New Years Resolutions. Better late than never.

So every year I always go with the traditional "I want to lose weight/eat healthier" new years resolution. Since this year I cant do the "lose weight" part, I wanted to come up with something that was different. Originally, I decided that I didn't want to procrastinate any more about little things. I broke that resolution on January 2nd when I didn't have lunch at work because I procrastinated the night before and didn't make it. I also wanted to write this blog post like last week, but, well, here we are a week later...

That being said, I came up with a new one (yes, I allowed myself to make one after the new year started), and so far I am proud of myself for not giving in. 

This year I want to not worry about things I have no control over. Easier said than done, I know, but necessary. 

I am a worrier. I worry about the dumbest things. So in order to not go crazy by the time I am in labor with this child, I need to just take things as they come, day by day. There are soo many things that can go wrong during pregnancy and childbirth, and it is easy to slip into crazy mode if you start to read about them. I decided to not look up anything my doctor doesn't mention. If the doctors don't think it is something to worry about, then neither should I. 

I am a week into this new resolution, and so far, so good. 

Here is to a happy, healthy, and worry free new year friends!!!!

Gender Reveal Party!

So this past Saturday was our gender reveal party. It turned out just how I imagined....

We asked everyone to wear either pink or blue as a form of showing support for their "team." Since Pete doesn't own anything pink, I wore it (we didn't want to be biased toward one gender or the other). 

I decorated the condo in pink and blue, and even had welcome chalk boards!

We had everyone vote for their gender pick. We gave a prize out to a name picked from the winning gender's glass. 

And of course, there was cake. 

When we went to our ultrasound on Tuesday, instead of having them tell us the gender, we had them write it down and stick it in a sealed envelope. We took this envelope to the bakery and asked them to make a cake with a layer of icing on the inside dyed either pink or blue according to what gender was inside the envelope. I think the cake turned out great! Very "neutral" from the outside. 

Then we cut into it....

ITS A BOYYYY!!!!!!!

We are soo excited! Good thing too, because 99.% of the attendees at our party had blue on!

And finally, what would a Barone party that included cake be without, well, a little cake in the face?!

Long time no see

Its been over two months since my last post. Completely unacceptable. I have no excuse either, just pure laziness. 

Soo many things have happened since then! 

For starters, instead of being excited about Pumpkin Spice Lattes, I have now moved on to Gingerbread Lattes. In Christmas cups. Seriously, you can't go wrong.

YUM.

Second of all, we celebrated our 1 year anniversary on October 15th. Its crazy how fast the past year went. Seriously, I can still remember our wedding day like it was yesterday. We celebrated by going to Atlantic City. Fun times were had (although no money was won :()

Here we are at Revel Casino in AC. Prettyyyyyy swanky. 

Lastly is probably the biggest piece of news since I last entered blogland......

WERE HAVING A BABY! 

Yes, you read that correctly. Our little addition is set to arrive on March 24th!!!!

While it seems like March is soo far away, its really not. Especially now that it is holiday time. I feel like Thanksgiving and Christmas will go by soo fast, and before we know it, it will be January already.

 EEEEK!!! 

Tomorrow is our 20 week ultrasound and I can't wait. The last ultrasound I had was at 6 weeks, and the baby looked like a lentil bean. Not much to see. Now I can feel the baby move a lot, so I can't wait to see my little lentil again! Although we can find out the gender at the ultrasound, we are going to wait until our Gender Reveal Party on Saturday to find out what the gender of Baby B is with the rest of our family. Needless to say, this will be the longest week of my life.

EVERRRRR.