Closing out another year...

I can't believe it's almost January and another year is behind us!  What a year it has been!  We rang in 2009 as a married couple...putting 5+ years of "dating" to rest!!!  In early May we discovered we were expecting our first child!  Wonderful news!!  And we spent the rest of the year busy with weddings, home-improvement projects, and enjoying family time at the cabin!  Now, as we close out 2009, we are soooooooooooooooooooo excited to welcome our baby into the world and for being blessed with her, even though we've yet to meet!  2010 will be the beginning of a new adventure for the Severson clan and we couldn't be happier!  We're becoming a family of 4 (including Sasha) and headed for many exciting new experiences!  


I'm going to post some pics from the last few months of 2010.......ENJOY!!


Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year, filled with many blessings and lots of love!  


Travis, Stevie, Sasha, and baby M!!!

37.5 Weeks pregnant.......pretty soon we'll have our little girl!

Travis, showing off the stocking I made him for Christmas.  My cute little carpenter hubby!

The stocking I made for myself!  I'm OBSESSED with animal prints!!

Travis made the most delicious meal for us on Christmas...filets and the works!  He is proving to be the better cook in our household!!

Miss Sasha's 2nd Christmas!  She loves opening presents!

This is us on our anniversary...12.12.08!!  We stayed home and painted our bedroom (aka nested), and had to sleep on a make-shift bed we put together on the floor in the basement!  One year of pure happiness!!!

The Severson Family!

Sasha says Merry Christmas too!!!!

Our Little Miss Sasha wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas!  Isn't she just the prettiest puppy??!!  She is going to be 2 soon (in February) and is our little BABY!  She's excited for her sister to arrive in January and even more excited that Mommy will be home for 10+ weeks to hang out all day!  We are going to have so much fun!!!  I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!

XOXOXOXOXO

Sneak peek...

Where our little Miss "M" will snooze away...

Sasha loves to lay in her sister's room already...

The stockings that I handmade for Travis and I this year!  Grandma Kathy made Sasha her stocking last year for Christmas.  They are too cute!!

OUR TREE!!!  MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is here!  Can you believe it?!  For those of you that know Travis and me, you probably know that Christmas is our FAVORITE time of year by far!  It's not just about the gifts....it's about the decorations, THE TREE, the lights, family, friends, and traditions!  Many of our traditions are falling apart this year, as my sister and her family are living in Florida, so we are without them this holiday season.  And we usually always make a trip up north to the Severson home for Christmas, which we won't be doing this year due to the fact that I'm too pregnant to be 4 hours away from our hospital.  So, this year will be a bit different.  Travis and I will celebrate at home, with our favorite little pup, Miss Sasha!  We'll make a trip to Faribault later tonight and spend a few days with my mom and Scott.  We might even make an appearance at my Grandma's get-together, which our travel plans have taken us away from for the last 6 years or so.  All in all, Christmas will be different, but still a WONDERFUL time of year.

Updates from the week...my doctor appointment on Tuesday went well.  Baby girl Severson is still breech and the doctor said she is VERY comfortable there.  She likely won't make the flip and so we are full-steam ahead to the C-section date of January 11th.  So weird to think that we know our daughter will be born on 01-11-2010!!!!  I asked Travis the other night if he could believe that we will have our baby living in our home with us in less than 20 days and he said, "I'm ready for her honey!"  Brought a tear to my eye!  He will be such a great daddy and I'm so excited to see how he interacts with her when they first meet...I feel like I already know her and am madly in love with this little creature that keeps me up all night!  We'll have another doctor appointment in 1 week and I'll post more updates at that point.


Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy 2010!  Travis and I are so fortunate to have such great family and friends.  We've been blessed with a very healthy pregnancy thus far and feel like the upcoming birth of our little girl is the best "belated" Christmas gift we could have ever asked for!!!  We can't wait for you all to meet her in the New Year!!!

Lots of love-
Travis, Stevie, Sasha and baby Severson

Mexico memories!!!!

