9 months and waiting

Well, after 9 months of carrying a baby and looking pleasantly round, we decided to go to the park in Manhattan, KS and take some pregnancy pictures.

Sometimes I can stick out my belly to make it look larger!!!

Oh, yeah, and don't forget, when the mama's pregnant, daddy has to try to get a belly too to make her feel better. Here's a picture of Robert admiring his belly that he got during my 9 months of getting round.

Ready for a Dinner

Robert and I were on our way to eat dinner with our friends, the Fords, and we stayed in our church clothes so we'd be styling. Here are some pictures of us on this nice day in front of our house.

Lakers Win

We all know Robert is CRAZY for the Lakers. In fact, he has watched every game this season via his NBA pass and enjoyed watching every finals game! When they won, he went even more CRAZY. He had pre-brought some sparkling cider and celebrated with one bottle and sprayed another bottle all over the back yard. I bet he'd even name our kid Kobe or Pau if I'd let him!

Lakers are in the Finals

Yes, we all know, Robert LOVES the LAKERS! And, this year they are in the finals! So, he brought me a jersey to wear during the game and we had fun watching them win game 1. GO LAKERS! All I have to say is... I hope his son likes basketball!

I passed

I never thought the day would come, but I passed my Medical Boards, and being that I live in a small town in Kansas, you know the news paper has to say something about it. Check out this link:
http://www.dailyu.com/newsdetail.asp?article_id=4209

6 weeks to go

Almost, almost, almost there.... With 6 weeks to go, here are some pictures of me on our deck sticking out my belly for the camera!

Baby Shower #3 - Friends

The great thing is, that in Junction City, I have girlfriends that are pregnant and going through the same thing as me at the same time. In fact, they are my patients too! So that makes it extra special. The photo above is all the gals that came to my shower and the photo below is of my friend Savina who is due 10 days before me - and I get the honor of delivering her baby. As my shirt says "Baby's make the belly go round".

Baby Shower #2 - Work Shower

I guess when you spend you're time working and being social in different circles, you get many baby showers.... here are pictures from my baby shower from work! The gals sure treat me so well.

Mom's Visit

It may look like any large lizzard, and coming from Arizona lizzards shouldn't scare me, but when it's running around your front room it's a squirmy thing to catch. On Saturday when mom came to visit, she went down to get ready and shower, she saw this bugger run across the floor. She and Robert spent some "quality" time chasing it around our basement and finally got it in this box while I stood at the stairs and could hardly contain my laughter as my mom would scream each time the lizzard ran. GET THE LIZZARD!
And then right before mom left, we took a picture of her holding her future grandson in my belly! It was nice to have my mom here to visit right before I become a mom!

Boots and Chap and Cowboy Hats

Robert and I went to the Hospital Foundation Dinner called "Boots, Chaps, and Cowboys Hats". They served Angus beef from the Angus farm in town to be enjoyed with funny-money gambling and dancing. Yee-Haw!

Lakers

It must be playoff time... my husband even wore his Laker's tie to church and then quickly put on this outfit to watch the Lakers in the playoff game today. GO LAKERS! What will I do when I have two boys running around in Lakers-only clothing?

Baby Shower #1

The residents at KU in my Family Medicine Department threw us a "Jack and Jill" Baby Shower. Sure it was fun getting some gifts, but it was more fun just hanging out with everyone from the residency and seeing friends! Here are some pictures. And, yes, my belly has grown.

The entire group.
Robert and I.

Baby Stuff

Look at my new shirt! My mom sent it to me. It's a beautiful day here... around 80, which is great for March in Kansas. Below you will see a picture of Robert putting together the stroller/jogger we got for the baby - so cute!

The Belly Has Arrived

I guess at 6 months pregnant I can celebrate the fact that I went to bed without a belly and wokd up with this belly shown here in the pictures! This is my actual first day of needing maternity clothes. Anyway, we just thought we'd share.

Ultrasound

I finally scanned in the pictures from our 3D ultrasound. As you can probably see from the first picture, our baby (like most others) has feet, and then the second picture is a profile picture - which I love, and the last picture is a 3D picture so you can see what baby Diaz looks like now at 22 weeks! Just thought we'd share!

Baby Robert

Hi Here is a picture of Baby Robert, it's a bit fuzzy but he is there. We found out today that our baby is a boy, we initially wanted to keep it a surprise but after a few complications earlier this week we had to go to a specialist and we decided to find out. 

Like I said these pics are not as clear, but the ones we got from the specialist are very good in 4D unfortunately we only got hard copies so until we get a scanner you will have to settle for the ones that were taken at the hopital where Kristi works.

Happily Pregnant

"So happy together..."
Now that I've gotten over the flu and the first trimester puking - I'm much happier. And see below, the bump starts....

Christmas in Utah

For Christmas thru New Years we went to Utah and visited Robert's familiy. First, there was a TON of snow falling the entire time we were there. The picture above is of the mountains right outside Cheryl's house. We celebrated Christmas at Cheryl and Josh's and then New Years at Robert's parent's new place.
I know, I look a little pale, but remember, I was still in my first trimester and puking all the time!

The happy Madson family! Santa treated us all very well!

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to Yuma, AZ and visited with my family. We stayed for 5 days. My family hosted a mini family reunion and we had fun reconnecting with everyone that came.

Watch out - Robert has a knife!!!

Yup, it turned blue

We realize that this is a little corny - ok, a lot corny to have to look at the stick that I peed on to see that we were pregnant - but here it is! It's a life changing stick. We're 4 months along already and look forward to July when we can say hello to little Diaz!

My New Yob!!!

No that is not my Halloween costume that is what I wear to work every day. I (Robert) recently got a job at Fort Riley, as I mentioned before that's the army base that is right next to the Junction. I am perform an essential duty in the the training process that our troops go through when they prepare to get deployed and go to Iraq and Afghanistan.  So you are probably asking yourself what is my job? Well, I get to play soldier every day. More especifially I get to play an Iraqi soldier. We basically go out on mission with the different teams preparing to deploy and act as Iraqi (or Afghani) soldiers who are out with the Americans on joint missions. If you didn't know what the army is doing now there is helping train the local armies on how to be soldiers. So they need people like to act as Iraqi and we get to lear a little of the language and pretend we dont speak english.  

There are also other people who get to dress up as civilians and they "live" in these faux Iraqi villages built out in the middle of nowhere in Fort Riley. So we go out to these villages in our Humvees and play out different scenarios, like getting shot at by insurgents hiding in a village, IED's exploding in the middle of the town, looking for information hidden in some one's house, or dealing with mobs protesting. So there it is in a nutshell that's my new job