A One Year Reflection

This week I celebrated my one year anniversary of working at Groupon. I feel like with milestones such as this, it's a great time to reflect on the year that has gone by. A year ago, I would have never believed that I would be preparing to have a baby. If I'm being perfectly honest, I'm not exactly where I want to be in my career (but who REALLY is anyway) and there are plenty of places I still want to travel to. The list goes on. However, throughout this incredible life-changing surprise, I have continued to be grateful that I have Mark as my partner. He always tells me that just because we have this baby, I don't have to give up on my dreams in my career. We will travel the world, as a couple and with our son. We can create a wonderful life as a new family according to what we value.

If there is one thing I have learned in my mere twenty-eight years, it's that we really don't know what or whom can be brought into, or taken out of our lives from one year, month, week, or even day to the next. Little Jameson is a miracle and he will be such a beautiful addition to our family. I know for the Wint Family, he will bring much needed joy. It's easy to sometimes forget how precious and sacred life is as we go about our day to day business and get caught up in the little things. But when you take a step back whole picture, the grand scheme of things, life is miraculous and beautiful.

Last night I had a dream that he was here and it was absolutely wonderful. It makes me realize that although our lives will totally change, there's a brand new little man ready to meet the world, and we get to be a part of that together. At this point, I'm ready.

I know you're in there!

Flashback Friday

Get ready everyone! Here are baby photos of Mark and I! Now, just try and imagine this combo in one little human! Can't wait to meet our little guy!

Baby Mark. Just looking to get into trouble.

Baby Ashley. Just scootin along!

33 Weeks and All is Well!

We apologize for the lack of Tee Shirt Tuesday this week. Mark was under the weather and wasn't able to post.

Tuesday morning we had a doctor's appointment and ultrasound. Everything looks great and we have a healthy boy on our hands (or in my belly)! He's currently 4 lbs. 13 oz. He was very squirmy that morning so the profile ultrasound picture wasn't as clear as it's previously been. What a little trouble maker!

I like to move it, move it.

We left the doctor's feeling good hearing everything with Mommy and Baby is progressing perfectly. We're 7 weeks away! Here we go!

Moustache pillow? Yes please!

The beautiful Momma-to-be goofing around while we were fishing for nursery ideas at the Land of Nod.

Tee Shirt Tuesday!

Hello everyone, tonight we have another edition of Tee Shirt Tuesday's!

Today's shirt comes to us via the company Wry Baby, a web company that specializes in baby shirts and onesies that has one goal in mind: make products that are fun and make you laugh. This particular tee shirt came in a small bag with a picture of a mystic with a turban with the caption: 

MYSTERIO PREDICT'S YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE (ON A NICE TEE SHIRT)

As you can imagine, Ashley and I were definitely excited to see what our son would be... A kung fu master? A shrimp boat captain? Maybe a game show host?? With nervous excitement, we opened our bag, and this is what Mysterio predicted as the bright future for our little boy:

DONUT TYCOON!

Truth be told, we were definitely not surprised. Its fitting actually as evidenced by the pictures below. Can't wait to see you Jameson, Daddy and Mommy love you.

T Shirt Tuesdays

As a way of getting us to post more often on this blog, I've decided to create Tshirt Tuesdays! I'm pretty excited about this. The idea is that each Tuesday we'll be posting up a tshirt or onesie for the little dude. When he DOES arrive, we'll be posting pics of him actually wearing said clothing.

Luckily we got a pretty cool pair of shirts/onesies from Aunt Chelsea this past weekend (as Ashley mentioned below, be sure to check out her awesome blog here!) and this is the first of the 2. (I'm saving the second shirt for next week so stay tuned!)

I can't help but think how appropriate this shirt is in that this little guy will be growing up in one of the greatest cities in the world. We're definitely excited as parents to introduce, re-explore, and even fall in love with this city all over again when Jameson is old enough.

Boom!

Check out this crib yo!

A few weeks ago, the UPS guy knocked on my door, and in probably the first time I can ever remember, asked for my help to carry up a package into our foyer. I don't blame him, as he must've been 140 pounds soaking wet. With a few heaves and a few grunts we managed to finally bring the box up and into the living room.

I knew what is was the moment the guy had knocked, because only 2 things come in those boxes that big. 60 inch plasma screen tv's and baby cribs. Since I hadn't asked or bought a tv and it had said Babyletto Crib on the side, I knew exactly what was in the box. I finally was able to put it together this past weekend and here are a few pics of it finally coming together! Thanks to the grandparents: Mama Edna and Papa Serv for this wonderful gift!

All my years of putting together modular IKEA furniture has prepared me for this one shining moment. 

1.  Sides first.

2.  The spring is added for support.

3.  Audience, here I add the 4th wall.

4.  This drawer actually gave me fits trying to put together.

5.  Here you go son, hopefully you learn to sleep through the night very quickly!

Wait a minute...

Um...

UH OH... Where does this go??

I kid. Its an attachment that we can put on to convert the crib into a toddler bed when he's older.