New due date?? could be...

So we went to our ultrasound appointment today @ 2:30 at VGH. Everything with the baby is healthy and strong except for one little thing. The little stinker decided that it was going to do the old flip over trick and go all breech on us. So it's butt is down south and with only 2 weeks to go until the due date the doctor says it's most likely not going to flip back around. Long story short, we can pray that the little brat turn around or else C-section. Elizabeth wanted to avoid it at all costs but since she can't birth a baby bumb first we will probably be having the baby next Friday or soon there after. They do the C-section at 39 weeks and she is 38 right now. Maybe send out a few prayers our way for what ever happens in the next week. Thanks. We did get another picture of the baby at the ultrasound. The kid looks like it has huge lips and a wide nose. It is 6 lbs and has long legs. Soon we will see once and for all.

Really exciting entry!!!!!!!!!!!

So today is a great day. Something so rare and awsome happened that doesn't happen very often in Victoria this time of year. Sunshine!!!!!!! We saw the sun for the first time in a long time today. The ground was actually dry for a change. I had to take a few pictures to remember this special moment.
This is BLUE sky. Not grey or white but blue.
This is the sun

This is dry pavement.

Moving on to more lifechanging matters, Elizabeth had another doctors appointment today. It turns out that Elizabeth's little frame is causing the baby to be cramped and the Doctor wants to make sure everything is O.K. I guess Elizabeth's belly isn't growing as fast as the baby's little body is. They are sending Elizabeth for another ultrasound just to make sure all is well. The Doc says things are fine, the heart rate is 148 and it feels good in the belly, but better to be safe than sorry. We could end up having another baby picture soon!!!! You all will be the first to see the picture.

1st baby shower. Ever!!!!

Elizabeth was surprised tonight with an unexpected baby shower at Nicole's. We had planned to go over to J&N's for some desert, so she thought, but showed up to a house full of ladies. This was a small shower with a bunch of close friends of her's, not the full blown family and friends shower that usually go on. Elizabeth did pretty good, she got a bunch of essentials for when the kid first arrives. Thanks to everyone who was there and thanks for the great gifts. It makes me stress out a little bit less knowing we have diapers and poo poo wipes.

As you can see Elizabeth's still little belly is quite a bit bigger. We have 3 weeks to go until our baby's birthday. Shoooooot. I'm o.k. Seriously.......I'm totally not going to have a panic attack or anything. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

It's cold wet and dark!! We dream of California

This weekend was a really wet rainy cold gross weekend. Sometime I can't stand the rainy winters here. Victoria in the summer is the best, Victoria in the fall/winter... not so much. Friday night Elizabeth couldn't sleep much because of the baby and I couldn't sleep much because of vomiting, so early Saturday morning we headed out for some fresh air. We wen't to Goldstream to check out the Salmon run. I don't know if we were early or late but there wasn't to many. The one's that were there were big suckers though.Here's a couple of pics from the morning.

Elizabeth update

Here is sweet little Elizabeth at 35 weeks. I think this is as big as she's gonna get so all you hoping for a 70 pound gain, sorry. She has gained 24lbs overall though, which is up from what we had thought before. Everything is still going well and Elizabeth is fealing fine. Beth has put her Maternity leave notice in for Nov.15 to be her last day of work. I will probably take a week or two off when little Pablo comes along, maybe more I don't really know. Not long now!!!
What a beautiful Mom to be

Very scary pumpkin carvings.....well not so much.

Tonight we spent the night hackin' away at a couple pumpkins for halloween. Ben and Sarah came over and we carved and had roasted pumpkin seeds mmmm. Personally I felt that my pumkin was the best one but you all can be the judge. Pumkin #1 Ben's oriental man vomiting.
Pumpkin #2 Sarah's horrifically scary kitty cat. Notice the frightening heart shaped nose.
Pumpkin # 3 is my Halo 2(it's a video game for you not in the know).
Last but not least is the most wonderful, splendid, fantastic one of all. It belongs to beautiful Elizabeth. It is a picaso inspired self portrait of herself as a pregnant mother to be. Some may not be able to notice it right away but you obviously don't have an artistic mind.
If you still can't see it, it's a side profile of a pregnant lady but she's headless.Oooo scary!!

Something for us,something for baby.

Here the pic of our new TV finally. We were using a wee 19" for a while but now we have our 42" plasma hdtv. Our place seems a lot bigger with the TV on the wall, it really opens up the space. Anyways more importantly I also painted the baby room this weekend with the help of Chris Driebergen. He did all the hard work like cutting in and the trim and I just rolled it on. The room looks so good with the green with bright white trim. The colour is called Christopher Robbins Swing made by Disney. We got a change table Friday also white, now were just waiting on the crib and we'll have the room pretty much done. We're getting pretty anxious to have the baby and see what it looks like and how it behaives. Elizabeth is doing good still, She's gained 24 pounds and the baby's heart rate is 130 which means BOY. The baby is also apparently quite long(21"), no surprise there looking at it's parents. Anyways 6 weeks and counting, but if the baby comes when I expect it to it will be only 4 weeks. I just read what I wrote and I really write in segmented sentences don't I. Oh well who care it's my blog. And I. Will. Write. How I . want!!!! See ya!

