She moves!

If you haven't figured it out yet, our baby girl's name is going to be Seoul Elizabeth. I was born in Seoul Korea so we think it's a beautiful name to remember my/our heritage.

She moves on a daily basis now and I love it! It's amazing to me there is a little human inside me that I'm taking care of already. She seems to have a routine of kicking most days. Sometimes I think she's taking after me and loves kickboxing already - ha! My tummy physically moves now and Kelley was able to see and feel it for the first time Tuesday. He looked over while we were watching tv and saw the movement so he put his hand on my tummy. There have been a couple times that he thought he felt her in the past but this time we're sure. Plus it's been a few times since then. Exciting!!

Here is a photo of me from a couple weeks ago I never got around to posting (22 weeks):



















Here is a photo of me tonight - I think my belly is finally getting bigger so people can tell I'm pregnant! (24 weeks)

Long Awaited Post: Our Home

I know I promised photos of the interior of our new place many moons ago. Here they are!




We still love it and will miss it when we move (whenever that happens). Kelley's favorite feature is the garage for the extra space, which includes increasing our food storage - yay! My favorite feature is still the stairs... I think they're doing wonders for this prego mama's bum and metabolism.

As I mentioned before it's nice to live in a neighborhood without the traffic of people and looking for an open parking space. It is quiet around here and we don't see a ton of the neighbors. However, there are some funky nighttime happenings around here....

There are howling dogs across the street. I think we're finally adjusting and tuning them out.

One night we woke up around 2 AM to the duplex neighbor woman crying in obvious pain, including moaning and talking about her pains coming faster. My first thought was "go to the hospital if you're in labor" - then I thought it must just be the pregnancy on my mind since we had not seen any pregnant women over there, just a teenage girl very non-pregnant. (I won't mention what Kelley's first thought was - haha) The noises continued for a couple hours. At one point we heard an ambulance and we were excited that they were coming to take her away. Nope, it didn't come near us. Either she left on her own or we tuned it out because we finally got a couple more hours of sleep before getting up for work. Come to find out a week or so later the woman did have a baby. Good, I'm NOT crazy thinking that she was in labor but we still hadn't seen her... or the baby... hmmm...

One more -
One night we woke up in the middle of the night to a loud noise. To me it sounded like a car had hit a garbage can and then dragged it down the road a couple blocks. Maybe a major part fell out of the car while they were driving? Is that possible?

Things have calmed down a bit at night and everything always seems perfectly normal in the morning. Fun times, that is for sure!

Tribute to Bruce

It is with great sadness that we say good-bye to our dear family member Bruce (Kelley's Honda Accord). He lives on through the Disneyland charm hanging in our new family member Shark Bait Oo-Ha-Ha (2006 Honda Civic with ALL the options). I never thought I'd say this but I truly felt sad when we cleaned him and left him behind at the dealership. I hope he's happy wherever he is... there was plenty of interest in him so I hope he found another good home.

As for Shark Bait, he is Kelley's new love and he is such a great addition to the family. We will have many good times together, I think.

Jasmine & Shark Bait Oo-Ha-Ha - new BFF














Bye Bruce - we will always remember you!

THE BESTEST HUSBAND EVER!!!

So, I LOVE this show with my whole soul (since season 2)! Needless to say when the season ended I was bummed and already looked forward to the next season... come once a year only *sigh*. To cheer me up during some rough times Kelley surprised me with TICKETS to the concert!! Yep, we are going to see SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE on Sunday night! I have been counting the days and there are not words to describe how excited I am :) I'm not a huge concert person whether it is music or anything else but THIS brings a smile to my face!

THANKS KELLEY!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!

Addendum (I got permission from Kelley before adding this)

Think back to August 21st. Kelley calls me at work and tells me that he has to go do another pee test for his new job... up in Portland.... by 7 pm that night... and that he'd wait for me to get off work so we could go up there together. I said "sure" while thinking: "why is he waiting for me to go, that is cutting it close." I get off work and rush home thinking we had a time crunch. Kelley is unloading the dishwasher and tells me to relax a bit and then we'll leave. Another thought in my head: "why is he not worried about leaving to get up there in time" but I trust he knows what he's doing. We head out... he's not excessively speeding and we're just chatting. I finally ask the question - why do you have to do another pee test? He made up something and I seemed to buy it. Closer to Portland I am starting to get worried that we're not going to make it to the place by 7 pm, but again, Kelley seems unworried. About 6:45, not close to our destination he asks me to get a paper out of the middle console. I pull out a card, flip it over, see my name on it, and ask if it's something I should be seeing (I'm a dork!). Kelley then has a huge grin and says "yes, open it". Inside is one of the best cards I've ever gotten (yes, I read everything before looking inside)... and inside are folded TICKETS!! It doesn't register at first but then it dawns on me - he is NOT going to do another pee test - we are going to SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. RIGHT NOW! We pull into the Rose Garden, park, and meander over to the entrance. In the open area there are skateboarders and BMX bikers with various booths. I thought it was kind of a strange crowd to be going to this performance, but cool, whatever, I AM GOING. We get inside, the girl scans our tickets and it rings up as "invalid date" - what does that mean? Kelley leads me back outside thinking maybe it's at the Coliseum. As we walk outside I look at the tickets again. Yep, right place. Yep, the 21st... but wait, it's not SUNDAY today. The concert is SEPTEMBER 21st... a month from today! Kelley is super embarrassed but I think it's totally hilarious and cute of him!! He completely surprised me with these tickets and then we get an extra memory tacked on because we get to go to the actual concert in a month. Good times in the Rice family!!

We are having a......

....well...we aren't having twins! Kelley is really taking that one rough. He says that he is going to pump me full of fertility drugs until we have twins. Silly man!

Well...did you figure it out yet???

Tuesday is the day...

...that we find out what our baby will be. We are really excited and we don't know how much sleep we will get tonight...hopefully we won't forgot to post something tomorrow evening.