs also celebrated their first birthday! I can't believe how big they've gotten! We then visited Cuchara Colorado and saw our friends Sasha and Mike. We were worried about the bears, but never saw one!

October marked our one year wedding anniversary and my surprise party. The day after our one year anniversary is the day I found out I was pregnant!

Overall- this marks one very exciting year! 2010 had a lot of great changes for us, but we can't wait for 2011!!


Here are some of the pictures from this year:

Lindberg Christmas

We had a nice relaxing Christmas at home with the dogs. We woke up at 8:30 to take Buster out and decided to stay up and open presents. We opened up all of our awesome gifts and then enjoyed cinnamon rolls for breakfast. We were/are a little worried about Buster because it looks like his urinary tract infection might have come back into play. We called the vet and they said not to worry quite yet. He was fine last night and this morning so far though so we're trying not to worry too much.

We spent the rest of the day watching Despicable Me and Toy Story 3 and had a pizza for dinner. We're fairly non-traditional anyway.




Our beautiful tree. Notice the Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, and Kansas Jayhawk ornaments. We debated doing an all sports tree.



The dogs who swore they've been good all year. ;)



Our two year Christmas tradition. Decorating sugar cookies!



Matt's Christmas gear; new shoes, new socks, some shirts, some CD's, and Toy Story 3.



My goodies; new shoes, new socks, a new sweater, an awesome pink robe, Despicable Me, Sex and the City 2, and the new Reba CD!



The dogs got some new toys and some bones!

Due Date Change and Vacay!

Some of you may have wondered why I changed the pregnancy ticker on the top of my blog. Well...they changed my due date...AGAIN. Here's the story- based on my LMP (you don't want to know) they figured my due date as June 14th, which was what I was going with. I went and got my ultrasound and pushed me back a week because the baby was smaller than it was supposed to be at the point I was supposedly at. Most of my friends told me to go with my ultrasound due date of June 20th because it's usually more accurate. I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and he decided to keep me on my first due date, so now I'm due on June 14th again.

I'm officially 15 weeks today and am beginning to feel a tad bit better. I still think food sounds disgusting and am having lots of nausea at night, but my nurse friend and fellow pregnant lady Jeana told me that my hormones must be spiking at night instead of the morning. Hormones cause the ickiness and since most women have this in the morning...they have MORNING sickness. But me...I have night sickness. Ick. I've been working on my baby registry and it's so much fun picking out cute stuff for the baby. We'll find out the sex of our little one at our January 18th appointment. I'll be sure to keep you all posted! I can't wait to find out so I can start calling our panda "he" or "she" instead of "it." Plus, I want to pick out some cute clothes :)

On to some non-baby news. As some of you know we were going to make the 13 hour drive to Kansas next week for Christmas to visit my family. Because of about 10 different factors we decided not to make the trip this time of year. Driving over the mountains is terrible anyway, but especially this time of year. Plus, we weren't in the mood to take the dogs with us and drive the entire family crazy! The plan is to travel to Kansas sometime in the 3rd week of March so mark your calendars!

Oh and if you're wondering what we're doing with our days off...NOTHING. We've decided to keep our previous days off and spend some time together. Matt has been working like a madman lately and I need a break from work so we'll be spending our lovely five day weekend doing nothing but relaxing, watching movies, and spending time with the dogs. Needless to say, I'm actually pretty excited about doing nothing. I may catch up on some homework in there since I have the next two weeks off, but spending time with my husband and dogs sounds fantastic :)