Barn Shower!!

Hi all - Below are photos from the Barn Shower that Pat's family had for us this past weekend. His mom and dad just built a great new barn so it was a barn unveiling and shower all in one. The weather was beautiful, the barn was awesome, food was yummy, smores were perfect and it was great to see everyone! Pat and I are so lucky to both have wonderful friends and family that have spoiled Logan so much already - before he has even arrived!!

Morrison gang!

Logan's first cowboy boots and hat...so cute!

This was one of the games we got to play. Pat and I had to race to change a diaper (that actually had "fake" baby poo in it that looked very real!) As you can see we got penalized (squirted with a squirt gun) for not remembering to cover up baby's private parts!!

I of course was the winner. Pat wasn't bad but let's just say it was a good thing those babies were not real. He'll have lots of real experience once Logan arrives!

This will be so true!! (Cake was yummy too!)

This was right before we opened gifts but I had to include this picture because I just loved the wagon and can't wait for Logan to use it! (Thanks Kathy, Deb and Angie!! And thanks to soon-to-be-grandpa Morrison for fixing the front wheels for us!) All of the gifts we received were perfect and will be put to good use very soon!

(I don't have a good photo of the new barn yet but I'll be sure to add that in once I do!)

36 Weeks

Hi all - We are now 36 weeks and 2 days and still doing great. Getting more uncomfortable every day with back pain really being the worst part of it - usually the worst at work. But I'm still grateful that I've had a pretty good pregnancy overall. I really feel for those mom's that are on bed rest for weeks or have morning sickness all 40 weeks. Whenever I want to complain - I think about them! The following is a fun little list of some of the interesting things people around me have gotten to seen and things that I've found pregnancy causes:

• Saying something that makes absolutely no sense - sometimes almost like I'm speaking a foreign language (which I often follow up with "I'm pregnant")
• Realizing how hard it is to put socks and shoes on and avoiding certain outfits just because of the shoes I'd have to try and put on if I chose that outfit.
• Spilling food/drink on your belly all of the time and often times not even realizing it until someone points it out (embarrassing especially when it is at work!)
• Even maternity clothes become too small and I'm constantly checking to make sure my belly is not showing and that my belly button sticking out isn't too obvious
• I've found that people you don't know (and even those that you do) are generally a lot nicer to you when they see you are pregnant. This definitely works to your advantage!
• Young children stare at me and my belly like I'm an alien. I really do love those that point and ask "What is that". I especially love those that then turn to their parents and say "How did that baby get in there?" Love it!!

I'm getting very anxious for Logan to join us - I try not to think about him coming early because I know I'll just keep getting more anxious every day and most likely he won't come until around or (god forbid) after his due date! I am worried about how big he is getting but overall just hope for a safe delivery!

Enjoy the below photos of the baby room and some belly shots. I did a little rearranging in the nursery and like this much better. It is very close to being all done. Still need to get a crib mattress, put up the closet doors and find a rug for the floor - but other than that we are ready for Logan to join us. (You'll even see in one of the pics that we have our hospital bag packed!)

Abby, Karla and I at shower

Corey at 36 weeks

Corey at 36 weeks - belly shot! Does it look like my belly is dropping?

35 weeks and counting! Big baby and shower

Hi all - Pat and I had our 34 week appt last week and found out that Logan currently weighs 6 lbs!! He is measuring about 1-2 weeks ahead of where most babies are at this age. They say that he'll either come early or be a large baby. (I'll take option one please!)

Below is a photo from the baby shower this past weekend that my friend Karla had for me. It was lots of fun and I enjoyed seeing everyone! Especially my Grandma Gloria and Aunt Gail who came all the way from Indiana! Logan received lots of great presents too!

Also below is a photo of the artwork that Logan has in his room. It's a story about a little baby pea. It took me a while to put it up because I thought it may be too much for that wall but I love it. Pat doesn't think Logan will like it (too girly for him I guess) but I've decided Logan can have a say and change it when he is able to talk!! Logan's room is coming together very well and should be all ready for him very soon!

1st Anniversary

Hi all! It is hard to believe it has been a year but Pat and I celebrated our first anniversary this past weekend and last night. We got to spend our anniversary weekend boating and hanging out with friends - two of my favorite things!! The below photo was taken after we stuffed ourselves at Cheesecake Factory last night - yum! I love Pat more and more every day and I am so happy we found each other. Logan will be blessed with two parents that not only love him to pieces but also love each other as much as we do!

33 weeks and counting....

Hi everyone! By the looks of the photo below you can tell that I am getting huge!! Really - how much bigger can I get in a month and a half - Really? Logan is healthy and growing at the perfect rate says the doc - so that is all that really matters. Pat and I get to go in for one final ultrasound next week at our 34 week appt. It is the last time we'll see little guy before he's actually here!! They are going to check his position and weight. I'm praying for head down and guessing his 34 week weight to be about 5 pounds. I'm getting very excited and can't wait to see him. I've been having a lot of baby dreams lately and he is perfect in all of them!! (although he was a girl in one of them).

