It's a............

We had the ultrasound of this new baby two weeks ago.. I was excited to find out what this little one that's been kicking me every night was... and it's a..................

It's a girl!!! She's right on track.. Now hopefully she'll continue to grow but not too fast.. because if she's to big then I'll probably have to have a repeat C-SEction.. which I really don't want.. I really want to do a VBAC so I'm trying really hard to keep my eating under control and exercising so that she doesn't get too big and I stay in shape... I'm doing pretty good so far!!! Hopefully I can stay on the right track!! Can't wait to dress up this pretty little thing!! And we do have a name... we are thinking about Altaya Noel Mangelson if she's born in December and possibly Altaya Mae Mangelson if she's born in January!!!

9 month pics of Jakey

So I'm the kind of dork that likes to take newborn, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month, and 1 year pics.. I had been doing it at Sears but I decided that it would just as easy and way chepaer just to do it on my own. So I asked my Dad to use his super awesome camera skills and of course his amazing camera to take pics of Jake.. They turned out really cute I think!!! Check them out!!

This one totally reminds me of Shaun's funny faces!!!

And of course we have to have a family shot!!!

JULY HAPPENINGS

Ok.... I know that I'm a slacker.. I promise to try and stay caught up... I know some of you like to read about what's going on in our lives... (Shaunna!) :-) Quite a few things happened in July so I'll just go through them briefly... Hope you enjoy!!!

At the beginning of the month we had a family reunion for Shaun's Mom's side up in Tahoe!!! I didn't get very many pictures sadly but it was a lot of fun. We stayed in a sweet cabin and had a blast hanging out at the lake. Jake really likes the water except for when it's cold.. go figure.. :-) But he had a lot of fun playing in the sand.. of course I didn't get a picture of that. :-(
The only bummer of that trip was he got sick towards the end. I think he was teething again. He had a pretty high fever and was super out of it. We couldn't get him to smile during the pictures but the pics that Shaun's cousin Morgan took turned out pretty good anyways.

Ok.. so I don't have those family pictures downloaded on this computer yet.. They are on Shaun's ... so when I get a chance I'll get on and add them to this post.

Jakey's new passion is "helping" me unload the dishwasher. He likes to grab the silverware and play with it. I have to be careful to make sure that there aren't any knives in the silverware basket.

I love this shot... it's like he's smack-talking to the spoon!!

Later that month Shaunna and her husband Chris came into town and we had a lot of fun. The girls had a spa and jewelry-making night... We had sooo much fun.. getting our hair cut.. getting massages and pedicures, and making really cute earrings. It was fun to have some bonding time. The boys went and played golf and had burgers and shakes. They had fun too... even though they aren't really golfers!! :-) And then we went to a Giants game!! They lost but it was still a lot of fun.. Shaun and I took the BART down to San Fran and Jake was super cute interacting with all the people on the BART. He was in a really good mood.. Smiling and laughing and talking to all the people. He did really well during the game.. I was super surprised. He didn't get really grumpy and even though it was cold he was a trooper. Shaun gave up his sweatshirt and Jake looked pretty cute.. My camera died and I don't have a picture of that.. I'm so unprepared!! Sad.. But we had a really fun time!!

Random pics from June 2011

Sorry that I have been so far behind... Nothing too exciting happened in June but here are some random pictures from last month.

Bath time is one of his favorite times. He loves the water.. He splashes like crazy and
he always gets water in his face which surprises him everytime. It's super cute!!

He loves the pool too except in the very beginning. It's a little cold but as soon as he's used to it then he is in water heaven.

He's such a smiley, happy baby. He totally makes me happy!!

IT was his first time watching the fireworks at the Rivercats game. Shaun couldn't figure out which setting to put the camera on so I messed with it and this is what came out!! I think it's cute.. He wouldn't break his stare away from the fireworks until after they were over.

At Lindsay's promotion!! We are so proud of her. She gave a super graduation speech. She's such a smartie!!

WE took Jakey bowling with us. He had such a fun time. He helped me roll my ball down the lane a couple of times but mostly was in awe of all the lights and music and stuff. He's a super curious baby and loves to see and explore everything.



Another bath shot!

Rolling it down the lane!!!

Hangin with the Uncles

So a couple of weeks ago I got to watch Justin and Kyle. We had a lot of fun. They especially had fun being uncles to Jake. They were so cute when people would ask if they were good brothers.. They would say " No, we are good uncles!!" Super fun. We played sports, went to Fairytale town, and just had fun hanging out! Here are some pictures from our trip!! Enjoy!!

 Love this face!!

Kyle was a good sport!! Being Dorothy!

Easter

So I know that this is a little past due but the pictures from Easter were super cute so I just had to post them. We had a fun little Easter. Shaun really wanted to do Easter baskets but I thought it was a little silly until I went to Target and saw all the cute stuff. So I just got a couple things to put in our baskets. Mostly non-candy stuff because we are trying to be good. :-) So I got Jake a cute little Spiderman ball and a Peter Cotton-tail book that I got out of the $1.00 section.. Gotta love that!

