"Cute as a button"

A couple weekends ago I had the privilege of attending the most adorable baby shower, ever! Crazy thing, it just so happened to be for us! I am so extremely blessed to have amazing, supportive, loyal and caring friends.

 

Stefanie went above and beyond. She had a vision and she ran with it. As you know Stefanie was battling cancer, she underwent a stem cell transplant at Standford and during this time she started planing the special day, she said it gave her something positive to focus on. Shes truly amazing!

 

This shower was everything I dreamed of and SOOO much more. I am extremely grateful. Reni did an amazing job with the games, several new ones that I had never heard of or played! The girls sent me upstairs when they got here and completely transformed my house into a dainty, shabby chic, "cute as a button' atmosphere.

 

The food was divine!

The company was cherished!

The decor was adorable!

The gifts are very much appreciated!

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The memories are everlasting!

 

 

 

 

Love,

Katie

Update: Weeks 30-37!

Trying to play catch up on the last 7 weeks! I’m going to skip my weekly updates, post a few random belly shots and just pick up with week 37 (my current week). I always have the best intentions to blog but life gets in the way sometimes. The older Marcus gets and the closer it gets to baby girls arrival things just get more busy and chaotic.

 

 

Now on to Week 37!

 

 

 

37 weeks!

This was at my appointment today.

 

- How far along? 37 weeks.

- How big is baby? The size of a “winter melon”.
　

- Total weight gain/loss? Up 14lbs. total! Amazing!

- Maternity clothes? Yes, of course!

- Gender? GIRL!

- Movement? She’s starting to slow down a bit, I do enjoy watching my stomach ripple and wave though.

- Sleep? As good as it can be considering I’m this late in the game.

- Cravings/aversions? Nothing really.

- Symptoms? Nauseous the last couple days, Hip/lower back pain.

- Things that happened this week? My first week of Maternity leave so lots of nesting and resting. Had my check up today. Baby girl is head down, she’s low but I’m not yet dilating. Blood pressure was elevated (not surprised) but everything else checked out great!

- The differences between my pregnancies: The list continues to grow.

For fun, here's a side by side of big brother and little sister:

 

Love,

Katie

 

 

 

 

Mommy time!

With baby girl set to arrive in a few short weeks I took advantage of a beautiful Saturday morning and afternoon and headed down to Vacaville for a mini mommy makeover and some girl time with my fave, Stefanie!

 

We started the day off with coffee and shopping; Ulta, HomeGoods and Kirklands! After all that shopping we worked up an appetite so we enjoyed some tasty Mexican food and headed to Stefanie's shop after for my mini mommy makeover.

 

I've never been disappointed with Stefanie's work, shes truly and magician beautician! We did a ombre, layered around my face and cut BANGS!

 

I love it!

 

 

 

 

Excuse my no make up I only got 4 hours of sleep face.

 

Love,

Katie

A month in photos [January]

 

Love,

Chris, Katie and Marcus

Baby girl!!

To celebrate my 27th birthday we went and saw Billie at The Baby Connection once again for a sneak peak of our baby girl. Billie said she was nestled pretty low in my pelvis and her cord was in the way so unfortunately she wasn't able to capture the photos she wanted. She sent us out for a 15 minute walk in hopes that would get baby moving and maybe the cord placement would change but no such luck. Billie scheduled us for a repeat appointment two weeks later.

 

Two weeks later we go back and she is even lower in the pelvis and refused to move her arm out of the way. She was busy suckling on her wrist and fingers. Billie got the best shots she could. We love them! We are so excited to meet our baby girl!

 

Love,

The Hamptons

30 weeks!

 

30 weeks!

 

- How far along? 30 weeks.

- How big is baby? The size of a cucumber! Baby girl is about 15.2 -16.7 inches, 2.5-3.8 lb. She’s getting big!
　 - Total weight gain/loss? Up 10lbs. total! Amazing!

- Maternity clothes? Yes, of course!

- Gender? GIRL!

- Movement? At night when I fist climb into bed she starts to boogie! I love it even when it keeps me up.

