Our First Anniversary and a "Surprise" Trip!

All last week, Charley and I had been wracking our brains for a plan for our one year anniversary. We wanted to do something special, and I had been begging all summer for us to take some sort of vacation. Vacation was definitely not in the cards for the time being, because Charley had the trial of his lifetime set to begin on July 20. We couldn't think of anywhere to go after the trial as well, since I would be nearing the 3rd trimester...and tropical vacays don't sound as good when you are large and in charge and can't drink. So it was on the backburner...or so we thought.

The Thursday before our anniversary, I had made reservations at Bottega for us and figured we'd do a nice dinner that Saturday. I was planning on going shopping that afternoon, but knew that Charley had already been to a jewelry store but didn't find anything reasonable, and had no more time to shop with his busy schedule of pretrial depositions. Suddenly I realized I had two missed calls from my hubs and a voicemail. The news on the message made my draw drop!! The trial of the decade had been postponed by the judge till DECEMBER!! We knew immediately what we were going to do. My parents and their best friends had access to a condo in Keystone, Colorado that next week and had invited us a long time ago to join them, but with the trial we figured it couldn't happen. My dad and I immediately got on every airfare website we could find. What a perfect 1st anniversary "paper" gift....plane tickets!

The Saturday before we flew out we had a nice Italian dinner at home and pulled out the top tier of our wedding cake. It fared pretty well and tasted not too bad. We toasted with our silver champagne flutes, used our monogrammed cake cutters; I wore my tiara and Charley wore a green shirt to represent one of our wedding colors. It was a nice ritual and good distraction from Lola not being there with us (I had to drop her off at the boarders a day early and was a bit teary about it haha). On our actual anniversary we flew out to Colorado! So thankful for the way things just tend to work out. :)

I'll post more about the trip later, since this post is already long. To end things, I just want to get a bit sappy for a moment. Our wedding day was truly the best fairy tale day! I love my husband more everyday, and we feel so blessed to have found each other. Especially now that our family is growing. I spent the last couple of weeks finalizing our wedding photo orders (nothing inspires me like a deadline) :) and its been so nice to look back at that magical day. Here are some of my favorite shots:

Happy Birthday America!

For the July 4th weekend, we went down to our lake house with my brother Jason, his wife Courtney, their ADORABLE daughter Caroline, and their two sweet pups Link and Zelda. We had such a great time hanging out, cooking yummy meals, watching redneck fireworks, sitting by the dock, etc. Caroline is seriously the best baby ever and Courtney gave me a crash course on some mommy tips while the boys went fishing. It was so nice spending time with family! Here are some pictures courtesy of the Lil Z's:



Future Miss America

Boy oh Boy!!!

Well the big day finally arrived! We got to have our ultrasound today and it was soo exciting. Chach and I went into the room at 10am this morning to start the exciting process. I laid down on the bed and my heart was pounding with nervous excitement. She rolled the magic wand around for a bit measuring everything, however just her and Charley could see the screen. After what felt like an eternity, she turned the screen and started explaining everything. We saw the precious head and watched the baby move the arms and kick the legs. The baby turned and looked at us, with its rather alien/monkey looking face! Aww the skeleton face only a mother could love haha. Then she asked if we were ready to look between the legs! She moved the wand and said "Well do see whats between there?" At that point, I just knew it had to be a boy...and boy he is!! We are elated...we're going to have a son!!

We saw the doctor after that and she said everything looks great. Baby Fisher weights 11 ounces and all the numbers look perfectly healthy and on track. He's actually coming in two days early in size, but they said thats not enough to change the original due date. Its funny, I had been thinking boy for awhile and Chach told me today he thought it was going to be a boy too. I had always pictured myself with girls, but as soon as I got pregnant I thought it was a boy, and was totally excited about it. We have a DVD of the ultrasound and some pics, however I don't have a scannner and couldn't get the DVD to save to post, but I'll keep working on it! In the meantime, we are thanking God for the blessing of a healthy little man.