I snuck the basket in his crib while he was still sleeping. I came in the room and he was super happy to see me and then I sat him up and he started playing with his stuff right away. He was so cute!

 I love his happy face. Thanks to Aunt Vickie for the cute bunny!! :p)

 All of us looking o so chipper in the morning!!

 

 Shaun is super good at making this cute boy laugh!!

 Trying to eat the M&M bag that I just took away from him!!

 Going on a mini Easter Egg Hunt.. I prob had more fun than he did! :-)

 I absolutely love this picture!! IT's so cute! In fact I entered it into the Gerber Photo Contest!

 One of the very few family shots that we have!! I need to be better about taking more family pics.

He absolutely loved his bag of M&M's.. He went to town. I'm surprised he didn't get the bag open!! 

Our Spring Break in Vegas!

I did our taxes this year and with the baby and the pittle money that we make we got a pretty nice tax refund. We decided that we would save most of it but that we would budget some out to go to Vegas. Shaun has been wanting to go for a really long time. He has family and all of his favorite friends that he grew up with live there. Plus, we didn't get to go at Thanksgiving because of Jakey being in the hospital. So as soon as we had that extra money Shaun said, "Let's go to Vegas for Spring Break." I said, "What the heck..!! I have family on my side too and I'm sure everyone wants to see the baby" (even if he's getting so big!) We decided that we would leave as soon as Jakey went to sleep for the night on Monday night. Shaun worked Monday came home and slept until 9:00. I drove for the first three hours while Shaun slept and then I starte falling to sleep so we swapped and he drove all the way to Vegas. We got there around 6:30 just in time for Jakey to wake up. Let me tell you.. I think that if you have little babies and maybe even kids it's so much easier to travel at night.. Because they sleep the whole time, you don't have to feed them, and they don't get bored of sitting in their car seats. It ROCKED!!!
We really didn't do anything crazy amazing.. Mostly we just spent time with our families and friends. We got to meet Spencer (Shaun's cousins new son). He was an absolute doll!!
Highlights of the trip:
1. I got to go shopping with my cousin Amber and we found her some really cute clothes that were much needed. She looked super cute in the stuff we ended up getting after trying on about 100 different things. I felt bad for whomever had to clean up that dressing room!! :-)

2. I tried Chicken Wings for the first time in my life!! and they were delicious!! I have always had a something about eating meat that still has bones so I wasn't going to try them but I figured.. hey what the heck why not.. Plus Shaun's friend, Pam and her boyfriend Kenny, and Shaun were all ready to order and I wasn't.. so.. instead of finding something else I asked the waiter what sauces he recommened. I got Spicy Garlic and Honey BBQ. O were they divine!! I love them!! (In fact, I went back 2 days later after shopping with Amber and we had lunch there again!! I hope that doesn't mean I'm addicted.. but I might need to find a good wing place here in Cali!)

3. Jakey is big enough to play with his cousin Tag (Amber's boy) It's nice to have an independent baby that can play and entertain himself rather than always having to take care of him.. Even though I miss that part a little!)

4. I got help with baby duty this week. Usually because Shaun works so hard and goes to school I'm the one that gets up with Jakey in the mornings or if he wakes up in the middle of the night (which doesn't happen often except when we are on vacation.) But Shaun and I took turns this time taking care of Jakey.. being it in the middle of the night, early morning, or even all through out the day. It was nice to have a little break.. and Shaun finally admitted that taking care of a baby is hard work!! As you can see!

5. We got to meet Spencer. Shaun has a cousin named Jordan and they are like 6 months apart and have always been close. Jordan married Tiffany just a few months after we were married and a few month after we found out we were pregnant they found out they were. So now Jakey has another cousin!! He is so cute and tiny!! It was fun to hold him!

6. We had a fun Easter get-to-gether with Shaun's side of the family! It was fun to play at the park.. I even got to get my football-throwin arm worked out a little!! I forgot that I'm pretty good at throwing it.. I might have to get out and play a little more often! :-)

7. Paige and Haddie, 2 more of Shaun's cousins came home from school  for the weekend.. It was a lot of fun to catch up with them.

8. I played Blockus for the first time and won the first time I ever played.. which thus ensued a battle of trash-talking!! It was fun!

Not so fun parts

1. We had to sleep in separate beds!! :-( I didn't like that very much!!

2. I didn't get to spend a lot of time with Shaun because he did a lot of stuff with his friends.. but he needed to spend time with them. It was much needed!!

3. I missed Shaunna's graduation which bummed me out.. But I'm so proud of her.

4. It was pretty hot which I wasn't used to coming from relatively cool temps in Sac.

5. That's it!! I had way more fun than not fun!! :-)