Our family continues to grow!

Hello everyone, we are back! I promised to resume the Bush Family blog someday and today is the day since yesterday (Christmas Day) we announced to FB world that we are pregnant with baby #2!  I hope to continue this blog through my pregnancy and up through the first year of the child's life, as I did for Olivia or as I like to call her Miss O.
We are so very excited, especially O.  She has already placed one of her dolls in the crib and given the new baby her baby pillow.  She has nicknamed the baby "flower," which may be suiting since if we have a girl I would like to name her Lilly or Lillian.  No set name for a boy yet.
Olivia was the first one to suspect I was pregnant, before we even knew for sure.  The day before we found out, driving to Thanksgiving dinner with the Ritenbaugh clan she asked, "Mommy is God making a baby in your tummy?"  Her intuitions were spot on when the next day I took a test that came out positive!
I was 4 weeks along and the way I know this with certainty is by tracking my ovulation that month with Clear Blue ovulation kit.  On November 9th or 10th the baby was conceived.  The third day after ovulation my breasts began to hurt, it felt as painful as when my milk came in with O. I thought this was strange since they don't hurt closer to my period is due.  Most findings on the web said that breast soreness usually doesn't take place until several weeks into pregnancy, therefore I chalked it up to an unusually early period.  I waited one whole week past due period, which if you know me was a feat in itself, but after O asked that question and being about a week late I caved and took a test.
On November 29th it was confirmed:

Hurray!  We are truly pregnant!  We conceived the second month of trying, which is exactly the amount of time it took with O.  The first pregnancy I had no symptoms at all, for the first trimester I continued to take pregnancy tests because I couldn't tell if I was pregnant or not.  This time around is totally different, not only have my breast continued to be sore, but I am extremely gassy.  Sorry for all the TMI, but this is the unfortunate side effects of pregnancy.  Isn't it a beautiful thing!?!  Other side effects of late are a little nausea late at night before bed.  By five weeks my pants where becoming hard to button and O took a pic with me to show how large my stomach had become:

It probably wasn't until the end of my second trimester with O when I started to notice my stomach growing, but what they say is true that your second pregnancy you show sooner.  But five weeks soon is crazy to me!  I guess your body is just ready to go after being through it once already.
At six weeks I caved and put on pregnancy pants:

I feel immediately pregnant!  If I am this large half way through my first trimester how big will I be near the end of my pregnancy?  I hope to continue working out through this pregnancy, something I regret not doing with O.  I hope I can compensate the growth. :)
Here I am after a run at seven weeks:

Holy moly!  I went through my blog and found my pregnancy pics with O.  At seven weeks my stomach is as large as I was with O at around 17 weeks!!  I fear the last trimester, I may spend it in bed since I will not be able to move.  Ha!
In week eight and two days before Christmas we had my first OB appointment and were so happy and relieved to see the heart beating away.  What a simply magical site!

The due date is August 3rd. I had a c-section with O due to breach, so it is more than likely this baby will be another c-section.  If that is the case the due date would be more like July 28th, which would be fine with me since my B-Day would be exactly a month before, June 28th.  I am very happy to have a summer baby!  After having a baby on Dec. 9th and a husband with a Dec. 6th B-Day, I wanted anything but a winter baby.  Unfortunately I might be singing a different tune when May rolls around.  The pool and beach is where you can find me my last trimester.
I leave you with one last pic of our precious O, wearing a shirt I bought two years ago in the hopes we would try for another kid.  Thank goodness it fits her and I had the foresight to buy a size 3.  I texted family and a close friend her wearing the shirt. This is also how Charlie found out when he came home that night.  I was wondering how long it would take him to figure it out, but right as he came in the door O yelled, "Daddy come look at my shirt!"

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Temporarily On Hold!

Hello everyone I know it has been awhile! You may be asking yourself why haven't I done one blog entry this year? Well it has been for a lot of reasons. One and foremost is that everyone that views my blog is now on Facebook! Yay! So I kind of see it redundant to post on both.

Secondly for the past year it has been very difficult to post photos on my blog. I guess the "blogger" did updates and uploading photos are harder now for Macs. It would take me over an hour to do one blog and now that Olivia requires more of my time since she is walking, I just don't have that extra time.

