More Belly Shots

Me and baby Royling at 17 weeks on a beach on West Island. Adam and I also celebrated our one year anniversary with family on Memorial Day! It's gone by really quickly!

Thank You Roys!

For our "one year anniversary/my graduation" mom and dad Roy sent us away to Kennebunk Port Maine for two nights. It was very relaxing, and we got oceanfront rooms! It was a little cold on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday was gorgeous! So we finally got to spend some time on the beach. Thanks Roys! It was much needed and appreciated.

Baby Belly Emerging!

So these didn't turn out quite as flattering as I had hoped, but for all of you who haven't seen the belly in a while, it finally popped a little!!! In fact, I've been getting comments in public (some of them awkward!) Oh and that is sparkling grape juice and not wine on the table in the background for any of you who were concerned!

Our Little Peanut!

This post really is overdue, and I have to apologize! I promised everyone I would post these as soon as possible, and then time got away from me. But these pictures represent some of the most surreal moments of my life so far!! Our little peanut is very healthy and active! It was such a blessing for me to see baby healthy and active on the screen. It has made the pregnancy so much more real to both of us. The official due date is November 1st-8th. As I am writing this I am somewhere between 14 and 15 weeks and eagerly awaiting baby's first kicks and movements!!! I'll try much harder to keep you all posted from now on.

This is Adam's favorite. Baby is sucking his/her thumb!!! :)

This is my favorite out of the pictures because it's a full body shot! Look at those little arms and legs! And that huuuuge belly. Can't wait to ticklet it! :)

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

So at the very last minute on Thursday night Adam found out that he was getting 4 tickets to the Friday night Red Sox Game. I'm pretty sure that this was one of the best things that has ever happened to him. He's been talking about going to a game for months now. I could really care less about the game, but with free tickets it sounded like a fun experience. No one should graduate from the Boston area without at least one game!

So we brought along our very good friends the Kreylings! Poor Lauren and I had to wait two and a half hours for the game to start at 9:30 Pm!!!!! That is usually when we start to go to bed! We left at around 11:00 after watching the Red Sox score five times in one inning!
This was the view from our BOX SEATS!!!!! :) Even I got interested in the game. It's about ten times better in person than on the TV!
And this was just a very cool shot that Adam managed to capture. If you can click on it and magnify it then you should, because it's very cool.

A Relaxing Weekend

So we don't have any pictures because we never remember to take any but I can narrate our lovely weekend for all of you. First of all the weather was wonderful! It was pretty much perfect in my estimation.

Thursday was a tough day for me (Mel) for a number of reasons. First of all our sink broke while I was home alone and flooded our kitchen. Not fun! Then in my search for my landlord to come and fix it, I locked myself out of my house. So while I'm outside I figure well, I'll catch up with the family and call my mom. Mom informs me that my Great Grandmother died on Tuesday. So needless to say by the time that Adam came to let me in I was a mess. Luckily I got to go out to ice cream with some of my favorite girls, which distracted me for a bit, but I was a mess all that night. RIP great grandma poor! She was well into her nineties, so it was a blessing but still hard to hear nonetheless. We will have a funeral to attend probably next weekend at some point.

So my husband being the sweetheart that he is, called out with me on Friday. We were in no condition to go in to work after being up all night. The day turned out to be exactly what we needed and after sleeping in, we spent as much time as possible lounging outside, soaking up the warm weather and the good company :)

The rest of the weekend also went fairly well. Saturday we spent a lot of time outside running errands and yardsaling. We stopped by one hot garage in Salem and visited with the McClures for a bit. We will be sad to see them leave :(

On a completely unrelated note, as I was typing, Jane came and placed his face into the crook of my neck and cuddled for a good solid ten minutes. Sometimes we remember why we love him. He spent the entire weekend sitting in an open window. Whenever we close it now he starts up this mournful little whine and he sits on the table staring regretfully at the window anyways.

Ok so back to the weekend. Yesterday we went to church, and then down to the Roys house for a meet the new baby barbeque! Yum! Henry is adorable, and anyone who wishes to see pictures should go to danielvine.com (brother in laws website)

I think that's all for now, we're excited about the ultrasound a week from now!

Love!
~The Roys

The first appointment.

Well I'm home from being poked, prodded, scraped, manhandled and otherwise abused. And I'm sad to say that we are less pregnant then we thought :( Everything was going so well until it came time to hear the heartbeat. They were saying eleven weeks, and the due date was going to be November 2nd. Then they couldn't find a heartbeat so now all of a sudden I might only be seven or eight weeks!!!! I feel personally betrayed. I just got negative pregnant!!!! Grrrrr Oh well. The good news is that there's a baby in there, and neither Adam nor I passed out during the proceedings today. We have two appointments in two weeks (two on the same day) and one is to have an ultrasound done to determine the due date. The other is to meet with the midwife again and try again to hear the heartbeat.
Those don't seem to come with the pain this one did so I'm excited! :) And by the time I go for the third appointment we scheduled I'll be all graduated! Hoorah!