Joe, Aubrey and a little......

 We decided to go find out the gender of our baby early to surprise our parents for Christmas. So at almost 17 weeks (usually you have to wait between 18-20 weeks to find out) we went to an ultrasound place in Costa Mesa. It was great and we loved our experience. We were both SHOCKED when they said they were 99% sure it's a GIRL!! Luckily we had a few days to let it sink in before we told everyone else. It was such a fun secret to have with Joe. We bought 2 girl dresses and wrapped it up in a box and waited for our parents to open it! They were both soo excited! We quote Friends often saying we are having a "little baby Ruth" that is what we will call her until we give her a name at the hospital. Speaking of names....we will not decided on a name until we see her so until then we will make a list and wait till we hold her to decided.

So far....I am just loving pregnancy and so happy, Joe is very excited to have a daddy's girl and teach her about sports. 

It's been the BEST Christmas so far!

Christmas Morning- My new diaper bag!!! so in love with it, but may try to get it in red. Either way red or blue...I'm so happy!!!! Thanks mom and dad!

My Baby Bullet!!! so excited to use this!!!

 Joe and his socks...he also got a cute little book on how to raise a girl! It's sooo cute!

He is going to be sooo good with our little girl!

 Every parent needs this in their home. You spin the wheel and it either lands on mom or dad and you decided if its a change a diaper or feed the baby. Thank you Auntie Deb and Uncle Scott!!!!:)

Oh December

We are so excited right now with career opportunities that Joe has at this time. In the next few weeks we will knowing a lot more. He has interviewed with 2 great companies, one here in CA and the other up in SLC, Utah. He is excited about both and I'm excited for him.
I'm busy working away doing hair. I myself have been in a hair funk and I think that will about to change....tomorrow.

Right now, We are looking forward to a few things:

1. New Years with friends up at a cabin in Big Bear
2. Celebrating our 3rd Wedding Anniversary (we are very low key)
3. We have our appt. to know the gender of our baby on Jan 4. (I'm just happy I'm having a baby... I don't care either way, Joe wants to know because he says if it's a girl he is going to need all the time to read every book about how to raise a girl. haha)
4. Our goal of moving out sometime from Jan-June will happen and I can wait to have our own place again, even though we are so glad my parents have taken us in, we wouldn't have been able to make the move back to CA and get fertility treatments all at once. or even at all without their help.

new update...

For a while I had my pregnancy blog to keep my mouth quite, then when the word came out I stopped blogging, but now I'm back on and going to keep it up.
of course I named it www.pregoaubs.blogspot.com
enjoy...
and if you hate pregnancy blog maybe you'll enjoy my infertility blog.

Kakao Talk-

Smart phone app
get it to text to anyone for free. While Shannon was in Korea and Kristen is in Paris this is a great way to still text them throughout the day. It will add anyone on your phone that has it.

She's Home.....Shannon Johnson that is

So...You grow up
move away
get an education
and sometime never get the chance to be neighbors with one of your best friends ever again.
Well....
not for us....Shannon has been living and teaching English in south Korea for a year! She is back and we are both bumming at our parents, of course I'm married so it's more embarrassing (haha).
I went to LAX with her mom to pick up  and of course we were late, the poor girl is jet lag...but when she comes to it will be fun days again.

Here she is...Jen, Shannon and Audrey

Welcome home and anyone that wants to play with Shannon and I please let us know!

My first weekend out

It feels like forever since I've been out on the weekend. Those first 3 months being pregnant just made me really grandma like and I was going to bed after dinner.
This weekend we had our ward Christmas dinner with Santa and Follow the Star. It was such a great turn out and I really enjoy every min I get to spend in the Christmas spirit.
I realized I didn't get my picture with Santa and I was bonding with my new best friend, Audrey (age 3) at follow the star.
I laugh now thinking I wanted to get a bigger camera for Christmas when I already carry around my iphone camera and digital camera and STILL do not take any pictures.  Maybe I'll make that a new goal.
Saturday I took the day off work to go to OCMCO (Orange County Mormon Choral Organization) perform their Christmas program. My mother in law is part of the great choir so the whole family went to support and we had a great time!

Come on down.....

To the Price is Right!

Baby Shower Style

Meredith Duffy and I went to the Price is right. She is 7 months along with a girl and I'm 3 months. I was pushing my stomach out as much as possible to try to get called up. Now I just have a bloated stomach!

We never got called down :( but we were 3 rows from the stage and had great conversation with Drew.

Of course we all left home with a little goodie bag which was so great. One girl one a mini van and some great things which was so fun!!

After we headed to The Grove in LA for some food, and ran into Extra doing a taping. 

Oh...AC Slater...still have a crush on you

                                                        A tall beautiful lady coming .....
She gave away Lauren Merkin clutch, and I was lucky enough to get one!

The Grove was all set up for Christmas and I loved it!!! So much fun.

Thanksgiving 2011

So this year we had two wonderful Thanksgiving back to back! It was so great!
Of course I have sooo much to be Thankful for!!! I'm always so grateful for the gospel in my life for my belief and standards, I'm so grateful for family and such a wonderful husband that really knows how to make me laugh and cry at the same time, but like you all know I can not express my gratitude enough for how lucky and blessed I feel to be pregnant and having this baby. Still not showing, but I know he/she is in there and I am just so blessed for this miracle in our life.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all....

Richardson's Thanksgiving 2011 (minus Joe running late from work)

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