Baby Shower!

A week and a half ago, my friends here in NY threw me an awesome baby shower in Manhattan. It was wonderful! It was at Alice's Tea Cup on the upper East Side. The food was amazing, tea was delicious, and the company was even better :)



And here is the latest bump pic taken of me... almost 2 weeks ago! I'm 36 weeks now, in the home stretch! Soon baby Noah will be here :)

The latest...

So it's been a while since I've made a post. Perhaps that's because we've been so busy! Halloween was so much fun. We went up to Brooklyn to spend the holiday with our friends and Jackson made out pretty well with the candy :) Although we couldn't get him to keep the hat on, J made a pretty cute firefighter.



A few days later, we got the opportunity to make one last trip home to Seattle before baby number two, who we have decided to name "Noah", arrives! We had such a wonderful time. My mom and sisters threw me a baby shower and it was so much fun. I am so grateful for all of the work they put in to it, and for all of the people who came to make the day special :)





We also got the opportunity while home to meet our sweet little niece, Kylee. She was SO adorable and we just loved her from the moment we saw her.







And here is our little guy being a cheeseball in the car :)



All in all, the trip was wonderful. It was so nice to spend time with family and friends and just enjoy being in the beautiful Pacific NW! We miss it so much and hope to get back there again someday.

Finally, here are the latest belly pics.

Me at 25 weeks


29 or 30 weeks... I can't remember :)


And now I'm 32 weeks! The big day is coming up...

Fall Fun!

Last weekend, we went to the Queens County Farm for the Apple Festival and Pumpkin Patch. Even though it wasn't technically a pumpkin patch (field with pre-cut pumpkins scattered about...) we had a great time and Jackson loved eating apples and playing in the pumpkins! It's so fun to be able to do fall stuff like this, since we weren't able to last year in seasonless Grenada :)

What's been happening lately...

It's been a little while so I thought I'd give a brief update on what's been going on!

We got to take a really fun weekend to the Catskill Mountains in Upstate NY over Labor Day Weekend. It was great to get out and go hiking and just spend some great time as a family.

Here's the little guy right before our hike.


Mmmm Burger King... a special vacation treat!


We were able to have our friends over for a little BBQ to say goodbye to summer. Even though it poured down rain and we couldn't go out and enjoy the beach, we really enjoyed the company and football games!



J and Elle having fun


And last but not least.... baby boy number two continues to grow! That's right, we had a scan a couple of weeks ago and they told us that Jackson is going to have a little brother! Here is an updated pic of the bump :)

Our trip in a nutshell!

As I mentioned before, Jackson and I just got back from a WONDERFUL vacation back to Washington to visit family and friends. We had a terrific time and it was so great to see everyone and let Jackson catch up with his grandparents and aunts and uncles again! Here are just a few highlights from out trip-


We got to go to Lori's baby shower! Here is Lori and myself comparing our bumps, aka future cousins!


My mom, sisters, Jackson and I took a trip to Seattle for the day. We had a wonderful time shopping and enjoying the city!



Jackson had his first haircut! It was pretty traumatizing for the poor guy, but his hair turned out so cute and he even got his first sucker, which he loved :)


We went to Seahurst Beach on day to play around! Jackson got these cool glasses and a squirt gun from Aunt Jenni and Uncle E-Bob! He had fun!


Grandpa Sealey took Jackson (and me) to the zoo! Jackson loved laughing at the Meerkats!


I got to attend Randi's wedding! She was so beautiful and it was a wonderful wedding :)


Jackson got to play with his best buddy Cooper, who is only 5 days older than him!


Jackson's favorite thing to do was play in my parents' yard! He was out there ALL of the time! We don't have this thing called "grass" in NYC, so Jackson had a blast being able to run around freely in the huge yard.

Overall the trip was fantastic!! Hopefully we can get back there soon!

The evolving bump!

Well J and I just got back from a wonderful two week trip to Seattle, which I will post about tomorrow, but for now I wanted to show off our second little cutie pie, who is almost 20 weeks! We find out the gender next Thursday and we are SO excited. We are really excited just to get a peek at our little one since we haven't seen it since 8 weeks. I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is flying by!

Here I am at 15 weeks


And here's the latest pic at 18.5 weeks.


More to come!

Zoo fun!

It seems like I am a week behind on all of my posts :) Maybe I'll try to catch up this week.

Last weekend, we had so much fun taking Jackson to the Prospect Park Zoo with our good friends Jeff, Mel and their daughter Elle. It wasn't spectacular, but it was a lot of fun. There was even a little barn with farm animals, which Jackson loves! Afterward, we met up with our other good friends Evan, Erin and their daughter Anabelle in the park and had lunch. It was a fun day!



The fam



J checkin out the Alpacas with Dad.