And lastly I haven't really taken photos until recently. I forgot my camera for Christmas and ended up only taking one or two in our annual Beaver Creek Ski trip. Until recently Charlie made me aware of my lack of camera use.

But now I am making up for loss time and will be posting all my photos on my Facebook profile. The great thing with Facebook is that you will see a whole lot more photos than you used to on the blog since I won't have to edit as much since downloading on Facebook is so easy and fast.

Also this is not the end to the Bush Family blog. I will resume it when we have baby 2. He or she will get a year of their life blogged, just as Olivia did. This will also happen for baby 3, 4, and etc. HA! I can actually hear Charlie's heart skip a beat and he is in NJ right now trying to find our next house!

See ya all in a little while????? Singing off.......

Olivia's "First" Birthday!

I can't believe it! My baby girl is one years old! Where did the time go? When I look at this picture it seems just like yesterday she was our little sweat pea with dark hair and eyes. Constantly making funny faces, one of which the cooing face, my favorite.
But now my baby has grown into beautiful little 1 year old girl. Sitting up on her own, crawling around, chewing her fingers as numerous teeth come in. Melting every one's hearts with her baby blue eyes and strawberry-blonde hair. I couldn't love anyone or anything more than this sweet baby girl we call punky.
Charlie sitting in Olivia's new Pottery Barn kids seat that Nina gave her for her B-Day. They are relaxing before all the guests arrive for her 1st B-Day party. I love how Charlie fits in a kids seat.
Maggie Garcia's little girl Page and my niece Callahan seemed to really like each other. I thought it was cute how they escaped the party to go outside to hang out. I guess when you find another three year old girl who talks your language, it is pretty neat.


Nina (mother-in-law) and my sister-in-law Carolynn hanging by the spread.

The party in full swing.

Nina did a great job decorating the table!
Carolynn and I made the cupcakes and smash cake. The fondant toppers I purchased from Etsy.com. Although Carolynn ended up doing majority of the prep work with the food since I was literally in my pj's icing cup cakes 20 minutes before the party. It didn't seem like there was a lot to do, but I definitely misjudged. Kids parties are stressful!
Smash cake!
Pink tutu and on point= Ballerina in the making! But does she really have a choice? :)
Carolynn and I tried to get a pic with Olivia and my nephew Evans amongst the craziness.
The owl pinata had ribbon attached, which the kids pulled one at a time and only one ribbon dropped the candy. We tried to have the kids form a line so each kid had a chance to pull a ribbon, that was easier said than done.
I love Rachel's boy Alden, his face says it all as he walks away with a ton of candy.
The pinata all pretty before it was destroyed by the kids.
The pinata dropping a ton of candy.
I love this pic of Paige and Callahan shoveling candy into their bags as Milo searches for stray pieces. The dogs were likes sharks swimming around bait.
Pretty impossible to take a pic with a one year old when yummy candy is on the floor.
Callahan trying to squeeze in some healthy carrots before feasting on candy and cupcakes.
Olivia is mesmerized by everyone singing happy B-Day to her. Love how Sunny is watching the cakes every move, she has learned that what ever baby gets on her tray she may get on the floor.
At the end of singing Happy B-Day, everyone started cheering and the kids started screaming, making miss O very upset. She hates loud noises. Love how Paige was concerned.
I quickly gave her some icing to distract her from all the noise.
Amazing! Icing makes everything better.
I couldn't remove the topper fast enough. It looks like she was helping, but more like trying to take it.
"Ummmmm..... I am in chocolate bliss"!
"Can I rub my whole body in this stuff"? "Well I guess I will start with my face". "Mmmm.....".
I tried to feed her some cake, because she didn't seem aware of anything but the icing.
Yes, I can confirm we have reached a chocolate coma state.
Squish!
I keep thinking I should stop her from eating anymore because she is going to get sick, but it was too funny watching her eat her cake that I let her go a little too long. The rest of the night she was spitting up chocolate goo.
We call this the sad clown face. Poor baby.
Smash cake is definitely smashed.
Now time for the presents! Thanks everyone for coming to celebrate Olivia's First Birthday!