A few more weeks and a new haircut

The Baby'z Gotz Beats

The Big 3-0

So for Wes' Big 3-0, we wanted to do the most childish thing we could think of. Chuck E. Cheese! But we thought maybe we'd scare the kids...and the pizza probably isn't really that great. So we did Chuck E. Cheese for adults = Dave & Busters. We did dinner and games with friends. Lighting was bad at dinner to get good pics of everyone, and I crashed shortly after the games began, so not much documentation there. But we did get some good shots of the fabulous birthday cake.

Here's the cake story. I love baking, esp birthday cakes, and esp for Wes! But since I've been so sick and tired all the time, I didn't have energy for it this year. Which was a major bummer, given that it was the 3-0 and all. So we opted for a Costco cake. Wes picked the dinosaur pattern and his favorite toppings and fillings. Then we thought maybe we could encourage a cake wreck to be made if we made some special requests*. So we added a little comment to the dinosoaur request that it have flames coming out of it's mouth.

Unfortunately, Costco probably mass produces their cakes, so we did not get any flames. See below.

But Wes was inspired to get his flames on there, so we picked up some gel icing to make our own. Then Wes got the idea to let everyone decorate the cake. So we set the cake out at the table during dinner, and let the guests have at it.

Here's Wes putting the inaugural flames on it.

And here's the final result! I highlighted a few of my favorites in case you can't tell what they are. Sorry to those I didn't mention! Everyone did a wonderful job!

And here's Wes blowing out his massive amount of real flames generated from 30, yes exactly 30!, candles.

And finally, what is a birthday without eating a piece of cake with your name on it?

Happy 30th Birthday Wes!

**Note those of you who don't know what a cake wreck is, you must ABSOLUTELY check out this site.

Sunil & Inka's visit

Sunil and Inka came to visit, and we had a great reunion with some awesome small group friends!

A lovely dinner...

And celebrated 3 babies coming...

And 3 excited daddies!

First Trimester Tummy

Well the first trimester has kicked my butt. To say the least. I'm officially in the second now, so I'm praying things will get easier. I feel some relief, but I'm not out of the woods just yet. But, I must say, the fact that I'm blogging is quite remarkable! I forgot some of the things I like to do :).

So here are some tummy shots. It's a bit weird to watch yourself get bigger. But cool too! Not much going on in the first few weeks, but I think it's getting faster now.

First Ultrasound

7 weeks, 5 days.

Team Zuber is growing!

Well here's the post that is long over due. And with it...a new blog! Instead of the ramblings of the mind of Elaine, which you can still read here, now we've got a family blog. We thought the occasion warranted it.

So the long awaited story. This is the part of the birthday post that I waited to share.

I came home from work on my birthday. It was a Friday and Wes and I were going to go out to dinner. We thought that it was possible...just a little possible...that maybe I shouldn't have a beer with dinner. But we were super curious, and I wanted to know if I could have a birthday beer or not, so we took a test. And after a few minutes this is what we saw:

A faint little plus. What?!? Seriously?!? REALLY?!? No WAY! Wes ran to the computer to google pregnancy tests to see what other positive results look like. And oddly enough...they look a lot like this ;).

We were in shock. Happy of course, but in shock. You think about these wonderful things happening, but it's still shocking when they actually do.

So we went on our way to have a Salvadorian Dinner for Two...at a fun local restaurant in Mountain View. Sans the beer of course. We ate and talked about excitement and shock, not knowing quite what to do with ourselves. We took a walk, then headed home.

On the way home, still in shock, we thought....maybe we should take another test...you know...just to be sure. So we stopped at Walgreens and got a two pack. 2 for the price of 1! When we got home we whipped out the new test...this time digital, so less doubting about the faintness of the plus. And after a few minutes, we saw this:

A little more definitive this time.

So we went to bed, said our thank you and praiseful yet disbelieving prayers, and fell asleep....well it took a while, but eventually.

The next morning, we began to clean up around the house for my bday BBQ. And I just thought, well we have that third test, might as well take it. Cause it will probably expire by the time we need to take it again right? So what the heck...3*** tests it is. And this time, in less than a minute we saw this:

So, in sum...on my birthday, I found out I was pregnant pregnant pregnant. Probably my best birthday present ever.

And here's the first of many profile shots...you know, the before picture :)

***Note: According to Rebecca...the average woman takes 3 tests. So I'm not that strange after all :)