Our baby boy has arrived!!!

Brayden Jo Mesch
December 26, 2009 2:49 a.m.
9 lbs 14 oz
20 3/4 inches

We are so excited that our baby boy has finally arrived!!! Gary and I have truly been blessed with a beautiful healthy baby boy! Brayden is absolutely adorable and is such a good baby. We had lots of visitors up at the hospital and we thank everyone for all the support and love!!!

What a year this has been!!!

Ok... just got busted for not updating my blog! I know it's been a month. Never felt like I had much to update on. I was just taking a look back on this year. Can I say CRAZY!!! So much has gone on this year. Bear with me as recount some memories from this year.

January - Happy 2009! This month I was in full gear and in full prep for my wedding the following month. We had so many weekends of parties and showers. My family and friends made it so much fun and Gary and I were very spoiled!


February - WELCOME TO MARRIED LIFE! On 02/07 Gary and I were married! It was beautiful and fun and the best day of my life! Honeymoon in San Fran was so much fun and we keep saying how much we want to go back! Thanks mom!!! I have loved being married and though we may not be perfect at it, we work hard every day to make it even better and we love eachother more and more every day!



March: This month was a bit different. Late one evening we got a phone call from Gary's family that his 9 yr old cousin Noah had passed away. He had been ill but it still came as a bit of a surprise to the family. I did not know him long but what I did know, he was a wonderful kid and brightened so many lives. He has been missed dearly by so many. Then 10 days later my Grandpa also passed away. He lived a long life and a very good life. He also is missed but we know that both Noah and my Grandpa are no longer suffering and watching over us and we know that one day we can see them again and live as a family with them again.


April: Surprise!! We are having a baby! Here's my convesation with Gary.
First of all I woke up at 6am and had to pee. We had bought the pee sticks to have "just in case". I thought I would check it out this morning. Not that we were trying to get pregnant but we weren't preventing it either. So did the deed and not like 2 seconds an instant DARK pink line! Holy crap I thought... fertile mertle! I go back down to bed.
Me: Babe, I think I'm pregnant.
Gary: What? Really? (half asleep)
Me: Yea, I just pee'd on one of those things and it was positive.
Gary: Really?
Me: Yea, I will try it again later and see how the next comes out.
Gary: Ok (He's wide awake now)
I tried 2 that day and 1 the next day. All positive. 2 weeks later we were confirmed by the Dr that I was 5 weeks along. We were both so excited!!


May: We celebrated my mom's 50th birthday!! Not only was it a surprise birthday party but it was surprise party at her own house! LOL... Lot's of family and friends came and we all had such a good time! My mom is loved by so many. (She's not hard to love!) My sister and I have been truly blessed to have the mother we do. We have very special bonds that will always be.
I love this picture - show's my moms true personality!!!

June, July, August: I have lumped the summer together only because if it wasn't every weekend it was at least every other weekend we were up in the hills camping! We had so much fun and it was great being pregnant and camping because not once did I get cold at night. I had my own personal heater in my belly!
We also took a trip to Chicago for Fathers day this summer and Gary got to meet my family there. We had fun doing lots of sightseeing and visiting my dad and Lynn. Also this summer we had another huge loss. My grandpa Bud passed away. He was very funny and loved by so many and truly has been missed!
My best friend in the whole wide world also got officially engaged(meaning the huge rock was placed on her finger!)
Oh and who could forget the worst concert EVER... Aerosmith! What a joke!
All in all I had a great summer!


September: Woohoo.. another big wedding this year! My mom was married 09/09. She is now Mrs. Brink. We are so lucky to have gained such a wonderful step-father! I have never seen my mom so happy and they are always so cutsie with eachother. Between my mom and Jerry now there are 8 kids! I have always wanted a big family and who knew it would happen 30 years later!


October: Lots and lots of baby stuff!!! We had our baby shower. My dad and Lynn flew out for the weekend to celebrate too. We had so much fun. Brayden, Gary, I were completely spoiled! Thank you to all our family and friends! We appreciate everything and I can't wait for Brayden to wear all of his CUTE new outfits! Poor baby, he'll probably be over his mommy the first week because I will be changing him so often to see all his new outfits on him! AW...
Oh and Happy Halloween this month! Gary and I were one of the winners at the trunk decorating contest they had at my moms church for trunk-r-treat. We had a good time and a lot of Gary's family joined us for the fun!


