CONGRATS to the HUGHES FAMILY!!!

Dad John and baby Derek! 

Baby Derek!!!

Sweet baby Derek! 

Dad M, John, Baby Derek, Michele, Natalie, Mom M

Mom Michele and beautiful baby Derek!

Mommy Michele, Baby Derek, and Dad John!

YAY!!! So excited my sister in law Michele gave birth to a healthy baby boy today Derek John Hughes!! Weighing in at 7 lbs 2oz and 20 inches long!!! Natalie has a new baby brother and our little Gigi has a new cousin!!! So excited for all of them!!! Congratulations again and we love you!!!!!! xoxoxooxoxoxoxo

Hello....mountain of sweet potato puffs!

This is what I turned around to! Gia poured out all her puffs and was eating at the mound of them and was saying Mmm Mmm Momma... we always do Mmmm mmmm when we eat something good haha! You are something else our little love!!

Weekly Buddy Belly Shot!!

Ok, I can't believe from last week to this week how much Melissa and I have popped...Melissa was like "OMG, we are huge."  Haha, yes we are and we still have time to go.. a very lovely huge I might add. This week Jackson is the size of an acorn squash and John Carmine is the size of a pineapple!!! All is well with the both of us and our baby boys... wonder what next week will bring?!!!!

Weekly Belly Shot 30 weeks

Let's rewind.. haha the first picture is me at 30 weeks prego with the Jeej and second is now... I do not see much difference really.. I think I am just poking straight out more with John Carmine... All is good... I get tightening at night now and I feel most comfortable when I go to bed.. all normal...My sweet little love is strongly kicking away and moving around especially when I am blasting music on the way to work in the morning!! Onto week 31!

30 weeks with Gia

30 weeks with John Carmine

30 week OB Appt.

All good things YAY!! Gained another 4 pounds and heard John Carmine's little heartbeat which is always so exciting! Dr. Hu said everything looks great! I go back again on 2/20 for my 32 week appt. Soon enough our little baby boy will grace us with his presence!!!

Our little mover and shaker!!

Weekly Buddy Belly Shot!

Woo Hoo!!! Jackson is about the size of an eggplant and John Carmine is about the size of a cucumber... haha, all these vegetable comparisons are a crack up because honestly Melissa and I feel like we are the size of a watermelon already!!! We are feeling great, the boys are kicking away and we are onto week 29 and 31!!! WOW!! Talk about moving right along here!!

Gia eating a blue iced cupcake? Mmmm!

I just had to post all these pictures! As you can see our little love bug LOVED eating the blue cupcakes from her soon to be brother's party at Mim's house!! Can you tell how much she enjoyed it!! Good job Ma, I think you can make Gia cupcakes anytime!! HAHA!

A beautiful day at Mom's house!!

It was a great day at Mom's house! There was a little party put together for the coming of John Carmine with my closest and dearest friends. It was such a great time and all I kept saying was how weird it was seeing all the BLUE especially when I am so used to girl colors! John Carmine sure did receive some cute "much needed" things! Thank you so much everyone for a very memorable day... John Carmine will be here before we all know it!!! Love you!!

Weekly Belly shot!! 29 weeks!

29 weeks!!!  My lord is the time flying... all is well! Have an OB appt.  this coming Thursday. Every 2 weeks now.. I feel most comfortable in elastic waist pants haha!! We are slowly putting the nursery together, it is going to look so awesome!! I have no more brain anymore. I forget everything and it was never this bad being pregnant with Gia... I have no idea what the deal is... it is like being an airhead a million times over... AHHHH!!!   Onto week 30!!!

Gia's first trip of many to Cabela's!

GREAT WORDS!!!

We had a great time taking Gia to Cabela's... we are on the hunt for a new smoker and they have the one we want. We all ate lunch there and Jeej had some pulled pork which she loves.. it does not beat Sal's pulled pork though, but it was still good. Cool thing was, we have been teaching Gia animals and she pretty much knew all of them we asked her to point to at Cabela's... I am sure this wil be the first trip of many.. we saw some tents for the backyard and camping we will eventually get and of course a  pink tackle box and pink Ugly Stick when Gia starts to learn how to fish.. her brother will be set, but us girl's need our pink!