Corey and baby at 33 weeks!

Pat and Logan

Someone at work thought that Logan looked a lot like Pat already and created the below for me just to prove it. Pretty hilarious if you ask me!!

New Logan Photos

Hi all – We had our second 3D ultrasound today and it was a very good one!! Logan is now head down (yeah!!) and he was very cooperative with the photos (see below). He was making lots of faces at us (happy, sad, mad, pouty) and playing with his lips a lot.

He now weighs 3 lbs, 12 oz which is right on track (he's gained about 6 oz in a week). They say that he will gain about 1 ounce a day from here on out. If that is true - he'll end up being about 7.5 or 8 lbs!!

We love him so much already and he has made my day!!

Love you all -
Corey and Pat

Our handsome little boy:

Hugging his knees and sucking on his lower lip:

The "Thinker" - Where am I going to kick mommy now?

The "Smile"

The "Pout"

The "Mad" Face

Baby Mama's #3

Hi all - The following is a photo of Abby, me and Rachel at Rachel's baby shower this past weekend. Abby is 27 weeks, I am 31 and Rachel is 33 weeks. Not too much longer before these photos include actual babies!!

Pat and I get to go back for our second 3D ultrasound tomorrow and I'm excited to see Logan again. He has been moving a lot this past week and I'm hopeful that he is starting to think about turning. We also have our first childbirth prep class tomorrow night so hopefully we come home a little more informed about what's to come!

My tummy continues to get larger everyday. People are shocked when they learn I'm not due for another 2 months. Another downside to being short - the only place for baby to go and grow is out!

Here is a photo Pat took of me in my maternity swimsuit recently. I've always loved to swim and I'm even more excited now that I'm pregnant to go swimming. I don't care if people look at me funny - the weightlessness of it all is great!

Also...

I forgot to mention below a couple other things we found out at the ultrasound:

• Logan already has a 1/2 inch of hair!!
• He has long eyelashes
• He currently weighs 3 lbs and 6 oz. (He measures just a few days ahead of where he should be)

3D Ultrasound

Hi all - We had our 3D ultrasound today and it was fun! Logan was being stubborn though and kept hiding from the camera and trying to sleep on the job! We got a couple good pictures but he kept putting his foot in front of his face and snuggling up to me and hiding. The ultrasound tech was great through and she is letting Pat and I come back at no charge in a week to have a do over so that we could try and get some better pictures. One thing that we did find out was that as of right now baby Logan is in the breech position with his head up and feet down. He still has plenty of time to switch and hopefully he does! Enjoy the pictures - we already think he is the cutest baby ever!!

Here is Logan's face! His umbilical cord and leg are kind of in the way:

Here is a side profile of Logan's face, shoulder and his big ear!

Here is Logan's foot. He had 10 toes and 10 fingers!

What will Logan look like?

One of the things I love to do is picture what Logan will look like. We will get a little sneak peek next weekend when we do our 3D/4D ultrasound but in the mean time I have the below pictures to ponder.... he'll be a cutie - that's for sure!!

Not sure how old Pat is here - maybe about 4 months?

Pat is only 4 days old in this one! Can you tell that he was 10.5 lbs?

Corey at about 3 months

Corey at about 3 months

29 weeks!

Hi all - below are some new photos. A couple of me and baby and a few of the nursery. The nursery is coming along great - we still have some last minute touches and a few more things to add to the room but it is close! Me and baby are doing great. The only thing I can really complain about is lack of sleep every once in a while. I broke down and went out and bought a special pregnancy pillow called the Snoogle and it has been great!! It pretty much wraps me up at night and I am sleeping a lot better. Baby continues to move around in my belly and I can definitely tell that his once roomy home is getting smaller for him by the day!

Corey at 26 weeks and 5 days

Here is a new belly shot. Can you believe I still have 3 months to go? How much bigger is this baby going to get? I also created a fun little progression so you can see how Logan and I have grown!

Minnesota Weekend

Hi all - This past weekend my mom and I traveled up to Minnesota to see my Grandma Winnie. We had a great time and it was very relaxing (it even included a pregnancy massage!!). The below pictures were from this weekend near where my grandma lives. Logan received his first stuffed dog toy, a new outfit, a couple books and a bath robe from Grandma Winnie (aka GiGi to Logan!) . As Grandma Winnie put it - the picture of all of us is a picture of 3 1/2 generations!

I have been feeling great and continue to get bigger every day. You may notice in the pictures below that I have a weird slit in the sleeve of the shirt I'm wearing. That is not a new style - just a shirt that was getting too tight in the arms and I had my mom cut them so I could wear it! I threw the shirt away after wearing it needless to say. My weight gain has been pretty good I think. At my 24 week appointment I had gained a total of 12 pounds and I can definitely tell the areas that I'm gaining weight! As someone put it - 10 pounds of baby and 2 pounds of butt (although the sad thing is that I think it is the opposite!!)