November: Vacation for a week at home, Thanksgiving, Yummy Food, Black Friday, Shopping, New Moon, Friends and Family. Good month!

December: Home stretch! Brayden is due Dec 29th! I am definitely feeling the pressure now... literally! I can't believe the time is finally here! I am very excited for Christmas this year, whether he is here before or after it is a wonderful Christmas season!


I have so many blessings to be grateful for this year!! Thank you to everyone who has shared in my joys! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas this year and remember your blessings!!! Love to you all!!!

Baby's Nursery

YAY!!! We have finished setting up the nursery! I love it and we are so excited for our little man to come! It's hard to believe we only have 2 more months!

Baby Shower for Brayden 10/24/09

We had so much fun! My dad and Lynn came in to visit and helped Ang throw my baby shower for me. We had it at Old Chicago's. Lot's of family and friends came to celebrate! THANK YOU to everyone for all the great gifts!!!

Mom and Jerry's Wedding Day

It's A....

Okay we can finally breathe! We kept it a secret for a week and that was long enough! We are so excited to be having a litte baby boy! Gary is even more excited to have a lil fishin buddy! We had family over and surprised them with the cake! It was blue inside so they knew once they cut the cake. I am so excited and can hardly wait for these next 4 months to go by!

Forgot to post...

At the end of June we got to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert up at Red Rocks. It was such a beautiful setting and anytime you are in the presence of the prophet and then also the choir you can always feel such a good spirit. We were pretty high up but had beautiful scenery!

DISAPPOINTED!!!

Do you ever wait and wait for something so exciting and when its presented, you think, what the hell was that??? YEP, that was the recent Aerosmith concert I went to a few weeks ago. Gary and I along with our friends Nikki and Turner were soooo disappointed we left early. Yep you heard it, left early from an Aerosmith concert. If thats what you can even call it. HORRIBLE. I am so glad and so lucky I had went to a few of them before. Um I'm going to say, they are just too old now and should probably retire. Such a waist of money! Best part was hanging out with the newly engaged couple! Woohoo for Nikki and Turner! Congrats guys!


Notice we are all smiles before the concert



ENGAGED!

Just a smidgen of an update...

Thought I should at least write something since I haven't updated much lately. Things have been going well. Very well as a matter of fact. We find out the sex of the baby August 22nd. Gary and I are so excited! He keeps telling me we should wait to find out till the very end. I think I would just die waiting.. everytime I pass a cute lil' outfit I want to buy it! Either way I will be excited. Everyone keeps asking if I have feelings towards one or the other. Ya, NOPE. I have absolutely no idea. I have dreamt about a boy and a girl. And we know it's not twins. Time seems to be moving slowly!

Father's Day 2009

This year for Father's Day Angie, Rick, Gary and I took a trip out to Chicago to see my dad and Lynn. We had so much fun and did so much while we were there. We went into the city a few times. Thursday the 4 of us went to the Science and Industry Museum and then walked Michigan Ave. Friday Dad got us all tickets to the Cubs game. It totally down poured all morning that day and even once we got there. The game was delayed an hour but still happened. We got absolutely soaked walking over from the parking to the field which is literally one block away. Like I said it down poured. It was fun still though! Saturday we kind of all went our seperate ways for a few hours. Gary and I went to Naperville and they had a really cute Riverwalk and paddle boats. We had fun. That night we had the best pizza ever -
Salernos! Love it! Sunday was Father's day and Dad and Lynn of course put on the best BBQ ever! YUM.. we got to see all the family and visit with everone. It was so nice. That night our cousin Kara drove the 4 of us downtown and we got to walk Navy Pier and drive the city. We had a good time. It was nice to celebrate Father's day with dad! Love you!!!

CUBS WIN!!!

Ultra Sound 06/17

Doctor said everything looks good. Here you can only see the back of the baby. Finally getting some form to it!

Our fun weekend of camping

This last weekend we had a great time! We went camping with my sister-in-law Brandy, her boyfriend Derek and lil Ravyn. We went to Poudre Canyon Mountain Park. It was such a nice campground. I got totally spoiled ... they had showers and now I never want to do anything different! Saturday was a beautiful day. We took a few walks and napped and relaxed. Sunday we made it home just in time to beat the storm. There were 5 tornado's that touched down sunday. Not very close to us here but close enough we got hit with some hail and hard rain. It's that time of year!!!

Very Cool!