I'm thankful for...

We hope everyone had a great thanksgiving weekend, and you stuffed your faces with Tryptophen filled turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy and spiced stuffing. We had the privilege of having 2 turkey dinners, One @ the Lindoffs and one @ the Cowleys. We didn't get any left overs which is the best part but oh well.

Here's the fellas trying to put together a table and chairs the Brisco's got for Rebekah's birthday. I didn't actually take very many picture on the weekend so I don't have any to show, sorry. Well this entry is boring me to tears so I'll go for now. This weekend coming up is our 8 hour marathon lamaze class. Wish me luck, hopefully I won't puke/pass out or cry.

Update on Elizabeth is..... nothing's changed. She is very healthy and so is the baby. The whole pregnancy has gone very well and we are coming to the end. I figure this would be a good time to announce my guess for the due date. I guess November 17 @ 11:55PM exactly. That's right two weeks early. We would like to hear your guess for the due date if you guess correctly you could win a weekend of your choice of babysitting. Let us know your guess via comments.

New Ride!!!

So with the baby on it's way our 1991 honda accord just wasn't going to cut it. The car was more than good to us over the last while but it had 340,000kms, no muffler, a cracked windshield, and it started to blow blue smoke. We went to this KIA dealership where Elizabeth's old boss works now(She's the daughter of the owner). Long story short we drove a couple vehicles and fell in love with this 1999 Dodge Durango. It is a tough looking truck but stylish enough for Elizabeth. Elizabeth was the one who found it by the way. Anyways, it's a bit of a gas guzzler considering the V8 5.2 litre magnum engine. We love it and are happy to have a reliable nice car finally(We also got a four year warranty with it).

It's been a while!!!

So it's been some time since our last blog entry. Sorry. We've been really busy lately and haven't had much free time. Let me fill you in on the haps. Two weekends ago we got our first couple of new baby accessories. The first one being a new jogging stroller for Mom and the baby(Dad probably won't get too much use out of it). Elizabeth looked at a few and didn't like this or that with all of them. The one we found has everything she could ever hope for and more, her life is complete now.

As you can see if our baby looks anything like a basketball it will be a perfect fit.

The next thing we got was not bought by us, oh no, it was a gift from our friends Ry_n and El_sa. It's a great gift and we are very blessed to have such great friends. It's a motorized swing set for our little one. It has multiple speeds, has several calming nature sounds and plays some sort of kiddie music.

This is really a mixed blog entry. The next portion will reflect our last weekend in Vancouver. We went to Vancouver on a whim, just expecting to have a good time with our friends R&E. when we got off the ferry we saw more friends Rayeal Michalski and Kim Richmond. After chatting for a while we went to Brad and Kim,s place to hang out. We stayed there until about 1am then cruised back to R&E's to retire for the evening. Next day was ABC for breakfast and shopping for new clothes. Elisa and Michelle(Lindoff) had tickets for the Mariah Carey concert that night, which they purchased month's ago. Elizabeth was in search of something to do that night because it would mean hanging with the boys otherwise. We thought why not see if there were anymore tickets to the concert. We found the last ticket in the section the other girls were in and bought it. $101 dollars later the girls were together watching one of the all time greatest divas ever. I though that was pretty cool, and I apologize for using the word "diva". Anyways I've bored myself with typing so now I will bid you all farewell. Elizabeth's feeling well and strong, the baby is healthy and normal, and I am me. Life is good. 68 days and counting until little Mohammed or Latisha comes into our lives.

Our last holliday without Jr.

Well this trip to California was just what we needed. We got lots of sun and heat, the temperatures hovered around 35-37degrees. We did lots of stuff and we still had lots of time to relax, which was what it was all about. So the first day we got there we got our rental car which was a Chrysler 300. This car is big, wide and sucks gas big time. We loved it.
Our first day we went to Newport beach, our favorite beach. We spent the afternoon soaking up the sun and just relaxing from the flight.
After the beach we checked into our hotel which was a pleasant surpirise. The hotel was nothing special, it was a Holliday Inn near Disneyland. The great thing about it was that it was really clean and the service was awsome. That night we headed off to Downtown Disney which is a bunch of Restaurants, shops and entertainment. We ate at a Mexican place called Tortilla Joes, it was a good spot to people watch. The next day we went to San Diego via the coast highway. The drive down presented many nice beaches one of our favorites was in San Capistrano.
I'm gonna speed things up a bit by point forming the rest of the trip. In San Diego we spent much time lost trying to find the Wild Animal Park, who knew 30 miles south of the park would be Mexico?? That day was cool but really hot!! 37 degrees hot. The park was really interesting. The next day we went to Disneyland/California Adventure all in one day. We weren't going to go there but how could we pass up the 50th anniversary, Mickey just wouldn't have it. Dinner that night we stuffed our faces full of Red Lobster goodness and sat by the pool. The next day was Santa Monica and the BLVD for some window shopping. We sat on the beach and checked out the pier. Dinner was Olive Garden, enough said. After dinner we cruised back to Anaheim to catch an Angels game that was sold out except for our $120 tickets we barley got the morning of. The game was awsome. There was a collision at the plate, extra innings and Anaheim won by a homerun in the 10th inning, sweet!! The next day was spent with room service breakfast and siiting pool side until we had to pack up and go home. The trip was good maybe 2 days too short but good non the less.

