Really? Has it been over 2 months?

I can't believe it's been over 2 months since I've posted. Wow, time flew away from me. Things have been quite busy here on the home front. I'm now about 6 months pregnant. We found out in December that we were having a little baby boy and we're so extremely excited! We've already named him Elijah but we're calling him Eli for short. We've always loved that name, not to mention I always thought Elijah was a pretty cool prophet in the Bible. December we spent a lot of time cleaning out our apartment and getting rid of everything we didn't need. We're planning to stay in our one bedroom for awhile and with the baby's things it will be a tight squeeze. We managed to donate most everything to goodwill and I think we even sold a few things. It was a great purge for the new year. In early Dec. I enjoyed doing a few family photo shoots and even was given baby furniture as payment for a shoot I did. It was such a blessing! Also in Dec. I got a new position within the company I work for. So things have been really busy getting up to speed on the new role and transitioning over the old stuff. I've also been doing a fair amount of traveling for work over the past month, which has been more difficult than I thought it would be with being pregnant. I think I took my last trip this past week though so I'm excited to stay home for more than a week at a time for the duration of this pregnancy.Last week my work sent me to DC for meetings so we took the opportunity to hang out with friends and family while we were there. It was so much fun!

We've also had some friends visit us this Jan. between my travels and I think we may have more visiting in March/April. It's fun living in such a neat city where friends actually want to come visit. Below are some pictures from our friend's Kevin & Drew when they visited this January. Unfortunately while they were visiting I got incredibly sick and ended up in the ER for being dehydrated and not able to keep anything down. The baby and I were fine though and made it out okay. Kevin & Drew were so forgiving and easy guests, I'm glad we were able to do most of the fun stuff before I got sick :-) All is well now and we're so grateful!

Recently I've been enjoying my big belly and little Eli growing inside. I believe I've gained 18 lbs so far. I'm constantly feeling him move around, kicking, and flipping around. The movements have become much stronger and sometimes I can even see my belly move! James has enjoyed feeling the baby move and kick too! Today it hit me that the baby will be here in just a few short months. I have so much yet to do!!! I pray I have the strength and time to get everything done and still have time to relax. We'll see how it goes. My goals for this month are re-arranging our bedroom to make room for the baby crib, staining or painting the baby furniture to match ours, re-upholstering the baby bedding (maybe), registering for baby items, and maybe even sewing some baby items of my own. We'll see how many of these I actually get finished. I'm also hoping to get photography website started in the very near future. Well, whatever I don't finish I guess I'll just carry it over to the next month.

Okay enough rambling...I'm not even sure if this post makes sense. But at least I've updated my blog. Enjoy the pics below of Kevin & Drew's visit. I'll probably be posting more photos soon. I have a bunch of shoots I did that I'd love to share. Stay tuned :-)

News on All Levels

These past few weeks have been incredibly interesting ones for our country. The hurricanes have had devastating effects from devouring winds to flooding waters. Many have been without water for days. There is much damage to clean up from the storms and many people in need of assistance.

This past Friday there was a metro link crash here in the LA area. 25 lives were taken as the metro link collided with a freight train. It was a very bad accident...Click here for more information.

Also as many of you have heard there are businesses that are not doing so well in the stock exchange. Some of you may know that I almost accepted a job with one of these companies. I praise God for giving me guidance when I was making my job decision. Who knows where I would be right now otherwise...probably looking for another job.

Well enough of my reflections...onto news....


Today James had his follow up Dr. apt. He has been feeling better, and though its taken him awhile to sound better today his voice actually sounds normal. The Dr. says things still look like they are in the clear but James is to come for another check up in a week.

James was invited to a cocktail party with his work celebrating the 100th episode of Clean House. So I'm invited too! It will be later this week. I have no idea what to expect, but it should be exciting!

We're both getting excited and prepared for our trip to DC which will then be followed by our trip to MI for my cousin's wedding. We can't wait!!!!

Hangin In

The Kankas are hanging in there....This week began with James feeling sick. He was at work last week on one of the messiest houses yet. They even gave the crew masks to wear! Over the weekend James' voice disappeared and he felt horrible. I of course made him chicken noodle soup and nagged him into making a doctor's appointment. It turned out that 2 other guys from his crew were just as sick with the same thing. So today they all went into the doctor together. They took x-rays and everything of his lungs but they didn't find anything. Though they want to monitor him and check him out next week. The dust and things in the messy house cause are what have brought on this bad spell. He seems a lot better today and I'm hopeful that they won't find anything next week at the check up.

On another note....as I was leaving work today I noticed a film crew working outside and around the building next to mine. Since it was along my walk to the parking structure I got a good look. I think it was the show called "CHUCK". That's what all the director chairs said. They had huge lights, people with radios, microphones, and actors dress in really nice suits. It looked like fun...the location of the offices that I work in is actually very nice and contemporary looking. Can't wait to see if I can pick it out on the show! Also on my drive home, around the corner from our place is Vons, our local grocery store. Well there was a tour bus of somebody parked there. There were a bunch of peple and body gaurds out in the front of the bus. It looked like a really nice tour bus... I wonder whose it was????