Our Official Christmas picture. No one is getting cards this year until after Ethan is born. Those might be Happy New Year's cards?????

Less than a month!!!!

Getting ready for Christmas and for Ethan. The house is getting smaller and smaller.

Ethan's Bathroom

Changing Table and Swing

Tree that Daddy painted for Ethan. Mommy still needs to hang the leaves.

Ethan's crib

Ethan's Christmas tree in his room and a silly picture of Mom and Dad.

35 weeks, 5 days

November 25- Everything is still going well. The doctor says if Ethan is born on his due date he should be 7.5 lbs. I feel like it will be more like 15 lbs. He feels like a giant in there. He is moving around less and less since he is running out of room. Almost time to move out I hope!

Week 32 (October 31-Nov 6)

I went to my check-up on Friday and the Doctor said that all my numbers were good. She also said if I delivered close to my due date we could expect Ethan to weigh about 7 lbs. Bryon and I finished our birthing classes this week. The main thing I learned was that I plan to get an epidural!

The Spaeth bakery!
Halloween Party costumes 10/27/10

Week 28 (October 3-October9)

First Baby Shower in Wisconsin with Bryon's side of the family October 9th.
It was a very beautiful, sunny day with family and friends.
Thanks for all the great gifts!!!

Gatlinburg Trip 9/17-9/19

Two weekends ago we traveled to Gatlinburg, TN with our Bible Talk group from church. The top picture is actually the view from our cabin. Each couple had their own bedroom and bathroom. There was a full kitchen, pool table and a hot tub. My kind of camping!

To the left is a picture of the girls enjoying our time at a girlie tea house. And yes the guys had to come along too. I think they enjoyed it more than we did, but I think that had mostly to do with the yummy desserts!

This trip was Ethan and Bryon's first times in Tennessee. The mountains were beautiful and the leaves were just starting to change a little bit. It helped us start to get into the Fall spirit...well all except for the 90 degree temps!

Week 22

Today is the middle of week 22. It has been 8 weeks since I have posted pics. The baby is growing by the day or so it feels like it. He has been giving me extra pressure up under my ribs. I am assuming that since he is not up that high he is just pushing my organs up into my ribs, great thought. Whatever it is it can be very uncomfortable. Besides that everything else is well.


We started putting together the nursery, well more like adding more things and packing it full. We picked up the furniture and other goodies for my cousin Kim's house and now you can barely get into the baby's room. This room is currently our baby/guest/exercise/music room. Needless to say there will be some downsizing with the items to make it only a nursery.

When I was out today looking for a birthday gift for a friend I came across a few sock monkey items that I just could not pass up. We really don't have a theme to the baby's room but I thought a few sock monkeys never hurt. They are cute and not too creepy like some can be. Check out the pics.

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!

Well we found out on Thursday (8/5/10) that we are having a boy! We both are very excited and happy to finally know what the baby is. Right now he is going by Ethan Joseph. From the picture below you can tell that Ethan is not a very shy baby. We were worried we might catch him sleeping or being modest. No problems here! Not only was he happy to show us his little boy parts but he spent most of the ultrasound doing back-bends or marching on mommy's bladder (He has long skinny legs just like daddy). We may have our hands full come December!!!

Growing Baby...

This is me at Week 16. Even though now I am at Week 18, I still look about the same. The nausea that I had through my 1st trimester is mostly gone. I am feeling pretty good now just a little extra tired on some days. Bryon and I have started working on the baby's room. Actually we have only started cleaning out all our junk that has accumulated since the wedding. Thanks to Kim (my cousin) we know where we will be getting our baby furniture and some other much needed items.

We will find out August 5th what the sex of the baby is. We honestly have no preference. I first started feeling like it was a boy, then I leaned more to a girl, now I have no idea. At my Week 16 appointment the heart rate was 147 which says it is a girl according to old wives tales. We'll see...

The Beginning

So this is hopefully the beginning of a way to keep family and friends up-to-date on how life is going for the growing Spaeth Family (Indianapolis branch). Now that Bryon and I are expecting in December, I want to give you all a way to keep up with us. I am terrible about emailing but I hope this will prove to be easier. And now I can post pictures for everyone also.