Shopping for the baby!

Hi everyone,

We hope you had a great weekend. Whitney came to visit us this weekend. We did some shopping for the baby. We found some really cute summer outfits that were on clearance for when she's about 6 months old and also stocked up on some onesies. It is so easy to shop for a baby, everything is so darn cute!

I have been feeling really good lately. The only thing that bothers me is my feet hurt alot more when I am standing for a long time. And Brian says that I have become a slow walker :) Haha. We have started thinking of some names for the baby but have decided to keep the name we choose a secret until she comes. We want something to be a surprise (sorry mom:)!

Below is a picture of a gift we received from our friends Erick and Brittany. The outfits are so soft, I can't wait to see her wear them.

I have also attached pictures from our companies summer party. They show a little about the set up of the party and some of the attractions we had.

Have a great day!

Love,
Mandie & Beep

It's a Girl!!

We had a wonderful doctors appointment yesterday. We found out the baby is a girl. She is doing great. The doctor said she is growing and looks very healthy. She now weighs 14oz. and is soooo cute. She was stubborn right away and didn't want us to see what gender she was by having her knees close together. So the doctor had to poke at her awhile:) It is amazing what a sonogram can show. Although Brian is very happy with the baby girl he had his heart set on a boy but maybe next time!

On Saturday our company had our annual summer block party. All employees and family members are invited. We had about 700 adults and 400 kids show up. Since my job includes coordinating company events I spent the whole day setting up for that. We have several different activities for children. This year we had pony rides, a petting zoo, carnival rides, character artists, and other entertainment. It was an exhausting day but so fun! Can't wait until next summer when we can bring our little girl to the party.

We have a busy next couple of months ahead of us with family coming to town and football season just around the corner. We have season tickets to KU football games. Starting Sept. 4th we will spend most of our Saturdays in Lawrence. It will be a different experience tailgating for me this year while pregnant :) But we are very excited to see our tailgating friends again!

That's it for now. Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!

Love,
Beep & Mandie

Feeling the baby kick!

Happy Monday!

19 1/2 weeks along now and everything is going along smoothly:) I am starting to feel the baby move around and kick alittle bit. It is such a crazy feeling to feel something moving around inside of you. It makes us more anxious to meet him/her.

I am starting to get a bigger belly now and it has become very obvious at work :) My close friends at work have known about the pregnancy for a while. From others I still am getting the funny looks of "did she gain weight or is she pregnant"? Nobody ever wants to ask so they usually just look at me funny and then go ask someone else :) I work for the executive's in our building and my boss jokes with the guy executives about becoming "grandpa's" (haha). They are all so excited for us! My boss is alittle stressed wondering what she will do without me for a couple months. So she jokes that we will just build a baby room right next to our offices so I will never have to be out:) I wish that could happen!

As I said in my last post Brian and I volunteered at the Susan Koman Race for the Cure at a water station last Saturday. Wow, that was not what I expected at all! It was crazy, there were 30,000 runner/walkers and it was hot so everyone was thirsty. We poured water for a solid 2 hours. Brian worked harder than I did:) One of the pictures shows the hill that the walkers were coming down and every time we looked up to see if we were close to the finish thousands more were coming! But it was a great experience for a great cause and we had a great time!

Whitney my sister turns 21 next Monday, Aug.23, happy birthday! She is also coming to visit us next Wednesday the day after we find out the gender of the baby. So we are going to go shopping for a few items for the baby room. I've got some ideas of what I want to do!

I look forward to the next post which I will reveal if the baby is a boy or a girl!

Have a great week. Take care everyone!

Love,
Beep & Mandie

18 Weeks!

Good morning!

Brian and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary on Monday. To celebrate we went out on Sunday to eat at Olive Garden and then went shopping at the Legends shopping center for some more maternity clothes. No more trying to squeeze into my own pants anymore:) This baby is growing and so is my belly! Wow how our lives have changed, shopping and lunch, that's it!

Today I am 18 weeks and according to my books the baby is the size of a bell pepper (5inches). We met with the doctor on Tuesday and everything is going great. This was Brian's first time hearing the heart beat, I love hearing that sound! The doctor told us our next appointment we will be able to find out the gender of the baby, August 24th! Can't wait! I have not felt any movement by the baby yet, but hopefully soon:)

It has been extremely hot and humid down here which is making life miserable...And looking ahead the temperature does not look like it's going to go down at all. This Sunday Brian and I are volunteering at the Susan G. Koman walk/race to work at a water station. Should be fun, but we have to be there by 6:15Am so that will make for an early Sunday morning.

Well have a wonderful rest of the week everyone!

Love,
Beep & Mandie