 

 

 

 

 A few pics of what Trav and I were up to at this time last year!  We just celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary!  So happy!!  And we're planning a trip back to the same resort in December of 2010...we just keep day-dreaming about all the fun we had!

Happy December!!

I've been told that I'm terrible at keeping this blog up-to-date...and yes, that is true!  Our computer has been on the fritz and we've been so consumed by house projects that it has been the last thing on our list of "things to fix" before the baby comes!!  Soon...I'm hoping we'll have the new computer set-up so that I can upload all of the pictures we've taken over the last few months, including pictures of my ever-expanding belly!!

I'm now (almost) 37 weeks pregnant!  Whew!  The last 7 weeks have, for the most part, flown by.  Physically, I'm EXHAUSTED!  Travis has been a big help and has been working non-stop on getting the house ready for the arrival of baby Severson!  He's "nesting" more than I am, I swear!  Last week we had a bit of a scare.  I was told to report to Southdale Hospital Labor and Delivery triage because they thought I might be leaking amniotic fluid.  Tests came back negative and so I was sent home, but had another doctor appointment the next day.  At that doctor appointment, we discovered via ultrasound that our little girl is in a very tight Frank Breech position, meaning her feet and hands are up by her head and her head is not down.  They also noticed that her little butt is beginning to "engage" or settle in my pelvis.  This gives her only a small chance of flipping prior to my due date.  She has not flipped thus far, and Travis and I decided against the external version procedure in which the doctor would manually try to turn her by manipulating the baby into position from the outside of my belly.  The procedure has some risks involved, and we just felt we'd rather not mess with nature.  So, we're hoping she decides to turn, but if she doesn't, we have a C-section scheduled for Monday, January 11th!!  I'm not heartbroken over having to possibly have a C-section...just thinking that we need to do what is best and safest for the baby!  In all other aspects, the pregnancy is normal and Baby Girl Severson seems to be growing and developing right on track.  She's weighing in at around 6lbs...and they anticipate that she'll be between 7.5 and 8lbs at birth!  Healthy little lady!


This week will mark our LAST busy week until our baby is born.  We've had an ongoing list of house projects underway since October.  We painted the exterior of our house, re-roofed the house and garage, converted one of our spare bedrooms into the nursery, put together a guest bedroom, painted and totally re-organized our own bedroom, and Travis gutted the bathroom on our main floor.  It's been overwhelming to say the least.  Last night I finished hanging the last of the baby clothes and organizing all of her little things in the dressers.  We're ready for her arrival now!!  Travis thinks she has way too many clothes, but what does he know?!  Girls can never have too many outfits!


This weekend, we'll host the Severson family for Christmas at our house.  We won't be making our annual trip up to Wood Lake...so sad, but our doctor thinks it's best to stay close to home since I'll be within 2 weeks of my due date.  So, this Saturday we'll have Tom, Kathy, Brenna, John, and Jesse over to our house for appetizers and a little holiday celebration!  Christmas just seems "different" this year, but I know that we have our minds on so many other things that it has been hard to focus on the holidays!  This will be the first Christmas in my ENTIRE life that I've been without my sister......this is her first winter living in Florida with the Kubes family, so I'll be missing her and Andy and all the kiddos!  Christmas won't be the same without them!


Next week, we have a doctor appoint on Tuesday and then we'll settle in for a relaxing Christmas week.  We'll spend Christmas Eve at home, just Trav, Sasha, and I.  On Christmas Day, we'll travel to Faribault to spend the holidays with my mom & Scott.  And then, whew, we can RELAX until this baby comes!  11 more days of work for me and then I'm off for 10-12 weeks!!  I'm sooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!


No pictures to post this time (that darn broken computer), but I'll get some new ones up soon!  Happy Holidays to all of you and Best Wishes for a wonderful 2010!!!!!!!!!


Much love,
Stevie and Travis (and Sasha too)!