28 Weeks!

Tony and I had our 28 week appointment, and everything looked good! Baby Caswell is kicking like crazy these days, and I have been able to time when he is most active, which has been early afternoon and before I go to bed. He also like to dance a little bit at 3am!
Tony and I were playing with Luca this afternoon, so I will use these pics as my 28 week pics...it's starting to really pop out lately!

Tony and I also decided to take our house off of the market and stay in Lakeville for another year or two. We have so much going on, and with the market down, we decided it would be best for the family to stay in Lakeville for the time being. Now that we have made the decision, we are very excited to start planning the nursey! We are picking out paint today!

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Tony and Luca cuddling...she is such a cuddler when no one is around. Everyone else only knows her as a little neurotic puppy!

We are trying to teach Luca patience, but she really wanted this treat!

Baby Goodman Party!

Last weekend, Danni had a baby shower for Michelle, who is due March 3rd....it's coming up so quickly! We had a great time playing some baby shower games, eating tacos and catching up!

Michelle opening one of her many gifts!

Michelle and myself. That little stinker is still able to wear her regular jeans! I am so jealous!

Me and Mols....a fantastic new mama!

Julie and Molly getting into our "Guess the chocolate candy bar" game!

The Stillwater clan

Molly, Julie, Catie (who is also pregnant!) and myself

Matching Bellies!

My good friend Brooke and I are about two weeks apart in our pregnancy. We have had so much fun going through it all together. We had breakfast with another friend, Ali last weekend, and had a great time catching each other up on our busy lives! We ended our breakfast with a picture of our matching bellies....we can't wait to be moms together!

24 weeks!

Tony and I had our 24 week appointment today, and everything looks good. I am starting to feel little kicks, especially at night. They aren't too strong though, and Tony isn't able to feel them quite yet. Hopefully soon! I am starting to realize I can't do certain things as easy anymore, such as getting up out of bed, bending down to pick something up, and walking up stairs! I get winded from walking up stairs these days! This little guy takes alot of out me!

We took some pictures...the little tot is sure starting to grow!

Luca wanted to come say hi! She loves to get her picture taken:)

The 24 week baby bump!

Dinner at the Casey's

Kyle and Molly had us over for dinner last weekend. It was fun to talk about baby stuff, and what we can expect. Molly and Kyle are our little experts! It was so fun seeing them with Carter - they are the cutest family! It's amazing how much Carter has already grown since I saw him a few weeks ago. He opens his eyes so much more and his facial expressions are so great!

Tony holding Carter. Kyle and Molly informed us that Carter recently discovered his little hands, so he entertained us with his hand movements while sleeping!

He was such a good boy - slept most the night!
My guess was that he didn't sleep too much that night then.
It's amazing how well Kyle and Molly function off of so little sleep. I guess I should get ready!

Our little Lucer!!

Tony and I love taking pictures of Luca.

She does the funniest things and is always making us laugh!

Sleeping on the couch. She LOVES pillows and always manages to find one to lay down on. We threw the blanket on her though so she could take a comfy nap!

Isn't she sweet!? We call this her love eyes! You simply can't say no to this face!

Our little lazy girl!

Gotta love the ears!

Happy New Year!

We had a fun New Year's this year by getting some friends together and going out to dinner in St. Paul at the Happy Knome. It was fun to celebrate the ball dropping at Rutter's house too, but once the ball dropped, we headed home. It was much later then I can stay up anymore. I can barely last past 9pm these days - I think my body is trying to get as much sleep as it can before the little one comes!

Kate and I enjoying dinner!

The gang!

Twenty Weeks and it's a Boy!

It's a Boy!!

Tony and I had our twenty week appointment last Friday followed by an ultrasound. We did want to find out the gender, but wanted to celebrate what we found out. Tony and I both had to go back to work after our appointments, so we decided to have the ultrasound technician keep the gender a secret from us during the appointment. It was funny....we kept having to cover our eyes when the gender was being revealed! We kept it a secret though and had her write it down in a sealed envelope for us to open later. Then, Tony and I went out to dinner that night and opened it up, which made it so much more fun to celebrate! We are so excited to be having a little baby boy!
We were able to tell our families over the holidays, which was such a fun Christmas surprise. Tony is already planning the nursery, which involves lots of hockey stuff:) The rest of the ultrasound went very well too. We were able to see his little hands, feet, heart, spine and face! It was incredible. He was already being a little stinker too! He kept putting his little arms over his face when we were trying to take a picture of his face - it was pretty funny!

Twenty weeks....and Luca wanted to be in the picture!

Cookies and Carter Brandon Casey!

We had our annual Beehive Christmas Cookie Party at Lindsey's this year. It a fun tradition where we each bake our own cookies and package them up for everyone, so all of us leave the night with six new cookies! We of course sample them all during the night too!

We also bring a good gift and an elephant gift and have a fun little giveaway where we sit in a circle and roll dice for doubles! The elephant gits this year were hilarious, so we will have to top that again next year. Somehow one gift keeps making its way back every year.....and the Beehive girls know what I am talking about!

The highlight of the night is that we were all able to spend some time with Molly Casey's brand new little boy.....Carter Brandon Casey! He was such a good sport, with six chatty women all day! We even got to sneak some pictures with him.....

Brand new mama Mols....she's a natural!

So tiny! He has such a personality already!

He wasn't sure about me quite yet!



We ended up whipping out the Nintendo Wii and playing tennis.

Anne and Danni looked like professionals!




Goodbye to our little Johnnies fan!

First snow fall!

Luca has been having a blast running around in the snow this weekend. I took some pictures of Tony running around with her Sunday morning.

Luca loves to eat snow!

Let's race!

Still not quite sure was this is. It was green two days ago!

Luca chasing after a snow ball that had rolled away. We didn't say she was the smartest!