3 Weeks and Counting

And 2010 comes to an end.


Upon Request....here are pictures of the little man. He is three weeks old today. We had tons of fun having the whole Hadley clan here for Christmas and also having Nate's Parents here for the week between Christmas and New Years. This year has brought a lot of change to our little family. We moved to California, Nate started his first REAL job, and we welcomed little Brooks into our family. We love him to pieces.
Pictures are random, sorry.

Getting his diaper changed. I went through three in one changing. He didn't finish until the fourth one was put on. I'm learning to wait a little while, haha.


Tummy time. He likes to relax the first 10 minutes then moves all over the place the last 5.

This is Dad trying to put him to sleep. He loves laying on his side like this.

Uncle Spence!! Spencer (my brother) just finished his mission for the LDS church the week after Brooks was born.
Uncle Matt. Matthew has a special connection with Brooks. Matt believes they both (him and Brooks) come from Mt. Olympus.

Blessing day. He was pretty hungry.
This is the cross eyed look we get a lot.
One satisfied dude.
He is starting to be awake more during the day and a lot more alert.
Blessing day. He would only calm down once we put him in his car seat. It's magic. He loves car rides or going on walks. I think he knows one is coming when he is put in his car seat.

Introducing Brooks Nathan Demary

Born December 10th at 10:04 p.m.

Roster Stats:
8 lbs & 21 inches

Actual Stats:
7 lbs 14 oz
20.5 inches

Thanksgiving and More

Thanksgiving was a very big weekend for us. Nate was able to come home around 12 noon Wed, so our Thanksgiving break was able to start early. Thanksgiving Day not only marked on of the best holidays of the year, but it was also our 2 year Anniversary. We had a great weekend of shopping, eating, and seeing one very special family member. I'll give you the highlights with each picture.
This is Elder Hadley (or Spencer, my younger brother). He is serving his mission in Roseville, CA, which is only about 1.5 hours from were Nate and I live. I was not too excited about having NO family around during Thanksgiving, so I emailed Spencer to see if we could go see him for a few hours on Thanksgiving. Well, his awesome Mission President said yes, and so we went. This is my amazing brother Spencer. He will be released from his mission Dec. 18th and our little boy is due Dec. 17th.



After spending some time with Elder Hadley, Nate and I headed home. We stopped at walmart and got a rotisserie chicken and then came home to make the rest of our Thanksgiving meal. While I was making dinner, Nate set up our REAL Christmas tree (Nate refused to get a fake one). Pictures to come later.


Here I am at 37 weeks. I guess that means I'm full term right here. This was taken at Macy's in Union Square, San Fransisco.


Here we are on the 8th floor of Macy's and The Cheesecake Factory. We had seats outside that looked over Union Square.
Union Square. The lighting ceremony for the big tree on the left was that night. We had already been at The Cheesecake Factory for about 1.5 hours BEFORE the ceremony started. I wanted to leave because I felt bad taking a table up, but everyone around us said don't leave. Just order a hot chocolate and watch the program...so we did.

If you look very carefully, to the left of the big poll, there is a woman in a tan coat singing. That is Kathrine McPhee. She was AMAZING. Very powerful voice. She sang 2 songs from her new album.
This is us from our seats...front and center, 8 stories up.


We are in Union Square now taking a picture of Macy's and the Cheesecake Factory sign (yes, I'm obsessed. I told Nate that he has to tell me while I'm in labor that once I'm finished I will be rewarded with a slice of The Ultimate Red Velvet Cheesecake....oh yeah, and a beautiful baby boy).
Scary picture...I know, but its hard to get any good ones when my face is twice the size as it used to be. Nate looks good though.

It was an amazing weekend as we celebrated Thanksgiving, our 2 year anniversary, and making it full term in this pregnancy. I am Thankful for all my many blessings. Especially for my wonderful husband (I love him and he is awesome) and for this wonderful baby boy who loves to kick my ribs.

San Fran visit/happenings and Halloween

This weekend, we decided to go into San Francisco for the first time (I have been in CA for about 4 weeks now). I figured the bigger I get, the least interested I'm going to be in going into the city and walking around for hours, so I made a huge effort and left the house to see the city. Here are some pictures of what we saw and also a few other things that have been going on lately.


