Weekend with family!

It's hard to believe that it'll be August tomorrow, where has the summer gone?! Even though August will be a great month, with 2 weddings of good friends, a week long vacation in the Vineyard and the Cape, and my 30th birthday, it's tough to realize the summer is winding down! It will undoubtedly be a great fall, so we're looking forward to that as well :) Before we tackle putting together the nursery and the few other things on our to-do-before-the-baby-comes list, we went to the Vineyard for a long weekend and my parents and sister joined us! It's a blessing that our families mesh so well, Baby GG is very lucky :) It was a perfect weekend!

I have to admit, the highlight of the weekend for me was when Quigley went swimming, voluntarily, in the ocean for the first time. The pooch, who will be 3 in a few months, has always shyed away from the water, but while at the beach on Saturday he responded to a little coaxing and doggie paddled out and swam to Brian! When he reached Brian, he was both relieved and a little scared, and he threw his paws around his neck, it was so sweet. With both grandparents cheering him, and the two of us encouraging him along the way, it was a very proud moment for us, I'm not embarrassed to admit that I my eyes welled up a bit :) Of course I didn't bring my camera to the beach that day (grr!!) but I did manage to capture some great photos of the rest of time together!

Baby GG's genes

I recently asked our parents for some of our baby pictures and I've really enjoyed looking through them. There were a few, I just had to share.... I've heard that our birth weights may influence how big of a baby GG will be when she arrives and if that's the case, these pictures just about say enough! Since I tipped the scales at over 9 lbs and Brian weighed in over 10 lbs, I'm already curious to see if GG will take after her mom and dad and be a big baby! (Did you hear recently about the 16lb baby born in Texas?! wow!)

Mommy's baby pictures:

 I mean....

 and Daddy's baby picture - would you look at those cheeks!?

Lastly, I've noticed that many of our friends that have had baby boys, they look like their mommys when they are born and those that have had girls look like their daddys. This picture of Brian makes me smile every time I look at it, I could eat him up, he was (and still is ;-) just the cutest! I think it would be very neat if baby GG looked like her daddy :)

24 weeks!

Another month behind us and the belly is taking it's true form :) Baby GG moves around all the time, and finally last week Brian was able to feel her and I was able to see the movement on my belly! Very, very cool little steps to making it all feel more real!