Saturday, January 31, 2009

Home alone on a Saturday night

Hello all! I'm sorry I havent been on for like almost a month. Thats horrible. But, at least it follows the patterns of most other new years resolutions. =] Apparently, my mother doesn't want to show my blog to anyone til there are pictures, so this one, will be mostly pictures.
I just want to say a few things about our lives.

Spencer and I are both in school (he's taking one class and I'm taking two, I know, impressive...) as well as Marcy, Spencer's mother and we are all taking a challenging Intro to Art class! If you know me, I am the lack-of artsy, so this will be an interesting semester. I am quite jealous of the blood Saunders who always see what I don't see and understand what the artist was conveying blahdy blah. Needless to say, it will be fun. I'm also enjoying my history class which is currently no diffrent than Virginia history, so I'm breezing through the material. It's been drilled into me since second grade; theres no excuse. =]


I am getting bigger by the day! Zeke is growing perfectly, according to the ultrasounds our friend Todd gives us for free at his ultrasound tech school. We are blessed, especially since our OB is like, "Oh looky it tha haat beat. Tha gud." And thats all we get. No measurements, no incouragement, nothing. We are switching OBs next week. I have my glucose test on Tuesday to test for gestational diabetes and I have to get my Rh shot at the end of Feb. I feel him kick alot now, and Iv'e started to decipher between hic-ups and kicks. But not quite between elbows and feet. In time. I'm starting to plan the baby shower with my friend Audrey. Mid-march we are thinking. In a park, so at that time it will be not too cold and not too hot, yet. I'll have 3 months to go on the 7th of Feb!

Spencer is quite the craigslist-er/dealfinder of the family. First off, he found this 3000$ lazy boy 4 seater microfiber couch on CL for 250$. It was pretty big, and even though we had his parents suburban, it fit but I didnt fit! Well kinda I guess.


Here's a picture of the couch put together, and also another CL deal, our hu-mang-ous love sac, and a best buy special, our new 50 inch plasma! (note the old tv tossed on the love sac!)
Ok well here for the rest of the pictures!

The Vegas Wedding

Some poses thanks to my lovely photographer/last minute maid-of-honor/best friend/ witness until the family decided to witness as well: Tina! This pic features the beautiful bouquet my mother-in-law hand made one hour before the ceremony! My favorite flower: Stargazer Lilly.

A good shot of the "something borrowed" dress, that happened to be my dream dress anyways! My "something blue" was my garter, "something old" was my estate piece engagement ring and wedding band, and my "something new" was the veil Marcy hleped me embellish the night before!


Leaving the chapel as Husband and Wife!

The Saunders boys holding the bride.

All the ladies in attendance struggling with the new groom!


The picture perfect nevada sunset! (yes it's real!)

My favorite pic, thank you Tina!


Where'd we go for our dinner, where else? IN-N-OUT!

The Baby Boy



Here we have his first ultrasound at 14 weeks. Top: head for measurment, middle: foot pic against my belly, and bottom: pic of the wee-wee! (bigger pic of that one below)

As it is labled, the little boy part!


I know these are small, im still learning about this pic stuff. Top: his leg bent like a baby's leg does (look hard, you'll see it) Middle: profile pic, Bottom: his little fist with a thumbs up!

This one is the creepiest one of them all. No one sees it at first. The ultrasound is sideways on purpose. Look in YOUR upper left part of the ultrasound. You'll see Zeke's face complete with two eye sockets a nose, a mouth, and some chubby cheekers! bellow that are two white areas and those are his little fists balled up. You see it now? =] He's about 24 weeks here.

Heres the belly pic! 26 weeks and counting!

Ooo happy mommy!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

1st post!

Hello all! This is Skylar, speaking on behalf of the hubby Spencer and the child in the womb, Ezekiel. It will usually be I that posts the blogs, although there might be an occasional outburst from Spence. I'm making this blog (and going to try to continue to post) because blogs are fun and let me babble and I know there are some of the fam back on the east coast that want me to keep them updated on my life since I've failed miserably on doing so since I moved out here to California. And instead of rehash everything in detail that has occurred in the last 2 years, I will jump to the chase and hit the major bullets to get you all up to speed.

  • Nov '07: Boy and Girl meet
  • Jan '08: Boy and Girl work together at In-N-Out Burger
  • May '08: Boy propses to Girl at Disneyland in the unique-est of ways including the most perfect ring EVER!
  • July '08: Boy and Girl run off to Vegas and ELOPE! (do you blame them? February '09? come on)
  • Mid-Aug '08: Speedskater decides skating just isn't for her anymore
  • Mid-Sept '08: Surprise! Husband and Wife find out they're not going to be alone for long!
  • Christmas '08: Husband and Wife spend first Christmas together with family at home in Long Beach, Ca


Now on this the tenth day into the new year finds the new parents to be 23 weeks preggers with an apparently healthy baby boy! His name shall be Ezekiel and don't try to talk us out of it! IT'S NON-NEGOTIABLE! Skylar (I) is (am) getting bigger by the day, and can now feel Zeke kicking which he likes to do, a lot. Daddy has been able to feel it too and the newest thing we do is watch my belly, as it will pop out just the slightest bit when he does his signature karate CHOP! I officially graduated to maternity jeans about a week ago and LOVE them. We are finally moved in (for the most part) into the new apartment, and we couldn't be happier with our decision (even though we have to leave our beloved friends from Long Beach 1st ward.) We are both still trucking along at In-N-Out, although I will be cutting back to 3 days a week next week and Spencer is hopefully going to pick up a serving job somewhere soon. Get that money. Well, that's what's going on in OUR lives right now. Coming soon: Sky starts her one class of school next week and Nothing else interesting enough to mention. Check back for frequent updates. Ask any question you'd like, as long as you can handle the answer, cause you better believe I'll answer it. You never know what crazy things happen in the lives of the Saunders.