On A Horse with no Name

We went through the desert, and came out at the majestic Pacific Ocean. Thanks to a wonderful birthday gift from my dad, Jaime and I were able to spend this weekend in San Diego. We spent the first night at the beach where I went swimming and we watched the sun set. Saturday we spent our time on the Old Town Trolley Tour. The tour gave us a beautiful view of the city and harbor. On Sunday we drove up the coast toward LA and then headed back into the desert. For more pictures check out the gallery.

As promised

The crib and glider. The glider is soooo comfortable! Thanks to my mom and dad for their generous gift of the nursery furniture.

The dresser and changing table. Yes, Jack's room connects with the bathroom...lucky guy. Also a view into his closet. We put all his clothes (he has a lot!) in the dresser, that's why the closet looks so bare!

His awesome stroller. We actually liked this one before we registered for a different one at Babies R Us. The other one was a little pricier, but we liked that it had a matching pack n play and swing. In the end, we found horrible reviews about the swing and found a really cute Pooh pack n play (thank you to Dave's mom and Bruce) and decided it wasn't a big deal that they didn't match.

29 weeks

27 weeks...the shower

It's not exactly side profile, but it's a nice picture of me and my mom at the shower. I had an amazing time at the shower! Everything was beautiful and planned so perfectly! I loved seeing all the baby pictures of me and Dave. The food was delicious (although I definitely wanted seconds and thirds of those croissants!) and that cake! It was beautiful and so cute, not to mention very tasty. It was so nice to see my family and friends, as well as some new faces. I can't thank those involved enough! We've had so much fun setting up the nursery since I returned home here. I'll post pictures of it soon, I'm a little behind on the posts (I'll actually be 30 weeks on Tuesday). When I get a chance I'll add more pictures of the shower to the photo gallery.

Gulyás

A Hungarian style goulash recipe that Dave came up with.

Ingredients

• vegetable oil


• 2lbs pork or beef shank, shoulder or shin, cubed


• salt


• pepper


• paprika


• 2tbsp butter


• 1 large onion, sliced


• 5 garlic cloves, pressed


• 2 red bell peppers, seeded and diced


• 1 red jalapeño pepper, diced


• 1 potato, pealed and finely sliced


• 2 cup water


• 1 beef bullion cube


• 1tsp thyme


• 1 bay leaf

Directions

1. In a large pot, brown meat in oil. Season with salt, pepper and paprika to taste.


2. Sauté onion, garlic, bell peppers and jalapeño pepper in butter.


3. Add potato, water and bullion cube to meat, bring to boil.


4. Stir in sautéed veggies and thyme.


5. Add bay leaf, cover and reduce heat to low for 2 hours.

26 weeks...a little late

Many new things...

Well, we've finally completed our move. While it was nice to have an entire month to move over our things at our leisure, it also feels really great to be done and have only one apartment. This morning we picked up our few remaining possessions and turned in our keys. We slept at our new place for the first time on June 19th and are now comfortably settled in. We were without cable or internet until about 2pm yesterday so we have some catching up to do!

One of the things keeping us busy this past week was receiving some of our nursery furniture. We had a whole crib fiasco, the minute details of which I will not go into. Let's just say after several long and confusing phone calls and trips to Babies 'R' Us by my mom and ourselves we ended up with exactly what we wanted in the first place! We now have both the dresser and the crib assembled and set up in Jack's room. It looks great, and I can't wait to get everything set up!

Here are some pictures:

24 Weeks

25 Weeks

The crib and dresser