Logan has been moving around a lot lately and I can feel him most of the day. It is fun for me to wake up in the morning and just lay there with my hands on my stomach as he tries kicking me out of bed! I scheduled us for a 3D/4D ultrasound appointment on July 19 and I'm so excited to see what his little face looks like. I've been thinking more and more recently about what he'll look like when he's born and as he gets older - he'll be a cutie for sure (just look at his daddy!)

Have a good week all! Love ya!

Baby Morrison has a name!

Alright - we had orginally planned on keeping it a secret but because baby Morrison's mom has a big mouth - we've decided to share the name of our soon to be baby boy. I got in the habit of calling him by name when I talked to him and a couple times I've done it in front of our friends - therefore ruining the surprise.

Drum roll please............ Logan Charles Morrison will be his name! Logan was a name that we both liked and had picked out pretty early on. Charles is Pat's paternal grandfather's name and we are proud to have it be a part of Logan's name. We had decided early on that if it was a boy then the middle name would be from Pat's side and if it were a girl then the middle name would be from my side. That way we could avoid any arguments!

Altough we do plan on calling him Logan - we've already been thinking about nicknames. Pat came up with L-MO (which is cute I think and for those of you that are unsure of why - Pat is known as P-MO and I'm known as C-MO - if that helps you figure it out).

Happy Friday to all!

Love,
Patrick, Corey and Logan!! (and of course Emma and Snoop say woof, woof)

Week 24 here we come!!

We are now in our 23rd week of pregnancy and everything is going well! A lot of people will ask me how my pregnancy has been and how I have been feeling and I think overall I've been a pretty lucky pregnant lady. First trimester was a little rough for a few weeks but the second trimester has been great and overall I think I'm doing pretty good. (I know what a few of you are thinking - just wait until the last trimester!).

This past weekend Pat and I took a trip down to Texas with some of his friends for his friend Erik Book's wedding. It was a nice little break - even though I was subject to do whatever the boys wanted to do all weekend. I think I hung in there pretty good until Monday morning came around. We got back Sunday night and I was supposed to work on Monday but needless to say that didn't happen. I could barely move on Monday and spent most the day in bed.

Below is a photo from the wedding reception of me and Pat and some of the boys in the wedding (Mike Hotz, Pat, Rich Kloster, Matt Wheeler and Matt's wife Emily). It was great that Emily was there this weekend - she is great and we made fun of the boys a lot! The guys loved their orange ties and suspenders - I wouldn't be surprise if some of them went out and bought suspenders just to have on hand!

Here is a photo of me at 23 weeks and 1 day. For those of you that have been asking for a belly shot - here you go!! It keeps growing and growing!!

Daddy says hi and new pic of baby room

I figured I would try this thing out for a spin. I think Corey just uploaded a new picture of the baby room. As you can see the chair that Corey ordered came last week. On Friday we put the crib together. Of course I didn't read all the instructions first, so it isn't exactly how it should be...what do you expect?
Baby Morrison has been kicking up a storm...I guess. Everytime Corey says he is really kicking, I can feel maybe one little one at a time. I just think he likes messing with her just like I do.
Well...that is all for the first test run.

I'm out!

21 weeks!

Here are a couple updated belly pictures - me at 21 weeks. The first one is me and baby hanging out in his new room!! The new flooring has been laid and now we are just working on finishing the trim work and painting the window. I ordered our crib last week and just got notice that it should arrive at our house on Thursday or Friday - I can't wait! I also ordered the rocker for baby's room last week and I'm hoping that comes in this week as well. I'm having lots of fun deciding on how to decorate the room - I've changed my mind often! Once we get the crib set up and a few other things added to the room I'll post some new room pics. Have a good week all!

IT'S A......

BOY!! Pat and I found out this morning we are having a boy and we are so excited!! Baby Morrison is doing very well and was of course dancing up a storm for us. He currently weighs 14 oz, has a heartrate of 145 beats/min and is due September 27. Pat and I have a name picked out but we'd like to keep that a secret for now. The following are some of the pictures we got from the ultrasound - I've looked at them a million times already and can't believe that he is our little baby. It is so much fun...is it possible to love him as much as I already do!!

Side profile of face, hand and chest:

It really is a boy for sure:

Left foot:

If you use your imagination you can see the face here:

Our little family

Here is a photo that I took yesterday of me, Pat and the girls by our pretty purple tree. They don't bloom long so I wanted to get a photo. Bring on the summer!!

Three Baby Mama's #2

Here is a photo from this past weekend of Rachel, Abby and I. Rachel is at 21 weeks, I'm at 19 and Abby is at 16. Rachel is having a girl and is carrying a little higher then me so that is one reason I think we might be having a boy (along with about 50 other reasons I've convinced myself). We find out in 6 days!