- Sleep? AWFUL! Insomnia, laying in bed and not being able to stop thinking about my never ending to do list.

- Cravings/aversions? Bean dip! I made this twice this week:

• Mix refried means with one packed of taco seasoning and a cup of sour cream, layer the bottom of casserole dish.
• Shredded cheese
• Tomatoes
• Olives
• Lettuce. Lots and lots of lettuce

Guacamole on the side!

So tasty! Wash down with a Dr.Pepper, yum!

- Symptoms? STILL nauseous with smells, vomiting here and there.

- Things that happened this week? We were all sick. Terrible sick.

- The differences between my pregnancies: The list continues to grow.

Love,

Katie

A month in photos [December]

 

 

 

 

Love,

Chris and Katie

29 weeks!

 

29 weeks!

- How far along? 29 weeks.

- How big is baby? The size of an acorn squash. Baby girl already measures about 15.2 to 16.7 inches long and weighs roughly about 2.5 to 3.0.

　

- Total weight gain/loss? Up 9lbs. total! Amazing!

- Maternity clothes? Yes, of course!

- Gender? GIRL!

- Movement? Tons, she likes to kick Chris’s hand whenever he pushes on her.

- Sleep? Really good this week, I just want more of it.

- Cravings/aversions? Taco bell! I only had it once, maybe twice come the end of today.

- Symptoms? STILL nauseous with smells, vomiting here and there.

- Things that happened this week? CHRISTMAS, my birthday and a 3D ultrasound (blogs to come!).

- The differences between my pregnancies: The list continues to grow.

Love,

Katie

Merry Christmas from the Hampton clan!

Christmas this year was probably one of my favorites by far. Growing up I was always spoiled on Christmas, I hated having a broken family but I always enjoyed two Christmases. When I say that please don’t think it’s because I was a greedy child who just wanted more and more gifts because that wasn’t even it. I love all the traditions that come with Christmas. I got to decorate TWO Christmas Trees, I got to go Christmas light looking every single weekend, Hot chocolate was in my daily diet, I got to decorate cookies for Santa twice, I went to the snow on two separate occasions and made many adored memories with both sides of my family. Now it wasn’t by any means an ideal situation and I would never want it for my children but it worked for me.

Now that I’m a parent I really enjoy being able to create all new memories, memories for my child soon to be children. I took several things that I always looked forward to and enjoyed as a child and incorporated them into our family traditions. All of this makes for a very Merry Hampton Christmas!

This year I was pretty sick, I had a terrible virus but I made sure the show still went on.

Christmas Eve afternoon we had a very tasty Red Lobster lunch with my beautiful Grandmother, Uncle Herk (who we sadly don’t get to see very often), my Mom, Marcus and I. Chris sadly had to work. We sat for a good couple hours catching up, breaking bread and just enjoying each others company.

Christmas eve night my mom came over, I had planned a nice formal dinner but because I was so under the weather I had very little energy to cook and I’m pretty sure no one would have wanted to eat my germ ridden meal. Chinese takeout it was, and boy was it tasty! The highlight of the evening was Marcus man’s new jeep that my mom got him, he loved/loves that’s thing! After my mom left that evening we gave Marcus a bath and dressed him in his adorable Christmas Eve jammies, left milk and cookies for Santa (we ate a few ourselves) read “The night before Christmas” tucked our little man into bed and went to bed ourselves to rest up for the following day’s actives.

CHRISTMAS!!

Christmas morning was so much fun, Marcus was really into opening gifts. We spent a good 3 hours opening gifts, it was a slow process, Marcus wanted to open every toy and play for a bit before we moved on to the next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After our Christmas extravaganza at home we went and visited Chris's family for a few hours and later had my Dad and Terry over for dessert and gifts.

 

I may not have felt very well but it was a wonderful day, a day I will never forget. Seeing Christmas through your childs eyes is such a beautiful thing, I cant wait for the many more Christmas mornings to come.

 

Love,

Chris and Katie