A random street performer at Pier 39 (the famous pier in San Fran).

The golden gate bridge. As you can see, it was very cloudy, and yes...it did rain on us.

Alcatraz

Nate has caught the fever..."Fear the Beard".
We went to the Stanford vs. USC game a while ago. It was a really exciting game.

This is me at 33 weeks. If you happened to catch my pictured I put up last post, you will see I am much much bigger now.

Our Halloween picture. I'm a baseball signed, "The Babe '10" and Nate is a Red Sox player with a glove.

We have been doing lots of fun things here, and I'm getting more comfortable finding my way around. Life is good and we can't wait for our little man to get here.

Our New Place

Nate started his job in Oakland, CA the end of August and our apartment started the end of September. So Nate lived out of a suit case for a month until my wonderful father and mother moved me and our stuff down from WA once our apartment was available. My parents are the best. Nate and my dad pretty much moved EVERYTHING into our apartment. I wish I had taken pictures during the move, but I was too shell shocked from going from the country to the Bay Area (and for those of you who know my know I'm a country girl and the big city isn't my thing, but I'm adjusting pretty well). Here are some pictures of our new place all set up...except there are a few pictures in our bedroom that still need to be put up.

These pictures came out in reverse order. Oh well.

Hallway to our room.
Our Kitchen, which I love because it was just redone and all the counters, counter tops, and appliances are new.
Don't mind the DI box on the table.
Living room. My parents bought that entertainment center 28 years ago. It has held up very well. It was brown before I painted it black.
What do you think about our homemade storage unit behind the couch? I know...ingenious. Oh and that is our office area on the edge of the couch. We haven't bought a wireless router yet, so our computer sits there all the time.

Our newly renovated bathroom.

This is also an ingenious way of storage. And yes, I can get myself on the bed even though I'm 30 weeks prego. Ok, so sometimes Nate has to help me.

We are in a one-bedroom apartment, so our little man will be sharing our bedroom. This is were his crib will go when it arrives. We finally made a decision on a crib and ordered it last night. It should be arriving in the next few weeks. (again, don't mind the pictures on the ground that need to be hung).

This is my FAVORITE part of the whole apartment. This is what keeps me sane during the countless hours till our little man gets here. This is my version of a "dumbed down" nursery. I only have so much room to work with, so I thought it turned out pretty good considering. I usually leave this door open so I can look at it throughout the day and remind myself that he is actually going to be here very very soon.

Speaking of our little man, this is me at 30 weeks. Fortunately for me, my face doesn't look that large in real life. (At least Nata says that it isn't, which he kinda has to, right?)

Well, this whole week I have been unpacking, resting, walking around and starting to gather things to make my "crafts" before he comes. We live really close to EVERYTHING I need. My clinic/hospital is 4 miles away, there are about 3 malls within 5 miles, craft stores, grocery stores Marshalls, Ross, H&M are all .5 miles away, and my favorite....COSTCO is only 2 miles away. The proximity of everything is definitely something I can get used to.

Farmer Nate

We have had a great summer up in Eastern Washington with Michelle's family while we wait for Nate's job to start up at the end of August. Dairy work has been Nate's summer occupation. He has done a little of everything on the dairy, from disking the fields to de-horning calves. It has been an eye-opening experience for him but he has had a lot of fun.

He did get a to do a little construction work which he is more accustomed to.

Here is Michelle's younger brother Patrick finishing the concrete slab they poured.

Nate was able to operate some heavy equipment.

The Hadleys plant cow corn on over 500 acres and Nate got to spend his first two weeks in Connell up in the tractor disking the soil so it would be ready to plant. This is some of the fruits of his labor.

This is the tractor that Nate got to know very well over those first two weeks.

Had to throw in a picture with the cows.

This is where the money is made.

Michelle and her cousins little kid at the 4th of July Parade.

Nate was recruited to round up beef cattle in the hills. He didn't quite realize what he was getting himself into. For a guy who's ridden a horse about 4 times in his life he was pretty happy just to have stayed on the horse the whole day. This is some of the terrain he was out riding on. The pictures don't quite do it justice.

For Nate's birthday Michelle and her parents treated him to a festive Mexican dinner with a sombrero and all.