California and New wheels!?!?

So tonight we head off for the sun soaked beaches of California. This is probably our favorite place to travel to(mine anyways). I know it's not very exotic but that's me. We're just heading down for the long weekend plus 2 days. It'll just give us enough time to get some more 30 degree weather in and see some of our favorite spots. I'll for sure have some pictures to show, but now that I'm a big wedding photographer I don't know how these travel pictures will turn out, it's not my specialty you know.
On another note, I've been selling stuff on usedvictoria.com at a pretty good pace. I put 3 things on(xbox,computer,TV)and they all sold within days.The TV I will have for a little while because I sold it to a friend. Anyways yesterday I decided to try my luck at the buying thing and picked up a set of wheels and tires for the Honda. They were pretty cheap and it kind of shows but for the cost of what I sold my xbox for, it's a good trade off. They are really dirty and need to be shinned up but they should be ok.

Beth's beautiful bountiful baby belly!!!

the tummy is progressing lovely. Notice the shirt says"COMING THIS FALL". these are Elizabeth's first maternity clothes from Old Navy.

More Mayne Island PIcs

My Island Adventures

This thusday and friday for me(Brian) were spent ferry hoping between Victoria/Saturna/Saltspring and Mayne Island. I don't mind these days because it usually means 2hrs work for a 10hr day. Thursday was Saltspring island which I had been to a couple times before, once last week actually. It was nothing out of the ordinary and was a gorgeous day to travel. After my job I stopped for lunch at this restuarant/cafe on the water that I always go to over there. The good thing about these jobs on the island is that the ferries are few and far between so I have a chance to look around and take some pictures.
Friday was Mayne island, never been didn't really care to ever go. I had to be on the 5am ferry over which meant I was up at 4am to get out there in time. I actually love beeing up really eary like that when it's quiet and dark. Anyways I got on the ferry and got over there not knowing what to expect, but it was a pleasant surprise. I found all kinds of neat places, and a beach that was really nice. I'm over my writing quota so here are some pictures.
This was on the way to Saltspring Thursday, I love the rays of light coming through the clouds.
This was on the ferry to Mayne island. The colour of the sunrise turned everything orange, the boat, the water and the trees on the shore.
Some old tractor sitting outside and old farm house. It kind of shows the lifestyle of the poeple on the island. I went to a little bakery that was serving breakfast after my job and it showed me that poeple like living in their simple small town ways. I ordered my omlette and coffee got out my debit card, "sorry we don't have debit". The lady said "you can eat your breakfast and the go down the road to the atm and pay after"!!!!!!! that would never happen in Victoria at a place you've never been. When I got my coffee, I just grabbed a big old mug out of the cupboard and poured it myself. Long story short it was kinda cool.

Some wedding sampler photos

New Toys

So I got a couple of new toys for my camera this week. One of them is a 3x telephoto lens for the end of my camera. The other is a 0.38xultra wide angle lens with macro. I tried out the macro lens and ended up with some cool close ups . Obvoiusly i'll put a couple pictures to show you all. They may bore you or not but there going on anyways.

Baby update sort of!!!

So Elizabeth is in her 24th week and is starting to grow finally. It seems like she will grow a lot in the next few weeks and months so maybe we'll update with belly pictures as we go now. We are still so excited and now we just want the kid to be born to see what it looks like and how it behaves.
This week we also booked our last trip to California as "DINK's"( Dual income no kids) We will be going down Sept 2 to soak up the sun and just relax. We plan to head down to San Diego because we've never been yet. We'll take in a baseball game and check out some other sites down there. We are also going to go to our favorite beach Santa Monica. This year is going to be a lot more relaxed than previous trips, we aren't hitting all the theme parks this time. I hope to take a bunch of pictures down there so you can be sure you'll be seeing them on the blog.
This coming Saturday is Rebekah and Gavin's wedding in which I will be the official photographer, Pardon me while I throw up....... I'll be honest I am getting nervous because it is such a big thing and I have never done a wedding before. Oh well there's a first for everything!!??!!?? Here's a couple of pictures to satisfy your viewing pleasures.
Here is litlle Elizabeth at 6 month's pregnant. She doesn't look huge yet by any stretch of the imagination, but soon....
I have been getiing up at 5:30am a couple days a week and going to get some early morning shots when the lighting is good. This one is on the breakwater all by myself around 5:45am last week. Elizabeth really likes it and said I should put it on the blog site so here it is.