Our Miracle!

I would like to introduce the newest edition to our family....

Izabella Karma Durbano

arrived @ 10:41am 10-27-10

5 lbs 14 oz 19 1/2 inches

We have made it home from the hospital and everyone is healthy and happy! I can't believe that she is finally here. Thank you for all of your love and support! (I will post more about her arrival later)

Belly Photos!

My cute friend who took our maternity photo's posted some of her favorites and I would have to agree that I love them too! Sydney you did such a great job and we are so excited to do the baby's photos. Here is her website where you can see more of her fabulous work

Time is disappearing at a rapid rate!

I have been a major blog slacker lately. Things have been really busy this summer with the house FINALLY getting done with the remodel, starting to move back into our house, getting ready for this little one to come, and doing everyday tasks! Here is the update on what has been happening. I have been working diligently on getting our house put together (pictures to come). It was is my goal to go through everything in our house and organize it the way I really want it since we are going to be here for a while now! Not to mention the nesting instinct is going full throttle, and I want everything ready before the baby comes.

I have been working at ATK and have really enjoyed it. They hired me on through a engineering company making my position a temp position. It has worked out perfectly, and I couldn't have been happier with the circumstance. I now have a good relationship with the people at ATK (especially the ones in my department), and will have future prospects if I desire to work after the baby is born. I am completely enjoying the month off before the baby comes to finish up all of these projects that I have going, and prepare for our little one to make her arrival.

Nate has been really busy with work, and his extra curricular activities of late. He has been in and out of town on paintball tournaments, and playing softball twice a week. (I have been jealous of his activities since being pregnant has prohibited me from doing some of these). On the work front he is making huge progress with some major development opportunities, and is gain great experience throughout the process. Also last fall/winter he made some joint investments with his dad by purchasing a couple of homes to remodel and sell, and as of August all three have sold with profits to the family business! His paint ball team has been taking major leaps into competitive paintball league's. They have a few different sponsors the main one being Tippman. They were the 19th team world wide to be sponsored by Tippman! I am proud of my Husband and all of his many accomplishments!

On the baby front our little one is continuing to grow, and move all of the time! Since I have stayed pretty small you can find her anytime you want, and she'll put on quite the show for those around. I am growing more and more excited to meet this little one. The reality set in yesterday as I was putting her bottles in the dishwasher that she is going to be here soon!

I still have a lot to update on my blog including both of my baby showers, our house being finished (one room left to do), and belly updates. Hopefully I can get them done before this little one makes her appearance.

P.S. Here is a little Sneak Preview of our maternity pictures done

by Sydney Jan Photography

Have you ever Seen....

An Albino Squirrel???

I have now! Nate came in the other day from getting Diesel, and said I think I just saw an albino squirrel. I quickly asked him is he was sure, and he told me he was pretty sure. Still not quite sure I believed him I let it go. A week later he told me that he saw it again and was for sure now that it was indeed an albino squirrel. I have never been around to witness this so I continued to have my doubts, but I have now been proved wrong, and will gladly give Nate the credit. I quickly ran into get my camera to document this knowing that others would doubt the truth of this matter. So for all of you non believers or simply curious people here is the proof.

(Please click to enlarge so you can see it better)

P.S. I have lots of catch up to do, and will post updates soon of the house, and baby status!

Excitement!!

So yesterday was the first day we could cook in 5 weeks! It was one of the happiest moments. I had to snap a quick shot of the beginning of our kitchen. It is almost done with the remodel and then we get to completely settle back in!

My mom also asked me to post a belly photo since it has almost been a month since she has seen it so here are the belly updates......

I am 26 weeks along. The baby is measured to be at the most 7 lbs when she's born (which I was a little relieved to hear having a really big baby scares me...) We did the level one ultra sound where the spend about a half hour checking the baby for all sorts of things. It was really interesting to watch. All checked out perfectly 10 fingers, 10 toes, healthy heart, brain developing greatly, no sign of any troubles. (YEAH!)

Complete Chaos

After Nate graduated we sat down to make some decisions about our current and future house plans. Knowing that we had a little one on the way and that if we were going to stay where we are it had a lot of updating to be done. So after discussing our options and deciding that we love the area that we are in, and that this house has such a special place in Nate's heart due to the fact that there are so many precious memories here. It felt good to decided to start our family here.

For the past two weeks Nate and I a have been living in crazy conditions. I am excited for the end results, but I am getting very anxious for them. It all started and happened fast. I wanted to take before and after photo's I miss the before not realizing how fast they were moving. Here are some pictures of the start of demolition.

(here are just a few. I will do before and after we it gets done.)

I figured that I can deal with the craziness as long as it continues to move fast. I am really excited for this be completed so I can finally settle down and get ready for the baby, and make this house our home. Every room in our house is under construction except one... the spare bathroom.

I didn't realize how easy it is to take the daily routines for granted. I miss having a kitchen.... I dislike the fact that I can't cook or do dishes or even sit at my kitchen table. I miss the dvr.... I go crazy not being able to watch a show without commercials. As much as I love my bed and truly believe it is the most comfortable thing in the entire world..... I get tired of it being the only place I have to sit down. Little things like that start popping up....

Hopefully they will be done by the end of this week. They originally wanted to be done by now but it always takes longer than planned.

Rocking our World!

Nate was a little distraught at first (he really wanted a boy) worrying about all of the time he's going to have to spend protecting our baby girl, but he is coming around to the thought that he's going to be her Hero! And not to stress about the future. She is going to love her daddy soo much I can already see it now. I can't wait to meet her!

She is completely healthy! She was rubbing her head and wiggling around. It was so amazing to see. Some of our family got to join us for this ultra sound and it was such a fun experience! Here are a few shots of our little girl!

Here is a shot of my belly. I am finally starting to show. (I am just over 4 months)