We had our first UltraSound today. We got to listen to the baby's heartbeat and they took a picture! So far everything is good. Heart rate was 154. Very exciting, very real, very scary! LOL, we are both looking forward to being parents and both have wanted this for ourselves for a long time. Now that its here, our minds are now of course flooded with questions and thoughts and excitement too! I know Gary is going to be such a great dad and I am looking forward so much to being a mommy! Where you see the arrow right in the middle of the picture... yep that's our little peanut!

WOA... enough with the emotions!

Well it's true what they say about your emotions when you are pregnant. Well at least for me anyway. Some days I am so irritated that I just want to scream. My coworkers totally bug! (Kinda normal though anyway even when I wasn't prego) I had my first crying moment in the car the other morning driving to work. I was as usual listening to my music on the way and The Rascal Flatts song called My Wish came on. Needless to say by the end of the song I was drowning myself in my own tears. Just touched me so differently than it ever had before. I was laughing at myself the rest of the way to work because I felt like such a nerd that I let one song take over my emotions like that. Then back at work and back to irritation! Although today was a good day! (see, different every day!)

Herbert Bridgford Nicholls

My Grandpa

I want to dedicate this blog to my grandpa and share some stories about someone I loved so much!

Herbert Bridgford Nicholls
June 5, 1924 - March 31, 2009

Story #1
I will never forget 3 years of my life and having the most wonderful oppurtunity of my mom, sister, and I moving in with my grandparents. I was 9 years old when we moved in with them and stayed until I was almost 12. I wish all grandkids could have the experience I did. These years I will always cherish. I will never forget my grandpa's secret hiding spot in the closet in his office with all of his snacks for lunches and all the cream soda's one kid could find. My sister and I snuck into that closet often. Although I think my grandpa knew it was us but not once ever said anything to us. YUM... I miss those snacks... good ol' bugle cheese crackers and creme soda's!

Story #2
This also is from the time we lived with my grandparents. My sister and I walked home from school one dark and cloudy day to find my grandpa and mom home early for the day. They were watching the clouds very closely. Yep, a tornado watch right there in city of Denver. My sister and I had made quite the cozy bed down in the shower in the basement. We brought in lots of blankets, snacks(of course), a radio, all of our toys and dolls. We were set for the "big twister"! Now I don't even remember if it really hit or not or even if we ended up staying down there that long. I love this story because it was one of my grandpa's favorites to tell. In the past year that my grandpa has been in and out of hospitals and dialysis and has had so many visitors I think I heard him tell this story 100 times. He told every visitor, every family member, and every nurse. He just thought it was a hoot. I think my sister and I may have been good entertainment for him that day, more than the tornado.

Story #3
When I was a sophmore in high school my grandpa had a bowling tournament in Oklahoma. "Road Trip"... ya I'll go!!! I had just got my drivers permit.
This was my chance to put in some good drive time! Little did I know how much this trip would truly come to mean to me. I am so grateful I got this alone time with my grandparents. My grandma Nicholls was still alive then and while my grandpa was in meetings or just at practice we got to spend so much time together. A time I will never forget. If anyone knows my grandpa he is a storyteller. I heard every story my grandpa could remember. I don't think I had ever heard him talk so much until we had went on this trip. See my grandma usually did all the talking in any social gatherings we all had at the house I don't think my grandpa had a moment to squeeze a word in. Well now was his chance and he took full advantage. I don't remember honestly how well he did or didn't do at this tournament but I do know that we grew closer because of this trip. I will never forget him pretending to take a nap in the car while I was driving and I would look over once in awhile and check him peeking on me to make sure I was following all rules of going the speek limit. One trip I will NEVER forget!

Story #4
Our cruise to the Caribbean in 2003. My grandpa, granny, mom, sister, great aunt and uncle and a friend of ours all went. We had so much fun. I truly am just so lucky that I have been able to do so many things with my grandpa. He was very adventurous and I think just as excited as us to go on this vacation. He had gone them before and told us everything we needed to know. The ins and outs of cruising! He knew it! We had a ton of fun and saw amazing things. We stopped in Grand Cayman and all got to hold turtles. We then went on to Jamaica... UGH! Then to Cozumel Mexico. I'm glad I was able to take this trip with my family but especially that its another memory I have with my grandpa.

My grandpa was a big part of my life and I love him and will miss him and can't wait to see him again one day!!! Thanks for all the memories granps!!!

Our Honeymoon!

Honeymoon is next!!!