40 Weeks +

Well, yesterday (2-24-13) I hit 40 weeks! I was positive that we would have had little Eleanor by now, but I think every woman feels that way by 40 weeks! We are very excited to have this baby.

We have been doing everything we can to get this baby out! Showers, baths, long walks, lots of hills & stairs and the list goes on. I think my favorite is the foot rubs I have finally gotten!

I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning. I hope Ellie has progressed a bit more and that she will be here very soon. Latest should be Sunday!

Here is a pic from yesterday of me feeling huge and uncomfortable & struggling to get my hand under my belly!

Maternity Photos

I was against maternity photos, I always thought, why do I want a photo of my belly being big! But David asked me to get some done and my friend really wanted to take my photos, so David & I decided  we would do one last photo shoot of the two of us with a little emphasis on my belly. Now, I really didn't want the photos of my naked belly...no one needs to see that! Here are some of the photos!

This one is one of my favorites!

David already kisses & talks and to Eleanor every night and puts his head on my belly. She kicks him off every night, but he loves it! 

A Year in Review

This year has been a year of thankfulness and blessings! A quick review...

Jan - The year started celebrating with great friends! I traveled to Albuquerque to help one of her best friends pick out a wedding dress!

San Diego Safari Park - Jan 1, 2012

Feb - We enjoyed celebrating Valentines Day at one of our favorite restaurants in town & doing some sightseeing on the weekends. We also had some wonderful friends from Albuquerque come visit for a long weekend! We had so much fun at Disneyland, the zoo & Coronado Island!

Point Loma Light House - Feb 12, 2012

March - Was a quiet month. 

April - Was another quiet month, we needed that before the rest of the year!

May - We celebrated David's birthday! He was spoiled this year with a set of golf clubs! I also had my sisters and mom and dad in town for our annual sister's weekend. I am so blessed that David never complains and grills for us!

Outside Gaslamp area in San Diego, CA - It was a windy day!

June - June was a HUGE month! We found out we were pregnant! YAY! We had 16 visitors...all at once! We had a full house with my family and had lots of fun!

David & I with all the kids at the Mormon Battalion 

July - We traveled to Sacramento for Fourth of July, I went to Albuquerque again for my friends Bridal Shower and we heard our baby heart beat for the first time! 

August - David started his Staff Academy school up in Camp Pendelton. It's the first time he has gone to a school in our 7 1/2 years of marriage and be close to home at the same time! It was a blessing and a curse all at once, I made it easy for David to be distracted from school, but so wonderful to still be close by! 

September - We had a ultrasound and found out that baby Dunn is Baby Eleanor Mavis Dunn! We are having a girl! I traveled to Albuquerque again to be in my friends wedding. It was a fun 4 days visiting with her and helping her get ready for the big day! I was also able to see some other friends while in town and it was good to catch up with them as well!

The bridal party having a pampering day before the big day! September 14, 2012

October - David graduated his Staff Academy school! I was able to go to her first military graduation ever! We also made a very impromptu visit to Sacramento & Modesto to visit family. We were able to see my dad and oldest brother and grandpa, aunts and some cousins! We were also able to see David's family and cousins and uncle! Pretty good for only 2 nights! We also took a mini trip to Yuma, AZ with our friend to visit her husband who was away for work. We celebrated his birthday and just had a relaxing weekend.

At David's graduation - October 17, 2012

November - We spent Thanksgiving in Sacramento. Unfortunately, I had to work majority of the week, but it was so nice to be with family! We also celebrated our 8 year anniversary! How has it been 8 years already! We also had my brother Tim, his wife Lonita and two sons in town the week after Thanksgiving! It was so much fun and the boys are a ball of energy and kept everyone on our toes! We loved every minute!

December - We celebrated my birthday. My parents came to town for Christmas . We were able to go whale watching, the Midway, the San Diego Temple lights, catch up & bake away! We had a wonderful Christmas spent with family and our military family.

It has been an eventful year and we have a feeling it will be anything but slowing down next year! We are looking forward to Eleanor being born and all the adventures we will have with that!

Baby!

It's been a few weeks since I last posted.

The baby, David & I are doing good. This baby is amazing actually! I am barely sick, I have lost weight, and other then being tired and having to use the restroom a lot, I really have no complaints! I love being pregnant so far!

We have known for a while what we are having, but we weren't telling a lot of people at first.

We are having a GIRL!!!

We are so excited!

I really thought we were having a boy & David thought we were having a girl. At least one of us was right!

We can't believe that we are almost 23 weeks already. Everyone says pregnancy is slow, but we feel like it's moving so quickly!

We are having fun getting things for the nursery! We are getting ready to paint her room in a few weeks.

On other news, David has completed all of his training for the marine corps until he picks up his next rank! It has taken a lot of time, but I don't think he will be leaving again anytime soon! We are so thankful he is finally up to date and it looks really good for him.

For me, I haven't really been up to much. I am still working long hours, but it keeps the days moving. We are excited that it's almost the holiday season! I'm so excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Then right around the corner baby girl will be born!

Living a Charmed Life

Boy meets Girl

Boy marries Girl 

Boy and Girl have fun

and more fun

and more fun!

Boy and Girl are having a baby to add to the family!

Dinner

David & I both had a very stressful week at work. It was a really LONG week. 

In celebration of making it through the week, we went out to dinner tonight at Lil Piggy's Bar-B-Q

It was really yummy and on the bay side of Coronado. 

The view was great, the locale was great and the service was great!

All in all, it was a perfect way to end a very stressful week!

Company

This past weekend, we had some good friends from Albuquerque come to town to visit. They needed a weekend away and we always had lots of fun being together. Our friends, the Starbucks' have 3 great kids as well, and David & I love kids, so we never mind having a couple around the house. We also have another set of good friends who were stationed with us in Albuquerque, stationed with us in San Diego, so it felt like a big reunion all together again!

On Friday, the Starbucks' & I went to the San Diego Safari Park. That is always a fun place to go. We went and had lots of fun, and the animals were so active! I have never seen a Rhino running, let alone bugging the giraffes at the watering hole! One of the best things about the Safari Park is that the enclosures are huge and they put multiple type of animals in each enclosure, making it more like a natural habitat for them.

The Starbuck Family

At the zoo, we saw a Northern White Rhinoceros, which only 6 are alive at this time. The zoo has 2 at this time and they tried to mate them, but unfortunately, the 2 did not have any children. But, they saved some of the eggs and sperm and have it at a frozen zoo! I think it's so amazing the things people can do!

On Saturday, we had a great time with the Starbucks' & Slaughters' exploring Disneyland! I love Disneyland, and we just had so much fun. None of the three kids had any breakdowns, they were happy, and the middle child would say after every ride, "that was sooooo awesome! Best Day Ever!" It was just so cute!

David & I at DisneyLand

Kathleen with her "husbands"

Running joke at David's old office is that we were all married to each other, in other words, we all had multiple spouses...all in good love of David making a plural marriage joke randomly during Toys for Tots...

That evening, after all of the fun festivities at DisneyLand, we went and explored a Medieval Dinner! It was so much fun watching joisting and interesting games and the horses were so pretty!

Sunday rolled around and we were exhausted! I don't think any one of us awoke before 10...or at least it felt that way after going for the last 2 days. We ended our fun weekend with a chilly trip to Coronado Beach. I believe that is my favorite beach and it's so beautiful! 

We already miss our good friends and we are looking forward to the next time we might see each other again!