Baby M at 30 Weeks

Yesterday morning, Damon and I invited our families to join us for a prenatal peek appointment to have a better look at Baby M. During our last ultrasound at Kaiser in early September, I just wasn't ready to not see her little face again. The ultrasounds at Kaiser are done in radiology and are very medical, which makes me a little nervous. So, we were able to schedule a non-medical relaxing appointment and invite our family to see her. My grandma, mom, sister and Damon's mom were there to see her moving around on the flat screen tv. It was such a fun fun morning.

The tech said that she has full lips and lots of hair and eyelashes. I was oh so excited about the full lips, I have been hoping that our daughter would have Damon's lips and it looks like she might have helped me with the my hope :)

She was very comfortable in her little house, and kept her hands cuddled near her face...

This is a profile shot and the bubbles above her little face is her umbilical cord.

For the rest of the session she had both of her legs in front of her face...in the picture below you can see both of her legs crossed on the left and her little face on the right.

It was so nice to share the experience with our family, espeically since our moms and my grandma have not experienced ultrasounds in that manner before. We are extremely excited to meet our little daughter in the future, less than 10 weeks!

Adios to Mexico

On Wednesday night Damon and I ventured back to Cilantro's for more of our fish for dinner. This time we had the wahoo fish (the ugly big old fish that I caught first on Tuesday) and it was just as good. We enjoyed our last sunset over the occean...

This time we had tortilla soup instead of a salad and the soup was super good...very authentic and different that the American-ized version. It was served with a build your own side plate full of guacamole, tortilla strips, chille peppers and fresh cheese. Yummy!

We decided to have a split plate of blackened versus grilled again, and we happy that we had the two different cooking types.

After dinner we headed back to our hotel to watch the first World Series game at the bar. They had the big screen set up playing the game and it was so much fun, plus we enjoyed watching the Spanish ESPN commercials, although they played live music videos on a split screen during the commericals so we didn't have to listen to all the Spanish :)

My cutie husband enjoying life...

Baby M and I...

A self portrait on the balcony in our room...

We didn't need to leave for the airport until 1:30, so we were able to enjoy another final morning at the pool people watching and, of course, eating and drinking :)

We also laughed at the water aerobics class, the people watching was just too much fun!

Last picture of Mexico...

The view from the airplane...isn't it pretty?

Here are a few shots of our room and the hotel property...

Clearly, Damon and I (and Baby M) enjoyed every moment in Mexico. It was a trip that we will remember for years to come and are so thankful for the opportunity to have been able to get out of town. And, a special thanks to Damon's mom for sharing her timeshare with us :)

xoxo

Dorado Dinner at Cilantro's

Another day in Cabo - another cruise ship bringing in tourists. Each day there has been a cruise ship in the harbor, and on one day there were two. It is fun looking at all the different types of boats, and, of course, talking about our favorite cruise ship memories. This was our view from our dorado dinner last night at Cilantro's...

Our freshly caught fish was cooked soooo well (it was so good that we are going back tonight for round two.) They grilled and blackened the fish and served it with four different types of dipping sauces...and I love me some dipping sauce.

With the fresh veggies, rice and amazing flour tortillas it was total domination with our dinner plates.

After dinner we came back up to the room to grab the Scrabble game and head down to the beach...here is the view from our room at night.

Time for some self-timer pictures...

Haha - the plate on the dressor is coming out of my head in this one :)

Playing Scrabble at the beach listening to recorded old rock songs from live concerts...they had the videos playing on a screen at the bar and they were playing fabulous tunes :)

Today we went to Wal-Mart and we were excited to see the 'especial' line that I was able to go into since I am pregnant :)

Gotta love Mexico :)

More Adventures in Cabo

On Monday night Damon and I went to set up our fishing adventure through the front desk. We ended up needing to wait for a few minutes and walked to the back to the property to watch the pendlers and the beachgoers...

And, of course, take some self portraits...

We were approached by a hotel staff member who asked what we were doing, we shared with her that we were waiting for information on our fishing trip and she said she could get us a better deal with her friend, which she did and we booked with her. Not quite sure how legal of an activity that was for her, but it worked for us (and we caught a lot of fish today - pics and info in a few more minutes).

We headed to the Mango Deck (located next to The Office) on the beach for dinner. The Office is very well known in the area, but we had a recommendation to try to Mango Deck (it is a little less tourist-y and they had much better entertainment, too.) We enjoyed looking at the view above while eating another round of nachos together and, of course, the birthday boy needed to have a cerveza (or two.)

I really like the back image and quote on the Coca-Cola light cans.

After dinner, we headed back to our room and got ready for another night swim. Although this time we weren't alone in the pool (others must've caught on!) and it was super windy, which kinda made it cold. But, it was still fun and we plan on repeating it again tonight. Here are baby M and I...

This morning was an early wake up call at 5:30 to be at the marine by 6:15. We realized that when we have fished on vacations before we were always picked up at the cruise ship boat dock or at our hotel. This was our first time actually heading to the main fishing marina. It was crowded and hectic and fun all in one. Definitely the place to be in the mornings in Cabo :)

Our day catching in fish started just as early as our wake up call...we landed 7 dorados, 1 wahoo and 1 bonita (a small tuna) within three hours. The two fishing guides were SO excited all day long, especially when the second fish that we caught was the wahoo, apparently those are not as common as the others and the white meat is very good eating. Here is Damon with one of the many colorful fish that we claimed...

Me and my wahoo...it is a 45 pound fish that fought quite a bit. It was the first fish I reeled in and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to reel in anymore, but the dorado were much easier. (Pardon the crazy curly salt water hair - it was windy!)

A photo of a succesful day on the ocean...

While they were cleaning up the fish we hooked another one...of course we weren't going to turn down another dorado, so Damon grabbed the pole.

We surprised ourselves and took some of the fish home (the rest went with the crew, like we always do)...we plan on having the resort restaurants cook us dinner tonight, some ceviche by the pool tomorrow, and another dinner tonight. Yummy!

On the way back into the marina, the crew hung up flags showing the rest of the fleet how many fish we caught. Again, they were so excited. The videos that I got (and will upload later) will show their excited Mexican expressions :)

More tomorrow...