Nels

Taken at Gondola

Taken at Top of The Mountain

This week was very special for Nels ... He finally met his beautiful Grammy and Granpa O'Meara ! They arrived on Tuesday and spent the week seeing the city and enjoying quality time getting to know him. Yesterday they all went up to wine country, ...

Taken at Kauai

When I went into labor, I had to make sure I kept in close touch with mom. Here are a couple of special exchanges we had the day Nels was born.

The ever growing 14.7 pound baby !

Waiting around for the baby to show up, especially when it's the first, is slow going. Every pain, every movement keeps me awake thinking it's almost time ... Recently I've been receiving advice from friends about induction rituals. It's all luck,...

Because I am no longer working, I'm staying busy with errands and household projects ... "nesting", as they call it. I've become more aware as to why this happens to us women, when we are this pregnant. We are about to welcome a new member of the ...

This week, my amazing coworkers showered me with too much ... gifts, cake, Pinkberry (!!) It's been hard trying to wind down, but I'm finally ready to take my time off, especially from the long commute, and enjoy the last 4 weeks of pregnancy. Tha...

Today we completed our final childcare class, which consisted of CPR, breastfeeding and infant care. Todd performed his first diaper change, me, my first swaddle... Watched a few choice videos about nipples and feeding techniques, which were filme...

I recently came across these pictures, sent to me from my darling Godson, Charlie. I love his enthusiasm, and support !

Last week I was pictured in Fast Company magazine, for some recent work I produced for eBay. This article was suppose to also feature some of my design colleagues, who all worked together to produce an interactive concept for the iPad, featuring e...

We had our third ultrasound this morning ... WOW ! Our little gummi bear is growing fast. The latest pictures show a lot of detail now. Who does the babe look like?

I recently found this wishlist on a blog, a modern day way of sending prayers to the baby. I felt compelled to fill it out.

Todd saw this video today, and sent it to me at work. Now, I'm already an emotional person, but now that I'm pregnant, it's become exponential. I had to FIGHT the tears during this one, it's just so perfect.