One Year ago & the best day of my life, I married my best friend.

Our Wedding High-light video.

And this is an extremely long video that I made forever ago, just playing around with my movie maker. It's got some silly video clips in it. Jake seems to squeel a lot... and he also makes a couple appearances in his underwear?

Untitled from Kim Denison on Vimeo.

If you would have asked me a year ago where I thought we'd be..... I can tell you that I wouldn't have guessed that I'd be about ready to POP. But really though.... I can't get any bigger. THere's just no way.

Baby Shower

My girlfriends went above and beyond and threw me the most beautiful baby shower ever. It was so special and I got so many wonderful and fun things.







Blake was my official present opening helper.



How Precious is this? This was the theme for the shower and this was the "special secret project" that my girlfriends had been working on to display.... and It's now hanging in Brody boy's room. :) I just love it.







Fantastic food, beautiful friends and family and so many fun gifts for our boy. This was a wonderful day :)

Too cute for words!

If our Brody boy is as cute as this boy.... than I'm in big big trouble. How will I ever say no???!

To the boys in my life

Jacob,

(cue tears)
Well your all time goal in life is a truth now. You're super man.... because you put up with ME every single day. It has been a crazy couple of months and an extremely stressful couple of weeks for sure. Thank you for being so strong for me and so happy and smiley all the time. I love your big heart, and the sweetness that you have about you. I don't know how you do it and I'm SO jealous of you because you are never not upbeat and fun to be around. I have so many days where I feel absolutely awful about myself and without saying a word about it to you, you just seem to know, and say exactly what is going to make me feel better and reassure me that I'm not going to be pregnant forever. I've noticed something change in you recently, as I've seen it change in myself. I think it's instinct and we know and can feel that we are so close to having the most important role that we will ever play. We are going to be responsible for a life. We are going to be in charge of the happiness and well being of a child. I feel like we're ready. And I feel like we will be good at this. Wanna know how I know? I see things like this all the time...




I am SO grateful that I'm going through all of this with you. I'm CRAZY about you and I cannot imagine my life without you in it. You're my blessing and I love you so much.






To my sweet Baby Boy,

You are almost here. I love you so much already and can't wait to meet you. I'm turning into such a different and better person because of you and I love that. Your Dad and I talk about you constantly and about what we think you'll be like. We have big hopes and dreams for you and us as a little family. I'm hoping you're silly like your dad. I'm hoping your not a super picky eater, because I'm no Rachel Rae in the kitchen. I know you'll be beautiful, I know you'll instantly become my best little buddy. You should know that mom can't stop shopping for you. Since your a boy you probably won't ever care how I dress you, but I will care. I've been thinking lately that you might be a soccer player, or maybe enjoy something like kick boxing because you are really doing a number on my ribs! I'm in a little pain sure, but mostly impressed. We've been scrambling getting things all ready for you. It's going to be one amazing summer baby boy. We'll be busy, I'm going to cry a lot I'm sure, but I know how blessed I am. And this job that I'm about to take on is truly what I've wanted to do my entire life. By the way we've picked a name for you. How do you feel about Brody Neil Denison? Pretty cute huh. We are so excited for you that 25 days just seems too long. Whenever you're ready, I'm ready. I'm so ready.

We'll see you soon sweet boy.
I Love you so much, Too the moon and back.

Mom

Some April Fun

I've officially hit a wall. I'm constantly tired. It was so bad at one point that I would sleep for like 11 hours during the night, wake up and try and get a few things done, and then have to take a nap in the afternoon. Atleast a 2 and a half hour nap. Turns out there was a reason why this was happening. I'm anemic. So I now take one more horse pill daily, but it helps so I'm happy.

My lovely cousin Stacy and Aunt Kaye were sweet enough to throw a family baby shower for me and it was so much fun and baby boy got some amazing things. My cousin has 8 month old twins and they are just precious and so silly. Playing with them just got me so excited to have a little bambino of my own. Not only that, but seeing Stac handle two little ones like it's a walk in the park, is reassuring to me that I'll be okay and will be able to handle one okay.





How cute are they?

Last weekend Jake and I took a birthing class at the hospital. We didn't really know what to expect going in but it ended up being a really good time. It was long though, started at 9 am and ended at 4:30. But we learned A LOT. The class started out with intros and some videos. And I swear to you right off the bat I was telling Jake to get me out of there. These videos were scary. They were of women laboring without any type of medication or anesthesia. (CRAZY) I don't know where they found these women but they were pretty rough and not so easy on the eyes if ya know what I'm sayin. Once that was all over then they showed a video of a women giving birth with the help of the ever-so-wonderful epidural.& It was a VERY different experience for her and I felt a lot better after watching it. My favorite part of this class was watching Jake wear the "Empathy Belly".... oh yeah. He was the first daddy in the class to man up and put it on.




Excuse my squinty eyes and non showered self. We were a little rushed that morning and it was an early wake up time for me. How cute is Jake though?
My second favorite part of the class was the multiple massage techniques that we practiced. Foot massages, scalp massages, neck, back, hips, and hands. It was wonderful. We walked out of there so extremely excited and definitely a little better prepared.

House update: The house we had in the works is no longer in the works. It was pretty traumatic for me at first but now I'm seeing that it was probably a blessing in disguise. THAT house, even though we loved it, was not for us and we are meant to be somewhere else. So we've started the process of looking for a new house and I've come to terms with the fact that we are not going to be in our new place by the time little man arrives. I can't tell you how long and hard I cried to Jake about this one. I'm starting to hit my "nesting phase" I think. I'm doing what I can to prepare and pack and get ready for this baby.... which is a little more difficult when you don't exactly have a place to live. ha. We won't be out on the street so it'll be okay. Mom and Dad have offered to shelter us if we need... depending on what we find in the next few weeks, we might take them up on that.